Sword and Scimitar

Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West

av (forfatter) og Victor Davis Hanson (foreword).

Da Capo Press 2018 Hardcover

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Forlag Da Capo Press

Utgivelsesår 2018

Format Hardcover

ISBN13 9780306825552

Språk Engelsk

Sider 352

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On September 11, 1683 —

335 years to the day before the Twin Towers of New York
came crumbling down —

another Western city, Vienna, stood between life and death,
also against the jihad.

Two months earlier, the largest Islamic army ever to invade Europe —
200,000 combatants under Ottoman leadership —
had come desiring “to fight forcefully for the Mahometan faith …
for the extirpation of infidels, and the increase of Muslemen,”
as quoted by a contemporary.

Having surrounded the walls of Vienna on July 14, Ottoman grand vizier
Kara Mustafa followed protocol: In 628,
his prophet Muhammad had sent an ultimatum to Emperor Heraclius:

“aslam taslam” — “submit [to Islam] and have peace.”
Heraclius rejected the summons,
jihad was declared against Christendom (as enshrined in Koran 9:29),

and in a few decades, two-thirds of the then Christian world —
including Spain, all of North Africa, Egypt, and Greater Syria —
were conquered.

Over a thousand years later,
the same ultimatum of submission to Islam or death
had reached the heart of Europe.
Although Starhemberg, the Viennese commander in charge, did not bother
to respond to the summons, graffiti inside the city —
including “Muhammad, you dog, go home!” — captured its mood.

On the next day, Mustafa unleashed all hell against the city’s walls.

For two months, the holed-up and vastly outnumbered Viennese suffered
plague, dysentery, starvation, and many casualties.

Then, sometime around September 11, as the Muslims were about to burst
through, the desperate commander fired distress rockets into the night sky
to give “notice to the Christian army” —
that is, the relief force Vienna had beyond all hope been counting on —
“of the extremity whereto the city was reduced.”
Understanding exactly what these rockets signified, cries of “Allahu Akbar!”
followed them, as the Ottomans implored their deity to
“obliterate the infidels utterly from the face of the earth!”

It was then that it happened: “After a siege of sixty days,” wrote
an anonymous eyewitness, “accompanied with a thousand difficulties,
sicknesses, want of provisions, and great effusion of blood,
after a million of cannon and musquet shot, bombs, granadoes, and
all sorts of fireworks, which has changed the face of the fairest
and most flourishing city in the world, disfigured and ruined,
after a vigorous defense, ..
heaven favorably heard the prayers and tears of a cast down and mournful
people.”

To the city’s great joy, Starhemberg’s distress rockets were answered
by a hail of fireworks that lit the night sky.
A Holy League, consisting of some 65,000 heavily armed Poles, Austrians,
and Germans, all hot to avenge the beleaguered city, had come.
Even worse for the Ottomans, the forces were under the overall command of
the formidable king of Poland, John Sobieski,
who firmly believed, “It is not a city alone that we have to save,
but the whole of Christianity, of which the city of Vienna is the bulwark.”

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Bernard Lewis put it: “The last great Muslim assault on Europe, that of
the Ottoman Turks, ended with the second unsuccessful siege of Vienna
in 1683.
With that failure and the Turkish retreat that followed,
a thousand years of Muslim threat to Europe came to an end.”

Until recent times, that is.

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Some things we prefer not to know.

Among these .. is an accurate account of the origins, extent,
and the means of expansion of Islam over its now 1200 year history.

During this time period, the armies of Islam managed to conquer a good fifth
of the world’s geography and population.
This growth and expansion show few signs of abating, in spite of Islam’s
expulsion from Spain in the fifteenth century and from the Balkans
in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The main reason that Islam is not larger is because — and only because —
it was defeated in some major historic battles.
In recent years, with its high birth-rate and its immigration, Islam has a new lease
on life in the West, particularly in Europe,
from which it had been turned back in the eighth century at the battle of Tours
and in the fifteenth at Vienna.

Both Europe and America are now dotted with mosques in hundreds of places,
the construction of which is usually financed by Saudi Arabia.

In this riveting account of the history of Islam’s military accomplishments,
Raymond Ibrahim shows that Islam has followed a consistent policy
that has combined politics, war, terror, and religion.
Its purpose was, and remains, essentially religious,
however unwilling we might be, because of our own presuppositions,
to grant that fact.

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The second striking thing is the extent and prevalence of slavery,
of slave markets, of the need of slaves to make possible the kind of life
that Muslim leaders carved out for themselves.
Most Americans are aware that slavery existed in their own country.
What is not so widely known is the place of Arab middle men who were the
slave brokers for both black and white slaves.
Though slavery is found in many cultures throughout history, it was a
constant element in Muslim life.
And the slaves were not mostly black, but white;
the choice slaves were acquired by raids along the European coasts
or as the booty of conquest.

Near the end of the book, Ibrahim recounts the experience of the early American
founders with Islam.
The first American war, some might be surprised to learn, was with the
Barbary Pirates in North Africa.
The United States paid regular and enormous ransom fees to recover Americans
held as hostages.
Ibrahim cites the letter that John Adams and Thomas Jefferson wrote to Congress
on March 28, 1786:

"We took the liberty to make some inquiries concerning the grounds of their (Muslim)
pretentions to make war against nations who had done them no injury,
and observed that we considered all mankind as our friends who had done us no wrong,
nor had given us any provocation.
The (Muslim) ambassador answered us that it was founded on the laws of their Prophet,
that was written in their Koran,
that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners,
that it was their right and duty to make war on them wherever they could be found
and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners,
and that every Musselman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise .."

..several questions. Can one really be a faithful Muslim and not accept
this history and its rationale?
Can non-Muslims rest content that this religious warfare in various forms will not
be unleashed on them whenever the opportunity arises?

As Ibrahim points out, a Muslim is free to say in public that he will not practice
violence, provided that he secretly agrees in his heart
that he will follow, when he can, the Koran and what it says about such violence.

..Efforts to democratize Islam have taught many Muslims how to use democratic
processes for their long term goals.
While Islam approves of conquest by arms, it does not disdain any other way to power
if it can finally impose its law (Sharia).
..the use of terrorist tactics can, if unchecked, still effectively disrupt
and even weaken any modern society.
..The recent defeat of ISIS on the ground made clear that its expansion might
now use other means.

Historically, Christians and non-Christians falling under the control of Muslim
majorities have been required to pay a fine and accept second class citizenship,
convert, or die.
Peace for Islam means the condition brought about when everyone is Muslim.
Until then, a state of war with non-Muslims de facto exists.
Again, the purpose of Islam is the subjection of all men and nations to Allah.
Without this ultimate goal, Islam is not Islam.

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13 land har dødsstraff for ulydighet mot islam:
"Apostasi är belagd med dödsstraff i 13 länder.
Som utav ett sammanträffande är samtliga dessa länder islamska. "

En viktig yrkestenker het Chamberlain,
etter en kort konferanse med Adolf Hitler kom han hjem
med kofferten full av varig fred (1938).

"Historien gjentar seg.
er nødt -- ingen hører etter"

sånn er det, vi har nok valgt å bo på en klode der
de forstandige regjeringsmenn har . . . visse problemer
med å leve opp til all tilliten de forskuddsvis tok ut ?
.. med å skjønne hvorfor det ikke spontant blir idyll
og varig fred -
for all den selvros og godtro vi har investert.

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HATEplikt uten rabatt:

Islamkritisk teolog Raymond Ibrahim gir aktuelle eksempler
på hvordan HATEplikten forkynnes som daglig krav på
den menige muslim : Allah bare krever det.

America’s supposed best Muslim friends and allies — such as
Saudi Arabia and Qatar — are on record
calling on all Muslims to hate us.
According to a Saudi governmental run website, Muslims must
“oppose and hate whomever Allah commands us to oppose and hate,
including the Jews, the Christians, and other mushrikin
[non-Muslims], until they believe in Allah alone and abide
by his laws.."


Den finere skriften:

Krigsfanger kan som alltid tas til sex-slaver, men
det er skriftmisbruk å gi dem daglig status som nesten-hustruer -

Teologer avsiler stadig myggen og sluker kamelen,
som en kjent teolog-kritiker slo fast for etpar tusen år siden.

"..scholars apparently fail to understand that inherently unjust
laws — ones that permit the sexual enslavement of women
because they are non-Muslims
or that operate on the assumption that the value of human lives is
based on their Muslim or non-Muslim status —
will always be “abused.”"

For instance, Koran 2:256 says there is no coercion in Islam.
Yet, because other Koran verses call on Muslims to hate (60:4; 3:28)
and war on Christians and Jews (9:29),
it is only natural that, past and present, forced conversions
have been common.
After all, pressuring hell-bound infidels to embrace Islam
can be rationalized as an altruistic act.
Moreover, it helps empower Islam, which is always a good thing?

_

The prophet said, “a Muslim must not be killed on account of a kafir
[infidel].” Why? Because their blood is not equal.
The blood of the Muslim is superior.
Call it racism or whatever you want, but
of course the blood of the Muslim is superior.

This is not open to debate.

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