For the first century of its existence,
Islam was absolutely soaked in blood.
The killing only slowed down as the Islamic empire finally ran into boundaries
in the 8th century,
after about a century of expansionist, imperialist,
unprovoked Islamic aggression.
Even after the initial expansion slowed,
the killings did not end.
Review:
"This compendium shows that Islamic jihad has for fourteen centuries
meant exactly what bin Laden, Zaraqawi, and every other so-called "Islamic fundamentalist"
says it means: a war to compel the whole world to embrace Islam, die,
or live under intolerant, humiliating restrictions"
"First, let's see how ignorant we are about the history of political Islam.
How many Christians can tell you how
Turkey
or Egypt
became Islamic?
What happened to the
Seven Churches of Asia
mentioned in Paul's letters?
Find a Jew who can tell you the Jewish history of
dhimmitude
(second class citizens who serve Islam).
What European knows that white women were the highest priced slaves
in Mecca?
Everyone knows how many Jews Hitler killed,
but find an unbeliever who can tell you how many died in jihad over the last 1400 years."
"Jihad destroyed a Christian Middle East
and a Christian North Africa.
Soon it was the fate of the
Persian Zoroastrian
and the Hindu
to be the victims of jihad.
The history of political Islam is the destruction of Christianity
in the Middle East, Egypt, Turkey and North Africa.
Half of Christianity was lost.
Before Islam, North Africa was the southern part of Europe (part of the Roman Empire).
Around 60 million Christians were slaughtered during the jihadic conquest.
Half of the glorious Hindu civilization was annihilated and 80 million Hindus killed.
The first Western Buddhists
were the Greeks descended from Alexander the Great's army
in what is now Afghanistan. Jihad destroyed all of Buddhism along the silk route.
About 10 million Buddhists died.
The conquest of Buddhism is the practical result of pacifism.
Zoroastrianism
was eliminated from Persia.
The Jews became permanent dhimmis throughout Islam.
In Africa over 120 million Christians and animists have died over the last 1400 years of jihad.
Approximately 270 million nonbelievers died
over the last 1400 years for the glory of political Islam.
These are the Tears of Jihad which are not taught in any school."
Jihad begot the Crusades
by Andrew G. Bostom.
It would be wrong to whitewash the democide of
the Crusades.
But it would be equally wrong to whitewash the centuries
of jihad and persecution of Christians
that preceded them.
The Battle of Vienna, 1683,
was the high water mark
of the jihad's threat to western Europe.
After this, due to the west's invention and progressive refinement of the powerful ideas
of science, democracy and capitalism,
the Islamic world fell further and further behind the west.
The modern jihad
is a rage against this decline -
but, since it rejects these western ideas,
it will never restore Islamic greatness.
The fate of non-Muslims in the Ottoman Empire, by Andrew G. Bostom:
Part 1, October 04, 2005
- The Islamisation of Asia Minor by force.
Part 2, October 07, 2005
- Dhimmitude under the Ottomans.
The New Anti-Semitism, Bernard Lewis,
Winter 2006
- on the history of anti-semitism from medieval Christianity
to the Nazis to the Islamists.
Lewis, not one to whitewash Islam,
does say that medieval Islam was more tolerant of religious diversity than
medieval Christianity.
Not that
medieval Islam was tolerant by modern standards.
Just that medieval Christianity was so bad.
"one has to remember that in the confrontation between Christendom and Islam,
the movement of refugees, of those who, in Lenin's famous phrase, "voted with their feet,"
was overwhelmingly from west to east not from east to west."
The Ottoman sultans admitted many Jewish refugees from Spain, Portugal, Italy, and elsewhere.
"This was tolerance and no more than that.
...
but it is a lot better than intolerance as such, and the limited but substantial tolerance
accorded to Jews and other non-Muslim communities in the Muslim states until early modern times
was certainly vastly better than anything that was available in Christendom."
Maria Rosa Menocal
has been prominent in promoting the idea that Muslim Spain was tolerant,
but even she says that
Jews and Christians had limited rights in Muslim Spain:
"The dhimmi, as these covenanted peoples were called, were granted religious freedom, not forced to convert to Islam. They could continue to be Jews and Christians, and, as it turned out, they could share in much of Muslim social and economic life. In return for this freedom of religious conscience the Peoples of the Book (pagans had no such privilege) were required to pay a special tax - no Muslims paid taxes - and to observe a number of restrictive regulations: Christians and Jews were prohibited from attempting to proselytize Muslims, from building new places of worship, from displaying crosses or ringing bells. In sum, they were forbidden most public displays of their religious rituals."
Robert Spencer
points out that
anyone who criticised Muhammed and Islam
in Muslim Spain
would be put to death.
And many such executions are recorded.
Hugh Fitzgerald
says the myth of tolerant Muslim Spain serves a deep need:
"Yet even these romanticizers who write of Al-Andaluz as the great exemplar of tolerance also consider it to be, at best, a unique example in the long 1400-year history of Islam -- which already is a way of admitting that the treatment of non-Muslims under Islam in general was not a paradise of "tolerance" and fruitful mutual accommodation. In all of the history of Islam, the story of Muslim Spain is that only one where there is even a colorable claim for "tolerance." How pleasant it would be to make of history what it was not. How wonderful to think that at least once, just once, in the whole long history of Muslim conquest, there really was one spot where there was real tolerance".
The Reconquista
- The Islamic conquest of Spain is reversed.
Expulsion of the Muslims and Jews
from Spain, 1492.
The new Christian state had less, not more, religious freedom
than the old, Islamic one.
The Spanish Inquisition
illustrates the brutal nature of Christianity at this time.
Christianity has changed radically since then.
Islam needs to change too.
Andrew G. Bostom
estimates that 17 million black Africans - men, women and children,
were enslaved by Muslims from the 7th century to date
(Islamic slavery continues today).
Millions would have died.
In the 16th - 19th centuries,
perhaps 1 million west European men, women and children
were kidnapped (sometimes from their homes) by
Muslim pirates and sold into torture, rape and slavery in the Islamic world, where almost all died.
The Children's Crusade of 1212
may (or may not) have ended with the young Christians being sold into Islamic slavery.
Sultan Moulay Ismail of Morocco
(died 1727)
captured, tortured and killed vast numbers of
Christian European slaves
as well as black African slaves.
John Derbyshire:
"Is there any chance we might persuade the Muslim nations of North Africa
to erect modest monuments to the million or so European Christians who suffered and died
as slaves of their ancestors? My guess would be: no chance at all."
The Slave Market
by
Jean-Leon Gerome
(1866)
depicts white Europeans
sold as slaves in the Middle East.
Perhaps 1 million west European men, women and children
were kidnapped by Muslim pirates
and sold into torture, rape and slavery in the Islamic world.
And who talks about them today? Nobody.
See full size.
From here.
The cowards of Al Qaeda almost exclusively attack defenceless civilians:
"The majority of their attacks have been directed against civilian infrastructure
such as embassies, consulates, shipping, transportation, hotels, resorts, nightclubs, bars,
synagogues, churches, temples, mosques, markets, housing complexes, office buildings and schools."
The Path to Darkness,
about modern terrorism.
Looks good, though spoiled by the apparent sympathy for a
former Japanese kamikaze pilot.
In reality, Axis Japan were worse butchers of innocents than the jihad is.
Use the following two sites
to track ongoing killings for Islam around the world.
Very few of them are attacks on westerners.
Most of them are attacks on religious minorities:
I agree with the idea that
"Eurabia"
is a possible future for Europe,
but I disagree with her idea
that it is an organised program.
I believe in stupidity, greed, pride and blindness, not conspiracy theories.
Modern human rights in
Iran,
Saudi Arabia,
Sudan and
Pakistan.
An Islamic state is not some interesting alternative to western democracy.
It is just the same old religious oppression that we had in Europe for centuries
before we came up with the idea of a state that would leave people's private lives alone.
Blasphemers, apostates, unmarried lovers
and homosexuals are still executed
in many of the Islamic states above.
The Islamic states are a glimpse of what Europe
would have been like
in perhaps the 16th century,
before the modern era of free thought.
Afghanistan under the Taliban is perhaps
a glimpse of the even earlier and darker medieval period.
Ahmadinejad's Imam
says Islam allows raping and torturing prisoners, Aug 2009:
"If the prisoner is female, it is permissible to rape through the vagina or anus. It is better not to have a witness present.
...
If the judgment for the [female] prisoner is execution, then rape before execution brings the interrogator a spiritual reward equivalent to making the mandated Haj pilgrimage [to Mecca]".
Feminist
Naomi Wolf, August 30, 2008, says many Muslim women choose to wear the veil, and find it liberating.
But that is not the point.
The point is not that the veil is awful.
(I think it is, but that is just personal taste.)
The point is that it is compulsory.
She makes a token nod to this:
"I do not mean to dismiss the many women leaders in the Muslim world who regard veiling as a means of controlling women. Choice is everything."
But how do we know any of the women she met freely chose the veil?
Only if there is no punishment at all for not choosing
can we take seriously their claims to have freely chosen.
It's like going to the Soviet bloc and only meeting people who say they are communists.
Jamie Glazov, 2 Sept 2009, on feminists' defence of the veil:
"Expressions of support for a form of tyranny are utterly meaningless in a system where any contrary expression or behavior will be punished".
Wolf actually complains that
"the Taliban were demonised for denying cosmetics and hair colour to women".
What kind of "feminist" is this?
Who thinks there is something wrong with demonising men
who decide what women can wear!
"Local Harlot Exposes Face, Neck."
The Onion
takes the piss out of traditional Islamic culture.
Rape as a tool of jihad:
Egyptian female lawyer
Nagla Al-Imam
says Muslim men should rape Jewish women
as part of their jihad.
Al-Arabiya TV, October 2008. "In my opinion, they are fair game for all Arabs".
Also here
and search:
From here
and transcript.
by Mariwan Halabjaee (2005).
Since 1995.
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