The Terror Threat that wasn’t

The Islamophobe blogosphere last week was in full swing concerning a supposed terror threat to the London Olympics, a terror threat that turned out to be no threat at all. Don’t expect any of those websites to publicly retract of course, this latest non issue is just one […]

Royal English Islamic Coins

  During the time of the Kingdom of Mercia, England, AD 773-96 an Islamic inscription on an English coin appeared. This unique gold coin of Offa, king of Mercia, is one of the most remarkable English coins of the Middle Ages. It is remarkable because it imitates a […]