http://www.loonwatch.com/2009/12/this-is-england-on-the-trail-with-the-edl/
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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Christendom pushed back because it was still united. This was long before the Reformation.
It is quite interesting, actually, that before 9/11 the Crusades were just another example used to bash the Catholic Church as an evil satanic institution. Times seem to have changed in that regard. I wonder what other black legends there are that will fall?
http://www.loonwatch.com/2009/12/this-is-england-on-the-trail-with-the-edl/
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Great photograph.
Stunning, isn’t it?
For God, the King and St. George.
What many people tend to forget, is that much of what is now the Middle East, was Christian land, and the ancestors of today’s Muslims, once Christian themselves.
It will be Christian again. Most Muslims will be happy to convert back. Those who won’t can always go back into the sands they came from.
PS. Soem opf my ancestors were fighting the Caliphate in the Caucuses intermittently from 650 to 737 ina series of wars that makes Tours look like the turning back of a Recon in Force.
>>It will be Christian again. Most Muslims will be happy to convert back.<<
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Care to elaborate?
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Elaborate on what?
In a century or two, he Arabs of Tunisia, Egypt, Algeria, Lybia, — the entire Mediterrainean Africa will be predominantly Catholic Christian, as they once were. The only thing that can stop it is poor witness of the Christians of the West. Islam, spiritually, is a spent force, that is why it only produces bomb-throwers. Today, the best of Arabia is living secular lives in the West. Tomorrow they’ll be kneeling next to us in the pews.
The article persuasively points out that the road to financial success wasn't likely to be found by mortgaging your lands and traveling 1500 miles to fight war hardened soldiers in an effort to steal their stuff.
Wow. I hope you’re right. You seem to have more faith in your fellowmen than I have. It would be very presumptious of me to call you naive, so I won’t.
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