Christians no longer care that the Eastern Empire held Muslims at bay for almost 800 years. Constantinople fell to the Muslims in 1453. The Western church and European ideas took precedence.
Before the Battle of Yarmuk in 636, Muslim commander Kalhid bin al-Walid said to the Roman commander Vahan: “(W)e Arabs are in the habit of drinking blood, and we are told the blood of the Romans is the sweetest of its kind, so we came to shed your blood and drink it.”
Vahan replied: “As for you, there is no lower and more despicable people — wretched, impoverished Bedouins. . . . You commit injustices in your own nation and now ours. . . . What havoc you have created! You ride horses not your own and wear clothes not your own. You pleasure yourselves with the young white girls of Rome and enslave them. You eat food not your own, and fill your hands with gold, silver, and valuable goods [not your own]. Now we find you with all our possessions and the plunder you took from our coreligionists — and we leave it all to you, neither asking for its return nor rebuking you. All we ask is that you leave our lands. But if you refuse, we will annihilate you!”
When today’s ISIS proclaims: “’American blood is best and we will taste it soon,’ or ‘We love death as you love life,’ or ‘We will break your crosses and enslave your women,’ they are quoting in verbatim — and thereby placing themselves in the footsteps of — Khalid bin al-Walid and his companions, the original Islamic conquerors of Syria.”
Muslims believe the words of Khalid. Western Christians know no struggle. Nothing threatens Sunday services or Wednesday services. Christians eat well and sleep well. Words of Muslims, of Mohammad, are from long ago and far away.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/09/how-islam-conquered-23s-christian-world-raymond-ibrahim/
Yes, Christians are long suffering of insults and prone to repeatedly turn the other cheek. But, as history demonstrates, when aroused to anger Christians have a a tendency to level continents and wipe entire alien peoples from their lands.
ReplyDeleteMe, I'm not to worried about the Medieval muslim goat herders.
We need more Vlad of Wallachia types to deal with ISIS and their ilk.
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