Posted on 04/18/2004 7:00:20 PM PDT by jwalburg
In AD 627, the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius won a great victory over the Persians at Nineveh, and the long, bitter struggle between the Byzantines and the Persians came to an end. The Persian army was destroyed, and the Byzantines gained control of virtually all the territory the two empires had fought over for so long.
Victory at last! Peace at last! Time to enjoy a peace dividend! And, even better, time to turn on the real enemy: themselves.
Bitter political and ideological struggles had divided the Byzantines from the beginnings of their history, but now these struggles turned particularly vicious. Ten years after his great victory over the Persians, Heraclius discovered members of his own family plotting against him. The conspirators had their noses and hands cut off. One of them had a leg amputated as well.
After Heraclius' death, his wife Martina became the de facto ruler. But opposition to her high-handed ways provoked riots in the streets and revolts among the troops. In the end, Martina was forced from power. Her tongue was cut out, and she was sent into exile. Two of her sons had their noses cut off. A third was castrated.
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That also goes for the illegitimate islamist entity of "Bosnia", which was specifically set up by its "founders" as a launching pad for islamist subversion of Europe!!!! Well, despite NATO and UN forces in Bosnia, it has been involved in funneling illegal immigrants from the entire islamic world into Western Europe, in training and financing of mujehadin terrorists, and as a base of operations for Iranian inbtelligence and for Al Qaeda. Not to mention keeping the Serbian residents of Republika Srpska hostage to the machinations both of "human rightser" social engineers and the islamists.
The "Bosnian" islamists are the UNDISPUTED GRAND-MASTERS of the art of taqiyya--i.e., lying to advance the cause of islamic expansion and takeover. With the help of hired Western public-relations firms, they have convinced much of the world that they are "moderate muslims", when they are really islamoNazis. They have also convinced much of the world that they are "helpless victims" of Bosnian Serb "genocide". Nothing could be farther from the truth!!!! The islamoNazi "Bosnian" leaders even massacred other Bosnian muslims several times in Sarajevo to blame it on the Serbs, and to provoke US and European military action against Bosnian Serbs. (This is a common islamist practice, that, for example, the "Palestinians" have used time and time again against Israel.)
It's good to see some of my fellow Lutherans on FR posting on Balkan issues. Maybe some of you can come over on our ever-so-lively Balkan threads and let our resident shllls for "Bosnian" and Albanian islamoNazis know just exactly what you think of them!!!!
The people we call "Byzantines" never called themselves by that name, nor did others call them so. They, the legitimate extension of the Roman Empire, called themselves Romans, or in their own Greek language, Romaioi. The term "Byzantine" was coined by 19th century British intellectuals who downgraded or ignored the contribution of the Romaic state (and its offshoots, such as mediaval Serbia) to world civilization. (In fact, much of the transmission of classical civilization to the West when it emerged from the early Middle Ages toward the Renaissance came from the Romaioi, not just from islam).
The 19th century intellectuals who gave us the term "Byzantine" were the Orthodox Christian-bashers of their day!!!! Their unworthy and enfeebled successors are the professional Serb-hating and Orthodox-bashing "human rightsers", who are GREAT CONTRIBUTORS to the process of in-fighting and degradation of American and West European civilization that this article discusses. They are also of course islamoNazi enablers and shills.
Ironically, the "human rightser"-inspired movement for "gay rights" and feminazi revisionism in "mainline" churches is so ruining them that many "mainline" Christians are investigating Orthodoxy. Quite a few of them have converted, and more are expected to do so in the coming years. Then the "human rightsers" can bash these new Orthodox Christians along with all the others, if they dare!!!
I dunno....400 Denominations/schizm'z of the Golden Horde..like Christianity of Today : )
A Mongol hurling himself upon a stack of prayer requests like *Robert Tilton?
"That was a cheap shot right out of the cheap seats"!
Ya..I know : )
There is no enemy that Russia not defeat, oh and before you say Afghanistan, Soviets loose 15K soldier for price of million Afghans...became choice of mass extermination or of leaving. And like all others new Chechin Wahhibist and Arab allies will in end be deader then deader.
Those favoring the evil one in other countries are not slowed by our ethnicity, though.
If you decide to enter politics I volunteer to work to get you elected.
Greeks of course colonized the Crimea and all over the coasts of the Black Sea - but she did so before there was ever any people called Russia. Scythians were not Russians. I do know that the pagan Varangian Rus tried to raid Constantinople and were wiped out by Greek Fire and later on the Crimean regions went to Rus over time - but no invasion by force of arms. In fact teh Czars were part Byzantine by blood.
So to be fair - Greeks have been in parts of Russia longer than Russians have been - aye, even before there were any Russians.
And you too. When are you and Cronos going to run? Let me know.
But what is the Greek root for the word "molodyetz"?
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