A Muslim Convert Once Before

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Radu cel Fromos, also known as Radu the Fair, and his brother, Vlad Tepes, were supposedly converts to Islam.  His brother apostatised and fought the Turks.  Vlad Tepes became Vlad Dracul, and had a bloody campaign and reign.  Vlad the Impaler made no discrimination between Muslim and Christian; men, women and children; Turk and non-Turk.  In one instance, he had 20,000 Muslims impaled in a macabre forest.  He was a cruel man.  He even had bodies drained of blood and dipped bread in their blood and ate it.   Radu, had stayed with the Ottomans and made his name as an accomplished general, leading the Sipahis.  Eventually, Radu the Fair was tasked by the Sultan to lead the Ottoman’s best troops against his own brother.   The Ottomans eventually subdued Wallachia.   Ultimately, one died a hero, forgotten by history.  And the other had his head cut off and sent on the end of a pike back to...

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ This is the story of two brothers who could not be more different.   One was given the moniker, “the Fair” and the other became known as Dracula.   Both of them were princes of Wallachia, which is part of modern Romania but then, it was the Kingdom of Hungary.   There was a time, when much of what is modern Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Belarus, the Balkans, the Crimea and almost all of southern Russia was Muslim.   This was the Muslim heartland.   And they produced many great leaders, scholars and saints.   This was the world of the Qadiriyyah and the Naqshbandiyyah and the Khalwatiyyah .   And all that is dust.   These Muslims did not convert out of Islam.   Millions and millions of them were killed or driven off until only vestiges of their civilisation remains.   The only Muslim communities to be found in mainland Europe in large numbers are in Bosnia & Herzegovina and al-Baniya, or Albania...