Posted on 07/24/2020 6:38:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
An especially stark example of how Leftists thrive on distorting history -- a tactic pivotal to their very being -- recently appeared. In a video titled “Dead Wrong: The Anti-Muslim Myth,” Johan Norberg, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute who holds an MA in “the History of Ideas” from the University of Stockholm, begins as follows:
The Nativist right likes to tell the story of the West through the prism of a conflict between Christendom and Islam. One of the founding myths is the Battle of Vienna in 1683, when the united Christian armies defeated the Muslim Ottoman Turks. This historical narrative is dead wrong, because back then, people concerned themselves with other divisions.
The rest of the brief video -- one minute, forty-two seconds are devoted to proving the “anti-Muslim myth” -- tries to substantiate this, primarily by arguing that there were divisions within Christendom, specifically infighting between Catholics and Protestants, which prompted some of the latter to ally with the Ottomans against Vienna.
This argument fails on many levels. For starters, Norberg overlooks two simple and interrelated facts: 1) realpolitik -- prioritizing the practical over the ideal -- is as old as human society; 2) that does not mean that ideals do not exist and motivate politics, including war. It’s not a question of “either/or.”
Naturally, as northern Protestants and southern Muslims had the same common enemy between them -- Catholic Christendom, particularly in the guise of the Holy Roman Empire -- the timeless adage that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” was evident during the siege of Vienna, as well as previous conflicts. Elizabeth I of England (r. 1558–1603), for example,
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We have a 1398 year history of jihad to know that Islam is not peaceful.
Marxist propaganda won’t change that.
So it’s still Constantinople and not Istanbul? Hagia Sophia is still Christian and not a mosque? Some ideas are so ridiculous only a professor could propose it.
How can anyone call it a myth, if the Jihadi’s call it JIHAD?
Always wondered what happened to Baghdad Bob...
Mid 600 AD Mohammed the psychotic sociopath and his Bedouin hoards swept out of Arabia to rape and pillage North Africa.
This was not your typical war of economic conquest as was war in the past. This was a war of religious conquest.
The followers of Mohammed did not follow him for the usual reasons of taking the property of others and to sew their seed in the women of the conquered.
They followed Mohammed to spread the heresy of Islam.
Those conquered converted to Islam, were enslaved or died a horrible death.
This was Jihad. This was their purpose.
Marxist historian? Isn’t that an oxymoron. Marxist propagandist would be more accurate.
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