Today in history, on June 6, Louis IX of France—better known to posterity as Saint Louis—scored a dramatic victory over the Islamic jihad. It was late May, 1249, and the Seventh Crusade had begun. Louis and his army, which consisted of some twenty-five thousand Crusaders, set sail from Cyprus. Their destination, based on the by now standard Crusader logic that Egypt must be … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2023
‘An Injustice Crying Out to Heaven’: The Jihad on Christians in Mozambique
Gatestone Institute A savage jihad—replete with massacres, beheadings, and sexual enslavement—has been raging in the Christian-majority nation of Mozambique since 2017. Few in the West are aware of this, not least as the situation has been garbed in Marxist language that seeks to depict radical terrorists as “victims” and those resisting them, including the Mozambican … [Read more...]
Crusaders Overcome Jihad at Antioch and Godfrey’s Valor
Nine-hundred and twenty-five years ago today, on June 3, 1098, a dramatic Christian victory over Islamic oppression took place: the liberation of the ancient Christian city of Antioch. Context: In the years preceding the First Crusade, Turkish invaders were running amok in Asia Minor, formerly a bastion of Christianity (now “Turkey”). An anonymous Georgian chronicler tells of … [Read more...]
Turkish ‘Princess’ Vows that Islam Will ‘Break the Western Cross’
Resorting to jihadist rhetoric, Esra, the daughter of Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan—who just gained another five years as president—recently attacked the West and Christianity. In a tweet written, not in her native Turkish, but in Islam’s tongue, Arabic, the "first daughter" declared that “There is little left for the Islamic crescent to break the Western … [Read more...]