Posted on 04/09/2025 10:21:04 AM PDT by Starman417
I’ve heard enough about the Crusades, that America was built on stolen land or that Israel sits on occupied land. That’s life. Get over it.
The reality is, for most of mankind’s and civilization’s history, the world has been ordered by the most physically powerful individuals and civilizations. I mention the Crusades first because for the last quarter century we’ve been told that Muslim terrorism is somehow understandable because of the Crusades. We’re led to believe that the evil European Christians were invading the lands of the innocent peaceful Muslims and trying to steal the Holy Lands. Well, that is partially true. Beginning in 1095 and lasting to 1291 various Christian expeditions were indeed sent to the Holy Land in order to reconquer Jerusalem and its environs. The First Crusade succeeded in in 1099 and established four Christian states in the area that would stand until the last was conquered in 1291.
It definitely sounds like the Christians were the aggressors… until one actually picks up a history book. In 600 AD the Eastern Roman Empire, what we today call the Byzantine Empire, stretched from the Strait of Gibraltar to the eastern most part of modern day Turkey and included half of Italy, all of Greece, all of Egypt, Israel, Syria and Jordan. It was a Christian Empire and it had been built by the military power of the Roman legions over the previous 1200 years. By 640 the Byzantine Empire was a shadow of itself but would remain a regional power for the next 800 years.
The Islamic caliphate, which had its beginning in Medina in 622 would by 640 conquer all of the Arabian peninsula, by 661 take all of modern Iran, half of Turkey and much of Egypt and Libya. By 750 the caliphate would include all of Spain, southern France in the west and much of the Caucasus’s in the east. Indeed, it was only the heroic stand in the Battle of Tours in 732 that kept the Muslims from taking all of France and potentially all of Europe.
This is the actual backdrop upon which the Crusades were launched. And just to be clear, that caliphate was not established, enlarged or maintained by peaceful acquiescence. Muhammad alone fought 27 battles against “unbelievers” and the bloody conquest continued for centuries after his death.
But here’s the thing… What the Muslims did is no different than what anyone else did. The Mongols built the world’s largest land empire by conquering 25% of the planet’s land mass and killing 10% of the world’s population while doing it.
The British killed millions building an empire upon which the sun never set. The Americans killed hundreds of thousands of Indians during the establishment and growth of the United States. But they were no different than the Aztecs, the Māori, the Comanche, and most civilizations around the world.
Indeed, right up until the middle of the 20th century conquest was how much of the world ordered itself and violence was how it was decided who would be ruling a country. In much of Africa it has remains so. Violence, or the threat of it is how problems were solved in most interactions for most of human history around the world. The guy with the physical power to make others obey usually makes the rules.
While violence remains and sometimes breaks out in conflicts between or within nations, the truth is that the last 75 years has seen, admittedly largely midwifed by the United States power, an historic collapse in the number of deaths from war. Violence, at least in the west, has, for the most part, been abandoned in favor of other forms of decision making. Whether it’s economic trade, international bodies like the UN or diplomatic negotiations, when mortal conflict does break out, its typically the last of a long series of resolution attempts.
Why is this relevant in 2025? Because the civilization the west has developed has metastasized into idiocy on the part of much of the population, particularly among elites. Prosperity has, apparently, dulled their senses. They have zero understanding of actual history. They recline in their comfortable chairs and watch movies and TV shows and read social media posts that tell them that the world is oppressed because of western imperialism and that it was the violence of white Europeans that shattered humanity’s peaceful harmony.
The consequence of this historical ignorance and self-hatred is suicidal empathy. Across the west leftist elites have indoctrinated much of the population to think that somehow the institutions and civilization Europeans built will exist forever. That somehow – while simultaneously being evil – the building blocks of our relatively peaceful and prosperous civilization can and will survive regardless of who actually inhabits the west. They take Francis Fukuyama literally when he suggested history basically stopped because liberal democracies had won.
The logical result of this delusion is, rather than strengthening the foundations of liberal democrat civilizations elites instead import millions of mostly military aged men who harken from a completely different worldview, Islam. With the expectation that they will assimilate and internalize those western values.
Anyone paying attention recognizes that’s not happening. Jordan Peterson articulates the reality: Forty out of fifty Muslim majority countries in the world are authoritarian hell-holes. And only three are democracies: Morocco, Indonesia and Turkey. And I wouldn't put them in higher echelons of stellar states. Why is that? Is that a deviation from Islamic principles or is it the consequence of Islamism? Now nobody wants to have a discussion and it's no bloody wonder.
There are certainly doctrines in Islam that are very, very difficult to square with free, liberal, western Christian democracies. And those differences are not just apparent, they are deep!
Islam is a problem for the west and it’s growing.
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I’m on your side, Kill all radical moslems, leave the quiet Moslems to themselves.
It is all a direct result of the massive flood of women into government.
Oh, stop.
War with Islam.
Not if, but when.
Treat them as they treat us - but treat them much more badly.
Is what I call “pathological compassion”.
I have to agree with Desert Rhino: women think differently, it’s a part of the configuration of the development of their brains. The greater participation of women in politics has caused the directions towards long negotiations and avoidance of conflict. (The Democrats Party has become the party of women and men who want to be women). Nations governed by women tend to be soft and likely will not survive.
Men, on the other hand, are aggressive and tend not to avoid conflict. It can be argued that men avoid too much negotiation - and wars, when they do come, depend on men and their testosterone-fueled formation. During war, men are replaceable but women - who are the only ones needed for the next generation - cannot be replaced.
There is a much greater divide between the races than between the sexes. I dare you to pitch your solution for that.
It’s simply a fact. Our four female Supremes yesterday wanted Trump to go to El Salvador to collect up an MS-13 gang member and bring him back to his life in America. Because mommy has a sad and that gang member is someone’s little boy.
Sweden is completely feminist and they lead the charge to import those sad “refugees” and they STILL support it.
Germany and the UK are dominated by feminist politics. And they do all they can to encourage the influx.
It’s justa fact. The more feminine our courts and leaders are, the more you get a weak military, weak police, and massive support for immigration.
Stick your head in the sand if you want.
Great way of dealing with numbers!
Three women named as liberals and one Roberts equivalent slipped in on the other side.
That assertion was falsified in the last election. Black and Hispanic men were massively more supportive of Trump. Females broke hard for Kamala... by way over 10 points in some cases and ages.
Women are wonderful in their role. But they make very poor national policy makers. They big thing is that everybody be nice, and they embrace the weak and the odd. Women have almost solely caused the homosexual and tranny cult that has taken over our schools.
Most school boards are lead by, and many are 100% female. They could stop the woke and perversion in an instant.
But they let their emotions guide them. Like the 4 supremes yesterday.
All four women voted to bring that poor sad MS-13 member back from El Salvador and turn him loose. A classic example.
Ah, no. Harris got 83% of the black vote, but only 53% of the female vote.
Trump didn’t just lose the black and Latino votes (and Asian and Jewish, no doubt), he lost the black and Latino votes among men.
Your mind has totally decoupled from the facts.
The fact that most marriages do work is a testament to human adaptability.
The claim made here, as too often it is at FR, is that women shouldn’t be involved in politics because they’ve a couple of percentage points average difference in how men vote. When I point out that all racial categories have far greater differences on average in how they vote, the misogynistic cowards here always back away from applying their standard there.
I am positively against women serving in direct combat, particularly infantry combat. War hasn't changed - a despite often-used examples of the Soviet and Israeli use of women in combat units, most or all nations that have used women in that bloody business have quietly removed them from frontline service.
it's hard enough on the psyches of male survivors, and it will be catastrophic for young women. War is organized murder and that should always be strictly the province of men.
Bkmk
RepeaL XIX, NOTHING good has come from it.
Lurk, how much of our wonderful fkd up governance is now by women? (hint: too damn much)
Your post is textbook misrepresentation of what DesertRhino was saying of the facts about BIG changes in 2024 vote by Black and Hispanic males.. but that’s just you.
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