Posted on 04/18/2009 5:41:01 PM PDT by Conservative Coulter Fan
I'm actually not worried about Islam taking the West over.
Islam is chiefly a danger for two reasons:
1) It DOES have many members who have a penchant for committing acts of violence against "infidels", and who therefore constitute a physical threat to those around them.
2) Islam has a way of pushing the limits with decadent Westerners such that I fear that, especially in Europe, eventually something will snap - and that snap will occur when the Europeans go nuts and start rounding up Muslims and putting them in concentration camps. It's not as if Europe is without precedent in that regard.
I do not believe that Islam is an actual existential threat to the West, however. I do not fear that Islam is just one step away from conquering us (though not for the lack of trying). Far from viewing Islam as a dynamic, forward-moving ideology, I view Islam as regressive, static, and shrinking. Islam has been on the recession for centuries. The West still - to this day - continues to possess increasingly more real power - in military, cultural, and economic term - than the Muslim world does.
Islam has lost, since it's apex, the Iberian peninsula, much of the Asian steppe, most of the Balkans, 90% of the Indian subcontinent, Sicily and Malta, half of Cyprus, Israel, and is losing adherents to Christianity at an ever-accelerating rate in Africa.
Islam is not an existential threat to us. It is merely an annoyance, a cornered, degraded civilisation with a penchant for lashing out in violent, yet ultimately ineffectual, ways.
Every year, on the anniversary of the Battle of Vienna, I e-mail people to remind them of the significance of the day — and why it’s important for them to remember this particular piece of history.
It impresses me how this over-riding historical fact obviously applies to the issue of Israel, and how everyone studiously ignores it in their ludicrous "peace process"
Since when do our idiot politicians study history? They are too busy in the DC social whirl which is intoxicating and inflates their egos
Yes the Muslims are obsessed with re-conquering all territory lost such as Spain and Israel but Jihad means Jihad doesn't end until the whole world is Muslim. This is the Muslim version of peace
Don’t forget Vlad Dracul:
http://www.eskimo.com/~mwirkk/castle/vlad/vladhist.html
http://www.draculas.info/vlad_iii_dracula/
From one of the articles:
“Death by impalement was slow and painful. Victims sometimes endured for hours or days. Dracula often had the stakes arranged in various geometric patterns. The most common pattern was a ring of concentric circles in the outskirts of a city that was his target. The height of the spear indicated the rank of the victim. The decaying corpses were often left up for months. It was once reported that an invading Turkish army turned back in fright when it encountered thousands of rotting corpses impaled on the banks of the Danube. In 1461 Mohammed II, the conqueror of Constantinople, a man not noted for his squeamishness, returned to Constantinople after being sickened by the sight of twenty thousand impaled corpses outside of Dracula’s capital of Tirgoviste.”
I guess those people that jumped flaming out of the WTC were just ‘annoyed’ at this little irritation.
Most informative article. Is the actress Leelee Sobieski a descendant of the King of Poland, I wonder.
The idea is they would be organized such that one kingdom was kept in reserve as a place of safety while the other two pushed into Moslem (and other Christian) lands in a hammer and tong rhythm.
Turned out they didn't really need to keep a kingdom in reserve. Carvajal was discarded as a kingdom in the first generation after the initial landing.
BTW, took King San Cho Noe I (King Sancho I) just a few weeks to totally bowl over the locals in Galicia, et al. They simply didn't have the technology to fight anyone.
Carvajal lived on as an order in France to which a French Knight who'd fought the Moors would be appointed by the King of France. It's symbol is a large red bull with big horns (or so I've had 'splained to me).
She has stated that her “...great great granduncle” was John III Sobieski,[9] an elected king of Poland who saved Europe with the Polish army in 1683 to lift the siege of Vienna from Ottoman Turks. No proof of her claim has ever been presented.
From Wikipedia
The Romanovs definitely did some damage eh!
BTW, most posters on this thread have such a Western European bias they appear to have no idea what was going on in what became Russia!
bookmarked
You mean the Tatars (Tamerlane), Azerbaijan, the various ‘stans’ on the outskits of Russian borders, etc? Uzbek, Kazakh, Turkmen...
http://www.euroheritage.net/tatarcrimeahistory.shtml
http://www.azerb.com/az-hist.html
http://www.galenfrysinger.com/merv.htm
And yes, the Romanovs did quite a bit....
Then it was cleared of its people.
Unlike the Chechnyans, they didn't come back!
BFL
Don't be an emotionalistic, unthinking animal, okay?
9-11 didn't deliver the United States to Islam. 9-11 just pissed us off so that we smacked a good part of Islam around like it was a red-headed stepchild.
Like I said, Islam is not an existential threat. It's an annoyance which is ultimately, despite its best efforts, unable to do anything more than prick us here or there. Islam will not, and cannot, conquer us.
They haven’t escaped yet!
Or China...
Thread of the day!
It’s not all our fault though. The climate disaster that precipitated the Dark Ages in 535 AD created enough of a problem in China that civil government was effectively nonexistent for the next 300 years. Accordingly, whatever was going on in the Chinese West was not recorded all that well, nor did it “make the news”, that sort of thing simply not existing.
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