Posted on 03/12/2006 7:55:48 AM PST by Sweetjustusnow
The Crusades began with a rumor of defilement. In 1095, Pope Urban II denounced the Muslims as "a race utterly alienated from God." Among their many offenses, Muslims had seized the churches of Jerusalem: "They circumcise the Christians, and the blood of the circumcisions they either spread upon the altars or pour into the vases of the baptismal font." Such false rumors were already widespread in Christendom. Urban tapped them to launch the First Crusade.
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I'm not even sure Allah is a god. Maybe Allah is a rock god. And there were many actual Muslim persecutions of Christians that Pope Urban had enough and called for a crusade.
This is not one of the Jerusalem Post's better articles.
No, it's not about oil. Ignoring them won't make them go away, even if we don't buy one more drop of oil from them.
It's about Islam, and it's goal of global conquest.
Ishaq:208 “When Allah gave permission to his Apostle to fight, the second Aqaba contained conditions involving war which were not in the first act of submission. Now we bound themselves to war against all mankind for Allah and His Apostle. He promised us a reward in Paradise for faithful service. We pledged ourselves to war in complete obedience to Muhammad no matter how evil the circumstances.”
That's what it has always been about.
Ok, good point. Let's launch.
"Allah" is the NAME of their god. Lazy media has mistakenly said "allah" means "god", bit that Isn't so, ilah is arabic for "god". Allah is a contraction of al-ilah (the god) which during pagan arab times was used in the phrase "al-ilah ta' ala" (the god most high). "allah was and is the black stone of the ka'aba in mecca, which was simply a shrine for pagan arab rock gods which doubled as a rock pile around a water well to keep the sand out.
Geez, that cartoon says it all.
We will, eventually, when it' too late.
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Muslims in the Mideast are mainly illiterate except for brainwashing with the Koran which, in all cases, belittles all non-Muslims and suggests that non-Muslims are less than human, therefore should die.
The Crusades were not a mass social movement. Had they been, Jerusalem might never have fallen back to Islam. There were certainly a broad political enthusiasm inside of which young men were persuaded to expend their excess energy making war for God. In that they resemble contemporary Jihad; poverty and unemployment have been named as a cause in both cases but there was, and is, a great deal more at work.
9/11 could be attributed to a fanatic minority. Not so the Danish cartoon protests: Millions have taken part.
Flying airliners in suicide/murder missions against buildings is not quite the same thing as shouting with a mob in the street, especially in a society wherein you'd better hit the street or else. I do not see the cartoon protests as any particular sign of broad militancy; I do see them as a sign of how easily the public may be manipulated.
The problem is that Western technology has given the radicals the ability (1) to spread their poison through oil-funded madrasas, (2) to use modern means of communication to evangelize and propagandize (the cassette recorder overthrew the Shah), and (3) to empower a relatively few to commit acts of mass violence that were not technologically possible in the 8th centhry AD.
This last point especially is what drives Islamic terror. The broad mass of Moslems might well be forced into the street by a combination of hysteria and false rumor, but the actual membership of the jihadists is small, militant, young, and male. In this it does resemble most of the Crusades. However, during the latter the damage an individual could do was pretty much limited to arrow range - even cannon were a rarity. I need not make the point of how much this has changed.
It does strike me as a little odd to be predicting a clash of "civilizations" at this point inasmuch as we've been in one for a quarter of a century now. From that broad a viewpoint there are two strategic objectives - (1) to disempower the hate machine by revoking oil funding or replacing those who use that funding to proselytize war, and (2) to remove from power any state government that uses terror as a means of proxy warfare. These objectives strangle militant Islam by removing the support mechanisms. The imams may scream as they please; in the absence of this they are no more than religious nuts. With them, however, we have the situation in which we find ourselves today - our own wealth and technology empowering those who would enslave us.
We need to defile their "god", show it to be utterly without power. Destroy their holy sites, watch the confusion. Some think that would enrage them, I think it would give them cause to question the power of Al-uh. Why follow a religion that does not protect them, or carry any promise of an afterlife?
9/11 could be attributed to a fanatic minority. Not so the Danish cartoon protests: Millions have taken part."
A fanatic minority was incensed about the cartoons until the imams made a crusade about them to the other countries and let all the other muslims know that they too were pissed off about them.
Future American woman's movement:
As I have stated before, the last time we faced an enemy that thought their leader was the godhead we had to crush their military, burning their cities to the ground and pound the rubble with nuclear weapons before they got the message that G-d was not smiling on them.
Excellent graphic
Their insane attack on cartoons will produce 1000 times more exposing the sub-human Islamic cult
What we need is a new Pope Urban, Godfrey of Bouillon, Richard the Lionheart, Barbarossa, and St. Louis, not George W. Bush. The hell with Muslim democracy - the two are mutually exclusive.
Like the MSM or Hollywood would ever do that.
Besides, according to "Kingdom of Heaven," the Muslim hordes were peaceful negotiators who did not want the wholesale slaughter of Christians and Jews.
If Hollywood says so, then it must be true!
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There is something that evokes enraged anger in advanced cultures when you threaten cartoonists:
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