[rescue] Airport Security and Rescues...

[Joshua Boyd]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 01:26:44PM -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> 
> >There have been Muslims in the world for a very long time.  How is it
> >that only recently we have this problem?  We didn't have Muslims tearing
> >through towns and setting them alight "for Allah" 100 years ago or
> >bombing stagecoaches or the like.  Rather than enslave the world in
> >surveillance and fear, perhaps we should try to solve the root of that
> >problem?
> >
> 
> 
> Last time they gave the West problems, they were booted out of what is 
> now southern Spain and several wars were fought, called Crusades.

Err, didn't north African Muslims give us trouble from shortly after the
revolutionary war until sometime in the early 1800s?  I believe it was
often refered to as the Algerian threat.