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This episode is brought to you by Lux Coffee, caffeinating the new christenham with artisan roast coffee. Have you heard the story of a great Christian nation put under the heel of Muslim conquest?

A people driven from their lands at the point of bloody Arabic swords,

forced to face the terrible choice of apostasy and subjugation, or death?

Alas, this is no fiction, but a very real chapter from the bloody annals of the Western story,

and one which grows more and more relevant to us by the day, As we see the slow motion conquest of Europe and the UK by Muslim immigrants,

it is essential that we learn our own history,

that we don't fail to read the grim results of failures of this kind.

So whether you're listening right now on your drive to work,

as you mow your lawn, or maybe trying to hit a new PR in the gym,

let me tell you a story that is equal parts frustrating and glorious, a story that can bring you to great hope and great despair.

The story of Spain's downfall and resurrection, of exile kingdoms forged in mountain wilderness, of desperate

stands, glorious victories, and terrible defeats, and the story of the great Christian warrior,

remembered in history by the name his very enemies assigned to him, El Cid, the Lord.

After the Arabic Muslims had conquered all of North Africa in the 7th century,

they crossed the Straits of Gibraltar and set their sights on Christian Spain.

They were intent on extending their jihad against the Christians of Europe

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