Posted on 06/15/2019 8:36:45 AM PDT by Kaslin
Why Eastern Europeans are much more reluctant to accept Muslim migrants than their Western counterparts can be traced back to circumstances surrounding a pivotal battle, that of Kosovo, which took place today, June 15, exactly 630 years ago today in 1389. It pitted Muslim invaders against Eastern European defenders, or the ancestors of those many Eastern Europeans today who are resistant to Islam.
Because the jihad is as old as Islam, it has been championed by diverse peoples throughout the centuries — Arabs in the Middle East, Moors (Berbers and Africans) in Spain and Western Europe, etc. Islam's successful entry into Eastern Europe was spearheaded by the Turks, specifically that tribe centered in westernmost Anatolia (or Asia Minor) and thus nearest to Europe, the Ottoman Turks, so-named after their founder, Osman Bey. As he lay dying in 1323, his parting words to his son and successor, Orhan, were for him "to propagate Islam by your arms."
This his son certainly did; the traveler Ibn Batutua, who once met Orhan in Bursa, observed that although the jihadi had captured some one hundred Byzantine fortresses, "he had never stayed for a whole month in any one town," because he "fights with the infidels continually and keeps them under siege." Christian cities fell like dominoes: Smyrna in 1329, Nicaea in 1331, and Nicomedia in 1337. By 1340, the whole of northwest Anatolia was under Turkic control. By now and to quote a European contemporary, "the foes of the cross, and the killers of the Christian people, that is, the Turks, [were] separated from Constantinople by a channel of three or four miles."
By 1354, the Ottoman Turks, under Orhan's son, Suleiman, managed to cross over the Dardanelles and into the abandoned fortress town of Gallipoli, thereby establishing their first foothold in Europe:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The Europeans must not dislike Islam so much since they are clearly submitting to it.
Christianity was able to prevail when Christians were willing to defend it with force. Now they’re not. Muslims, meanwhile, are eager to advance Islam by force.
Home invasion writ large. If you don’t fight to eject them, more come in and — you lose your home, your legacy, and your life.
I always thought Polaks were dumb
Thanks Kaslin.
rest of the Raymond Ibrahim keyword:
the article left me wondering what happened in 1699. anyway in 1699 the ottomans lost the polish-ottoman war of 1683-1699 and were forced by treaty to give up most of their european continental territory.
Europe:
“We’ve been there, done that”
many hundreds of years ago, but we remember.
The Polish army under King Jan Sobieski thwarted the Islam invasion and siege of Vienna in the 17th century [or was it the 18th century?]. The ‘Polaks’ were never stupid. They were warriors willing to defend Christianity.
Did you read the article? It concerns the resistance to Islam in Eastern Europe [as opposed to western Europe seeming to capitulate to Islam].
Sadly, I don’t think it much of a stretch to say apostasy is flourishing and it isn’t so much that Christians will not defend the faith but there really isn’t such a thing as a Cultural Christian because the Lord will not be mocked.
Cultural (insert here) can only work if you actually are something.
With much of the West having turned away from the knowledge of the Lord we shouldn’t be surprised if Romans 1:18-32 seems to be going on. Moreover I’m reminded that it says that the Lord will send a strong delusion ... and wanting to import Islam sure seems like it could fit the bill.
The Poles I’ve known have tended in general to be laconic and somewhat stoic...But stupid is not a word I’d use to describe them...
LOL, Poles have “Resting Polish Face”, they don’t smile a lot, until you get to know them.
The word “slave” comes from the Slavic people.
Who were made slaves under the muslim invasion.
Meant to add...Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West by Raymond Ibrahim is highly recommended reading...Especially for anyone who takes seriously the idea that “past is prologue” in regards to Islam’s hostile takeover...
Had not heard the term before, but thank you...Yeah, once you get to know them and they trust YOU, Poles have shown me to be warm and friendly...Just initially more reserved personally, like so many northern Europeans...
I did read the article. Eastern Europeans do get it. I was referring to those “other” idiots.
The secular have always lived in the shadow of cultural Christianity. But if they will not give thanks to God for his blessings, one cannot expect them to he thankful for the fruits of Christanity.
These are the last days of the Gentiles, it seems God has decided to let the secularists learn the fruits of their own ungrateful ways. Gods Grace is lifting from the world and Christian’s are not going to save the world from itself this time.
That's a really outrageous statement and over broad, kind of like the people that say all Germans hate Jews, because Hitler.
Once again the German leadership, reinforced by the weasels in Belgium, France and yes Britain, have forced the general population to accept something foul under penalty fines and prison( this time the death comes from the muslims they are forced to accept).
There are a number of East European countries like Hungary that remember all to well their enslavement by muslim invaders and a how hard they fought to to regain their freedom. That is why Hungary built their walls and why they spit in the eye of the EU and it's Belgium masters.
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