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To: rdl6989

Poles in 1683 AD stopped Islam at the gates of Vienna from taking Europe.

If you think Muslims do not remember - they act like 1492 AD when Spain kicked them out of Europe happened yesterday.

Islam has a 1500 year plan and the Poles have the guts to stand up to them.

Someone’s bosses made this happen. Remember the bow?


8 posted on 09/28/2009 8:34:36 PM PDT by Frantzie (Do we want ACORN running America's healthcare?)
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To: Frantzie
Poles in 1683 AD stopped Islam at the gates of Vienna from taking Europe.

Well, they may have stopped them from taking Vienna, but they sure didn't stop them from conquering the rest of Europe.

The second siege of Vienna was the last desparate gasp of an empire that was falling farther and farther behind militarily with each decade. After this repulse the Ottomans were essentially in retreat for the next 250 years.

Ironically, the same military technology changes that doomed an Ottoman Empire unable to adapt its society enough to use them effectively doomed Poland over the next century to partition, for basically the same reason.

13 posted on 09/28/2009 8:48:08 PM PDT by Sherman Logan ("The price of freedom is the toleration of imperfections." Thomas Sowell)
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