[emiller]

The MSM does it's best to ignore this kind of thing. Might as well learn about our industrious little "friends"

[TalBlack]

"...until all nonbelievers submitted to Muslim rule,...'

There it is right there. Islam couldn't care less about winning hearts or what is in anyone's heart.
It Is A
Satanic Cult

[Rollee]

It makes me violently ill think of the legacy our liberal "brothers and sisters" are willing to leave to our children.

[Cicero]

I subscribe to Crisis and just read this a few days ago. Here's an extract that particularly sticks in my mind:

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Alp Arslan (“the Valiant Lion”), the Turkish prince who unified the Seljuqs in 1063 and was eventually to win the great victory of Mantzikert, carried on raids of such brutality and scope that Christian chroniclers referred to him as “a drinker of blood” and one of the forces of the Antichrist.

He worked hard to earn this reputation. Matthew of Edessa, an Armenian historian, describes Alp Arslan’s sack of Ani (now known as Arpa Cay), the capital of Armenia in 1064 (which Seljuq chronicles describe as a “large flourishing city with 500 churches”):

The army entered the city, massacred its inhabitants, pillaged and burned it leaving it in ruins, making prisoners of all who escaped the massacre, and took possession. [The number dead were such] that they blocked all the streets and one could not make way for himself without crossing over them. The number of prisoners was not less than 30,000 souls.

I wanted to enter the city and see it with my own eyes. I tried to find a street without having to walk over corpses. But that was impossible.

[CheyennePress]

You could really go on and on over this. Very good article. To add a bit, the issue of Jerusalem was particularly contentious for a number of reasons. Fatimid Caliph al-Hakim had ordered the destruction of over 10,000 Christian churches under his territories that he had conquered, including the Holy Sepulchre, the tomb of Christ. All Christian establishments in Jersusalem were destroyed. The rubble of the Holy Sepulchre was turned over not to the former keepers of the tomb in the Latin West, but rather, to the Orthodox Church.

So yeah, Jerusalem got a few people ticked off, particularly considering how popular the pilgrimmage route to the city had become.

Al-Hakim is a particularly interesting guy. He ended up declaring himself God-incarnate and replaced the name of Allah with his own name. Angered by those who doubted him, he attened Friday prayers with a pig in tote.

Needless to say, he went out for a leisurely stroll on his horse and was never heard from again.

There are actually still those who accept his claim to divinity in Syria.

[beebuster2000]

wow. great post. thanks

[SoCal_Republican]

Fantastic read! I particularly liked the part at the end that pointed out that the muslim jihadists today are left only with terror/fear to further their cause. As bad as things may seem nowadays, this is a valuable indicator of the comparative weakness that jihadis have been reduced to. They are not a great army in maturing-modern times like they were 1000 years ago. They never will be thanks to the power of free information (and also thanks to a fleet of SSBNs floating around somewhere out there!).

[Appalled but Not Surprised]

Crusading ideals in the West were an answer to the greater threat of jihad.>>

Oh, horsespit. The whole "Crusader" ideal arose from the fact that a growing Europe (this was pre-plague, remember) had far more knights than it knew what to do with. This surplus of knights led to endless internecine and private warfare. The Crusaders were directed to go after the Muslims because if they were doing that they were not around to beat up the peasants.

Going after the Holy Land was, yes, a brilliant geostrategic move by the Christian lands, but it really wasn't intended that way: think of it as either a happy accident or divine design. It was sort of a middle-ages equivalent of the US Government's Black Budget--welfare for white men--intended to get them the hell out of here and go beating up strangers and leaving "us" alone.

[Becki]

Islam is a remarkably successful religion cult that for most of its existence has inspired terrorize its adherents to creatively synthesize endure the often-conflicting requirements of warfare, imperial politics, and missionary zeal.

There. Truth in advertising.

Becki