Letters | Sunday, 25 April 2010

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On Malta’s conversion to Islam

As an avid reader of your esteemed organ, I usually turn straight to your own comment feature to enjoy a dose of pithy comment (Saviour Balzan, 18 April 2010).
However effectiveness does depend on a modicum of accuracy.
With this in mind may I quote: “as Wettinger reminds us, we were still Moslem after St Paul sailed off from the Islands” and remark that this would have been rather difficult as the Muslim religion was not founded until several centuries afterwards.
So either Wettinger made a total prat of himself, or someone else did.

Mike Turner
Valletta

Saviour Balzan writes:
Mr Turner is correct. The point is that there is historical evidence that the Arabs arrived in Malta in 870AD, converting the Maltese to Islam. They stayed in Malta until 1090.
And even though the Normans were here, they retained Islam as a religion and only ‘converted’ to Christianity in the early 13th century.

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