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By Raymond Ibrahim, The Stream, July 16, 2025
Raymond Ibrahim, author of Defenders of the West and Sword and Scimitar, is the Distinguished Senior Shillman Fellow at the Gatestone Institute and the Judith Rosen Friedman Fellow at the Middle East Forum.
On July 16, 1212, atop the windswept plains of Las Navas de Tolosa, Christendom and Islam clashed in one of the most consequential battles of the Middle Ages — an event that shattered an empire, galvanized a continent, and echoes still in the political currents of modern Spain and among Islamist terrorists who vow vengeance for it.
It had been 500 years since the armies of Muhammad first crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and began their conquest of Iberia in 711. In their wake, most of the peninsula fell under the crescent. Yet a single ember of resistance smoldered in the northern mountains of Asturia — small, defiant, unyielding. From this remnant the Reconquista was born: the slow-burning, centuries-long Christian effort to reclaim the land for the cross.
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