“The Moors had a particularly low opinion of these whites. They - TopicsExpress

“The Moors had a particularly low opinion of these whites. They had beaten them often on the battlefield and with inferior numbers. Even the Europeans in other countries of this continent were looked upon with disdain for their low intelligence and base ways of life. Modern European historians agree with Moorish writer Michaud in his History of the Crusades when he describes the Prussians of the thirteenth century as being just a few stages above savagery. The palaces of the rulers of Germany, France and England were, when compared with those of the Moorish Rulers of Spain and Portugal, ‘scarcely better than the stables’ of the Moors. The education of the Moors was at such a high level that their scholars of Toledo, Cordova and Seville were producing treatises on spherical trigonometry when the mathematical syllabus of the University of Oxford stopped abruptly at the fifth proposition of the book of Euclid. It was this superior intellect of the Moors which caused Stanley Lane-Poole in his famous The Story of the Moors in Spain to note: ‘Whatever makes a kingdom great, whatever tends to refinement and civilization was found in Moorish Spain.” “After the invasion of 711 came other waves of Moors even darker. It was this occupation of Portugal which accounts for the fact even noble families had absorbed the blood of the Moor.” “From that time onwards, racial mixing in Portugal, as in Spain, and elsewhere in Europe which came under the influence of Moors, took place on a large scale. That is why historians claim that ‘Portugal is in reality a Negroid land,’ and that when Napoleon explaining that ‘Africa begins at the Pyrenees,’ he meant every word that he uttered. Even the world-famed shrine in Portugal, Fatima, where Catholic pilgrims from all over the world go in search of miracle cures for their afflictions, owes its origin to the Moors. The story goes that a Portuguese nobleman was so saddened by the death of his wife, a young Moorish beauty whom he had married after her conversion to the Christian faith, that he gave up his title and fortune and entered a monastery. His wife was buried on a high plateau called Sierra de Aire. It is from there that the name of Fatima is derived.” Article by Edward Scobie title “The Moors and Portugal’s Global Expansion” Book title “Golden Age of the Moor” Edited by Ivan Van Sertima Page 336