Posted on 05/20/2016 8:45:38 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
Since the beginning of the most recent uprisings by the cowardly Islamic world, we have repeatedly been told by their apologists that Muslim attacks on the civilized world are merely a continuation of their response to the Crusades. They insist the Crusades are the moral equivalent and justification for jihad.
The accompanying video, featuring Bill Warner PhD, demolishes this lie in a well-constructed 5 minutes presentation. Dr. Warner uses simple and effective graphics showing us the HUGE disparity in the number of battles initiated by the Christian Crusaders and those made by the loathsome Islamists since the 7th century.
The truth jumps right off your monitor. There is simply no comparison. You will notice that from 640 onward, during one twenty year period after another until the first half of the nineteenth century, the Islamists’ attacks on civilization continued unabated then suddenly stopped. Why this would be so is very simply explained by the power of the force of arms. Even though the French, British, Germans and Portuguese held colonies in North Africa and therefore were easy targets, the Islamists laid down like dogs and never made a major attack against those Christian countries. The reason is simple: The Gatling Gun. The Christians had superior weapons and all of a sudden living was more important than jihad.
The cowards of Islam understood that no matter how much they hated Christian Civilization...
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How do the Crusades compare to Islamic jihad? Following the death of Muhammad in 632, his successors, the caliphs — the same office ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi claims to have revived — began their unprovoked war of conquest against the Byzantines. Within a decade, the jihad had claimed then-Christian Egypt, Palestine, and Syria.
Muslim armies swept across North Africa and crossed over into Spain in 711, only to be finally stopped in France by Charles Martel, grandfather of Charlemagne, in 732. (At the same time, Muslim forces swept east, subduing Persia and reaching the frontiers of China.) Repeated assaults continued across the Mediterranean, including Arab sieges of Constantinople and conquest of Cyprus, Sicily, and Crete.
Motivated by Islamic jihad and lust for plunder and slaves — identical to today’s ISIS — not one of these assaults was defensive. These were not Muslim lands being liberated from occupation but Christian lands whose inhabitants experienced the horrors we see today in Syria, Iraq and now Libya with Israel waiting in the wings: amputations, beheadings, slavery and sex slavery (all of which are explicitly authorized by Allah in the Koran). When we see horrific videos of ISIS beheadings and the choosing of sex slaves, let’s remember it’s a scene repeated thousands of times before: in Jerusalem in 637, Egypt in 639, Spain in 711, and Constantinople in 1453. The only difference is that today there are cameras and instant worldwide communications.
The Islamic jihad against Christendom started more than four and a half centuries before anyone had even heard of a Crusade. The crusaders forced jihad into remission for a brief period from around 1100 to 1350, after which it resumed its full assault.
To sum up, aggressive Islamic jihad was launched against the Christians and lasted 450 years. For 250 years, Christian crusaders counterattacked. After that counterattack failed, renewed jihad lasted another 350 years.
Over 300 years of Jihad from North Africa to the Hindu Cush before the first Crusade ever came along and that arose because the eastern church asked the Pope for help because of the rampaging Muslim Turks.
The Crusades were a belated response to 400 years of Muslim Terror.
Where is “Richard The Lionhearted” when need him now ???
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