Killings for Islam
Islam and Christianity have an interesting contrast.
Jesus
never killed anyone, and
Christianity took 300 years before the killing began.
Whereas
Islam began with killing of unbelievers
right from the start.
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.
Slaughter (jihad)
and oppression (sharia)
are part of the core doctrines of Islam.
Killing for Islam is not a modern idea,
and it will never end until some sort of reformation takes place within the religion.
Medieval Christianity was equally violent,
but Christianity has since reformed.
For many years now,
Islam has been the most violent religion in the world.
The real imperialism in the world today.
The jihad's plans to crush half of the Old World under its heel.
The Jews and the Christians and the Hindus (and in this version the Shia) will be exterminated.
And then, when the world is violently cleansed of all dissent, a glorious utopian heaven will dawn.
Image circulating on jihadi social networks as at 2013.
See
here.
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Political Islam
by Bill Warner
tries to count the killings for Islam throughout history.
- Tears of Jihad.
He claims that Islam is the greatest killer of all time,
worse than Christianity, fascism or communism.
- Bill Warner interview, Feb 2007
(and copy)
- "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."
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"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."
Bill Warner takes us through over 1,000 years of Islamic aggression and imperialism.
For animated map of battles, start at
11:35.
Tomb of
Charles Martel,
the man who saved Europe
(at the Battle of Tours in 732).
Charles Martel is background effigy.
From
here.
Did Islam, not barbarians, destroy classical civilization?
- Henri Pirenne
and others have promoted the theory that 7th century Islam,
not 5th century barbarian conquest,
was the main force that
destroyed classical civilization.
The theory is that the "barbarians" preserved much of classical civilization in culture, if not in politics.
But then in the 7th century Islam destroyed that culture in North Africa and the Middle East.
And even the areas it did not actually conquer, in Europe, were cut off from what had been for centuries a
vast area of free trade and
civilization around the Mediterranean.
These now-isolated non-Muslim areas became backwaters, without access to the trade and products they had long relied on,
and they went into decline.
- Mohammed and Charlemagne Revisited
by Emmet Scott (2012)
is an update of this theory.
- Gates of Vienna review
points out that Islam was so insignificant in the 18th-19th centuries that no one could imagine it as the main cause
rather than the barbarians.
"during the European ascendancy, it was difficult to comprehend how much damage could be inflicted by such a primitive and barbaric culture.
By the time the European colossus stood astride the globe in the nineteenth century, Islam was a trivial retrograde rabble that deserved no respect and even less attention. How could it have come within a hair's breadth of smothering European civilization in its cradle?"
Europe and North Africa and the Middle East
(all Christian)
in 600 AD
(before Islam).
What alternative history might have happened if Islam had never been invented?
From
here.
- Islamic Spain
has a (not entirely false, but perhaps exaggerated)
reputation as a place of tolerance.
-
It is true that it was often better than
medieval Christian Europe,
but that's not saying much.
It was hardly a tolerant place by modern standards.
-
Christians in Muslim Spain
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Jews in Muslim Spain
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Córdoba massacre of Jews by Muslims, 1011.
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Granada massacre of Jews by Muslims, 1066.
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Almohad persecution of Jews and Christians
- Other persecution in the region:
- 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.
The Reconquista, 790 to 1300.
From
here.
The Byzantine Empire, 300 to 1453.
From
here.
Fatih Sultan Muhammad
(1983),
an Islamic-viewpoint animation that celebrates the Fall of Constantinople to Islam in 1453.
Oddly, it leaves out the raping of women and children by the invading army.
The jihadist army endlessly invokes Allah's blessing
and shouts "Allah Akbar".
It is openly portrayed as a great religious war against the infidel.
Turkey was only 10 percent Muslim at the Fall of Constantinople in 1453.
Now Turkey is 100 percent Muslim.
The Christian and Greek civilization of Anatolia is gone. It is annihilated.
From here.
- The Ottoman Empire
(and here)
- 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.
- Part 3, October 08, 2005
- Under Turkish Rule, Part I, July 27, 2007.
- Under Turkish Rule, Part II, August 03, 2007.
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In Ishmael's House: A History of Jews in Muslim Lands
by Martin Gilbert (2010).
- Jonathan Kay, October 11, 2010,
says that reading it you
"become .. numbed by the author's relentless catalogue of pogroms, executions, expulsions, forced conversions and the generalized terrorizing of Jews
...
this simply is the grim, unchanging nature of the epic hatred he has taken as his subject.".
- No one is denying that Christians persecuted and slaughtered Jews too:
"It goes without saying that Muslim civilization has no monopoly on violent and systematic anti-Semitism: Spasms of murderous Jewhatred were common all across Christendom during the 14 centuries of Islam's existence. But in recent generations, Western societies at least have tried to come to terms with their history in a morally serious way. Gilbert's book makes clear that
this self-critical approach to history remains foreign to Muslim societies".
- 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.
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Many parts of Christian Eastern Europe were forced to live for centuries under Ottoman Muslim rule:
- 19th century Turkey and later
The Ottoman Empire, 1300 to 1923.
From
here.
Julius Mandrake
sums up what happened to the shrine of
Hubal
at Mecca.
The largest Christian cathedral in the world,
Hagia Sophia, Constantinople,
was converted into a mosque in 1453.
Image from here.
More images here.
The mosque in the Parthenon:
After the Ottoman Turkish Muslims
conquered Athens
in
1458,
they built a
mosque
inside the
Parthenon.
The mosque ("the present Moschea")
is shown in this
view of the Parthenon
drawn in 1765,
published in 1787.
This is from
Plate 1
in
Ch.1
of
The Antiquities of Athens
by James Stuart and Nicholas Revett
(vol.2), 1787.
See also 1821 view.
Athens was liberated from Turkish rule in
1833.
See engraving
based on 1839 photograph.
From LOC.
The mosque was removed.
Syrian jihadists take over town of Raqqa in 2014, and forcibly convert its church into a mosque -
as their ancestors had done a thousand times before.
From here.
- See also Christian slavery.
- 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.
-
Defending the West
by
Ibn Warraq
shows where the estimate comes from of
17 million slaves in the Arab slave trade.
And yet what guilt does the Arab world feel today about their slave trade?
- Wikipedia
- wikiislam
- answering-islam.org (Christian site)
- White slaves
- Muslim pirates
- 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.
-
Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters:
White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast and Italy, 1500-1800
by Robert Davis.
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British and Irish slaves in Muslim North Africa, in particular in the 17th cent,
by Robert Davis.
- The Islamic pirate attack on Baltimore, Co.Cork, in 1631.
Irish men, women and children were abducted from their homes and sold into rape and slavery in Islamic North Africa.
- The Islamic pirate attacks on Iceland in 1627
-
White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow
and Islam's One Million White Slaves
by Giles Milton.
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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."
- Circassian beauties
- The end of white slavery:
- Modern Islamic piracy:
- Modern Islamic slavery:
- ISIS, Oct 2014, says that the brutal enslaving of innocent
Yazidi women and children is just normal Islamic law.
They say that since the Yazidi religion pre-dates Islam, its women and children can be lawfully enslaved:
"Accordingly, the Islamic State dealt with this group as the majority of fuqaha [scholars]
have indicated
...
Unlike the Jews and Christians, there was no room for the jizyah payment. Also, their women could be enslaved unlike female apostates who the majority of fuqaha say cannot be enslaved and can only be given an ultimatum to repent or face the sword.
...
This large-scale enslavement of mushrik [polytheist] families is probably the first since the abandonment of this Sharia'ah law.
...
one should remember that
enslaving the families of the kuffar and taking their women as concubines is a firmly established aspect of the Shari'ah".
- They said it, not me.
Samuel Pepys'
diary of 8 February 1661.
He
recounts a night drinking in a tavern
in London with two Englishmen who had recently been captured as Islamic slaves.
From
vol.1
of 1855 printing
of his diary.
See hyperlinked notes.
Capt. Walter Croker witnesses Islamic slavery of Christians in North Africa in 1815.
From here.
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.
Child slaves on an Arab slave ship intercepted by the Royal Navy, 1869.
From
here.
It's the most moral religion!
From here.
The
Tintin
series
often explored non-PC plots that Hollywood is terrified of,
such as the famine caused by the Bolsheviks.
Here, Tintin
and Captain Haddock encounter Arab Islamic slave traders of black Africans.
From
The Red Sea Sharks
(1958).
Read the moving book
Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity (2003)
by Francis Bok.
He is a black African captured as a slave by
Arab Islamic slavers in 1986.
That's 1986.
Not 1886.
This is going on today.
Islamic slavery has not ended.
Islamic states
Documentaries
Short version of
Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West
(2005)
(see
site).
The Third Jihad (2008).
It is
narrated by the liberal, anti-jihad Muslim
M. Zuhdi Jasser,
founder of the
American Islamic Forum for Democracy.
-
Lunatic leftists
Media Matters
are so angry at the existence of an anti-jihad Muslim
that they try to label him as some sort of apostate:
"Fox's go-to anti-Muslim activist, Zuhdi Jasser".
-
Leftists telling Muslims they are not jihad enough, and therefore not true Muslims!
- The left labels blacks who don't obey them "Uncle Toms".
Now it labels Muslims who don't obey them "apostates".
A Photoshop commentary on
this image
from the "Muhammed cartoons" protests and riots of 2006.
The Photoshop is so good that
Richard Dawkins in
The God Delusion (2006)
mistook it for a real image.
Dawkins corrected this in later editions.
But the point stands that the Photoshop tells a profound truth
- no other religion has a problem with violence like Islam does.
"Which religion is the most violent?"
Survey of Americans,
Mar 2006.
They were asked to choose among these 4 religions only.
These are the percentages among those who gave an answer.
(I suspect that the ones who say "They're all the same" are the people who
don't read the news
and don't like to think about it.)
Most of the world - if they had to pick one religion - would agree that the
"religion of peace"
is the most violent religion
in the world.
Pie chart generated with
piecolor.com.
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The Global Peace Index
shows how Islam has spread
peace across the
Dar al-Islam
("House of Peace").
And unbelief and secularism and liberalism have spread
endless war across the
Dar al-Harb
("House of War").
Yeah, that's clearly what it shows.
"how many this weekend Mo? And last weekend, the week before that? And on and on since the supporters of Umar and Ali fell out"
- Tweet
on the endless killings for Islam, going back 1400 years, and which will go on for hundreds, maybe thousands of years
into the future.
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