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“Muslims arrived in Europe before Magyar migrants arrived in the Carpathian Basin in the ninth century.” p. 95 This is such a striking historical fact, especially because Kendi raises it in the context of Viktor Orbán’s rhetoric about Hungary as Christian land and Muslims as outsiders threatening Europe. Muslims established a permanent presence in Iberia beginning in 711, more than a century before Magyar in Hungary.