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To: Travis McGee

Re you #10;

Funny you should mention Piracy.

Both the pirates and ISIL fly the black flag.
Coincidence?
I think not.

According to military tradition, the Black Flag is the “Flag of No Quarter”; When an army put it up, it signaled the opposing force that if they did not surrender immediately and unconditionally, then in the ensuing combat surrender would not be an option; whoever lost would be slaughtered to the last man, but by the same token whoever flew the black flag expected no greater mercy if they failed to prevail.

Anyone who broke and ran would be pursued and hunted down relentlessly, with little hope of survival.

Another coincidence; contrary to popular folklore, most Pirates were (and still are) Muslim.

If the crew of a victim ship surrendered they would be enslaved, but if and once they resisted, they would typically be slaughtered, often in gruesome or tortuous fasion.

Typical Islamic tactics are still quite applicable to the Black Flag tradition.

It seems that the only civilizations that have successfully defended themselves against Islam have been those who have accepted the terms of the Black flag, taken no prisoners, and have dealt with the Muslims with the same ruthless savagery that they mete out to the civilized world.

Then again perhaps I’m wrong about that; keep trying to win their hearts and minds, pay your Jizya, and see how that works out for ya.


14 posted on 10/14/2014 6:50:27 AM PDT by George Varnum (Isaiah 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light...)
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To: George Varnum
Another coincidence; contrary to popular folklore, most Pirates were (and still are) Muslim.

Other than the pirates of the opium trade, like the jokesters of the skull and bones fraternity, who are operating in Afghanistan today.

What's hilarious is that even with the symbol right in front of their face, the sheeple still can't see who their masters are.
15 posted on 10/14/2014 6:54:08 AM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: George Varnum

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16 posted on 10/14/2014 6:54:47 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: George Varnum

7. The Black Flag of Jihad has been the battle flag of Islam from the time of Mohammed until today.

The Saudi Arabian flag also carries the Shahada prayer, but on a green field, indicating that the home of Mecca is part of the Dar al Islam, or House of Submission. Outside of nations living under Sharia Law, in the Dar al Harb, or House of War, Muslims fly the Black Flag of Jihad to indicate their clear intention to violently force that country to submit to Islam.

Islam began with a cruel desert pirate named Mohammed, and it soon took to the seas. In the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Flag of Jihad was simplified to show only a scimitar sword or an arm holding a scimitar, indicating to the crew of the “infidel” ship being attacked their simple choice: surrender and submit to Islam, or face beheading at worst, or enslavement at best.

During the Corsair era, lasting into the 19th Century, many captured Europeans chose to convert to Islam by repeating the Shahada prayer, rather than to be killed or enslaved. Many of these “renegade” Europeans even signed on as crew aboard Muslim pirate vessels, some even rising to the rank of corsair captain. Islam is always welcoming of converts, and under Islam what we call piracy is fully sanctioned as “sea jihad.” Some of these European converts-of-convenience to Islam later escaped and took up piracy on their own accounts. The Black Flag of Jihad was the origin of the familiar non-Muslim black pirate flags, borrowing its fearsome reputation to cow and terrorize targeted ships into surrendering without resistance.

Simply put, the Black Flag of Jihad is the black pirate flag of an evil pirate “religion.”


17 posted on 10/14/2014 6:55:15 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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