concerning Nias reference to a thousand years . A thousand years is nothing to some culture , islam being one of those culture . 'persia' , now 'iran' had a 'Jewish' neighbor hood or 'Jewish Quarter that is at least a thousand years old and it still exists although it is shrinking in population . Heck , many muslims still think that they own 'grenada' which is really Spain just because they occupied it for 700 years . [NIA]