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5 Feet of Fury

Kathy Shaidle's blog. Est. 2000

My latest piece at FrontPage Magazine

March 17, 2008 By admin

“Historian Edward Gibbon famously mused about what might have happened had the Muslims won the battle of Poitiers in France in 733. In The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Gibbon wrote:

“‘..the Arabian fleet might have sailed without a naval combat into the mouth of the Thames. Perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now be taught in the schools of Oxford, and her pulpits might demonstrate to a circumcised people the sanctity and truth of the revelation of Mahomet.’

“Fast forward to the England of today, where the Islamification of Oxford proceeds apace without a shot being fired…”

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