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...]
Today in History: Muslim Turks Sack Christian Constantinople
PJ Media While the West continues self-flagellating itself about its history, today, Turkey is celebrating a day when its ancestors slaughtered and raped thousands of people solely for the “sin” of being Christian. Precisely 570 years ago today, on May 29, 1453, the Turks sacked and transformed the ancient Christian kingdom of Constantinople, into Muslim Istanbul. And, as … [Read more...]
Today in History: A Christian ‘Mustard Seed’ Delivers Spain from Islamic Tyranny
The Stream Today in history, on May 28, 722, an immensely decisive battle between Christians and Muslims took place in Spain—a clash that, as shall be seen, is taking on renewed significance. Eleven years earlier, in 711, hordes of North African Muslims (“Moors”) “godlessly invaded Spain to destroy it,” to quote from the Chronicle of 754. They did not pass “a place without … [Read more...]
Are ‘White People Committed to Being Villains’?
As I have closely documented elsewhere, historical relations between Islam and the West have been utterly distorted in order to present the aggressors as victims and the victims as aggressors. In this article, we look at a similar but even more urgent topic: how history in general has been intentionally distorted in a way that makes segments of the nonwhite population hate, … [Read more...]
Today in History: Jihad Unleashed on Malta
PJ Media Today in history, May 18, 1565, one of the most symbolically important military encounters between Islam and Europe began: the Ottoman Turks besieged the tiny island of Malta, in what was then considered the heaviest bombardment any locale had been subjected to. Around the start of the sixteenth century, Muslim pirates from Algiers began to terrorize the Christian … [Read more...]