Western Resistance

1) In 611 A.D., a man in the Arabian Desert began hearing voices. This man, Mohammed, claims it's the angel Gabriel, who reveals God's holy plan. Mohammed anoints himself a prophet. Now, this is very odd. Neither any of the Old nor New Testament books were revealed by an angel. Angels only carry short messages; they do not dictate God's Holy Word. In the Bible, Scripture was always written down by a man inspired directly by God. The only other example in history of an angel 'revealing' a 'sacred' text is when the 'angel' Mormoni revealed the book of Mormon to John Smith in the state of New York in the 1830s. Angels are funny creatures; some are God's messengers, while others are fallen angels. I think you get my drift.

Second, before the 7th century there was no shortage of people claiming to be prophets and divinely inspired. Therefore, Christian elders and councils spent years, if not decades, scrutinizing alleged Scripture before a final decision was made on authenticity.

Mohammed got off easy. He didn't have to prove anything to anyone. Why? Read on...

2) If people won't believe you, or follow you... kill them. That's Mohammeds advice to all of us who have had trouble with unsympathetic or unruly co-workers, neighbors, hey, even family members. Murder is the essence of Islam, and it is how disagreements have long been settled. The current Shia-Sunni carnage in Iraq is shocking to westerners, but it's not to Muslims. The sad truth is that Shia and Sunni violence is inspired by Mohammed, and this is how he taught them to solve their differences with those who disagree. Islam does not preach "turn the other cheek" or "love your enemies."

In the early 7th century, a lot of people on the Arabian Peninsula thought Mohammed was crazy. They had seen lots of 'prophets' like him before. Indeed, his intolerant and fanatical claim to be a prophet was blasphemous to Jews and Christians, the two major religions in the region. The Christian Eastern Roman Empire, later known as Byzantium, held sway over much of the Middle East. Christian values of tolerance allowed many different religions to co-exist in peace. Mohammed was suddenly preaching a new religion; one of hate and intolerance. He claimed to know the Truth, and he was going to force that 'Truth' on everyone, one way or another....

3) The Arabian warlord Mohammed divided the world into two realms: Dar al-Harb (the land of war) and Dar al-Islam (land under Islamic rule). He began to raise an army, and he quickly conquered cities on the Arabian Peninsula. Those who were conquered had a choice --- either die or convert, though in some cases people could keep their faith if they agreed to onerous taxation. We're not talking about whether the sales tax is 6% or 8%; this taxation was the difference between your family starving or not.

In many ways, the founding of the warlord Mohammed's cult was nothing more than a rag-tag social revolution, calling for social equality and the promise of heaven for those who gave their lives in battle. Indeed, there are parallels between the warlord Mohammed's cult and the Russian Bolsheviks and communism. Both were led by messianic fanatics who used mass murder and repression to force the majority to convert. The warlord Mohammed, however, promised heaven in the next life; while the Bolsheviks wanted to create a heaven on earth.

By the time of his death in 632 the warlord Mohammed had participated in almost 70 battles. After his death, the rest of Islam's early history is quite simple, almost banal --- Murder, Mayhem, Destruction, the Dark Ages... The death machine created by Mohammed rolled throughout the Arab world, North Africa, eventually into Persia, Central Asia, North India, and into Europe, via Spain. Jerusalem fell in 638 to the Muslim invaders. The Christian and Jewish populations were massacred and repressed. Repulsed by Greek steel in Asia Minor, the Muslim hordes decided to enter Europe through the rear. They quickly overran Spain, and reached south France in the 720s, hoping to put all of Europe to the sword.

In 732, however, in the forests between Tours and Poitiers, the Frankish king Charles Martel and his infantrymen saved Europe when they defeated a Muslim army on horseback. This feat is almost unheard of in history! Infantry rarely have laid low such a vast cavalry. In 792, the Muslim mullahs in Occupied-Spain call for another Jihad against France, but after looting and burning parts of south France, they were defeated by Charlemagne. They invaded France again in 920 and 997, but were also repulsed. Still, they continued to raid the South of France and carry off women as sex slaves.

Highly advanced civilizations --- from Greek Byzantium in Asia Minor and the Mid East, to Sogdia in Central Asia, to the civilizations of North India --- were ravaged and destroyed by the illiterate and barbaric rabble from the cult of Mohammed. Institutions of culture and learning were deemed offensive to Islam and destroyed. As the blood of those defending their families and cities flowed, their women and children were often taken prisoner, sold and raped to produce more Mohammedans --- a practice that lasted up until the early 20th century in the Balkans when Christian women and children were often sent to the Istanbul. The Muslims destroyed nearly all vestiges of Christian, Jewish, Hindu, and polytheist civilization in the occupied territories. Churches, synagogues, and other houses of worship were razed to the ground.

And the Palestinians like to talk about the 'Occupied Territories.' The entire Middle East, Turkey and North Africa have been occupied territories for 13 centuries. Free Byzantium Now!

4) By 800 A.D. the Muslims had already brought about the Dark Ages that plagued Europe for several centuries. They ruled from Spain to the Indus River, and obscurantism and ignorance flourished. When Muslims took Alexandria in Egypt in 641, they reduced the greatest library in the world to ashes. When they sacked the island of Rhodes a few years later, they carted off the last pieces of the Colossus as scrap metal. Again, all in the name of Allah!

Throughout this vast swath of Occupied Territories, some pockets of Christians and Jews managed to survive, but their plight was often miserable. Still, today many encourage myths of a benevolent Islamic attitude towards non-Muslims. Such cases did happen, but were the exception to the rule, and probably only because some Muslims didn't accept the ideology they were forced fed by the mullahs. Even today some Muslims are able to resist the brainwashing, but we must remember that they face the penalty of death if they ever abandon the 'religion of peace.'

5) In the 9th and 10th centuries, Muslims tried to conquer Italy, and captured parts of the south, as well as the islands of Sicily, Corsica and Sardinia. In 846, Muslim raiders sack Rome and demand tribute from the Pope. Three years later, the Muslims try it again but a federation of Italian cities blasts them back to Baghdad. Sardinia and Corsica were soon liberated, but Muslim attacks on Italy lasted until the early 11th century. In 850, Christian priests and monks in Spain were executed en masse for, (now get this!), "insulting" the warlord Mohammed.

In 1012, Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, the sixth Fatimid Caliph in Egypt, orders the destruction of all Christian and Jewish houses of worship in his lands, which includes Jerusalem. The Church of the Holy Sepulcher, one of the most prominent Christian holy sites, is razed to the ground. In 1015, Moslems conquer Sardinia once again, and they prepare yet another conquest of Europe. In 1095, Byzantine Emperors, whose country faces the brunt of the barbarian invasion, appealed to the Pope for assistance. The defense of Europe begins! The Crusades are launched.

6) Yes, we've just now reached the Crusades and we've already witnessed 400 years of Islamic terrorism, destruction and oppression. I will repeat--- FOUR HUNDRED YEARS OF ISLAMIC TERRORISM, DESTRUCTION, AND OPPRESSION.

Pope Urban II calls for the Crusades in 1095. Why then? Why so late? First, as we know all too well, Europeans are slow to act and often give invaders and bloody rulers the benefit of the doubt. You can imagine the 11th century debate at European courts, "But Islam is a religion of peace your Highness..." Thank Goodness the Pope had the courage to fight.

The Crusades... well, the rest is well known… Like any war, there were both noble and ignoble moments. Crimes were committed against the Jewish populations, and the Crusaders even sacked Christian cities, but in 1098, for the first time in almost 500 years, peace and freedom came to Jerusalem and nearby territories. Sadly, because of a lack of resolve among European kingdoms, Jerusalem was once again conquered by the Muslims in 1187.

Only in 1967 did heroic Jewish soldiers free the Holy City from defilement and blasphemy. And therefore, we must never ever consider giving it to the Palestinians....

Of course, that was not the end of the Islamic invasions of Europe. After the fall of Jerusalem, they spent the next 500 years trying to conquer Europe. When Byzantium fell in 1454, one of the greatest civilizations in world history was reduced to ashes. Beautiful churches were turned into mosques, and all sorts of massacres and abominations were committed as the country was blasted back to the Dark Ages. The Balkans also fell and groaned under Muslim occupation until the early 20th century.

The defense of Europe was left to the Austrian Hapsburgs and the Hungarians, whose populations faced constant Muslim slaughter. The Muslims also tried to conquer Europe through Italy and France, but the Maltese Knights and their powerful navy was always vigilant, guarding Europe's southern flank. Victory was always theirs. The Great Siege of Malta in 1565 saw a few thousand Knights against almost 80,000 Muslim invaders.

This text might sound like the interesting story of events long long ago. But each of these events touches our lives today. The Present Day is nothing more than the Sum of All Events Past. Please never forget that western civilization exists today in all its grandeur only thanks to these people --- Charles Martel, El Cid, Pope Urban II, the Crusaders, the Armenian armies who aided the Crusaders, the Maltese Knights, the Spanish forces of Aragon and Castile, the Hapsburg and Hungarian armies, the long-oppressed Greeks, Serbs, Bulgarians, Romanians, and Croats. Detractors might want to point out the unsavory moments in their history, and we don't deny them. But don't forget --- had these people not taken a stand and defended our civilization we would all be followers of a slave ideology. Our countries would never have developed socially, politically, and scientifically, and we would be subjected to the misery and repression common in many Muslim states.

CONCLUSION

Islam's essence has not changed in the past 1400 years. It remains a violent and bloody ideology whose only goal is to force all mankind to submit to its fanatical teaching. Mohammed is not a 'prophet.' He was nothing more than an Arabian warlord, and is fair game for caricature.

POST SCRIPTUM: THE KORAN'S CALL TO HATRED AND MURDER:

[5.33] The punishment of those who wage war against God and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter.

[5.51] O you [Muslims] who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.

[17.16] And when We wish to destroy a town, (4) We send Our commandment to the people of it who lead easy lives, but they transgress therein; thus the word proves true against it, so We destroy it with utter destruction.

[17.17] And how many of the generations did We destroy after Nuh! and your Lord is sufficient as Knowing and Seeing with regard to His servants' faults.

[17.33] And do not kill any one whom Allah has forbidden, except for a just cause, and whoever is slain unjustly, We have indeed given to his heir authority, so let him not exceed the just limits in slaying; surely he is aided.

[17.58] And there is not a town but we will destroy it before the day of resurrection or chastise it with a severe chastisement; this is written in the Divine ordinance.

[47.4] So when you meet in battle those who disbelieve, then smite the necks until when you have overcome them, then make them prisoners, and afterwards either set them free as a favor or let them ransom themselves until the war terminates