Hey Nat. Geo., will Marseilles really be W. Europe's first majority Muslim city?

That's what National
Geographic says,
in the last paragraph of a new article: "It may well be the first western
European city with a majority of its residents from Muslim backgrounds."

Probably better for the magazine to have said it may be the
first majority Muslim city in western Europe in about 700 years. If I recall my
history correctly, in the 13th century, many western European
cities, such Granada and Cordoba, were majority Muslim. I remember being told
that Cordoba (AKA Qurtuba) was at one point the world's largest city and had
3,000 mosques. Not long before that, the entire island of Sicily was an Arab
emirate. Dunno if it ever was majority Muslim, but I'd bet Palermo was.

(HT to Al D.)