Thanks Kaslin.
Posted on 07/04/2019 5:12:37 PM PDT by Kaslin
Soon after liberating the ancient Christian city of Antioch from Muslim oppression, the First Crusaders managed in 1099 to realize their primary goal: take Jerusalem from Islam.
Despite all the propaganda that surrounds the conquest of Jerusalem, there were very few Muslim calls to jihad (only one is known, and it quickly fell on deaf ears). After all, in the preceding decades, and thanks to Sunni and Shia infighting, local Muslim populations were hardly unused to such invasions and bloodbaths.
In Muslim historian Ibn al-Athir's words, "[w]hile the Franks — Allah damn them! — were conquering and settling in a part of the territories of Islam, the rulers and armies of Islam were fighting among themselves, causing discord and disunity among their people and weakening their power to combat the enemy."
In this context, the pure doctrine of jihad — warfare against infidels — was lost to the average Muslim, who watched and suffered as Muslim empires and sects collided.
It was only during the reign of Imad al-Din Zengi (d. 1146) — a particularly ruthless Turkish warlord and atabeg of Mosul and Aleppo — and even more so under his son and successor, Nur al-Din (r. 1146-1174), that the old duty of jihad was resuscitated. They founded numerous madrasas, mosques, and Sufi orders all devoted to propagandizing the virtues of jihad and martyrdom. Contemporary literature makes clear that Islamic zeal (or, in modern parlance, "radicalization") reached a fever pitch during their reigns.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Islam is a war plan.
Was this really on the 4th because of the Gregorian calendar change?
Thanks Kaslin.
Now July 4 = July 17 (old calendar)--13 days.
The difference would not have been so great 900 years ago.
Thanks for the link.
BFFR.
No, NOT the reaction to the World Trade Center in New York.
After Shakespeare, after Plymouth Rock, and less than 100 years before the Declaration of Independence, Muslim armies nearly overran *VIENNA*. Yes, *that* Vienna.
They were overthrown by a Christian army out of Poland.
Jan Sobieski, Sept. 12, 1683.
For which we should be forever grateful.
A far cry from the Saladin who Ridley Scott portrayed in the film Kingdom of Heaven. In his story it was the Crusaders were the barbarians...
...but there was the massacre at Béziers.
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