Posted on 10/31/2005 9:08:06 PM PST by Eurotwit
Excellent read. Thanks.
Excellent post, thanks
Islam did not conquer the world because they refused to view anything that was not created by Islam as legitimate. While Europe was busily trying to assimilate everything they found anywhere they traveled, books were being furiously translated and inventions being copied and improved upon, Islam closed its eyes. Much of the Islamic world still has its eyes closed today.
Thanks God they won. Hope they are willing to go to war again.
Why? They, and the US, and Canada and all the rest invited these people in. They did not invade. Those of us that saw it coming in the 80s were called racists for saying anything - for resisting the deliberate skewing of immigration policy (in Canada in my case) to favor Arabs and Muslims. So now the chickens are coming come to roost, as the old expression goes.
Anyway, God helps those that help themselves. Europe and every other area is perfectly capable of dealing with the problem if they really want to. I'll save my prayers for people that are trying their best, but need a bit of help, not those that foolishly court disaster and then refuse to look it in the face as it descends.
Bump!
Arabs are notorious for starting wars they cannot finish. All hat and no cattle, historically speaking.
Very interesting, thank you for a great posting.
I have been interested in Damascus steel for some time. Not the stuff that is made today. The original Damascus steel. It just predated Islam, but was invented in the same area.
I believe that the Damascus steel swords the Muslims had made a big difference in their conquests. When Europe learned to make steel that was equal (or better) than Damascus steel, the conquests by Islam came to an end. Without Damascus steel, Islam might now be found in a few scatterd backwashes (if at all).
Apart from defeating the crapweasels at Tours, Charles Martel was the father of Pipen the Short who was the father of Charlemagne. His legacy was carried down to one of the key figures in the beginnings of the movement of Europe out of the dark ages.
Great piece. I had heard of him but never really knew the history. Thanks!
Great post!
Thank you, Charles, and thanks to you, too, eurotwit, for posting. Bookmarking. Excellent article and very apropos.
When Christian (Serbs) took a stand they got bombed. That is good way to promote Islamic conquest – not to stop it.
Moslems remind me of the Aztecs and Mayans. Hated by all those around them because of their butchery.
Because it is stupid and it sucks much
{quote}"In the book "What If?: The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been," Barry Strauss of Cornell points out that an Islamicized Europe would have meant that during the Age of Exploration, European sailing captains would have planted not the Cross, but the Crescent, in the soil of the New World." {quote}
An interesting little fact which many might not be familiar with is the Crescent was in fact originally a symbol of Western/Christianity which the Islamojerks stole from us when they conquered Constantinopoli.
Originally Byzantine was founded by Greek colonists from Megara in 667 BC and named after their king, Byzas. The city's patron was Artemis/Diana Goddess of the Hunt, who's symbol was the crescent moon. In 670BC they OFFICIALLY crowned their city's flag with the crescent moon in honor of Artemis/Diane. In 330 AD after Constantine became Christian and moved Nova Roma to the East, he also added the Virgin Mary's star on the flag. When the city fell to the Ottomans in 1453 the Ottoman rulers saw this flag with the Cresent all over Constantinopoli and took it as their own.
They can try to explain it away by saying that ancient cultures have always worshipped the sky, moon and stars but the fact still remains that it was the Greek city of Bynzantium to be the first state to ever use it as their national flag and as an official governing symbol in 670 BC. Muslims didn't use this flag until Byzantine[modern day Instabul] fell to them. So basically they are flying under a flag that originally not only has its roots in Western civilization BUT was also the flag of a Western civilization AND a Christian symbol to boot. What irony.
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