American Thinker Today in history, on May 29, 1453, the sword of Islam conquered Constantinople. Of all Islam’s conquests of Christian territory, this was by far the most symbolically significant. For not only was Constantinople a living and direct extension of the old Roman Empire and current capital of the Christian Roman Empire (or Byzantium), but its cyclopean walls had … [Read more...]
The Battle of Covadonga: Today in History a ‘Mustard Seed’ of Christian Liberation from Muslim Rule Is Planted in Spain
Nearly thirteen-hundred years ago today, on May 28, 722,* a little known but profoundly important battle was waged, setting the tone for the next eight hundred years of Christian/Muslim “coexistence” in Spain: the Battle of Covadonga. Ten years earlier, Arabs and Africans—“Moors,” under the banner of Islam— had “godlessly invaded Spain to destroy it,” to quote from … [Read more...]
“White Harlots Eager for Sex”: Islam’s Medieval Fantasies Plague Europe
Speaking under the pseudonym of “Ella,” a British woman recently revealed that her Muslim rapists called her “a white c*nt, a white wh*re, and a white b*tch,” during the more than 100 times she was raped in her youth by the mostly Pakistani grooming gang. “We need to understand racially and religiously aggravated crime if we are going to prevent it and protect people from it … [Read more...]
Video: Raymond Ibrahim on Islam, Israel, and “Golden Age” Myths
The Elder of Ziyon interviewed me yesterday. His description of the talk and the interview itself follow: I thoroughly enjoyed last night's EoZTV interview with historian and scholar Raymond Ibrahim, whose provocative views on Islam have gotten him labeled a "white supremacist" by CAIR - even though his family is Egyptian Copt. We spoke about the Muslim view of Jerusalem, … [Read more...]
The “Image of Hell”: Islam’s Siege of Malta
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...]