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Showing posts with label Sword and Scimitar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sword and Scimitar. Show all posts

Monday, July 12, 2021

France Learns about Islam’s 1,400 Year Assault

July 10, 2021 By Raymond Ibrahim

Raymond Ibrahim’s 2018 book, Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West, was recently translated into French and published in France. In connection, Arnaud Imatz of the French website La Nef, interviewed him. An abbreviated, English version of that interview follows:

The American Raymond Ibrahim has just published a fascinating and erudite history of the centuries-old conflicts between Islam and Christianity:L'épée et le cimeterre(Jean-Cyrille Godefroy Editions). This book is the almost exhaustive account of the fourteen centuries of antagonisms and fights, major or minor, which took place…. 

A historian, linguist and philologist, and a specialist in oriental languages, Ibrahim has methodically exploited first-hand sources, both Muslim and "Western", and has consulted numerous manuscripts from the Library of Congress in Washington. His book is not only a detailed chronicle of the battles, it is also and above all a rigorous analysis of the intentions and strategies of the various warring leaders. 

Ibrahim shows that the Muslim forces were essentially obeying a religious, messianic, expansionist, conquering logic, whereas the Christian armies wanted above all to recover territories that for centuries had been Roman, Greek and Christian. 

He also shows that the religious fervor of today's Islamists overlaps exactly with ancestral Islamic dogmas, that Western reactions are 1400-year-old self-defense mechanisms, and that current rivalries are the reflection of a very old existential struggle. We interviewed him for La Nef. ..................To Read More....

Saturday, January 4, 2020

Sword and Scimitar: Weekly Score Card.

By Rich Kozlovich

I'm sick of those who attempt to equate actions by "Christians" and westerners against poor abused Muslims living in western nations with a foundational Judaic/Christian moral foundation as being equivalent to all the violence and criminal activity of Muslims world wide.  I see TV shows and movies where some Muslim will be outraged at "what they have to go through daily" in America for being Muslim.

Welcome to 2020! Welcome to reality! Welcome to the fact the Democrat party is now the largest anti-Semite force in America.

I wish to highlight this article, A Five-Step Plan to Fight the International Criminal Court, which clearly shows why the United States rejects the International Criminal Court.  The the U.S. Congress wisely not only chose not to be a member.
"Whereas Israelis—the ICC’s No. 1 target—deluded themselves into believing that the ICC was a legal challenge best dealt with by lawyers, the Americans —its No. 2 target—were under no such delusion. To deal with this threat, in 2002 Congress passed the American Service Members’ Protection Act. The goal of the ASPA, popularly dubbed “the Hague Invasion Act” is “to protect United States military personnel and other elected and appointed officials of the United States government against criminal prosecution by an international criminal court to which the United States is not party.” 
"The law authorizes the president to use “all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any US or allied personnel being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court.” 
"The ASPA bars all U.S. government bodies from assisting the ICC in any way and prohibits the transfer of U.S. military assistance to countries that are party to the court."
Muslims, Anti-Semites - This will be defined in this weekly series as believers in Islam, or anti-Semites, who commit, promote or defend violence against Christians, Jews, Non-religious Westerners, and other religions around the world, and even Muslims against other Muslims.

Recommended reading.   Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West.  Islam isn't a religion.  It's become clear Islam is a criminal political movement masquerading as a religion with the moral foundation of hate, greed, lust and violence.  Everything that Islam stands for is absolutely antithetical to the Constitutional values of the United States, and the Western world.  That's history, and that history is incontestable. I wish to highlight this article also.  On the Moral Status of Islam in the United States
"A chief spokesperson for the Nation of Islam, Ava Muhammad, has officially gone on record disparaging Jews by stating that Jews are "godless... blood-sucking parasites [that] sell us alcohol, drugs, depraved sex, and every other type of low-life thing"
  1. Despicable: Black attacks on Jews are rooted in Democrats' coddling of anti-Semites
  2. African-American, Latino, and Muslim Communities Must Root Out Jew-Hatred
  3. Man enters Chabad world headquarters in Brooklyn and threatens to shoot it up
  4. CHANUKAH STABBING: Monsey Machete Assailant Is a Recent Muslim Convert And May Be Linked to Another BRUTAL Synagogue Stabbing
  5. Morning Greatness: 'Tis the Season to Kill Jews and Christians

Christians, Jews, Non-religious Westerners - This will be defined in this weekly series as those who perpetrate, defend or promote violence against Muslims.
  1. Islamophobia outbreak in the UK: Counter-terror cops arrest five Muslims for jihad massacre plot (My Take - Okay, again, I guess this could be construed as an anti-Muslim action.  Which means authorities trying to prevent Muslims from killing people is a form of Islamophobia?  Did I get that right? So, I guess that means arresting members of the Mafia is being anti-Italian?  Right?  Do I understand that correctly?  RK)
  2. Bye Bye Suleymani

Saturday, December 28, 2019

Sword and Scimitar: Weekly Score Card

By Rich Kozlovich

I'm sick of those who attempt to equate actions by "Christians" and westerners against poor abused Muslims living in western nations with a foundational Judaic/Christian moral foundation as being equilivant to all the violence and criminal activity of Muslims world wide.  I see TV shows and movies where some Muslim will be outraged at "what they have to go through daily" in America for being Muslim. Well, I'm sick of it and I've decided we need to keep a weekly score card.

One of the things we really need to qualify is this: Christ didn't tell his followers to kill those against Christianity, or those who were simply members of another religion, or kill Christians who decided they didn't want to be Christians any longer and converted to another faith. The Koran requires Muslims to kill those who convert from Islam. The followers of Islam who are murdering, raping, robbing and brutalizing non-Muslims, and even Muslims of a different sect of Islam, are doing exactly what Muhammad told them to do in the Koran.

The intent of this series is to demonstrate the real moral foundations that create the social paradigms of peoples raised with Islamic values, versus the people who were raised in nations founded on Christian values.

It might be noted there are those who commit acts of violence and intimidation against Muslims, but those acts are not condoned or promoted by Western governments, unlike Muslim ruled nations.  Nations  that actually promote and sponser violence agasint non-Muslims.  That's required of them by the Koran.

Yet in Western nations we find the leadership actually tries to cover up what's normally considered criminal behavior by Muslims, and yet they whine they're not treated fairly.

Let's see who did what to whom this week, and then let's talk about "fair".

We might wish to explore the idea that Islam isn't a religion at all, but a criminal, political movement masquerading as a religion. The Constitution stands for freedom of religion, but the Constitution wasn't meant to be a suicide pact. We need to define things properly, and that's done by seeing what people do, not what they say.

There's one article here that shows why America has wisely refused to abandon U.S. sovereignty and sign on to a leftist scam laughingly call the International Criminal Court and allow it to destroy Constitutional guarantees.

Muslims, Anti-Semites - This will be defined in this weekly series as believers in Islam, or anti-Semites, who commit, promote or defend violence against Christan, Jews, Non-religious Westerners, and other religions around the world, and even Muslims against other Muslims.
  1. Crackdown on Iranian protests killed 1,500, says report
  2. CBN News Video: Raymond Ibrahim Exposes Turkey’s Role in Slaughter of Nigerian Christians
  3. Video: Raymond Ibrahim on Pensacola and the Pelosi-CAIR Alliance
  4. Queen is the enemy of Islam and must die’
  5. French Jewish principals urge their students to leave France
  6. India: Muslims come out of mosque after prayers and throw stones at police
  7. Chad: Muslims murder 14 people in jihad massacre at fishing village
  8. Arizona: Muslim migrant punches, kicks police officer, throws him to the ground
  9. Pakistan: Professor sentenced to death and fine of $3800 on blasphemy charge
  10. Turkey: Veiled Muslima on plane says she has bomb, “I will blow up the aircraft”
  11. Fatah top dog: Murdering Israeli civilians is one of the “values, customs” of the “Palestinians”
  12. International Criminal Court Prosecutor Pursues Sham Anti-Israel Investigation    
  13. Jewish-Israeli student files complaint alleging anti-Semitism at Columbia University
  14. Another Christmas in the Age of Jihad
  15. UK’s Jihad Prisons: Sharia Trials in British Prisons
  16. India: Muslim cleric says “we will not hesitate in waging jihad” over law granting asylum to persecuted non-Muslims
  17. Washington state: Muslim cleric who led prayer at state house says Allah transformed Jews into “despicable apes”
  18. Indonesia: Christians celebrate Christmas in tent after authorities forbid rebuilding of churches Muslims destroyed
  19. Erdogan tells Turks in Switzerland not to integrate into Swiss society
  20. UN Commission on the Status of Women slams Pakistan for persecution of religious minorities
  21. Somalia: Muslims murder at least seven people in jihad martyrdom suicide attack at hotel
  22. San Diego State cancels Jew-hater Ava Muhammad after antisemitism charges
  23. From dictator’s legal adviser to ICC chief prosecutor going after Jewish state
  24. Christmas Terror: Grenade Attack Near Cathedral Leaves Several Wounded in the Philippines
  25. Germany: Eight Muslims Attack Christmas Party at St. Nicolai and Stab Parish Employees   '
  26. Burkina Faso: Muslim murder at least 35 civilians, mostly women, in jihad attack on town
  27. Iran: Qur’an expert says Qur’an commands that protesters “should die in agony, not merely be killed”
  28. Maldives: Security services reveal that close to 1,400 Maldivians would kill in the name of Islam
  29. WSJ condemns “new war” on Christians in Africa which is “massive in scale, horrific in brutality”
  30. Netherlands: Convicted Muslim migrant rapist charged with three more sex offenses
  31. Another Christmas in the Age of Jihad: Oppression and Appeasement
  32. Sweden: School forces non-Muslim fifth graders to kneel on prayer mats facing Mecca and worship Allah in Arabic
  33. 'Silent Night': Persecuted Palestinian Christians Kept Out of Sight
  34. The Genocide of Christians in Burkina Faso
  35. Switzerland: Masked leftists storm worship service of Islamocritical female pastor on Christmas Eve
  36. Nigeria: More than 6,000 Christians killed by Islamic terrorists since 2015
  37. Jewish Mom walking with child beaten in SIXTH ATTACK ANTISEMITIC IN NYC THIS CHANUKAH, , “We are coming after all you Jews”
  38. Seattle Area Mosque Apes Muhammad’s Jew-Hatred

Christians, Jews, Non-religious Westerners - This will be defined in this weekly series as those who perpetrate, defend or promote violence against Muslims.
  1. Maldives: Three Islamic scholars suspended for encouraging jihad terrorism (Editor's note: 
  2. I guess firing maniacs for preaching insanity could be construed as an attempt ot promote anti-Islamic thinking. RK)






Sunday, December 22, 2019

Sword and Scimitar: Score Card

By Rich Kozlovich

I've had some interesting discussions with those who have to be considered left wing in their voting patterns and thinking, and who also take offence at condemning Muslims for their morally depraved thinking and actions. Generally using a red herring fallacy saying "they did it too!"   We'll explore this more in depth in 2020, as part of a weekly series outlining whose done what to whom. Since I'm retiring I should have time for this later in the coming year. I won't have a job that will be interfering with my life.

The intent of this series is to demonstrate the real moral foundations that create the social paradigms of peoples raised with Islamic values, versus the people who were raised in nations founded on Christian values.

It might be noted there are those who commit acts of violence and intimidation against Muslims, but those acts are not condoned or promoted by Western govenments, unlike Muslim ruled nations.

Muslims, Anti-Semites - This will be defined in this weekly series as believers in Islam, or anti-Semites, who commit, promote or defend violence against Christan, Jews, Non-religious Westerners, and other religions around the world, and even Muslims against their own people.
  1. Member of Al Sharpton organization defends Jersey City official who said Jews had it coming
  2.  Man breaks into Yeshiva University, sets fires as students sleep
  3. Trump’s Historic Rebuke of Campus Anti-Semitism
  4. Canada: Appeal Court says Muslim who attacked soldiers and said Allah told him to do it is not a terrorist
  5. Russia: Muslim “shouting slogans typical of Islamic State” opens fire at security HQ, BBC says motive unclear
  6. Florida: Muslim who wrote about taking revenge on non-Muslims not charged with terrorism for sabotaging plane
  7. Sweden: Crime statistics agency pressured to manipulate findings for political purposes
  8. Indonesia: Christians banned from Christmas home celebrations in West Sumatra
  9. Turkey: Officials say statements on anti-Jewish, anti-Christian billboards are from Qur’an, and so aren’t incitement
  10. Australia: Muslims sentenced for plot to commit jihad massacre on airplane with meat grinder bomb
  11. Germany: Islamic State Muslima takes truck driving lessons, says “I’m going to the next Christmas market”
  12. Germany: Islamic State Muslima takes truck driving lessons, says “I’m going to the next Christmas market”
  13. UK: Muslim rape gang jailed for sexually abusing girl who was “passed around like a piece of meat”
  14. Turkey is allowing senior Hamas operatives to plot jihad attacks against Israel from Istanbul
  15. Indonesia to deploy 200,000 police to protect Christmas celebrations from Islamic jihad massacres
  16. India: Muslims throw stones and torch vehicles in riots against new law admitting non-Muslim refugees
  17. UK: Muslim police officer among 15 Muslims charged with sex offenses against teens
  18. India: Muslims vandalize police vehicle, thrash cops in riots over law letting in non-Muslims from Muslim lands
  19. Gambia: Christians demand that the declaration of the country as an Islamic Republic be reversed
  20. Austria foils Islamic State plots to attack crowded holiday targets, including Vienna Christmas market
  21. Congo: Muslims murder 43 in door-to-door killing spree
  22. Connecticut: Muslim tries to join ISIS, says “I can kill maybe…like a hundred kaffir”
  23. Islamic Republic of Iran begins arresting Christians in run-up to Christmas
  24. Pakistan: Muslim parents stone daughter, 10, to death in honor killing, imam also arrested
There's actually a lot more, but I think this will do.

Christians, Jews, Non-religious Westerners - This will be defined in this weekly series as those who perpetrate, defend or promote violence against Muslims.
  1. Brooklyn: Bullying Muslim Community Patrol officers get bullied back by the Bloods ( Editor's Note: This really doesn't fit the profile I outlined, but It's becoming embarrassing, so I threw them a bone. RK
  2. Nationwide Anti-Mosque Activity
That's it for this week.  Next week we'll cover another round of violence, etc.  On either side.

Monday, September 9, 2019

Book Review - Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War Between Islam and the West

By Rich Kozlovich

Winston Churchill onced served in the British Army in Sudan. This allowed him to observe Islam up close, and was so fascinated by Islam there were some close to him who feared he wished to convert. However, it’s clear he understood what Islam really was. He once stated:
“The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.”
He continued:
“Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralizes the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.”
That wasn’t the half of it. This book outlines what a terrible plague Islam has been on humanity.

When I see this horsepucky about Muslim demands for religious sensitivity it makes me gag. All the 1400 years of Islam have been rife with not only a lack of religious sensitivity, but Islam has been a pinnacle of insensitivity, murder, rape and abuse of anyone not a Muslim. The outrages they perpetrated on Christians has been degrading and monstrous.

This book effectively demonstrates the true history of what Islam is; an infectious disease.  That disease may become dormant due to forces aligned against them, but Islam is always looking for an opportunity to spring back into force.  If there ever was a book that demonstrates everything about Islam is antithetical to western thinking and values, this is it. 

When Genghis Khan and his hordes overran nation after nation they were completely tolerant of all religions. In fact, once he realized how corrupt Muslims were, he ordered the end of their slavery and forced taxation of Christians, who he thought well of. As time passed and Mongols converted they became murderous monsters to Christians, tolerance be damned. What was worse, during those 1400 years many "Christian" leaders sided with them causing mass murder, rape and looting of other Christian nations. We see that same kind of disgusting self serving conduct today.

That was, and is, the impact of Islam.

The abuses Christians have suffered from Muslims over the centuries are appalling. It’s their view western women are all whores and sluts and thus deserve to be raped. This was the pattern when Islam was at it’s peak, and the mentality remains today.

The book also shows how corrupt western “Christian” rulers have been through the centuries, actually supporting Islam against other Christian nations. Both England and France can be condemned for such activity.

England stopped Russia from defeating the Ottoman Empire in its effort to regain Constantinople from Islam, and France supported the Ottomans in their siege of Vienna. They allow their petty politics to blind them to the fact the Sultan’s ultimate goal was to “stable his horses in St. Peter’s Basilica. And France would have eventually been next. Both France and England are just as clueless now as they were then.

The last page of this book sums up what it’s all about. Western nations have abandoned Christianity, and have “despised its heritage and religion, causing it to become an unwitting ally of the jihad.”

Islamists haven’t changed. They’re just as committed to destroying the west and Christianity as they ever have been, the tactics are more subtle now, but just as deadly.

This book makes it clear that Islam isn’t a religion. It’s a criminal political movement masquerading as a religion with a moral foundation of lust, greed, hate and violence.

George Bush stood up before the world after 911 and declared Islam is a religion of peace. I don't know what they teach at Yale, but it was clear they don't teach history and he doesn't read history books. That needs to change.

Please read, Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West  by Raymond Ibrahim 

Saturday, August 3, 2019

Ten Congressmen Express 'Grave Concern,' 'Extreme Disappointment' with War College’s Surrender to 'Terrorist-Tied' CAIR

More vocal support for Shillman Fellow Raymond Ibrahim.


August 2, 2019 Frontpagemag.com

Editor’s note: In a recent letter, written and delivered to the Commandant of the US Army War College, ten members of Congress shared their “grave concern” that the USAWC “capitulated to the unfounded claims of CAIR [concerning Shillman Fellow Raymond Ibrahim and his book], and thus damaged the academic freedom and integrity of the high esteem in which the USAWC is held by many around the world….  Not only are we hearing from constituents – military and civilian – on this issue [click here for background], but we’re extremely disappointed in the decision to cancel Mr. Ibrahim and his voice on a critical, current issue in our Nation.”

This new missive complements an earlier one on the same topic from the National Association of Scholars to President Trump, which currently has nearly five thousand signatures (click here to add your name)............To Read More......

My Take - I've been reading his book and a book review will follow.  This book demolishes all the myths spread by the left, the media and Muslims.  No matter what Islamists say, the real pillars of Islam are Greed, Hate, Lust and Violence.  That's history and that history is incontestable.  Sword and Scimitar demonstrates the historical record of Islam with great clarity. 

 

Saturday, April 27, 2019

Georgetown Lecturer Whitewashes Islamism, Blames West for Jihadis

by Andrew Harrod April 26, 2019'

Non-Muslims must “reject the feelings of cultural, racial, and religious superiority that drive false narratives of barbarous Muslims versus civilized Westerners or peaceful Christians,” pontificated Luther College Professor Todd Green. His April 8 Georgetown University presentation attempted to induce guilt in non-Muslims over real and alleged historical atrocities, while whitewashing modern Islamist and jihadist threats.
Green lectured about thirty listeners in the conference room of Georgetown’s Saudi-funded Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU). With Georgetown Professor Tamara Sonn as moderator, he presented his recent book, Presumed Guilty: Why We Shouldn’t Ask Muslims to Condemn Terrorism, under the auspices of ACMCU’s anti-“Islamophobia” Bridge Initiative. The audience included fellow Islamist apologists and ACMCU/Bridge faculty Jonathan Brown, Yvonne Haddad, and Hannah Sullivan. Muslim reformers Mike Ghouse and Faranaz Ispahani also attended.

Green generalized that “one of our favorite past times is to single out Muslims after terrorist attacks and ask them to condemn violence they have had nothing to do with.” He contrasted such behavior with numerous Muslim condemnations of terrorism, such as the website Muslims Condemn, and concluded flippantly that “reading Muslim condemnations of terrorism is pretty boring.” He omitted that influential Islamist organizations like the Hamas-derived Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) have refused to denounce terrorists such as Hamas or have issued qualified denunciations of the Islamic State. Even many American Muslims remain concerned that Muslim leaders have refused to denounce extremism..........To Read More.....

My Take - What makes these apologists most disgusting in their efforts to justify the crimes of Islam is they're supposed to be educated.  But in what?  It's clearly not history, because anyone whose read about the history about Islam and Islam's interaction between them and rest of the world has to know this is nothing more than propaganda in it's most disgusting and disingenuous form.  A common practice of leftists.  Rewrite or eliminate any history that's in violation of the false narrative they're painting for the public.  And since most of the public's knowledge of history, any history, is largely lacking,  they get away with it. 

Recommended reading: Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West : Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West by Raymond Ibrahim