Why the Church Bells Ring at Noon

July 22, 2022 By Raymond Ibrahim

Today in history, on July 22, 1456, the West scored one of its greatest victories over jihad — and, in so doing, inaugurated the ringing of church bells at noon.

Three years after conquering Constantinople, the Ottoman sultan, Muhammad II, at the head of over 100,000 Turks, marched toward the strategic fortress town of Belgrade, key to Western Europe, in the spring of 1456.

Cognizant of all the death, destruction, and mind-boggling atrocities this massive Muslim march presaged — memory of the sack of Constantinople was still fresh — a great panic swept through the Danube region.  Even Hungarian king Ladislaus V fled his capital to Vienna (on the pretext that he was going "hunting").

Only one stood his ground: John Hunyadi, the Transylvanian voivode who had long been a thorn in the Turks' side.  Even as the king fled west, Hunyadi raced to the eastern frontier — toward, not away from the Turkish army.  He immediately manned the fortress of Belgrade with 6,000 veteran fighters at his own expense.  Although he implored the higher nobles for aid, few were responsive........To Read More....

 

Turkey Praises—and Seeks to Emulate?—a Mass-Murdering, Pedophilic, Slave-Trader

What a people’s “hero” says about them.

Jun 10, 2021 Raymond Ibrahim 25 comments

Turning churches into mosques is very much on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s mind these days. Last Friday, June 4, he “spoke of the Turkish legacy of conquest and the conversion of the Hagia Sophia [into a mosque] during a mosque opening in the city of Zonguldak on Friday.” In his own words, “the re-opening of the Hagia Sophia as a mosque is important, as it is a legacy of conquest.” Thus, while the West falls all over itself to disavow any “conquest” its ancestors may have engaged in—for example, the “conquest of the Americas” at the hands of the “genocidal” Columbus—here is the president of Turkey praising the violent conquests committed by his Muslim ancestors. 

The significance of this dichotomy, and what it portends for the future, is in need of acknowledgement. As a case study, take Erdoğan’s stance towards Turkey’s greatest jihadis of history—men whose atrocious deeds would shame ISIS. Last summer, while celebrating his decree to transform the Hagia Sophia—which for a millennium had functioned as Eastern Christendom’s greatest basilica—into a mosque, Erdoğan repeatedly saluted Sultan Muhammad al-Fatah (“the Conqueror,” 1432-1481) for violently transforming Christian Constantinople into Islamic Istanbul........To Read More....