Nearly thirteen hundred years ago today, a desperate battle saved Europe from becoming Islamic.

  Today in History: Christians “Manfully” Save France from Islam

At Tours, “the men of the north stood as motionless as a wall, as they slew the Arab with the sword.”

Nearly thirteen hundred years ago today, a desperate battle saved Europe from becoming Islamic. And it took place in France, which now houses Western Europe’s largest Muslim population. That story is instructive—in more ways than one. Precisely one century after the death of Islam’s prophet Muhammad in 632 AD — a century which had seen the conquest of 2/3s of Christendom, including Syria, Egypt, North Africa, and Spain — the scimitar of Islam found itself in the heart of Europe in 732 AD, facing that continent’s chief military power, the Franks. After the Muslim hordes, which reportedly numbered 80,000 men, had ravaged most of southwestern France, slaughtering and enslaving countless victims and desecrating and plundering countless churches, they met and clashed with 30,000 Frankish warriors under the leadership of Charles Martel, somewhere between Poitiers and Tours, on October 10. FULL ARTICLE AT: https://raymondibrahim.substack.com/p/today-in-history-christians-manfully?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=6873559&post_id=219204599&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1v9n4o&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email