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September 29, 2005
Britain: the Airbrushing of History
Journalist Melanie Phillips has a jaw-dropping entry on her weblog: Britain's 200-year jihad
On my travels for the past few days, I have been reading a book which tells the story of a quite astonishing part of British history of which I was previously unaware. In 'White Gold', Giles Milton records the appalling details -- gleaned,it appears, from a wealth of historical documents including diaries and letters -- of a seaborne Islamic jihad against Britain which lasted for no less than two centuries.From the early seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, thousands of British men women and children were kidnapped by Arab corsairs and sold into slavery in Morocco where they were kept in conditions of unspeakable barbarism. The astounding thing is that these British victims were not merely seized at sea where they ran the gauntlet of such pirates in places such as the Straits of Gibraltar. They were actually abducted from Britain itself.[...]
Like Ms. Phillips, I'm startled I didn't know about this before today. I will promptly read the book where the information came from, White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam's One Million White Slaves.
Posted by Ruy Diaz at September 29, 2005 2:53 PM
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