Posted on 03/10/2016 3:28:46 AM PST by Biggirl
One of the more pernicious and prevalent post-9/11 myths is that one of Islam’s most fundamental concepts, jihad, has been distorted by “violent extremists” who have “hijacked the religion.” In this fairy-tale view, jihad is above all a struggle for self-betterment that al-Qaeda, the Islamic State, Boku Haram, and others have twisted and deformed. Mourad of Smith College and Lindsay of Colorado State University provide an excellent antidote to this ahistorical nonsense by offering a serious primer on the historical codification of jihad and its subsequent application in response to the Crusaders.
(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...
No. Next topic.
The Muslims looted, murdered, enslaved and raped their way out of Arabia, through the fertile crescent, into Egypt, into Sicily and Southern Italy, across North Africa and into the Iberian peninsula, France and even the Alps and into Iran LONG before the Crusades. My only regret is they weren’t more successful and didn’t totally exterminate him.
Looking for an excuse to appease and pander. They need to be beat into non existance
The jihad could never be more intense than when the muslims butchered nine out of ten Hindus in India. They almost wiped out the Hindu population. Later, the Turks could have cared less about the Crusades when they went scorched earth on the the Balkans for several centuries. The Otto-Turks never took Islam seriously and simply loved waging war. Their religion was merely convenient for them.
The reason the Ottomans conquered Islam was because they were skilled fighters. Fanaticism could not compete with their horse archery and cunning.
Uups. Sorry for private message without link or anything. Pre-coffee accident. You might appreciate post 3.
Post 4, you idiot! Leave that guy alone!
KTA
Within a few years of Mohammed’s death, the jihadists had fought their way across formerly Christian North Africa, through Spain and into France.
They later conquered the Holy Land, and almost all of south-eastern Europe, and fought their way all the way into Austria.
After that they controlled the Mediterranean and imposed a dark age on Europe as trade was cut off and it became dangerous even to live on the coast due to slavers and pirates.
Or did the jihad intensify the Crusades?
They should have finished them off the first time around :p
your comments are correct.
but the whole article goes on to say that the Crusades did not intensify Jihad.
the lead up was before the crusades and now with non muslims and 24/7 media all around, they LIVE for jihad.
great read.
For centuries, Muslims have been following the Koran ‘s command to murder all non-Muslims until Islam rules the world. Neither wishful thinking or rewriting world history will change the facts of that murderous, satanic lust for conquest.
Our children are being taught to submit tio Islam in our government schools by being indoctrinated with misinformation on its terrible history. Allah is not the same as our Judeo-Christian knowledge of God.
I could care less about if the crusades make them more violent. They are killing people now and need to be eliminated.
Had the crusaders the gumption to do the job, ...
They need the Eagles for starters: "Get over it": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H-Y7MAASkg
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The Crusades were started because of the Jihad......”nuff sed”
The poor peaceful jihadis somehow found themselves killing infidels in Spain and France 300 years before the first crusade.
...The Muslims looted, murdered, enslaved and raped their way out of Arabia, through the fertile crescent, into Egypt, into Sicily and Southern Italy, across North Africa and into the Iberian peninsula, France and even the Alps and into Iran LONG before the Crusades. My only regret is they weren’t more successful and didn’t totally exterminate him....
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Bahgdad was not the cultural center and knowledge capital of its time. The mooselimbs stole and took back home everything not destroyed during battle. Whole populations were executed and forced into slavery. Some lucky ones convinced the mooselimbs thugs they had value as artists and scholars.
Does anyone really believe artists and scholars left their homes to find safety in Bahgdad??
The mooselimbs went east to raid the Mongols business enterprises. The Mongols wrote off the losses as business expenses.
Then, one day, the Mongols had enough of the mooselimb raids.
The Mongols gathered their forces and steamrolled west, destroying all mooselimbs that could be found.
The Mongols convinced the people of Bahgdad to turn over their weapons.
All people of Bahgdad, hundreds of thousands, were killed. All stolen and looted books, product, etc. were destroyed.
Islam was destroyed.
The Mongols made one mistake on their way home. The let their soldiers take mooselimb wives. They allowed the survivors to retain their demonic Islamic beliefs and the “perfect example” of big Mo.
The demonic jihad’s came back in a few generations.
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