The photo shows one of the many unnoticed watch towers and tower ruins on the Mediterranean Sea from Spain to Italy. It stands three kilometers before Marbella on the well-driven coastal highway, and millions of unknowing Spaniards and tourists have seen it and thought nothing of it. All of these towers namely served almost exclusively for the defense against Muslim plunderers and slave drivers – a monstrous scourge from 200 years ago, but totally unknown to Europeans today. Not a subject in the school, not a subject in the press, not a subject in the islamophilic universities.

The reality, however, looked more like the following:

The land operations could be compared to military invasions which occurred on the coast of southern Spain and the Balearic islands, but more than all in the southern part of Italy where 12,000 Corsairs came ashore. The North Africans pushed interior all the way to 30 kilometers; once even to within 20 kilometers from the gates of the Vatican. [...] In 1544, the human hunters took 7,000 prisoners in the Bay of Naples; in 1554, they carried of 6,000 people from Vieste in Apulia; in 1566, 4,000 people in Andalusian Granada fell victim to them. When the ships returned from such looting campaigns, then it “rained Christians in Algiers,” and in the slave markets of Maghreb, eyewitnesses of the time reported that there was only “one onion for each European.”

The source here is a long article about the subject from the blog As der Schwerter. And the brilliant Egon Flaig said the following about this in a brilliant, two-part interview on Telepolis:

… because in the 19th century the handiwork of North African piracy was finally ended. We have the Americans to thank for that; they waged war twice between 1795 and 1815 against the pirate emirate of Mahgreb, so that this practice of enslavement could be stopped. The English also deserve thanks, they bombarded Algiers in 1819; and last but not least, the French who finally conquered Algiers in 1830. After the end of the Maghreb piracy, Europe was for the first time secure from the enslaving actions of the Muslims. And just when the danger began to subside, the romanticization began – for example, in the operas …

And so it is! Nobody knows anything of how the Europeans were threatened, conquered, plundered, raped, murdered and enslaved by the Muslims; that is kept silent. Today, instead, romantic lies rule the scene. Buy Egon Flaig’s “World History of Slavery,” if you haven’t yet!

Posted by kewil on PI / Translation: Anders Denken

The photo shows one of the many unnoticed watch towers and tower ruins on the Mediterranean Sea from Spain to Italy. It stands three kilometers before Marbella on the well-driven coastal highway, and millions of unknowing Spaniards and tourists have seen it and thought nothing of it. All of these towers namely served almost ...

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