Posted on 10/14/2006 8:30:13 AM PDT by spartagroup
There once lived a man who understood how to successfully confront radical Islamic fanatics.
He lived a long time ago, but his exploits remain vivid in the minds of his countrymen today.
That man who learned how to deal with Muslim fundamentalists who insisted on imposing their false religion on his territory was known to his countrymen, and to the stunned world at large, as Count Vlad the Impaler. You many know him as Count Dracula, a real historical figure, not the movie demon.
Westerners and Easterners in the 21st century – Christian, Orthodox Jewish, Hindu, animist Africans and secular Russia and China – are trying to figure out ways to contain suicidal, aggressive Islam, with radical Muslims now openly proclaiming their plans to take over first Western Europe and then the rest of the world.
Non-Muslims mostly either wring their hands nervously or concede ever more power to advancing Islam. No one has any idea how to confront their murderous rage, their lack of desire to compromise, their feverish desires to literally and figuratively slit the throat of the West.
“And the intimidation [of Muslim extremists] succeeds: politicians bowing and scraping to the mob over the cartoons; Saturday's craven New York Times editorial telling the pope to apologize; the plague of self-censorship about anything remotely controversial about Islam -- this in a culture in which a half-naked pop star blithely stages a mock crucifixion as the highlight of her latest concert tour,” wrote nationally syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer in late September about the latest Islamic outrages. President Bush this year at least made the face of the enemy explicit, identifying our danger as “Islamic fascism,” rather than the unfocused “war on terrorism” he had been proclaiming during the first four years after 9/11.
Muslims openly gloat that their eagerness to slaughter non-Muslims, even at the cost of their own lives, provides their expansionist movement with an unrelenting force that the “decadent” West will fail to resist, sooner or later.
As Henry Kissinger wrote in an important September article: “"We are witnessing a carefully conceived assault, not isolated terrorist attacks, on the international system of respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity. The creation of organizations such as Hezbollah and al-Qaeda symbolizes the fact that transnational loyalties are replacing national ones. The driving force behind this challenge is the jihadist conviction that it is the existing order that is illegitimate."
Well, a man once lived who discovered a way to send aggressive Muslims scurrying back in fright to their own regions -- Count Vlad the Impaler of Romania, better known today as Count Dracula, who ruled in the mid-15th century.
He confronted the last great surge of Islamic expansion that lasted from the 15th to 17th century, as the Ottoman Empire based in Turkey continually attacked the West, often succeeding in conquest. They then forced people to convert to Islam and pay tribute to the Sultan of Istanbul, which is why so many blue-eyed Muslims live today in Slavic regions.
Hundreds of thousands of Christians were killed, tens of thousands of women and children were raped and sold into slavery during these invasions, until a united Christian army defeated the Ottomans at the gates of Vienna in 1688. If not, Vienna might have been re-named “Austrostan,” just as the 1,000-year-old city of Constantinople, built explicitly to become the center of Eastern Christianity, was conquered by Muslims who renamed it Istanbul, and converted its stunning churches into mosques. The Turks would had believed their armies would sweep pass Vienna all the way to the Atlantic, pillaging, slaughtering and making forced conversions all the way to the sea.”
Well, ‘ole Vlad was fighting the Muslims constantly, who periodically invaded his lands and forced him from his castle. That is, until he discovered that Istanbul was sending a huge army to finally defeat and kill him, burn his home and enslave his subjects. He had captured 20,000 Muslim soldiers in a previous battle and was probably holding them for ransom. Instead, as the sultan’s army approached his castle, he ordered his men to impale every single prisoner, male warriors all, on 10-15 feet tall wooden stakes that were then driven into the ground in ragged concentric circles around his castle. “In 1462 Dracula attacked the Turks to drive them out of the Danube River valley. Sultan Mehmed II retaliated by invading Walachia with an army three times larger than Dracula's. Dracula was forced to retreat to his capital, Tirgoviste. He burned his own villages and poisoned wells on the way so that the Turkish army wouldn't have any food or water,” says the website: http://www.royalty.nu/Europe/Balkan/Dracula.html.
“When the sultan reached Tirgoviste, he saw a terrifying scene, remembered in history as ‘the Forest of the Impaled,’” the website continues, in an account backed up by many respected historians. Mehmed took one look at the vast panorama of his fellow impaled Muslims, yanked the reins of his horse around, and galloped back to the thick walls of Istanbul as fast as he could, admitting that one sight of the forest of dangling Muslims impaled on poles had completely unnerved him. 
The Turks thereafter called Vlad “Kaziglu Bey,” or "the Impaler Prince." Today’s Muslim fanatics have forgotten about Count Vlad. Osama bin Laden attacked the United States on 9/11 confident that Americans were too soft and decadent to retaliate with any real force, after he had run Bill Clinton out of Somalia so easily in 1993.
Must we impale 20,000 Muslim fanatics in the 21st century to bring them to their senses? Ricky has joined with noted idea man Count John the Spiker, whose traces his noble blood back to an 11th century Norman England volleyball enthusiast, in this article to answer that question,
“No, more modern and less barbaric means exist today, but we have to show the stomach for firm action, or they will keep attacking,” Count John says. Count John says that Western government ought to use Muslim and Arabic TV and radio networks and websites, hacking into them when necessary, to remind Muslims that Islamic scholars five centuries ago discovered signs in the Koran that a fiercely powerful Western leader ‘would arise out of a burning bush just as God did to Moses’ to take on the Muslim world. Well, we ought to remind the radicals what the name of the global leader against their fanaticism is – BUSH. A coincidence? I don’t think so.” “That’s enough to stop radical Muslims in their tracks?” Ricky asked.
“No, of course not,” the Count shot back. “The Burning Bush must rush development of the neutron bomb, which far left Democrats sidetracked in the post-Vietnam orgy of American self-flagellation that also saw the gutting of the CIA and the Armed Forces.”
The U.S. military was developing the neutron bomb as an alternative to the horrendous physical destruction caused by both nuclear and increasingly powerful conventional weapons. Neutron bombs unleash short but intensely powerful streams of radiation that kill humans and animals but leave buildings, highways and other infrastructure intact. The radiation also rapidly dissipates, unlike the radiation that could linger for centuries after the explosion of a hydrogen bomb.
“The neutron bomb would have solved the problem of how to hit back at the overwhelming military strength of the Soviet bloc in any attack on Germany, without leaving then Western Germany more devastated, if that is possible, than Nazi Germany was left after its surrender in May, 1945.
“The Soviets planned to send ten times the number of tanks, planes, artillery and soldiers across the border in deep thrusts into Free Europe,” the Count said. “Millions and millions of well-trained soldiers, heavy tanks and advanced warplanes. For decades, American soldiers in Europe knew they would be expected to sacrifice their lives and attempt to hold back the Soviet offensive until reinforcements could be rushed across the Atlantic. Meanwhile, the cities, highways, factories and citizens of West Germany would be ground to a pulp by the Soviet sledgehammer. The neutron bomb would have prevented this, killing the infantry and tank men inside their armored vehicles, after the West Germans had fled, but letting them have cities to come home to. Idiot Democrats prevented this by derailing the bomb’s further development.”
“So, we rain neutron bombs down on Muslim cities?” Ricky asked.
“No, it wouldn’t be necessary if we had the bomb ready,” the Count spiked back. “Muslims are busily building nuclear weapons and fanatical terrorist groups, believing they can operate safely within their own borders, that the West would never unleash a preemptive attack in fear of the Muslims destroying the oil fields, or by fear of Muslim casualties. With the neutron bomb, President Bush could simply threaten to drop it on North Korean nuclear facilities as well as the massed North Korean armies lined up on the border within 20 miles of South Korea’s capital of Seoul. We could offer the same to Iran, neutron bombing their nuclear facilities and oil fields and their main military bases, leaving their civilians alone. The U.S. military could then coast in to destroy atomic bomb plants and keep the oil fields running until a free Iran wanted them back.”
“That easy?” Ricky asked.
“If we have the fortitude of the Count Spiker, who would slam balls hard directly at opponents head if necessary to win the game,” John said. * * * CALL, WRITE, EMAIL AND LOBBY YOUR CONGRESSMAN OR WOMAN IN PERSON TO BRING BACK THE NEUTRON BOMB. BETTER THAN SEEING MORE AND MORE OF OUR BRAVE AMERICAN MEN AND WOMEN SOLDIERS BLOWN UP BY ROADSIDE BOMBS.
Count Vlad, doing what he does best:
Drawing of the frightened sultan, sent scurrying home by Vlad.
It only takes a couple of "Impalers" to strike fear into the muslim world.
Wow. Who knew all this time that Dracula was a good guy?
Perhaps making a "forest of the impaled" from our top Gitmo "guests" and showing the tape on Al Jazeera might send a message to the Islamic fascists.
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He is still considered a national hero in Romania.
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From what I've read impaling was a common practice that Vlad ...um..."improved". Apparently the original practice involved running a sharpened stake through the abdomen front to back. Vlad didn't bother with sharpening the stake and he used an existing opening, planted the stake in the ground and allowed the weight of the body to do the rest....over time. No wonder the muslims were terrified of him.
"Must we impale 20,000 Muslim fanatics in the 21st century to bring them to their senses?"
It would be a good start.
What verses and which suras? Enquiring minds and such.
But none of the potential candidates appear to have the requisite attitude.
They're all pretty squishy.
Incidentally, his Romanian guy had the biggest eyeteeth I've ever seen on a human.
I once read that muslim messengers who carried messages to Vlad were sent back with his answers nailed to their foreheads.
I like it. Why not do it?
Eliminating (I.e., killing) muslims, with extreme prejudice, wherever they are found.
What a novel idea!
Whudda thunk it?!
This isn't the Middle Ages/Dark Ages. Modern man is so above that. Much to our peril.
Say goodbye and adios to civilization.
A pro Vlad-the-impaler thread?
whew--conservative humor?
historical fact--and impressive it is. i've read that he used terrorist tactis against the muzzies.
we should all learn.
Talk about aiming low! Why only 20,000? God has seen fit to salt the earth liberally with these vermin, so we can indulge endlessly if we shepherd the supply wisely.
And the verb in this sentence should be "MAY", not "must."
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