August 11, 2013
The Crusades Reconsidered
By Mike Konrad

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.

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Farewell, a long farewell to Syria, my fair province. Thou art an infidel's (enemy's) now. Peace be with you, O' Syria -- what a beautiful land you will be for the enemy hands -- Emperor Heraclius, after the defeat at Yarmouk.

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Roman-held Jerusalem was besieged in November 636 AD, and surrendered by the following April.

By 674 AD, the Muslims had taken Egypt and much of Anatolian Turkey, and were besieging Constantinople. The Byzantine Romans, unlike the Persians, still had some fight left and managed to lift the siege using Greek fire, a fearsome weapon similar to a flamethrower.

By 709 AD, all of Christian North Africa had fallen to Islam. Though it took the Muslims centuries, eventually all of Christianity was eliminated in the Maghreb.

In 711 AD, the Muslims invaded Spain, again taking advantage of weakness caused by internecine wars. It would be 781 years before Spain would be free. Among Islamic Andalusia's contributions to civilization were the demanded tribute of 100 white virgins every year to staff their harems. Every other contribution was plagiarized from other civilizations the Muslims had plundered.

By 732, the Muslims had advanced to central France, where they were finally repelled by Franks at the battle of Tours. Western Europe had been temporarily spared.

Sicily fell under Islamic rule for almost two centuries, until finally liberated by Norman Franks around 1091 AD.
According to tradition, Malta fell to Islam in 870 AD. Islam's contribution's to local culture was piracy. Malta became a staging point for predatory raids on Southern Europe.

After two centuries, Malta was finally retaken in 1091 AD.

Later on, historians would blame the Dark Ages on the Germanic Tribes, but the Goths and Vikings readily Christianized and embraced the higher civilization of the lands they conquered. The reality is that Islamic raiding is what produced the Dark Ages. Trade and the economy collapsed under the Muslim threat, plunging Europe into stagnation.

In 1095, after centuries of Muslim aggression, Pope Urban II finally had enough, and called Christians to war. He did so after the Byzantine Empire, now broken away from Roman Catholicism, appealed for fraternal help from the Western Christians to save them from Islam. After over 4 centuries of war with Islam, the Byzantines were on the verge of collapse. Most of Spain was still under Islamic tyranny. Malta and Sicily had only been recently freed.



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.

The Crusades was Christendom finally fighting back, not always honorably, but against a foe which had plunged Europe into darkness for centuries.

Instead we allowed our students to be brainwashed, and force fed an Islamic line that we have to feel guilty. The Muslims invaded Southern Europe, yet somehow we Westerners are labeled the imperialists.

Islamic aggression did not end with the Crusades.

The reason Columbus headed West was because the Muslims had blocked all trade routes to the East. Yet, we are never told this.

Read more:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/08/t...l#ixzz2biUFZdJg

The progressives / statists who would rule over us on a global level and Islamists who would institute a global caliphate under sharia are natural allies whose political systems consist of big, intrusive, micro-managing government ruled by teams of bureaucrats / technocrat / specialists.

There are documented links among Global Communism, Nazism, the New World Order (Globalism), and the the resurrection of Militant Islam in the early 1900's.

Islamic Fascism: the Nazi Connection
By Gary Aminoff
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/12/i...l#ixzz2cY6FWMiH
[hat tip to @Rev]

Dennis Cuddy has written a series of articles that document in great detail the ties between the Nazis and the NWO (New World Order) - 'THE POWER ELITE AND THE SECRET NAZI PLAN'.
http://newswithviews.com/Cuddy/dennis149.htm
http://newswithviews.com/Cuddy/dennis150.htm

Amin Al Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem {1893 - 1974} brought Nazism into the Islamic world, both religious and secular in the early 1900's. Al Husseini played a prominent role in the early Moslem Brotherhood.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/indiv....asp?indid=2150
http://tellthechildrenthetruth.com/amin_en.html

Yasser Arafat, the godfather of modern terrorism, was mentored by Al Husseini and had strong ties to the Soviet Union. The PLO was a Soviet creation.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/indiv...e.asp?indid=650
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Artic...as%20Arafat.htm
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=13975

Saddam Hussein was raised and mentored from age 10 by his uncle Kharaillah Tulfah, a close friend of Amin Al-Husseini. Hussein also had ties to the Soviet Union.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/indiv....asp?indid=1344
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hueseyin#Rise_to_power

Can't forget the current resident of the white house and his ties to Nazism and the NWO via Soros, to Islam, and to the radical left through his mother and grand parents:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/indiv....asp?indid=1511

Quote: conservgramma wrote in post #4

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Personally my belief is the reason our leaders refuse to call a spade a spade is fear. I truly believe they are afraid for their lives and the lives of their family members were they to speak the truth. So they choose to cower instead and try and shove the stuff under a rug. The other reason may be (and I think for some this may well be true) is that they are closet Islamists themselves. I do know one of the goals of taking over a country by Islam is to infiltrate the government. And we currently have at least 2 open muslems that I know of in Congress now, Andre Carson and one guy from Michigan, so its not hard for me to imagine there might be a few more that aren't open about it.

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Quote: PzLdr wrote in post #9

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The reason Columbus headed west was because the disintegration of the Mongol Empire made the Silk Road unsafe.

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Quote: PzLdr wrote in post #9

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The reason Columbus headed west was because the disintegration of the Mongol Empire made the Silk Road unsafe.

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