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yes, “islam is part of our history”
Frontpagemagazine ^ | 2018-04-06 | Raymond Ibrahim

Posted on 04/06/2018 3:56:44 AM PDT by SJackson

... but hardly in the way that European elites claim.

Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center

European Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans recently chaired a roundtable with ten Muslim imams from six EU Member States (Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy and The Netherlands).  Afterwards Timmermans announced that “the Commission is strongly committed to promoting diversity in Europe. Islam is part of our history, Islam is part of our present and Islam will be part of our future.” 

Such assertions are as true as the assumptions they are based on—and whether such assumptions are grounded in historical facts or fictions. In prefacing his claims about Islam’s historic role in Europe by saying “the Commission is strongly committed to promoting diversity in Europe,” it is clear which perception Timmermans is invoking.

The true, historically documented role that Islam played has a much different story to tell: in the early seventh century, sword-waving Arabs burst out of the Arabian Peninsula and in a few decades conquered some two-thirds of what then constituted the Christian world—from Syria and Egypt in the east to Carthage and Spain in the west and everything in between.  One hundred years after the death of their prophet (traditionally dated to 632), they were in the heart of France where, thanks to their defeat at Tours in 732, and other Frankish victories, the whole of Europe was also not conquered.  

But where lands could not be subjugated, bodies still could, and for the next few centuries the jihad turned into a giant slave trade of European flesh, as slave raids left virtually no part of Europe untouched (even the Viking raids in northern Europe were in large measure fueled by Arab gold).

In the tenth and eleventh centuries, the Turks—who embraced the jihad ethos even more than the Arabs—converted to Islam and became its new standard bearers.  Although they had notable victories and conquests—particularly after the Seljuk victory against the Eastern Roman Empire in 1071—it was only with the coming of the Ottomans that the jihad on Europe was renewed in earnest: in the late 1300s and early 1400s, much of the Balkans was brutally subjugated, and Constantinople—Islam’s original archenemy—finally (and horrifically) sacked in 1453. 

The Ottoman advance continued unabated—the European victory at Lepanto in 1571 was more symbolic than anything—and in 1683 Vienna was encircled by hundreds of thousands of Muslims.  As happened nearly a millennium earlier when the Islamic advance into Europe was stayed in 732, a Christian victory at Vienna only caused Muslims to collapse back to their more modest role as slave traders of white flesh: between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, Muslims slavers from the Crimean khanate in the east and the Barbary coast enslaved more than five million Europeans—including in the late 1700s, American sailors, precipitating the Barbary Wars. 

Perhaps the most telling aspect of this aforementioned history is the evident continuity of hostility in distinctly Islamic terms: the Muslim notion that all infidels have three choices—conversion, willing capitulation via jizya/dhimmi status, or death; the willful and mass destruction of churches, crosses, and anything Christian; the sadistic atrocities that beggar description; the shouts of “Allahu Akbar” and other jihadi slogans; the invocations of Koranic promises of a carnal paradise for those who fall in jihad—all these are present in virtually every encounter between Muslim and European, beginning at the fateful battle of Yarmuk in 636, to America’s experiences with Barbary circa. 1800, as copiously documented in my forthcoming book, Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West

Such is the true role Islam played in Europe’s past.  

As for its role in the present, this is built on Europeans being entirely ignorant of—when not willfully twisting—this unwavering history of hostility; welcoming Muslims into their lands en masse—and in the name of “diversity”; suffering accordingly, and then wondering what they, European host nations, did wrong. 

Considering the unwavering part Islam played in the past and continues to play in the present, it remains to be seen if the West will build its future atop facts or fictions—getting its just deserts in either case. 

 


TOPICS: Editorial; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: europe; european; history; islam; muslim; muslims
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1 posted on 04/06/2018 3:56:44 AM PDT by SJackson
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To: SJackson

Islam is part of our history, Islam is part of our present and Islam will be part of our future.”

...defeated,defeat,to be defeated


2 posted on 04/06/2018 4:00:42 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: SJackson

These people are crazy as are some in America. Obama, himself, said that islam was part and parcel of the United States!


3 posted on 04/06/2018 4:00:48 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Doogle

Islam is part of Europe’s history. Such at the Gates of Vienna several centuries ago.


4 posted on 04/06/2018 4:03:45 AM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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To: miss marmelstein

Call it “Mohammedism”, for what it is.


5 posted on 04/06/2018 4:04:39 AM PDT by Does so (Let's make the word Mohammedism--adding it to other ISMs...)
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To: SJackson
September 11 2001 was historic. And as has been posted many times before.


6 posted on 04/06/2018 4:04:49 AM PDT by xp38
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7 posted on 04/06/2018 4:09:42 AM PDT by SJackson (The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.

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US History too


8 posted on 04/06/2018 4:10:25 AM PDT by SJackson (The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement)
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To: SJackson

Islam is a lie created by the father of lies. It’s popular because it appeals to the base human pack instincts; there’s nothing spiritual about it. It is part of our history only in the sense that it’s been trying to destroy us for a thousand years.


9 posted on 04/06/2018 4:11:01 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: SJackson

The subhuman’s that follow Islam are to be eliminated or corralled on their sandy land. “To the shores of Tripoli” mean anything to you? Their is no negotiating with animals that are followers of the satanic , perverse ideology .


10 posted on 04/06/2018 4:12:56 AM PDT by mythenjoseph
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuree..................

Thass why we STARTED OUT with a good Navy and Marine Corps.

.........To fight and DEFEAT them.


11 posted on 04/06/2018 4:15:24 AM PDT by Flintlock (The ballot box STOLEN, our soapbox taken away--the BULLET BOX is left to us.)
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To: Flintlock

To the shores of Tripoli. America’s first encounter with Islam was a war which they started. They started by capturing our peaceful merchant ships off the Barbary coast, killing or enslaving their crews, every man woman and child. When asked, they said their religion compelled them.


12 posted on 04/06/2018 4:21:49 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Flintlock

...and the lamentation of their womenfolk...


13 posted on 04/06/2018 4:24:04 AM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: SJackson
Yes, as in this act of war.....


14 posted on 04/06/2018 4:27:26 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: miss marmelstein

No doubt that they were instrumental in rounding-up, selling and sending over thousands of slaves, and other atrocities.


15 posted on 04/06/2018 4:34:38 AM PDT by Carriage Hill ( Life is simpler, when you plow around the stump.)
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To: miss marmelstein

Obummer is correct, islam is the reason the Marine Corps was formed. Islam has been our mortal enemy for 200 years.


16 posted on 04/06/2018 4:40:15 AM PDT by exnavy (America: love it or leave it.)
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To: SJackson

The book at the article link is free with the kindle app download

else $18 kindle edition or $27 hardcover, 288 pages.


17 posted on 04/06/2018 4:41:20 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Telepathic Intruder
It wasn't the Angel Gabriel who whispered in Mohammed's ear so many centuries ago...
18 posted on 04/06/2018 4:41:28 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

The interesting thing is that Mohammed believed he was possessed by a demon at first. Later he wrote the “Satanic Verses” during which he was, as Muslims claim, “temporarily” possessed. I don’t think it was so temporary.


19 posted on 04/06/2018 4:47:47 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: exnavy

Of course, Obummer was referring to the fact that he thought, somehow, the Koran influenced the Declaration of Independence.

I have a friend who insists that the American Indian influenced the Constitution! Isn’t it interesting that libs who hate America are always saying America’s enemies or pet victims wrote our greatest documents?


20 posted on 04/06/2018 4:55:22 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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