Bishop Chrysostomos
Posted on 09/09/2010 10:00:48 AM PDT by eleni121
"A greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends".
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Ping your lists in remembrance
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How would Americans back them have dealt with the radical islam problem we see today? I’m posing the question seriously.
They were a bit before the "progressive" 1920's but look into the barbary coast wars
Memory eternal good bishop.
Except for the Barbary Coast Wars which happened as a direct assault upon American interests—the US has tended to avoid any entanglements with any goal of the protection of Christians from Islamic terror.
In fact, the opposite is more true: the US has repeatedly attacked Christians when they have been threatened and attacked by Muslims. The most recent examples are in Cyprus, Kosovo and Bosnia.
When the genocide of 4 million Christians in Asia Minor occur ed between around 1900-1923 - the US did next to nothing. A terrible stain on the US. Just as we did nothing when the genocide against Southern Sudanese was occurring. 3 million dead there.
Thanks—it’s my tag!
Well, I can tell you how it should be handled.
An American President should, after 9/11, have invited the King of Saudi Arabia to the White House as an honored guest at an official State Dinner and had this private exchange exchange with the him.
“Your Majesty, an act of gross, overt, and unprovoked aggression has been wrought on the United States by a group who were and are of aherents of Islam, in the name of Islam’s god. The leader of that group is one of your subjects, as were most of the perpetrators who carried out the plot.
There can be no doubt that there are those in the Muslim faith who wish to draw the United States into a war. I don’t want this, as I am sure neither do you.
This attack, however, has led me to conclude that we must at a minimum be prepared to fight a very unconventional war on very unconventional terms. I think we should understand each other on very plainly stated words.
It’s with that said that I must inform you the United States now has intercontinental ballistic missiles targeted on the Islamic Holy shrines at Mecca and Medina. These missiles are armed with 15 megaton theater-grade nuclear warheads.
If one more drop of innocent American blood is spilled by any Muslim for any reason, the United States will assume that we are indeed at war, and respond in a fashion so as to put a very immediate end to the hostilities, at their source.
Your Majesty, we can have war, or we can have peace. The choice of which is up to you. Please enjoy your dinner.”
By the religion of peace? The kind, tolerant, wonderful people who just want to pray? Gotta be a mistake there somewhere. Everybody knows that Christians are eeeevvvviiiill mean intolerant violent people who slit throats, hang homosexuals, stone women and bomb buses.
< / bitter sarcasm>
Had radical Muslims posed a domestic threat at the time, the federal government and state as well as local police would have worked with the American Protective League to make short work of them--just as they did with the Bolsheviks, anarchists, syndicalists, and real or imagined German sympathizers.
Lovely scenario you pose.
Instead of that we got platitudes and polite exchanges and Muslim breakfasts at the WH. And airplanes ferrying Bin Laden’s family to Saudi Arabia at taxpayer expense etc.
Lovely scenario you pose.
Instead of that we got platitudes and polite exchanges and Muslim breakfasts at the WH. And airplanes ferrying Bin Laden’s family to Saudi Arabia at taxpayer expense ad nauseum.
I wonder why...
Memory eternal! Martyred Bishop Chrysostomos ping.
I guess the Turks took it out on the Greeks and the Armenians when they could. Probably as revenge for being kicked out of Europe in 1912 by Serbia, Greece, and Montenegro, and Bulgaria in the First Balkan War. Too bad they stopped at Bosphorus. Trouble is, the Turks would do it asgain if they could. Look at Cyprus. And Europe is mulling their membership...what a joke. Sadly, America has no clue what Islam is, and is too disinterested to hear the truth. Now you have the 9/11 Mosque Imam threatening riots if the mosque is not built at Ground Zero. And everyone will cowtow to their tantrums. The religion of peace...
I found this beautiful prophetic quote from the Holy Martyr
“I seek a great Cross, upon which I will try my pleasure, called and I don’t have anything else of my own to give towards salvation of our worshiping homeland, other than to give my blood. Thus I perceive my life and the archpriesthood...and the miter, which your holy hands placed upon my head, said, if it is called for, may the radiance of its stones never be destroyed, it will be converted to the crown of thorns of martyrdom of a hierarch.”-Bishop Chrysostom of Smyrna
Bishop Chrysostom of Smyrna-Pray for us!
Apolytikion in the Third Tone:
A great martyr of the Church, a great hero to the whole nation, let us hymn Chrysostom of Smyrna. And bravely struggling patiently for homeland and faith until death, he showed himself a model hierarch, receiving the unfading crown.
Well, first the genocide against the Greeks of Asia Minor was not carried out by “radical Islam”, but by the “model” secularizing Turks—Kemalists as the article calls them—that everyone on the left natters on about being proof that Islam can be modernized.
Second, how did we deal with it then? The same way the British and French did, by ordering our warships off the coast not to rescue Greeks fleeing the mass murder. The only power with ships in the area that rescued Greeks was Imperial Japan, for which reason Greece never declared war on Japan, even when it was at war with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
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