The European Identity, in Many Ways, Is Forged on Its Opposition to Islam

The European identity, in many ways, is forged on its opposition to Islam. So what modern Europe is today cannot be understood, completely divorced from that. All civilizations draw and borrow from each other, and they all ultimately shape each other. There's a lot of things from pre-Islamic civilization and Arab culture that we still see sort of modified to be more hellowed,. But nonetheless, it didn't start at zero!