Battle of Manzikert: The ‘Subjugation of Christianity by Islam’

American Thinker.com ^ | August 26, 2020 | Raymond Ibrahim

[Kaslin]

Today, on August 26, 1071, one of history’s most decisive battles took place at Manzikert, initiating the creation of the modern state of Turkey atop formerly Christian Asia Minor.

The story, which follows, is instructive.

In 1019, “the first appearance of the bloodthirsty beasts… the savage nation of infidels called Turks entered Armenia,” in eastern Anatolia, “and mercilessly slaughtered the Christian faithful with the sword,” writes a chronicler. In the ensuing years and decades, virtually the whole of Armenia was decimated: hundreds of thousands were slaughtered or enslaved, and thousands of churches torched or desecrated, including by being turned into mosques:

Who is able to relate the happenings and ruinous events which befell the Armenians, for everything was covered with blood... Because of the great number of corpses, the land stank, and all of Persia was filled with innumerable captives; thus this whole nation of beasts became drunk with blood. All human beings of Christian faith were in tears and in sorrowful affliction…

Nor was there much doubt concerning what fueled the Turks’ animus: “This nation of infidels,” a military leader explained, “comes against us because of our Christian faith and they are intent on destroying the ordinances of the worshippers of the cross and on exterminating the Christian faithful.” Therefore, “it is fitting and right for all the faithful to go forth with their swords and to die for the Christian faith.” Many were of the same mind; records tell of monks and priests, fathers, wives, and children, all shabbily armed but zealous to protect their way of life, coming out to face the invaders -- only to be butchered or enslaved.

[FreedomPoster]

But I am assured it’s a peaceful, friendly religion.

[wbarmy]

monks and priests, fathers, wives, and children, all shabbily armed but zealous to protect their way of life

If you are going to die anyway, better on your feet swinging then laying down with the neck outstretched. I know the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church, but I have always believed that Islam is the antichrist's true religion and nothing except force will stop it.

Even the Bible says that God Himself will come to fight for us against the anti-christ.

[PGR88]

“All that was left were devastated fields, trees cut down, mutilated corpses and towns driven mad by fear or in flames.” Hundreds of thousands of Anatolian Christians were reportedly massacred or enslaved. By the early 1090s, the Turks had taken the last Christian bastion, Nicomedia, only 2,500 feet away from Constantinople, across the narrowest point of the Bosporus strait.

Five years later the First Crusade was underway.

Modern history and politics ignores these obvious connections.

[henkster]

The battle was lost because of betrayal.

[View from the Cheap Seats]

Islam is not a religion. It is an ideology of conquest. The Koran and related texts were written to justify the invasion of neighboring countries and the theft of their wealth If mass execution of the infidels is inconvenient they would just impose a crippling tax on the po[ulation and convert them over time—or chop their heads off. That’s not a religion.

[DuncanWaring]

It’s a murderous death cult.

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