Revanchism in Europe

For John, BLUF:  Some of these hard feelings go back over 500 years, some longer.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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New ISIS Threat to Spain: 'War Has Not Been Fought and Gone'

From Reporter Bridget Johnson, via Pajama Media, 21 August 2017.

It isn't just Admiral Christopher Columbus sailing to new lands in 1492.  That same year, those Europeans stormed the last holdouts on the Iberian Peninsula and displaced the Moors, sending them back to North Africa.  And now, thanks to Daesh, some of the Moorish descendants hope to reclaim those lost territories.♠

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  Of course they originally came from North Africa and conquered Christian Spain a couple of hundred years before (the Umayyad Caliphate, 711-718 AD).