It was 1683, and Virginians were still settling and assimilating into their new land. However, across the great divide, in the old country, a Polish King turned general saved all of Europe from Islam’s attempt to capture the gateway to Europe, Vienna, Austria. King of Poland Jan III Sobieski defeated the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vienna and saved the faith of the continent’s Christians from being forsaken at the point of the sword.

Less than two hundred years later, a Richmond, Virginia newspaper foresaw the future of Paris, France, which prophesy has now come to pass. Readers of the small American newspaper were apprised of the unusual behavior of a ‘Mohammedan’, newly immigrated to Paris and what it portended for Europe’s greatest city.

Muhammadanism to be inaugurated in Paris.
A traveled Turk, Hadji Abd-el-Hamid by name, has become sufficiently cosmopolitan in his taste to be willing to take up his permanent abode among “dogs of infidels.” He has established himself, with his family, in Paris, and, being still a good Mohammedan, he proposes to erect there a mosque, and, in connection with it, an Eastern inn, or caravanserai, baths a la Turk, and a school for instruction in the Koran.
(”Richmond Daily Dispatch“, 13 Feb 1861)

One hundred fifty years later, we, the people of western civilization, are fully aware of the waves of Muslim immigrants who have arrived in our lands, with no intention at all to assimilate into their new cultures. In fact, these immigrants, since the days of Hadj Abd-el-Hamid of 1861, fully expect their own faith and culture to have precedence over any of the native customs and beliefs.