In 1400 years Islam has failed to take over Europe. Why is he so afraid it will happen now?Such a question betrays a suicidal ignorance of nearly one and one-half millennia of jihad in Europe.
After Muhammad's death, his armies exploded out of Arabia and into the Holy Land, North Africa, Persia, Greater India, etc., nation after nation throughout Africa and Asia falling to Allah's butchers. Formerly Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, Zoroastrian, animist, and other non-Muslim societies were obliterated, consumed, mutilated, and subsumed by the Religion of Insatiable Bloodlust.
Neither was Europe spared. The fact is, Islamic tyranny in Europe goes back to its beginnings. In the west, Spain fought for eight hundred years to regain its freedom from its Islamic overlords, succeeding finally in 1492. If not for Charles Martel ("The Hammer"), who stopped Islam's advance into France and the heart of Europe at the Battle of Tours/Poitiers in 732, western Europe would have fallen to Allah. (And that would have meant no Michelangelo, no Beethoven, no Isaac Newton, no Albert Einstein, no Christopher Columbus, no George Washington, no Magna Carta, no Mayflower Compact, no Declaration of Independence, no Bill of Rights.)
The coastal areas of the British Isles and the Mediterranean also suffered jihad's depredations, both directly and by proxy. Part of the Vikings' notorious malevolence was due to their contribution to the Islamic slave trade. Italy, Sicily, Greece, and other coastal European regions suffered at the hands of Muslims themselves.
Eastern Europe fared no better than the rest. Turkey is the epitome of why Geert Wilders is concerned about Islam. Before it was forcibly secularized by Kemal Ataturk, Turkey was the Ottoman Empire; before that it was part of Byzantium, the great Christian empire. After centuries of jihad, the Byzantine Empire was overthrown finally in 1453 when its great city Constantinople -- the "Rome of the East" -- and its magnificent church Hagia Sofia -- the jewel of Christendom -- fell to jihad.
And that doesn't include centuries of jihad in the Balkans. Christian boys were kidnapped by Muhammad's monsters, forcibly converted, twisted into devils, and sent back to enslave and slaughter their own people. Forget neither the Siege of Vienna in 1683, where Jan Sobieski repelled the last flagrant attempt by the ummah to conquer Europe.
What does any of that have to do with today? Only this: Islam has not changed, its adherents are rediscovering what their god and prophet require of them, and rather than champions like Charles Martel and Jan Sobieski crushing jihad and halting the Islamization of their homelands, people like Rory Graycrow Underclass import the Religion of Pedophilia, Female Genital Mutilation, and Wife-beating. They implement shari'a courts. They obfuscate for, and punish criticism of, the barbaric ideology.
Why is Geert Wilders "so afraid it will happen now"?
Because it is happening now.
5 in respondeo:
Great post, A.!
This is happening now, and it's going to get a lot worse.
When people really don' believe in anything, there is little chance they will be able to fend off those that do believe in something and are will to fight and die for it...no matter how evil it is.
Thank you, TOA!
I don't know if you're familiar with Islam's early attacks against Europe, but one of the reasons it was successful in conquering Iberia and then Byzantium is that Christians were too busy fighting each other to notice their civilizations were about to be destroyed.
Today, too many of us are too busy watching American Idol and regulating carbon dioxide to pay attention.
There's still time, though!
Good point, Steve!
Much of our culture is a clueless, blank canvas. Ignorant of history and unable to read at any depth, it is vulnerable to almost anything that comes down the pike.
Let's fill the canvas, gentlemen!
Rock On Amill!
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