Monday 18 May 2020

The “Image of Hell”: Islam’s Siege of Malta by Raymond Ibrahim

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The “Image of Hell”: Islam’s Siege of Malta

by Raymond Ibrahim
  Today in history, May 18, 1565, one of the most symbolically important military encounters between Islam and Europe began: the Ottoman Turks besieged the tiny island of Malta, in what was then considered the heaviest bombardment any locale had been subjected to. Around the start of the sixteenth century, Muslim pirates from Algiers began […]

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