Posted on 02/20/2010 6:35:24 PM PST by ventanax5
he year is 732 A.D., and Europe is under assault. Islam, born a mere 110 years earlier, is already in its adolescence, and the Muslim Moors are on the march.
Growing in leaps and bounds, the Caliphate, as the Islamic realm is known, has thus far subdued much of Christendom, conquering the old Christian lands of the Mideast and North Africa in short order. Syria and Iraq fell in 636; Palestine in 638; and Egypt, which was not even an Arab land, fell in 642. North Africa, also not Arab, was under Muslim control by 709. Then came the year 711 and the Moors’ invasion of Europe, as they crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and entered Visigothic Iberia (now Spain and Portugal). And the new continent brought new successes to Islam. Conquering the Iberian Peninsula by 718, the Muslims crossed the Pyrenees Mountains into Gaul (now France) and worked their way northward. And now, in 732, they are approaching Tours, a mere 126 miles from Paris.
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That I have very little of. I have a lot of faith in Christianity. It wins every time it is tried.
Two points, firstly, people often act irrationally and believe it makes sense at the time. Secondly, I wouldn't suggest most decisions are made on a single impulse but a complex interaction of a mix of motivators. What I mean is, to one degree or another some or many of the leaders of some of the crusades were motivated by reports and/or desires of great wealth...but that wouldn't be in a vacuum, they were also concerned about reports of pilgrims being killed on the way to the holy land, and some perhaps as a retribution of incursions of muslims in previous centuries...and some for those reasons and the chance of glory in battle. We don't have the same worldview that was common to those times, so the reasons that motivated the crusades wouldn't necessarily make full sense to us in our day.
And dimmacrats.
Good Post Salvation, this one goes into my Mil-History file along with this: Two Battles That Saved the West: Lepanto 1571 and Vienna 1683, http://www.aei.org/speech/29108
Good Post Salvation, this one goes into my Mil-History file along with this: Two Battles That Saved the West: Lepanto 1571 and Vienna 1683, http://www.aei.org/speech/29108
That's amazing to think about.
Personally I believe most who claim to adhere to the Muslim faith do so out of fear, since to turn away from it can bring death to the door. No one can seriously argue the Muslim faith is not one which embraces violence as a way to further it’s cause.
Most, I believe would prefer to not be part of a faith which offers death as a consequence of non compliance.
Led by the Venetians who sacked the place and literally made off with some of the actual buildings of Constantinople.
“How do you make a Venetian blind?”
“Like this!” *poke*
Every body’s a wise guy! ;^)
I would more or less look at it like that. The catalytic motivation was, I believe, genuine.
A lot of people don’t realize the impact these pray-ers and prayers had. It is a stunning acoount!
And .. I have always believed the Crusades had the right idea .. there was no “cooperation” - THERE WAS ONLY DEATH to Islam’s followers.
We are much too spineless to do that again. We are so “sensitive” to the plight of others, we cannot bear to be called names by the NYT for being willing to destroy our enemies.
The very reason we won WWII was because we destroyed the enemy. While we did take a lot of prisoners, we killed a lot more - more of those who would have tried to raise the Hitler model again. As a result of our resolve, we rid the planet of that horrible group of people.
Yes it was once mostly Christian land, and the secret was that the Muslims began having more and more children who were indoctrinated into Islam. Thus, the world is reaping millions of Islamists, while the western world IS ABORTING THEIR CHILDREN. In Mark Steyn’s book, “America Alone”, he points out that it’s America alone who is still having more children - even if abortion is legal.
What is the count now of abortions ..??: 40 million ..??
But .. the backside of the story goes way back to Biblical times. Sarah and Abraham could not have children, and though God promised them a child, after 25 years of waiting, they gave up too soon and Sarah agreed to allow her husband to take one of her handmaidens - and thus Ishmael was born.
According to Jewish law, the first born SON inherits everything from the father. Thus, Ishmael grew up believing he was the heir of all that belonged to Abraham (especially the land). Ishmael was not Jewish - he was Muslim.
However, Sarah gave birth to a child also, Isaac, and because Isaac was born under the law of marriage, Isaac was considered by God to be the sole heir.
So began the march by Ishmael’s ancestors to take over the lands of the Middle East - they believed they were entitled to the lands because of Ishmael being the “first born”.
It’s seems almost unreal to me that this whole conflict in the Middle East is between half-brothers who are fighting over the land that God gave to their father, Abraham. This is why they hate Israel so much - because Israel inhabits land which the Muslims believe belongs to them.
I know there were a lot of political things that went on also in this area, but the goal remained the same: Ishmael’s ancestors were determined to gain all the lands that were promised to Abraham by God.
And .. much has been made of the treatment of women by the believers of Islam. I have a theory regarding that: Remember that Ismael hated his mother because she was too cowardly to demand that Abraham confer upon her son the status of heir. Ismael was always hateful toward Isaac, so much so that Sarah finally demanded of Abraham that Ismael and his mother be put out of the camp. It would not be unreasonable to believe that Ishmael hated Sarah for doing this. I see a pattern here of hatred of women by Ismael - his mother for being weak, and Sarah for bullying Abraham into denying the inheritance to Ismael.
Is it any wonder then that Islam treats its women with such distain ..?? They have become baby factories - that’s all.
Sorry to be so wordy, but a lot of people do not know this information.
I remember that when one of the Christian Kings of Spain was asked to participate in a Crusade, he made a statement to the effect: “Why should I journey to the Holy Land when we have plenty of Moors to kill in my own country?”
The Crusades: When Christendom Pushed Back
The New American | 2/5/10 | Selwyn Duke
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