When it comes to the conflict between Christians and Muslims the lack of any cooperation among Christians stands out. A few examples:
1. The Byzantine Empire falls to the Muslim Turks in 1453. The Byzantine Empire was the eastern half of the Roman Empire. After the fall of Rome around 460 AD, the eastern empire continued and prospered until its defeat by the Muslim Turks in 1453 with the fall of Constantinople. The Muslims had been on the march, conquering surrounding territory ever since the death of Muhammad in 632 AD.
After the Christian schism between the Roman church and the Greek church in 1054 AD the Roman and Greek (Byzantine) churches became enemies and have never reconciled to this day. Nothing could have been more tragic in the history of Christendom. This is the equivalent of a family divided. In 1453 total victory arrived for the Muslims with the conquest and destruction of Constantinople, the seat of Christianity for 1300 years. No Christian country in Europe offered any help. Only seven hundred private soldiers from Genoa, Italy, led by Giovanni Giustiniani, a brilliant siege commander, came to aid Constantinople; they fought valiantly against overwhelming odds until they were overrun by the superior Turkish forces. The Muslims did not stop with the Byzantine Empire; eventually they reached to gates of Vienna Austria in 1529 in their thirst for territory. The Europeans failed to see that the loss of the Byzantine Empire was not just a loss of territory but a religious defeat that would continue to harass them to this day. We're still paying the cost of the loss of the Byzantine Empire today. Lars Brownworth, in his book, Lost to the West, tells the story of the fall of the Byzantine Empire.
Some say that "war is not the answer." The Europeans believed this and did nothing, but war continues to be waged upon Christians to this day without ceasing. There are those who see a mountain and refuse to recognize it. This is what most Christians are doing today when it comes to their Muslim opponents.
2. At the end of World War I, the European allies, which included Britain, France, Italy, and Greece defeated the Ottoman Turks and Germany. After 500 years, the Europeans had a chance to reverse all the Muslim advances of territory conquered by the Muslims. When the victorious allies of WW I sat down to decide what to do with the defeated Ottoman Turks, they squabbled and could not come up with a cogent decision. Finally, they acted - they decided to let Greece occupy Smyrna, a coastal city in Turkey - called Izmir today. The Greeks, desiring to re-occupy their Byzantine land lost in 1453, moved out and occupied a large portion of Turkey. They blundered militarily very badly and were crushed by the Turks, who took horrific revenge on anyone not of Turkish descent; committing unspeakable atrocities, including the genocide of 1.5 million Armenians. No one knows of the atrocities committed by the Turks after the end of WW I. We've heard of the Armenian genocide but not anything else. I will review the book Paradise Lost, Smyrna 1922 in a later post. This book details the Turkish atrocities in Turkey after they defeated the Greeks.
3. Today, we still face a hostile Muslim foe. The difference today is that it is not one country against another, but a fanatical part of Islam, in the name of Al Qaeda, Jihad and many others who still fight against the infidel, non-Muslims. This war exploded on 9/11/2001 when Muslim terrorists attacked and murdered 3,000 Americans who were busy working at their desk in New York City. Whereas before armies would attack and overrun territories, today the Muslim terrorists attack innocent people wherever they are. and murder them at will. Muslim terrorists also attack other Muslims they disagree with such and they do in Pakistan and Iraq.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Monday, November 15, 2010
Historical Amnesia
According to the politically correct worldview, anyone who opposes the building of the World Trade Center Mosque, is intolerant, a bigot, or a racist; perhaps all of these. When Bill O'Reilly appeared on the "View," a daytime soap opera of a TV talk show, two of the very liberal hosts, Joy Behar and Whoopie Goldberg, were so incensed when Bill suggested that building a Mosque next to the World Trade Center was an abomination that they stormed out of the set. I'm sure they thought that Bill was all of the above.
I'm afraid that most people, including Bill O'Reilly, are for the most part, ignorant of history. I find that most people I talk to are about the third grade level when it comes to history. This is devastating to our worldview and our culture. You cannot have a proper world view without knowing basic history. Let's review here quickly why a Mosque near the World Trade Center in not appropriate.
1. Since the beginning of the Muslim religion, around 632 AD, the Muslims have made it their goal to conquer, convert, destroy and obliterate all vestiges of Christianity and replace it with Islam. Why were we attacked on 9/11, for instance? Whom had the United States attacked? What was the reason for Pearl Harbor type of an attack on the United Sates? When the Muslims conquer an area or a people, the will destroy all vestiges of the conquered people's religion, including churches. They will take a Christian church and turn it into a Mosque. Historically, Muslims will erect a Mosque on the spot where there used to be a church, such as, Constantinople, Jerusalem and Cordoba in Spain. Why did they call the Ground Zero project, "The Cordoba House"?
Let's take some examples of this destruction of conquered people's religion. In the Sudan, there has been a war on Christians for over 30 years. The goal of the Muslims in the Sudan is total elimination of Christians in Sudan. Does Darfur mean anything to you? A genocide against Christians is going on right now.
In 1974, Turkey, a Muslim country, forcibly conquered the island of Cyprus. They've occupied half of the island ever since. The other half is semi-independent. The entire island, with a small Turkish minority had been Christian majority. The Turks have demolished most, if not all of the Christian churches in their occupied half of the island.
Smyrna, a coastal city in Asia Minor, part of Turkey, was majority Christian until 1922. After the Ottoman Turks lost WW I they blamed the Christians of Smyrna for their troubles and accused them of undermining them. They systematically killed all of them and burned the city to the ground. This story is told in the new book "Paradise Lost" by Giles Milton, published in 2008. This book is a compelling story that cannot be put down. Superbly researched and written. Milton recounts how the Christians were forcibly removed from their homes and marched through the desert until they died from exhaustion or were summarily murdered in cold blood. Reading the story of Smyrna is a human tragedy and a Holocaust of epic proportions, yet no one knows anything about it. After the destruction of Smyrna, one of the seven cities of the seven churches of the New Testament, they re-named the city Izmir. The Turks also renamed their capital of Constantinople - a thousand year old city, to Istanbul at the same time. Could there have been an anti-Christian reason for it? Constantinople had been the capital of Christendom until it was conquered and destroyed by the Turks in 1453. Smyrna, as noted earlier, was one of the original seven churches of the New Testament. The entire country of Turkey was conquered from the Christian Byzantine Empire and made into an Islamic country.
2. Amnesia, is a condition where one cannot remember even one's own name. The ignorance of history, especially the history of the persecution of Christians by Muslims is another amnesia. This amnesia will do grave damage to our country. Does anyone care?
3. We can agree that not all Muslims are terrorists nor do they share the hatred of the United States. However, the Muslims of the world, in general, and the the Muslims of the United States in particular have failed to condemn the Muslim terrorists. On the contrary, after 9/11, the Muslims of the Middle East celebrated the murder of US citizens. The developer of the Ground Zero Mosque, Faisal Abdul Rauf, stated in an interview by"60 Minutes" stated that the United States shares responsibility for 9/11. Click here to watch what he said. He also refused to say if Hamas was a terrorist organization. Additionally, he refuses to discuss where the finances come from for the Mosque.
I'm afraid that most people, including Bill O'Reilly, are for the most part, ignorant of history. I find that most people I talk to are about the third grade level when it comes to history. This is devastating to our worldview and our culture. You cannot have a proper world view without knowing basic history. Let's review here quickly why a Mosque near the World Trade Center in not appropriate.
1. Since the beginning of the Muslim religion, around 632 AD, the Muslims have made it their goal to conquer, convert, destroy and obliterate all vestiges of Christianity and replace it with Islam. Why were we attacked on 9/11, for instance? Whom had the United States attacked? What was the reason for Pearl Harbor type of an attack on the United Sates? When the Muslims conquer an area or a people, the will destroy all vestiges of the conquered people's religion, including churches. They will take a Christian church and turn it into a Mosque. Historically, Muslims will erect a Mosque on the spot where there used to be a church, such as, Constantinople, Jerusalem and Cordoba in Spain. Why did they call the Ground Zero project, "The Cordoba House"?
Let's take some examples of this destruction of conquered people's religion. In the Sudan, there has been a war on Christians for over 30 years. The goal of the Muslims in the Sudan is total elimination of Christians in Sudan. Does Darfur mean anything to you? A genocide against Christians is going on right now.
In 1974, Turkey, a Muslim country, forcibly conquered the island of Cyprus. They've occupied half of the island ever since. The other half is semi-independent. The entire island, with a small Turkish minority had been Christian majority. The Turks have demolished most, if not all of the Christian churches in their occupied half of the island.
Smyrna, a coastal city in Asia Minor, part of Turkey, was majority Christian until 1922. After the Ottoman Turks lost WW I they blamed the Christians of Smyrna for their troubles and accused them of undermining them. They systematically killed all of them and burned the city to the ground. This story is told in the new book "Paradise Lost" by Giles Milton, published in 2008. This book is a compelling story that cannot be put down. Superbly researched and written. Milton recounts how the Christians were forcibly removed from their homes and marched through the desert until they died from exhaustion or were summarily murdered in cold blood. Reading the story of Smyrna is a human tragedy and a Holocaust of epic proportions, yet no one knows anything about it. After the destruction of Smyrna, one of the seven cities of the seven churches of the New Testament, they re-named the city Izmir. The Turks also renamed their capital of Constantinople - a thousand year old city, to Istanbul at the same time. Could there have been an anti-Christian reason for it? Constantinople had been the capital of Christendom until it was conquered and destroyed by the Turks in 1453. Smyrna, as noted earlier, was one of the original seven churches of the New Testament. The entire country of Turkey was conquered from the Christian Byzantine Empire and made into an Islamic country.
2. Amnesia, is a condition where one cannot remember even one's own name. The ignorance of history, especially the history of the persecution of Christians by Muslims is another amnesia. This amnesia will do grave damage to our country. Does anyone care?
3. We can agree that not all Muslims are terrorists nor do they share the hatred of the United States. However, the Muslims of the world, in general, and the the Muslims of the United States in particular have failed to condemn the Muslim terrorists. On the contrary, after 9/11, the Muslims of the Middle East celebrated the murder of US citizens. The developer of the Ground Zero Mosque, Faisal Abdul Rauf, stated in an interview by"60 Minutes" stated that the United States shares responsibility for 9/11. Click here to watch what he said. He also refused to say if Hamas was a terrorist organization. Additionally, he refuses to discuss where the finances come from for the Mosque.
Thursday, August 12, 2010
We Have Met the Enemy and it's Us
We just lost one of the best military commanders of our day, General Stanley McChrystal, the last commander in Afghanistan. Those of us who love history and learn from it, know that no military, no matter how large or competent, can win without a brilliant military commander. A good military commander is crucial to winning. There are many examples: General David Patreaus in Iraq. As soon as General Patreaus was appointed to lead the Iraq war, he turned it around and we were successful. General Norman Schwarzkopf the brilliant commander of the 1991 Gulf War. It was in no small measure the ability of General Schwarzkopf that the US and coalition forces had such blitzkrieg success.
In World War II, it was the brilliance of Generals Eisenhower, Patton (check out this youTube video on Patton) and the British General Bernard Montgomery that the US and its allies won the war decisively. On the German side, it was the brilliance of Generals such as General Erwin Rommel that they had the success that they had. If you study the war in North Africa, you can see the military brilliance of this, one of the greatest military mind of all time. Another brilliant German commander was General Friedrich Paulus, the commander of the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad in the Eastern Front. Although the Germans lost this battle, it was not because of the leadership of General Paulus, but the insanity of Adolf Hitler who, basically condemned those who perished there to an avoidable death. Hitler refused all advice by the commanders on the ground that they could not succeed given the weather, lack of equipment, food, proper winter clothing, and the obstacles that they faced. Hitler refused to have his forces withdraw and condemned them to death. The battle of Leningrad is, perhaps the saddest story in military history. Man's inhumanity to man screams out at you when you watch a documentary of this battle. About two million soldiers and civilians died in 900 days of the siege. Many starved to death or died of the freezing weather. Among the dead were soldiers from Russia, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Romania and other European countries.
In Roman days, the Battle of Cannae in 216 BC stands out. A better equipped, trained and numerically superior Roman Army was defeated by a lesser army commanded by one of the most brilliant military commanders of all time - Hannibal, the famous Carthaginian General and son of another famous Carthaginian General, Hasdrubal. The Romans lost most of their 50,000 troops who engaged Hannibal at this site, the worst military defeat the Romans had ever had. Again, Hannibal won by his military brilliance over his Roman counterpart, the Roman Consul Varro. When the battle was over, there were an estimated 60,000 dead bodies on the battlefield. In comparison, the United States lost 59,000 dead in 10 years of the Vietnam war. The battle of Cannae was so significant for military strategy that the US Military studies it to this day in the War College.
Back to General McChrystal. As you are aware, the General was forced to retire after an unflattering article by the leftist magazine, Rolling Stone, called "The Runaway General." Rolling Stone and their supporters are anti-war and set out to sabotage the US military. They caused our best general to leave the field. As the saying goes: with friends such as these who needs enemies. The left is an enemy of the United States. They only care for their ideology, not for the welfare of the United States - they are the enemy as much as the Taliban.
In World War II, it was the brilliance of Generals Eisenhower, Patton (check out this youTube video on Patton) and the British General Bernard Montgomery that the US and its allies won the war decisively. On the German side, it was the brilliance of Generals such as General Erwin Rommel that they had the success that they had. If you study the war in North Africa, you can see the military brilliance of this, one of the greatest military mind of all time. Another brilliant German commander was General Friedrich Paulus, the commander of the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad in the Eastern Front. Although the Germans lost this battle, it was not because of the leadership of General Paulus, but the insanity of Adolf Hitler who, basically condemned those who perished there to an avoidable death. Hitler refused all advice by the commanders on the ground that they could not succeed given the weather, lack of equipment, food, proper winter clothing, and the obstacles that they faced. Hitler refused to have his forces withdraw and condemned them to death. The battle of Leningrad is, perhaps the saddest story in military history. Man's inhumanity to man screams out at you when you watch a documentary of this battle. About two million soldiers and civilians died in 900 days of the siege. Many starved to death or died of the freezing weather. Among the dead were soldiers from Russia, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Romania and other European countries.
In Roman days, the Battle of Cannae in 216 BC stands out. A better equipped, trained and numerically superior Roman Army was defeated by a lesser army commanded by one of the most brilliant military commanders of all time - Hannibal, the famous Carthaginian General and son of another famous Carthaginian General, Hasdrubal. The Romans lost most of their 50,000 troops who engaged Hannibal at this site, the worst military defeat the Romans had ever had. Again, Hannibal won by his military brilliance over his Roman counterpart, the Roman Consul Varro. When the battle was over, there were an estimated 60,000 dead bodies on the battlefield. In comparison, the United States lost 59,000 dead in 10 years of the Vietnam war. The battle of Cannae was so significant for military strategy that the US Military studies it to this day in the War College.
Back to General McChrystal. As you are aware, the General was forced to retire after an unflattering article by the leftist magazine, Rolling Stone, called "The Runaway General." Rolling Stone and their supporters are anti-war and set out to sabotage the US military. They caused our best general to leave the field. As the saying goes: with friends such as these who needs enemies. The left is an enemy of the United States. They only care for their ideology, not for the welfare of the United States - they are the enemy as much as the Taliban.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Mosque at Ground Zero & No Church in Saudi Arabia
In my last post I argued why it is a very bad idea to build a Mosque at Ground Zero in New York City. The mind boggling contradictions are never ending and stupefying as to why no one notices them. For one, in Muslim countries, Christians are not only persecuted but it is illegal to bring a Bible into one. In Saudi Arabia, as in all other Muslim countries you cannot build a Christian church anywhere. Can you imagine if we in the West had this rule? Can you imagine how the Muslims would be rampaging everywhere? Yet in Christian lands this discrimination goes unnoticed. We approved a Mosque on the site where the Muslims committed the worst atrocity in U.S. history, but no one complains about Christian persecution in Muslim lands.
The United States provides billions of dollars in aid to Muslim countries such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and so on yet we allow them to persecute our Christian brothers and sisters. Since 1979, for instance, the United States has provided Egypt with over one billion dollars in military aid. Just this past January, Egyptian Muslims killed six Christians as they were leaving their church. No one complains. Why does no one raise one finger against this?
In 1991, the United States went to war to liberate Kuwait, a Muslim country. Later in 1994 the United States went to rescue Muslims in Yugoslavia. In both campaigns many American soldiers were killed and the U.S. spent billions of dollars yet, we allow our Christian brothers and sisters to be persecuted in these same lands. In 2003, the United States went to war in Iraq to liberated the people from a murderous despot, yet no one notices all the atrocities against our Christian brothers.
Check out this short video on how Muslims like to build Mosques on sites they've conquered.
The United States provides billions of dollars in aid to Muslim countries such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and so on yet we allow them to persecute our Christian brothers and sisters. Since 1979, for instance, the United States has provided Egypt with over one billion dollars in military aid. Just this past January, Egyptian Muslims killed six Christians as they were leaving their church. No one complains. Why does no one raise one finger against this?
In 1991, the United States went to war to liberate Kuwait, a Muslim country. Later in 1994 the United States went to rescue Muslims in Yugoslavia. In both campaigns many American soldiers were killed and the U.S. spent billions of dollars yet, we allow our Christian brothers and sisters to be persecuted in these same lands. In 2003, the United States went to war in Iraq to liberated the people from a murderous despot, yet no one notices all the atrocities against our Christian brothers.
Check out this short video on how Muslims like to build Mosques on sites they've conquered.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Condemned to Repeat it Again
Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it as the noted philosopher George Santayana famously stated. We have a perfect example of this today. As you may have heard, American Muslims are trying to build a Mosque on the Ground Zero site in New York City. City fathers, including the current Mayor Bloomberg have approved the project. How can such an abomination go without notice, you may have asked? It boggles the mind to think that these city fathers are totally blind, deaf and dumb to history. I may have the answer to this blindness. I believe this is because the political left does not think critically, but emotionally. According to the left, if we are just nice to our enemies they will become our friends. President Obama is a big believer in this. His idea of dealing with Iran, for example, is to speak nice to them and negotiate ad nauseam. "Stupid is as stupid does" said that other philosopher, Forrest Gump. This tactic has never worked - it is known as appeasement. History has shown that this is a bankrupt policy; just ask Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister in 1939.
Let's start with a little history. Muhammad charged his followers to conquer and kill the infidel according to Surah 9:5 in the Koran. When the Muslims first conquered what is now the area of Israel, they built their most important Mosque, the Dome of the Rock, on top of the Jewish Temple, the holiest site in Judaism. They did this for two major reasons: To show the world that they had replaced Judaism and Christianity as the only true religion and to show the world that they now rule - it was an "in your face" show of force and raw arrogance. Such humiliation of Judaism and Christianity later led to the Crusades.
To put this act in modern day terms, this Muslim act would be like having a Muslim army conqueror Rome, demolish the Vatican and build a Mosque right on top of it. Can you understand the arrogance of it?
Fast forward to what we talked about at the beginning of this piece. The scene is New York City. In the year 2001 AD Muslims hijack numerous American commercial jets full of travelers and crash them into the World Trade Center, a site very much representing American economic success and power. This murderous act killed over 3,000 innocent Americans. Now, nearly 10 years later, they want to build a grand Mosque on the site their followers destroyed in their attempt to kill the infidel. The city fathers not only not object but approved the project. Stupid is as stupid does. There is no other description here.
Let's start with a little history. Muhammad charged his followers to conquer and kill the infidel according to Surah 9:5 in the Koran. When the Muslims first conquered what is now the area of Israel, they built their most important Mosque, the Dome of the Rock, on top of the Jewish Temple, the holiest site in Judaism. They did this for two major reasons: To show the world that they had replaced Judaism and Christianity as the only true religion and to show the world that they now rule - it was an "in your face" show of force and raw arrogance. Such humiliation of Judaism and Christianity later led to the Crusades.
To put this act in modern day terms, this Muslim act would be like having a Muslim army conqueror Rome, demolish the Vatican and build a Mosque right on top of it. Can you understand the arrogance of it?
Fast forward to what we talked about at the beginning of this piece. The scene is New York City. In the year 2001 AD Muslims hijack numerous American commercial jets full of travelers and crash them into the World Trade Center, a site very much representing American economic success and power. This murderous act killed over 3,000 innocent Americans. Now, nearly 10 years later, they want to build a grand Mosque on the site their followers destroyed in their attempt to kill the infidel. The city fathers not only not object but approved the project. Stupid is as stupid does. There is no other description here.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
The Bankruptcy of Socialism
Socialism is a bankrupt political and economic philosophy. This is not just an opinion but is borne out by history and facts. Let's look at a socialist country such as Italy. In Italy, for example, unemployment in the last seven years has been between 7.5% to 9.10%. What is most disturbing though, is the youth rate of unemployment which usually hovers around 30%. This is devastating to any economy.
Why is this the case? It is very simple. A socialist system such as in Italy, discourages employers from hiring. This is due to the fact that unions have a virtual stranglehold on the economy. You see, in Italy workers are practically guaranteed a job once they're employed. An employer cannot fire them unless there are unusual circumstances. It is not hard to figure out that no employer would hire a worker, knowing that he can never get rid of him/her, so employers do not hire. This in turn has the devastating consequences that follow. In the United States, we just had an example of what socialist policies can do. One of the biggest companies in the world, GM, had to be rescued from bankruptcy by the U.S. government. The main reason for this failure was that the unions strangled GM into bankruptcy. GM was paying nearly full salaries to workers that were laid off - a requirement of the union. What started out as a movement to aid the workers, has resulted in the workers getting shafted by unions. Unions only care about their own power, they care little for the common man.
Despite this glaring example, socialism is on the rise in South America and now in the United States with the Obama Administration. Socialism flies in the face of sound economics policy, yet we keep on going to it. This type of behavior is self-destructive. When will they learn? They never will because socialism is not about sound economic policy, it's about making people feel good, it's an emotion not a reasonable position. Socialists will never understand this. This is what we have coming to America.
Why is this the case? It is very simple. A socialist system such as in Italy, discourages employers from hiring. This is due to the fact that unions have a virtual stranglehold on the economy. You see, in Italy workers are practically guaranteed a job once they're employed. An employer cannot fire them unless there are unusual circumstances. It is not hard to figure out that no employer would hire a worker, knowing that he can never get rid of him/her, so employers do not hire. This in turn has the devastating consequences that follow. In the United States, we just had an example of what socialist policies can do. One of the biggest companies in the world, GM, had to be rescued from bankruptcy by the U.S. government. The main reason for this failure was that the unions strangled GM into bankruptcy. GM was paying nearly full salaries to workers that were laid off - a requirement of the union. What started out as a movement to aid the workers, has resulted in the workers getting shafted by unions. Unions only care about their own power, they care little for the common man.
Despite this glaring example, socialism is on the rise in South America and now in the United States with the Obama Administration. Socialism flies in the face of sound economics policy, yet we keep on going to it. This type of behavior is self-destructive. When will they learn? They never will because socialism is not about sound economic policy, it's about making people feel good, it's an emotion not a reasonable position. Socialists will never understand this. This is what we have coming to America.
Monday, July 5, 2010
The Turks Aim for Europe
The New York Times reports today that Turkey is nearly ready to join the European Union. I have no doubt that Turkey will be admitted sooner or later by the Europeans. What is a puzzle is that Turkey is still regarded as a legitimate country at all. Turkey was established by the conquest in 1453 of the Byzantine Empire, a Christian country. As you may remember, Constantinople was the center of Christianity for a thousand years. Today, Christians are persecuted in Turkey and can't even have a seminary. Christian churches, the very few that have not been demolished, cannot even ring a bell without permission, usually not approved.
The Muslims, remember, had their goal since Muhammad to conquer all non Muslim lands. From the seventh century on the Muslims pursued this goal with reckless abandon. When in 1453, the rest of Europe slept and refused to help their Christian brothers in Constantinople after numerous desperate pleading from the last Byzantine Emperor, Constantine XI, the Ottoman Turks took advantage of the weakness and conquered this sovereign Christian country. "War was not the answer" then too.
After conquering Byzantium, the Turks proceeded to commit genocide on all Christians and turn all Christian churches to Muslim Mosques. Today, the non-Muslim world is careful not to offend the Muslims. Funny, that the Muslims have never had this problem. They've left no opportunity to crush Christians at every opportunity. On the other hand, in the West, if someone speaks ill of anything Muslim they are targeted, yet when Muslims persecute and eliminate Christians no one even notices and no one says anything nor complains. What am I missing here?
The Muslims, remember, had their goal since Muhammad to conquer all non Muslim lands. From the seventh century on the Muslims pursued this goal with reckless abandon. When in 1453, the rest of Europe slept and refused to help their Christian brothers in Constantinople after numerous desperate pleading from the last Byzantine Emperor, Constantine XI, the Ottoman Turks took advantage of the weakness and conquered this sovereign Christian country. "War was not the answer" then too.
After conquering Byzantium, the Turks proceeded to commit genocide on all Christians and turn all Christian churches to Muslim Mosques. Today, the non-Muslim world is careful not to offend the Muslims. Funny, that the Muslims have never had this problem. They've left no opportunity to crush Christians at every opportunity. On the other hand, in the West, if someone speaks ill of anything Muslim they are targeted, yet when Muslims persecute and eliminate Christians no one even notices and no one says anything nor complains. What am I missing here?
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