Hamas 101. "The day will come when we will rule America. The day will come when we will rule all of Europe. The day will come when we will rule all of the world."

Hamas. Give them an inch, they take the world.

They should probably start by trying to rule their own tiny little slice of the Middle East.

Until they can control and run that, I'm not going to sweat too much ;)

Re-conquer? When did they conquer europe the first time?

The last time muslims conquered anything from Europe, it was the tip of Spain.

That's it.

Besides, Hamas is teeeny weeeny compared to other muslim groups, so don't take them serious.

actually, muslims help a good bit of europe around the 13th-15th centuries...
if you count eastern europe as europe, which some do not. In fact, a planned take over in the mid 15th century of what is now Italy was aborted for reasons not quite known, but the success of the Franks in conquering the italian peninsula in the 1480s suggests that muslim armies would have had quite an easy time in taking over the peninsula.

"the Muslim discovery of Europe" is a great book that discusses some of that, and is interesting in general, as it makes some sense out of the long term relationship between europe, christianity, and islam.

and, yeah...Hamas is a fringe group...though some theorists believe they are maintained by the mossad.