The following article was written by Joachim Osther …there was a much larger but wholly forgotten backstory…the recollection of which can revolutionize the way the West understands its past, and thus its present, with Islam. – Raymond Ibrahim, Sword and Scimitar After two Swedes were targeted and murdered by a radical Islamist in Brussels last Fall, Swedish Prime Minister … [Read more...]
In Recognizing Palestinian State, Spain Displays Historical Amnesia, Enables Islamic Terrorism
The Stream Responding to Spain’s recent recognition of a Palestinian state, a few weeks ago Israel Foreign Affairs Minister Israel Katz tweeted: If this ignorant, hate-filled individual [Spain’s deputy prime minister, Yolanda Díaz] wants to understand what radical Islam truly seeks, she should study the 700 years of Islamic rule in Al-Andalus — today’s Spain. What could Katz … [Read more...]
The ‘Drip-Drip’ Genocide of Christians
The Stream While outright violence is a well-known — and very obvious — way of annihilating a people, lesser known are the subtle, slow-motion ways that can be exerted to suffocate a people into extinction. Thus, Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, leader of the Chaldean church in Iraq, recently sounded the alarm over the near extinction of Christianity in Iraq (where it had been … [Read more...]
Today in History: Crusaders Triumph Over the Muslim Persecutors of Christians
LifeSiteNews Today in history, on June 19, 1097, the first major victory of the First Crusade occurred at Nicaea. In the years following the decisive Battle of Manzikert (1071), which saw the Seljuk Turks defeat the Eastern Roman Empire and conquer that ancient bastion of Christianity, Anatolia (modern day Turkey), mindboggling atrocities were committed. Whether an anonymous … [Read more...]
The West’s Twin Enemies: Islam and Paganism
The Stream “What was will be; what was done before will be done again. There is nothing new under the sun.” So wrote the author of Ecclesiastes — and truer words have seldom been spoken. Muslim hostility for Christian civilization is one obvious example of that truth: It has been part of an unwavering continuum that stretches back to the foundations of Islam in the seventh … [Read more...]