[Dark Skies]

The President has been told that the west is under attack by a cult. Is this cult all of islam or only a part?

Who knows? But the President has yet to come to the American people with a clear position as to this matter.

Mr. President...here is your challenge. Where is the line to be drawn? Will you answer this challenge or will you hide from it?

Within islam lies a cult of planetary consequence...will you stand and fight? Or will you appease?

[bnelson44]

Well, the 1st Crusade was called to assist the Byzantine empire which was being invaded (cities taken) by the Muslims. Now it was called much later than it was requested and when the crusaders actually arrived at Byzantium, it was a surprise. Many didn't know what they were doing, and the Byzantines pushed them across the river because they seemed more of a threat than not. They made lots of mistakes, changed lots of plans during the 1st Crusade. And for the most part it was a fiasco.

Was it defensive? Yes, I suppose so. Was it a just war? I don't know. Were there war crimes on both sides? Yes.
This is a good book on the topic:

[livius]

Good article.

As for Bush, who knows what he is going to do, or for that matter, what any of our leaders are going to do. I suspect that they will keep up the ROP nonsense until there is another massive attack or something else that makes it patently ridiculous.

According to the Hoover Institution policy document that someone posted here this week, a long campaign of some 70 years is expected, mostly "fought" through diplomacy, with the response to "extremists" being only localized and more on the order of reaction than part of a grand plan. In other words, the same non-strategy that we have been following since 1977.

What I don't understand is our willingness to let the Muslims initiate the actions and control the timing, and our blindness to the fact that the problem is far greater than it was in 1977. Not only are our enemies now possessed of seriously threatening weapons, there are Muslims spread throughout formerly friendly countries and agitating for our blood.

[Birmingham Rain]

Biblical truth and current affairs are in line. Although this may offend some, God does and will use enemies to bring His own back to Him.

[patriotUSA]

Dark Skies,

I always enjoy your posts. Thanks for the illumination.

[paudio]

Good article. The leftists usually buy Islamic argument that the West is 'deserved' to be hated because they colonized many "Islamic countries" before. This caused the animosity among the Muslim toward the West.

I would say, if we accept that line of argument, we also have to accept the argument that the West 'deserves to hate' Muslims because at the beginning, it was Muslims who conquered Christian lands, converted the Christians, and even captured Constantinople: the Second Rome!

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[SaintDismas]

I am very proud that my two remaining children go to a Catholic high school that has as their sports' team name "Crusaders". Yep. Go Kapaun Crusaders

[RightWhale]

The Crusades did nothing to damage Islam. The Mongols did a lot and nearly finished it off. Yet there is no interest in the Mongol campaign.

[Shooter1001]

During his intifada I recall seeing that man of peace, Yasir Arafat, remember him?, pounding on a table, yelling and spitting on himself and everyone around him like a madman. That 7-day beard he always had (I guess nobody would tell him; shave Yasir, shave) and that towel on his head that he always brought to a point. He shouted over and over jihad jihad jihad jihad jihad jihad jihad jihad jihad.......
All I could think of was

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[Cronos]

untold numbers of Christians converted to Islam simply to save their lives.

The FACT is that most of the present-day Egyptians, Syrians, Libyans, Lebanese and even those who call themselves Turks today are descendents of Christians who were forcibly converted. Ditto for Pakiland, they are descendents of forcibily converted Hindus

[BunnySlippers]

Thanks for the heads up. I just checked it out at the library as a result.

[Cronos]

They were, after all, failures from a Western standpoint.

Key point -- we failed to keep the Holy Lands Christian, we failed to save our Christian brethern in Egypt, North Africa, Syria, Lebanon, Ethiopia, Yemen and Iraq. And look at what's happened now? The descendents of those Christians now are cultists and fight us and bomb us. Our case is similar to what God predicted would happen to the Israelites if they didn't destroy the Canaanites when they had the chance....

The only Crusade that was successful was the Spanish crusade. However, to be honest, I have NO IDEA why the Greeks and Eastern Europeans managed to retain their religion when many of the Middle Eastern Christians lost theirs (could be the duration of time as the Greeks were only under the Ottomans for 400 years and even then some did convert -- I'd say many of the present day Turks have Greek blood in them, The Albanians were Christians before the Turks too)

[Cronos]

Is this cult all of islam or only a part?

All ofIslam IS the cult.

[Antoninus]

Good post. It's long past due for the world to remember even a fraction of the atrocities committed in the name of the false prophet Mohammed.