Posted on 05/30/2022 10:45:47 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Nearly thirteen hundred years ago today, on May 28, 722,* a little-known but profoundly important battle was waged, setting the tone for the next eight hundred years of Christian/Muslim “coexistence” in Spain: the Battle of Covadonga.
Ten years earlier, Arabs and Africans — “Moors,” under the banner of Islam — had “godlessly invaded Spain to destroy it,” to quote from the Chronicle of 754. Once on European soil, they “ruined beautiful cities, burning them with fire; condemned lords and powerful men to the cross; and butchered youths and infants with the sword.”
After meeting and beating Spain’s Visigothic nobles at the Battle of Guadalete — “never was there in the West a more bloody battle than this,” wrote the Muslim chronicler al-Hakam, “for the Muslims did not withdraw their scimitars from them [Christians] for three days” — the invaders continued to penetrate northward into Spain, “not passing a place without reducing it, and getting possession of its wealth, for Allah Almighty had struck with terror the hearts of the infidels.”
Such terrorism was intentionally cultivated, in keeping with the Koran (3:151, 8:12, etc.). For instance, the invaders slaughtered, cooked, and pretended to eat Christian captives, while releasing others who, horrified, fled and “informed the people of Andalus [Spain] that the Muslims feed on human flesh,” thereby “contributing in no small degree to increase the panic of the infidels,” wrote al-Maqqari, another Muslim chronicler.
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And today, our “leaders” worship diversity as their replacement religion for Christianity, and invite these monsters into our society with open arms.
Same old $hit, different day with the muzz. After 1,400 years of conflict, you’d think the West would understand it’s them or us, so what’s it going to be? What only works with these SOB’s is in my tagline.
For anyone interested, I highly recommend Dr. Andrew Bostom’s “Legacy of Jihad.” It draws from almost exclusively Islamic sources and is really beyond your mind’s ability
grasp as far as sheer slaughter. Entire great cities in Central Asia that were sacked and pillaged for weeks, until everyone was either dead or enslaved. Unparalleled in history for the magnitude of barbarity.
History suggests that the “Mustard Seed” set the stage for The Battle of Tours,[6] also called the Battle of Poitiers and, by Arab sources, the Battle of the Highway of the Martyrs (Arabic: معركة بلاط الشهداء, romanized: Maʿrakat Balāṭ ash-Shuhadā’),[7]
Which was fought on 10 October 732, and was an important battle during the Umayyad invasion of Gaul. It resulted in the victory for the Frankish and Aquitanian forces,[8][9] led by Charles Martel, over the invading forces of the Umayyad Caliphate, led by Abdul Rahman Al-Ghafiqi, governor of al-Andalus.
Details of the battle, including the number of combatants and its exact location, are unclear from the surviving sources.
Most sources agree that the Umayyads had a larger force and suffered heavier casualties.
Notably, the Frankish troops apparently fought without heavy cavalry.[10] The battlefield was located somewhere between the cities of Poitiers and Tours, in Aquitaine in western France, near the border of the Frankish realm and the then-independent Duchy of Aquitaine under Odo the Great.
Al-Ghafiqi was killed in combat, and the Umayyad army withdrew after the battle. The battle helped lay the foundations of the Carolingian Empire and Frankish domination of western Europe for the next century.
Most historians agree that “the establishment of Frankish power in western Europe shaped that continent’s destiny and the Battle of Tours confirmed that power.”[11]
I am a proud direct descendent of Charles Martel the winning general that saved Europe for another 1300 years until the pukes that live there today cowardly surrendered to the Muslims without a shot being fired by them, only at them.
bkmk
Battle of Covadonga.
I have been there and walked in the cavern. It is a sacred place.
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