Centuries of jihad forced Islam upon Europeans and Middle Easterners upon
pain of death. This preceded, and to a great extent caused, the Crusades.
Yet
you'd think the Crusades came out of nowhere judging by how seldom this is
explained.
Thus
continued silence on the history of Islamic jihad is wrong.
Islamic website offers tips on killing foreigners in Saudi Arabia... "In order to carry out the mission when the time comes you must possess a weapon (a handgun or a submachine gun), or a good knife, if you're interested in butchering the infidel…"
- Ynet News, 8/25/06
The Church, being the light of the world, was the greatest enemy to Islam; As much as I personally don't like Catholic no institution has fought against the Muslims more than the Catholic Church. Therefore, if we had the modern Christian mindset alive and well in the old days of Christendom, and affirmed that it wasn’t the Church’s part to start wars against heretics, then we would have allowed Islam to overrun much of the Christian world, and there would have been no war until the last moment when the barbarians would be at are doors. They offered to do the dirty job we should all be grateful to them.
The Church, to today’s contemporary heretics, should just focus on “love” and turn away from the command of Saint Paul to
“have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.” (Ephesians 5:11)
The Church, to the modern Christian, should stop being the Church. You cannot talk about Christianity without talking about the Crusades. In every debate, every discourse, every discussion, on Christianity, the Crusades are brought up. It is time for Christians to stop being ashamed of the Crusades, and to start exclaiming with pride and confidence, that they are a part of the Christian spirit. The Crusades are of the Christian Faith, and if one does not want to accept this, then he should simply leave the Christian Faith.
The Muslims want to kill the Pope, they want to conquer Rome and destroy all of the lands of Christianity. This reality brings us to one realization: we are returning back to history, in which Islam arose to invade and conquer Christendom, and to vanquish and obliterate the Vatican.
This leads us to another realization: the Crusades are coming back, and that means a strong Church — which is the true Church — is going to arise from the weak and crumbling ruins of the decayed church of the masses.
So let the Christians of the true Church, that is, the Church that wants to fight, learn some things about the Crusades, and compare it to the current useless fat that we call “church” today.
The Crusades are one major event, made up of smaller events, only to make a whole, very significant, concatenation. Each occurrence is attributed to another event, which soon becomes a series of incidences that ultimately form a part of the great cause we call the Crusades. It is impossible to talk about Islamic expansion and tyranny, and Muhammad’s utopian ideology, without describing the Crusades, since it was they who posed the greatest threat from the eleventh century all the way to the thirteenth century.
You cannot discuss the Crusades without knowing about the conquest of Jerusalem by Umar, nor is there room for efficient dialogue without making mention of the Turkish empowering of the Islamic empire. It is also inadequate to mention Islam’s war with Christianity without giving much attention to the Crusades.
It was the Crusades that hindered the Muslims from accomplishing the world empire they desired in the Middle Ages, and it was in this great struggle, between Christian knights and Muslim cavaliers, that illustrated just how deep, profound, and eternal, this war between the Umma and Christendom clearly is. If Islam arose in the fourteenth century, this is only because the crusading spirit died down
A HARDLINE cleric linked to Somalia's powerful Islamist movement has called for Muslims to "hunt down" and kill Pope Benedict XVI for his controversial comments about Islam [being historically spread by the sword].
Sheikh Abubukar Hassan Malin urged Muslims to find the pontiff and punish him for insulting the Prophet Mohammed and Allah...
"Whoever offends our Prophet Mohammed should be killed on the spot by the nearest Muslim,"... - The Age, 9/18/06