Posted on 04/06/2018 3:56:44 AM PDT by SJackson
... but hardly in the way that European elites claim.
Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center
European Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans recently chaired a roundtable with ten Muslim imams from six EU Member States (Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy and The Netherlands). Afterwards Timmermans announced that the Commission is strongly committed to promoting diversity in Europe. Islam is part of our history, Islam is part of our present and Islam will be part of our future.
Such assertions are as true as the assumptions they are based onand whether such assumptions are grounded in historical facts or fictions. In prefacing his claims about Islams historic role in Europe by saying the Commission is strongly committed to promoting diversity in Europe, it is clear which perception Timmermans is invoking.
The true, historically documented role that Islam played has a much different story to tell: in the early seventh century, sword-waving Arabs burst out of the Arabian Peninsula and in a few decades conquered some two-thirds of what then constituted the Christian worldfrom Syria and Egypt in the east to Carthage and Spain in the west and everything in between. One hundred years after the death of their prophet (traditionally dated to 632), they were in the heart of France where, thanks to their defeat at Tours in 732, and other Frankish victories, the whole of Europe was also not conquered.
But where lands could not be subjugated, bodies still could, and for the next few centuries the jihad turned into a giant slave trade of European flesh, as slave raids left virtually no part of Europe untouched (even the Viking raids in northern Europe were in large measure fueled by Arab gold).
In the tenth and eleventh centuries, the Turkswho embraced the jihad ethos even more than the Arabsconverted to Islam and became its new standard bearers. Although they had notable victories and conquestsparticularly after the Seljuk victory against the Eastern Roman Empire in 1071it was only with the coming of the Ottomans that the jihad on Europe was renewed in earnest: in the late 1300s and early 1400s, much of the Balkans was brutally subjugated, and ConstantinopleIslams original archenemyfinally (and horrifically) sacked in 1453.
The Ottoman advance continued unabatedthe European victory at Lepanto in 1571 was more symbolic than anythingand in 1683 Vienna was encircled by hundreds of thousands of Muslims. As happened nearly a millennium earlier when the Islamic advance into Europe was stayed in 732, a Christian victory at Vienna only caused Muslims to collapse back to their more modest role as slave traders of white flesh: between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, Muslims slavers from the Crimean khanate in the east and the Barbary coast enslaved more than five million Europeansincluding in the late 1700s, American sailors, precipitating the Barbary Wars.
Perhaps the most telling aspect of this aforementioned history is the evident continuity of hostility in distinctly Islamic terms: the Muslim notion that all infidels have three choicesconversion, willing capitulation via jizya/dhimmi status, or death; the willful and mass destruction of churches, crosses, and anything Christian; the sadistic atrocities that beggar description; the shouts of Allahu Akbar and other jihadi slogans; the invocations of Koranic promises of a carnal paradise for those who fall in jihadall these are present in virtually every encounter between Muslim and European, beginning at the fateful battle of Yarmuk in 636, to Americas experiences with Barbary circa. 1800, as copiously documented in my forthcoming book, Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West.
Such is the true role Islam played in Europes past.
As for its role in the present, this is built on Europeans being entirely ignorant ofwhen not willfully twistingthis unwavering history of hostility; welcoming Muslims into their lands en masseand in the name of diversity; suffering accordingly, and then wondering what they, European host nations, did wrong.
Considering the unwavering part Islam played in the past and continues to play in the present, it remains to be seen if the West will build its future atop facts or fictionsgetting its just deserts in either case.
Islam is part of our history, Islam is part of our present and Islam will be part of our future.
...defeated,defeat,to be defeated
These people are crazy as are some in America. Obama, himself, said that islam was part and parcel of the United States!
Islam is part of Europe’s history. Such at the Gates of Vienna several centuries ago.
Call it “Mohammedism”, for what it is.
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US History too
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US History too
Islam is a lie created by the father of lies. It’s popular because it appeals to the base human pack instincts; there’s nothing spiritual about it. It is part of our history only in the sense that it’s been trying to destroy us for a thousand years.
The subhuman’s that follow Islam are to be eliminated or corralled on their sandy land. “To the shores of Tripoli” mean anything to you? Their is no negotiating with animals that are followers of the satanic , perverse ideology .
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Thass why we STARTED OUT with a good Navy and Marine Corps.
.........To fight and DEFEAT them.
To the shores of Tripoli. America’s first encounter with Islam was a war which they started. They started by capturing our peaceful merchant ships off the Barbary coast, killing or enslaving their crews, every man woman and child. When asked, they said their religion compelled them.
...and the lamentation of their womenfolk...
No doubt that they were instrumental in rounding-up, selling and sending over thousands of slaves, and other atrocities.
Obummer is correct, islam is the reason the Marine Corps was formed. Islam has been our mortal enemy for 200 years.
The book at the article link is free with the kindle app download
else $18 kindle edition or $27 hardcover, 288 pages.
The interesting thing is that Mohammed believed he was possessed by a demon at first. Later he wrote the “Satanic Verses” during which he was, as Muslims claim, “temporarily” possessed. I don’t think it was so temporary.
Of course, Obummer was referring to the fact that he thought, somehow, the Koran influenced the Declaration of Independence.
I have a friend who insists that the American Indian influenced the Constitution! Isn’t it interesting that libs who hate America are always saying America’s enemies or pet victims wrote our greatest documents?
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