Posted on 11/10/2014 12:56:44 PM PST by NKP_Vet
Most of us infidels in the West have been lied to. Trusting the education system, foolishly, we believed all the bunk bundled into our textbooks concerning the period in history (1096 AD -1272 AD) when the Crusades took place…they left out an itty bitty piece of info…This will be great for all your “enlightened” friends…
The real reason WHY the Crusades took place…and here’s the shocker: It was a response to Islam’s aggression!
That’s right…it all began with Muhammed’s implicit threat more than 450 years before the Crusaders entered Jerusalem. He said: “embrace Islam and you will be safe.” (Muhammed’s extortion letter to the Khaibar Jews)
Some facts for your ill-informed friends/family/colleagues:
— The Crusades were a delayed response for CENTURIES of Muslim aggression, that grew ever fiercer in the 11th Century. The Muslims focused on Christians and Jews…forcing conversions, plundering and mortally wounding apostates. — The Crusades were a DEFENSIVE action, first called for by Pope Urban II in 1095 at the Council of Clermont. — The Crusades were a response against Jihad, which is obligatory against non-Muslims entering “Muslim lands’”. (Muslim lands are any lands invaded and conquered by Islam.) — The motives of the Crusaders were pure. They were jihad-provoked and not imperialistic actions against a “peaceful”, native Muslim population. The Crusades were NOT for profit, but rather to recover the Holy Land brutally invaded and conquered by Muslims…who conquered for profit and as a notch on their superiority belt. — The lands conquered by the Crusaders were NOT colonized under the Byzantine Empire. The Empire withdrew its support so the Crusaders renounced their agreement.
The Islamic world ripped through the Christian world on a bloody Jihad crusade to propagate Islam. Muslim imperialistic conquest wars were launched for more than 1,500 years against hundreds of nations and over millions of square miles (larger than the British Empire at its peak). The Jihad crusade went from southern France to the Philippines, from Austria to Nigeria, and from central Asia to New Guinea.
The dictionary defines imperialism as “the policy and practice of seeking to dominate the economic and political affairs of weaker countries.” This historical Islamic Jihad WAS imperialistic…and its goals remain the same.
Islam’s greed and lust for bloody domination of non-Muslims and their property CAUSED the Crusades…it doesn’t get simpler than that!
Shalom through strength…
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Thanks for posting this.
Had to do a paper on this way back in college. Sadly, most people do not know this, and use it as a demonstration of Christian aggression. In reality it was a response to 400 years of Muslim conquest westward. Atrocities were committed on both sides, but the idea for the crusades was self defense and to REconquer captured lands
Peace through victory.
I wrote about this while in Iraq..
Amazon : Babylon’s Covert War
It is ALL in there..as well as the solution!
In response to agression and existential threat nothing is off the table. Eliminating the current threat is only a small ball tactic, insuring it doesn’t happen again is a strategy and the only true solution.
Just a nitpick...Islam was founded in 610. If they have been on the march for 1500 years, doesn’t that put them into the future? Maybe it is just a typo in the article.
Funny how the catlicks always seem to forget about the European crusades. Kinda sticks a fork in the premise of this article.
The Crusades were a counterattack against Islam’s illegitimate conquest.
Free Anatolia for the Greeks!
http://www.amazon.com/Babylons-Covert-War-Joseph-White-ebook/dp/B004LLII4E
Another Freeper going in deep. All the best. Maybe we’ll see you on Fox commenting.
There is no new news, only old news happening to new people. I wish I could remember who said that!
A Brilliant Living-room Dissertation on Islam's Murderous History
Do you mean that period between the Great Schism and the sacking of Constantinople, the period wherein Catholics behaved so badly that half of Christendom ended up excommunicating the other half?
But worse was to follow in 1204, with the taking of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade. The Crusaders were originally bound for Egypt, but were persuaded by Alexius, son of Isaac Angelus, the dispossessed Emperor of Byzantium, to turn aside to Constantinople in order to restore him and his father to the throne. This western intervention in Byzantine politics did not go happily, and eventually the Crusaders, disgusted by what they regarded as Greek duplicity, lost patience and sacked the city. Eastern Christendom has never forgotten those three appalling days of pillage. 'Even the Saracens are merciful and kind,' protested Nicetas Choniates, 'compared with these men who bear the Cross of Christ on their shoulders.' In the words of Sir Steven Runciman, 'The Crusaders brought not peace but a sword; and the sword was to sever Christendom. The long-standing doctrinal disagreements were now reinforced on the Greek side by an intense national hatred, by a feeling of resentment and indignation against western aggression and sacrilege. After 1204 there can be no doubt that Christian east and Christian west were divided into two.
-- from the thread The Great Schism of 1054
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Come a day we will hear and respond to "GOD wills it"
till then.
Since I did not go to college I never had it figured any other way.
Sooner or later we will have to “take out the garbage.”
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