Two million Europeans were captured and sold into slavery by Muslim raiders

Here's one of those little know facts that your may not be aware of.

The Belmont Club has a comment worth reading:

In George Orwell's classic novel, 1984, Inner Party member O'Brien tried to teach Winston Smith that the struggle to control history is over. It is what the Party says it is. Today the Daily Telegraph reminds us that this dictum is truer than ever.