Posted on 8/11/2013, 1:48:56 PM by NCjim
One of the idiocies passed off for decades among Western historians is bemoaning the Crusades as evil. The Islamic world -- the Ummah -- has disseminated this imaginary charge against the West, and like fools, we have absorbed Arab lies and taken the blame to heart. But the most superficial reading of Western history should put that canard to rest.
Shortly before he died in June 632 AD, Mohammed ordered Muslims to prepare to wage war against the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire.
Upon his death, Mohammed's successor, Abu Bakr, planned to fulfill those instructions. Plans were also made to conquer Zoroastrian Sassanid Persia.
This vainglorious troop of bandits should have been easily dispatched,
However. Persia and Byzantine Rome had just come out of a savagely vicious war which ended in 628 AD. Emperor Heraclius had finally imposed the total defeat over Persia that had eluded the earlier Roman Republic and the Caesars -- but Byzantine Rome, though victorious, was severely mauled. Persia was reduced to a state of anarchy; and forced to pay indemnities to Constantinople.
The Persian and Eastern Roman empires were attacked almost simultaneously around 633 AD, while both were still licking their wounds. So frightening were the Islamic advances that these former blood enemies made a sadly futile alliance. By 644, Persia fell anyway.
By 634 AD, Byzantine Palestine and Syria were being attacked. The Battle of Yarmouk in August 636 AD would see Eastern Roman forces beaten. Emperor Heraclius, the victorious warrior, a mere 8 years earlier, would have to sneak out back to Constantinople in a boat.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
"Sadly, a second cause is an ancillary residue of historiography which has a tradition of exaggerating the real crimes of Catholicism out of all proportion. The Spanish call this exaggeration the Black Legend of the Inquisition; and it results in a pseudo-acquittal of Islam, by blaming the Crusades on Catholicism."
-——Black Legend of the Inquisition———
The truth exceeded in villany only by the coverup of the infiltration of queers and pedos in the modern church
I am no historian by any means , but Muslims appear to be a fairly peaceful people as long as there are not too many of them.
A new Crusade to lower their numbers would lead to a more peaceful world.
Well, somewhat...when they're not beating their wives or genitally mutilating, raping, or honor-killing their daughters.
Or looking up in the Koran good justifiable reasons to kill their fellow man.
Abe Baker, I'll have to remember that name.
Thank you for this article.
It’s become more pronounced since 9-11-2001. In order to justify the attack, IMO.
The sad part...?
“One may condemn the atrocities of the Crusaders, but what infuriates the objective student of history is that the far greater crimes of Islam are ignored.”
...nothing has changed.
Thank you, NCjim, for the article.
My wife and I were out yesterday visiting various rug stores. As is very often the case, a number of these retailers were run by folks of ME “descent”. It actually made my skin crawl...made me nervous to be there.
Irrational feelings? Maybe.
Rational and prudent feelings? Probably.
Too bad Mohammed wasn’t buried with a silver spike driven through his heart.
Vampires and their followers are hard to kill.
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Vol. 2)
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/713/713-h/713-h.htm
From that volume:
“The Crusades”
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/713/713-h/713-h.htm#chap01
published in 1852
I presume that you mean "We're" as in "We are", right?
Contraction cop mode /off
As long as we’re correcting the lies told about the crusades.
Let’s also correct the lies told about Genghis Khan. Genghis Khan did not destroy and pillage like I was always told. The Khan wanted a large empire for commerce. His armies conquered cities and changed governments. He allowed the citizens to keep their businesses, religion and freedoms, he just wanted trade. The only exceptions were Islamic cities. These gave him so many problems that his only course of action was to raze them to the ground. He could not negotiate with them and could not allow them to exist as they were a danger to everyone around them. The Khan did not destroy Christian, Hindu or even Pagan cities, just Islamic.
Yes We Are Not Done Yet
I see the crusades as a kind of peremptory action by the west. The Saracens were causing a lot of trouble in the Mediterranean basin and beyond in those days. The west decided the best thing to do was to take the fight to them.
Doesn't anyone study or know history anymore, or do they just listen to and believe everything they hear and read from the agenda-driven "news" media?
I say we should announce a new Crusade to rid the earth of the filthy radical mooselimb bent on destroying and subjugating the West. And really do it.
Somewhere on the Interwebs, there is an interesting analysis that correlates Muslim actions in a country with the percentage penetration of Islam in that country. It can be summed up as "the more there are, the more belligerent they become."
Islam always was, is now and always will be, a vicious evil predatory plague on civilization. Offering nothing of value, it takes or destroys everything. It needs to be extirpated and its adherents converted or confined to the de4sert wastes which spawned them.
We need to start with arming the Copts so they can defend themselves. Then add western countries special forces to the mix to help train.
Finally we need American missionaries who were former American military to travel through African continent and assist Christian nations with rebuilding the Church and the faith.
Raise pigs for food. That in and of itself will keep the religious fanatics away, hence they are killed and their rotting corpses encased in pig entrails.
If we don’t strike back, pretty soon it will be the commies on one side, the Muzzies on the other side and America and Israel caught in the middle. Put a traitor in the oval office with fanatical ties to both and we are doomed.
Oh wait......
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