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[Adder]

When your name’s Hammer, everyone looks like a nail...

Or something,,,

Because of this guy Martel, to took another 600 years for France to enjoy hummus and the number zero.

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[Charles Martel]

Merde, this gal never lets go of a grudge. YES, I said I'd pay another call on her after the battle, but then Pope Gregory showed up with a cask of sacramental wine and time sort of got away from me. I've apologized a thousand times. Don't look so disgusted, guys - Diane was relatively hot back in 732.

Seriously, if my actions have offended Diane Feinswine to the point of expounding on them in this "report", I can relax, safe in the knowledge that I did precisely the right thing with regard to that "moderate Muslim community".

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LOL!

[Impy]

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[darrellmaurina]

Bump to the top. I think this photo needs some renewed attention given the events of last week.

As bad as I feel for the French right now, I can't bring myself to put the tricolor flag of the French Revolution on my Facebook profile. Those who know the history of France and its modern post-World War II war on religion know this is a country which has not just decades but centuries of hatred for Christianity.

There is no country in Europe which has a longer history of being friendly toward Islamic radicals. The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini lived in France when the Shah of Iran threw him out. Many others did the same.

If you've read the ISIS statement justifying its attack on France — and I have — they blast Paris as a “capital of prostitution and obscenity” but also as “the carrier of the banner of the Cross in Europe.” Link here: https://ent.siteintelgroup.com/Statements/is-claims-paris-attacks-warns-operation-is-first-of-the-storm.html

How could that be? Islam, like most other non-Christian religions, focuses not so much on personal faith but rather on culture. In their view, the French are a Christian nation. Well maybe they were in the days of Charles Martel — the Frankish warlord who stopped the Muslim advance out of Spain and into Europe. But that was nearly thirteen centuries ago in the year 732 at the Battle of Tours.

I hope the attack on France shows clearly that people who think we can claim Muslim attacks will stop if we say we are not a Christian nation are deluded. France is a secular nation in all senses of the word. Even their conservative political parties are secular and would be extreme leftists in America.

But they are still attacked as “the carrier of the banner of the Cross in Europe.” France is no cross-carrier. But a good case can be made that America is (or at least has been in our past) and we might find the sword of the Cross is more powerful that the crescent of Islam. It certainly is more powerful than the atheism of the French Revolution.