[calex59]

They haven’t escaped yet!

[2ndDivisionVet]

Thread of the day!

[Salvation]

**The Greatest Sea Battle in History: Lepanto, October 1571**

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Lepanto, Bertone e Battesimo, Oh My!
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The Battle of Lepanto

Chesterton's Lepanto
The Miracle At Lepanto...
Lepanto
The Naval Battle of Lepanto
The Battle of Lepanto

[SuperLuminal]

Outstanding post.

Once again Santayana's warning is very relevant.

It doesn't look as though the civilized world is paying attention.

[BIGLOOK]

Note

[G8 Diplomat]

Europe escaped it throughout history, but they way they're going these days, they could be writing بالعربية in the near future.

(BTW, in the case of the Seljuks and Ottomans, they spoke Turkish, not Arabic. They just wrote in the Arabic alphabet).

Wake up, Europe

[Ultra Sonic 007]

I think this one’s calling you.

[haroldeveryman]

“Wake up, Europe”

Seeming catastrophes can have strange and unpredictable consequences. Due to the loss of Crusader strongholds in the Eastern Mediterranean followed by the fall of Constantinople (and eventually the Balkans) to the Turks, trade between Mediterrranean and the East dried up. Wealthy commercial centers that profited from this trade (e.g., city states Venice, Genoa, Pisa) went into a relentless economic decline. Commerce shifted West and became a bonanza for the Atlantic countries. Portugal and Spain, followed by England, France, and Holland sailed around Africa to colonize India, South East Asia, and the Americas. Europe thereafter rapidly out-distanced the Muslim and East Asian countries Economically and militarily.

Now after a spectacular outburst of technological innovation followed by unimagined standards of living, an inexplicable guilty malaise has set in over Europe and more recently the U.S., and we seem almost determined to throw it all away. We need a good psychiatrist. Or at least a good kick in the A$$.

[Kozak]

Sadly it looks like the title should read:

How the West Delayed Speaking Arabic".

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“The Western world has never taken Islam with the full seriousness it has earned!!!”

BUMP!

[PGalt]

OUTSTANDING article by Michael Novak! Thanks for posting. Thanks for the ping, Salvation.

[airborne]

Give it a few years....

[SuperLuminal]

Bump while I continue the search for the 12th Imam.

[rmlew]

It might also have something to do with the 4 Khazar-Arab wars fought between 649/50 and 758CE.