Muslim Brotherhood Wants Spain - Can Christians Have Egypt?

The Muslim Brotherhood’s goal is to reconquer all the lands that Islam once dominated and reestablish the Caliphate.   That is part of their jihad.   The Al Qaeda soldiers fighting in Syria are on video stating that after they conquer Syria, then the move on to Jordan, and then to Spain before taking all of Europe. 

Hassan al-Banna, the founder of Eqypt’s Muslim Brotherhood once wrote that "Andalusia, Sicily, the Balkans, south Italy, and the Roman sea islands were all Islamic lands that have to be restored to the homeland of Islam… it is our right to restore the Islamic Empire its glory."  

Such sentiments are presumptuous because they imply that certain parts of the globe spiritually “belong” to people who “owned” them for a bit in the past.  And if we’re really going to divide up the world by that logic, I’d like to make a counter offer to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Can we Christians have North Africa back? After all, it was once a centre of Christian civilisation – some of the earliest Christian communities were found there.

Tim Stanley  - Dr Tim Stanley is a historian of the United States.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100213666/the-muslim-brotherhood-wants-spain-back-can-the-christians-have-egypt-in-exchange/