Posted on 09/12/2025 4:52:05 AM PDT by Starman417
In the boardgame RISK the goal is world domination. You achieve that by battling other players within and across continents. The best strategy is to take and hold Australia. Once secured you can build up your troops while defending the single point of access to keep your opponents at bay then attack in a methodical style and slowly expand.
This strategy doesn’t always work, but the notion of finding an easily defendable base where you can husband resources and use it as a launching pad to attack others is sound.
We’re actually seeing that strategy play itself in real life competition that is anything but a game.
I’m talking of course about Islam.
Islam began in second half of the 6th century in what is now Saudi Arabia. By the time Muhammad died in 632 the peninsula was largely Muslim. Over the next century Islam would grow rapidly, sweeping across north Africa, through Spain and into France.
In 732 Islam would meet its match in the person of Charles Martel, the de facto leader of the Franks. The Umayyad Caliphate had used its bases in North Africa and later Spain to advance on what is today France, behind the leadership of Abd Al-Rahman. Martel would appeal to the Pope for the funds necessary to defend Christendom.
When the forces met near Tours, the heavily outnumbered Frankish forces were victorious and at the end of the day the Muslim threat to Christendom was over.
While there would be other battles as the Caliphate retreated from France, Muslim control in western Europe would be limited to Iberia for the next 800 years where it would remain in slow decline until its final ouster from Granada in 1492.
Across the Mediterranean at about that same time the Ottomans conquered the unconquerable city, Constantinople, in 1453 and by 1653 would reach the gates of Vienna.
By that point the Ottomans had control over much of south eastern Europe stretching from Greece up to central Hungary and east to what is now Ukraine. The Ottoman’s very much employed the Australia strategy, bringing resources from across its well defended Empire up through Istanbul and deployed them throughout the Balkans in preparation to support the siege. Their efforts would be thwarted by Polish king John III Sobieski.
Much like the Battle of Tours, the assault on Vienna was seen as a threat to Christendom and would represent the high water mark of Muslim incursion into Europe. The following centuries would see the Ottoman Empire slowly retreat until its ultimate demise in the early 20th century.
Not that the Muslim world was monolithic, because it wasn’t. There were often competing caliphates and competition within caliphates, but the Islamic world never experienced anything resembling the kind of balkanization that characterized Christian Europe for most of its post Roman history. Nor was Europe the only area that Islam sought to conquer, at points controlling all of India and much of western China and stretching south to Indonesia.
Today we live in a different world where caliphates in the traditional sense no longer exist. Instead of having one or multiple caliphates controlling large empires of Muslim lands, today there are over 50 countries where Muslims rule.
But just because we live in a different world doesn’t mean we’re living in a different world. Just as Muhammad and his successors sought to expand Islam to the ends of the earth, today we have a similar push, albeit from a far more grassroots source.
The leaders of most Muslim countries today are simply trying to survive the chaos of their 3rd world dystopias rather than trying to conquer the world in the traditional sense. Sure, there are a few Muslim nations who have used the money from oil to climb into the relatively developed world, or create a Potemkin façade of such, but they’re a minority. No, most are like Pakistan or Mali and often have challenges just keeping the lights on and their populations fed.
There are however hundreds of Islamic groups and terrorist organizations who seek to conquer the world and bring the entire planet (particularly western civilization) into a caliphate. Like in the game RISK, they depend on Muslim countries for support and sending new recruits. They are achieving results sultans could only have dreamed of as western countries welcome millions of Muslims. Western leaders always promise citizens the immigrants would assimilate and become productive members of their new nations.
But that didn’t happen. Muslims mostly congregated in Muslim areas, maintained their traditions, flew flags of their former countries and rallied to the cause of terrorist organizations. Indeed, many maintain allegiance to Islam rather than their adopted countries and commit a disproportionate amount of crime too. Often natives are being pressured into changing the culture to accommodate them.
What’s the difference between 732, 1653 and 2025?
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The difference is: in 2025 the “leaders” of the West gave the invaders unprecedented assistance. They opened the gates and welcomed them in.
…But I agree the danger is no different. Arguably worse.
Since the leaders who let in the muslims certainly know they don’t get along with other cultures, the intent is very clear. They want us gone.
“What’s the difference between 732, 1653 and 2025 ?”
In 2025 Western rulers demand their populations present their necks to the knives of Islam.
What’s the difference between 732, 1653 and 2025?
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The middle ages methods were more traditional territorial invasions, including military support. There were migrations, but that wasn’t the edge of the scimitar.
The modern process doesn’t have an edge. It’s subtle. Migration, non-integration, and consumption.
War with Islam.
Not if, but when.
We are beginning to realize it, and ‘they’ know it.
The religion of hate is almost as vile as the left.
And I fear that we may have to deal with both simultaneously because both are variations of hate, and they love each other.
There is no “risk” for Islam. Jihad is a multi-faceted war plan. The brainwashed from madras to mosque receive the programming. The mosques are the forward operating bases to establish the presence and serve as the reminders of the success.
“Jehad is a continuous and never-ending struggle waged on all fronts including political, economic, social, psychological, domestic, moral and spiritual to attain the objectives of policy.”
Quranic Concept of War
We even saw some of that in early American history with the Brits paying the Barbary pirates states protection money for British ships, but being quick to point out American ships ripe for the taking. It's like it didn't matter that there were still white European slaves in the Barbary states worth rescuing...as long as the Muslims could harm American ships.
What Rush used to call "the soft bigotry of low expectations" has played out over and over with European (and American) elitists not seeing Muslims as the threat they are. They see the Muslims as just strong enough to nip at the heals of the lower class, but not strong enough to take over nations.
Today’s West isn’t your grandfather’s West.
The west is the best
The west is the best
Get here and we’ll do the rest
The blue bus is calling us
The blue bus is calling us
Driver, where you taking us?
Then taking over city councils of metropolitan cities, flying islamic flags and permitting overlapping loudspeaker calls to worship are nothing to be concerned about?
I agree with you. I’m just saying that’s how the elitists perceive the Muslims. No matter the reality right in front of them, they can’t see past their smug perceptions.
Oooops, it appears my speedreading skills failed me, my apologies.
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