The Stream Spain’s Left is worried that a growing number of Spaniards are remembering and learning from their nation’s long history with, and under, Islam. Sergio Gracia, president of the so-called Center for Research on the Far-Right (CINVED) in Spain, recently complained that The extreme right usually refers to historical figures like Don Pelayo or El Sid, also using terms … [Read more...]
‘Pride Was Their Downfall’: The Collapse of Christian Unity Against Jihad Occurred Today in History
The Stream On September 25, 1396, a major military encounter with Islam that demonstrated just how disunited Christendom had become (and still is) took place. Two years earlier, the Ottoman Turks had been “doing great injury to Hungary,” causing its young king, Sigismund, to appeal “to Christendom for assistance.” It came at an opportune time. The hitherto quarreling English … [Read more...]
Video: “Exposing the Lies of a ‘Peaceful Islam'”
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Is Mary a ‘Bridge’ between Islam and Christianity?
The Stream Is Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, a “bridge” between Islam and Christianity? That’s what a major Muslim scholar, the Ayatollah Ahmad Moballeghi, recently insisted. On September 5, while addressing a conference on interfaith dialogue at the University of Pretoria, the ayatollah showered Mary, a revered figure in Christianity, with praise. Some of his remarks … [Read more...]
Why Islam Was, Is, and Always Will Be the West’s ‘Most Formidable and Persistent Enemy’
The Stream Nearly a century ago, Hilaire Belloc, a Franco-English writer, made a remarkably prescient observation concerning Islam that was dismissed as hyperbolic at the time: Millions of modern people of the white civilization — that is, the civilization of Europe and America — have forgotten all about Islam. They have never come in contact with it. They take for granted … [Read more...]