How White Supremacists and Islamist extremists exploit the Middle Ages for their own political gain
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Category: Templar History
Tags: al aqsa, al qaeda, alt-right, Anders Breivik, Caliphate, Charlottesville, crusade, Daesh, Deus Vult, extreme, far right, ISIS, Islam, jerusalem, jihad, khawarij, knights, koran, medieval, middle ages, mosque, muslim, Non Nobis Domine, Ottoman Empire, Quran, racism, racist, right, salafi, saracen, Solomon, supremacist, takfir, Templar, Wahabbi, white
The Knights Templar were involved in a bitter seven centuries long crusade in Spain and Portugal between Christian and Muslim kingdoms
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Abd al-Rahman, afonso, Al-Andalus, Al-usbuna, Al-Usbunna, allah, Andalus, Ark, buried, Calatrava, Caliphate, castile, catholic, christian, conquest, convivencia, covenant, escape, gualdim, henriques, History Channel, Holy Grail, Islam, jizya, Knightfall, knights, Leon, martim, moniz, moor, Moorish, muslim, Navarre, pais, portugal, roman, spain, Templar, templars, tomar, treasure
In the year 711, only decades after the death of the prophet Mohammed, the Iberian peninsula was invaded right up to the Pyrenees and beyond. In fact, the Muslim army got as far as the city of Tours in France…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Andalus, Caliphate, convento, convivencia, Cordoba, crusade, España, Espanha, france, Iberian Peninsula, Islam, Pyrenees, reconquista, spain, Visigoth
Egypt was as much a target for Crusader and Knight Templar activity as other parts of the Middle East as Tony McMahon discovers
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Baghdad, byzantine, Cairo, Caliphate, crusader, egypt, Fatimid, Fatimid Caliphate, Islam, jerusalem, shia, sunni
How on earth can a town in Spain claim to have the body of one of the apostles of Jesus Christ? But that’s exactly the assertion made by Santiago de Compostela. For over a thousand years, its cathedral has boasted…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: apostle, Caliphate, camino, cathedral, Compostela, Cordoba, emir, James, Matamoros, moor, Moors, reconquest, reconquista, Santiago, slayer, spain, taifa, Templar, vision
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