As we remember, with a debt of gratitude we can never repay, those who have died to keep us free, let us also remember what the consequences will be if we lose this great defense against jihad that the free world isn’t even seriously fighting.
Today is May 29, the anniversary of the Muslim conquest of Constantinople, which took place on May 29, 1453.
It is useful, in our comfortable complacency and general lack of any historical memory at all, and overarching concern to avoid “Islamophobia,” to recall what happened when the Muslims entered the great city.
Historian Steven Runciman notes that the Muslim soldiers “slew everyone that they met in the streets, men, women, and children without discrimination. The blood ran in rivers down the steep streets from the heights of Petra toward the Golden Horn. But soon the lust for slaughter was assuaged. The soldiers realized that captives and precious objects would bring them greater profit.” (The Fall of Constantinople 1453, Cambridge University Press, 1965, p. 145.)
Some jihadists “made for the small but splendid churches by the walls, Saint George by the Charisian Gate, Saint John in Petra, and the lovely church of the monastery of the Holy Saviour in Chora, to strip them of their stores of plate and their vestments and everything else that could be torn from them. In the Chora they left the mosaics and frescoes, but they destroyed the icon of the Mother of God, the Hodigitria, the holiest picture in all Byzantium, painted, so men said, by Saint Luke himself. It had been taken there from its own church beside the Palace at the beginning of the siege, that its beneficient presence might be at hand to inspire the defenders on the walls. It was taken from its setting and hacked into four pieces.” (P. 146.)
It won’t be like that here, right? Right? Our people will always live in safety, and our culture and our civilization will never be cast into the dust. Boston strong, right? Manchester strong. San Bernardino strong. Brussels strong. Berlin strong. Nice strong. Orlando strong. And all the rest. How strong we are, except for the racist “Islamophobes” who try to divide us! We are strong everywhere, with our candles and vigils so very strong, and with our love we will overcome the “far-right” and the terrorists both! Won’t we?
Aloha Akbar says
I wonder if they would ban songs like this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNUsOaB5V2c
gravenimage says
Pious Muslims ban all music–so, yes, this silly song would be Haram, as well.
Daniel F X Dravot says
There is no Istanbul. There is only occupied Constantinople.
glenn says
Yes!
David Scoltock says
Crusaders sacked it a long time before the muslims did. Also during the first crusade the crusaders murdered the Jewish and muslim civilians. They locked Jews in synagogues and set fire to them.
We know this because the Crusaders where so proud of it, they left us a complete history of the first crusade.
History is fun when you only mention the stuff you like My Spencer. Fact is the rules of war back then where bloody and brutal for ALL sides. Do you mark the anniversay of the Albigensian crusade or is it just muslim atrocities you care about?
gravenimage says
The witless David Scoltock is ignoring the fact that Westerners regularly admit the less than admirable parts of their history, like the sack of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade.
The fact is that Muslims are using their own bloody history as a model for savagery *today*.
How can he pretend we don’t know this?
t. says
David, people like you are what I call the pseudo educated, even if they are sincere!
They do a lot of damage to humanity by needlessly confusing themselves, others and seeding doubt, every step of the way, on people’s path of searching for the truth.
Go study Islam, from its sources- the true teachings of the Quran, hadiths, and its very unique brutal history, before defending it implicitly or explicitly.
Lia Wissing says
You mean it hasn’t been banned yet? Must have slipped some islamaphilo’s notice.
Carolyne says
“Why did Constantinople get the works?
“That’s Nobody’s business but the Turks.”
However it was the business of the thousands killed by the raving hordes of barbarians who sacked Constantinople.
rara says
Turks also kept the official name Constantinople in their Empire. Only in 20th century after the reforms they changed it to Istanbul. But at least around that time Ataturk also abolished the Caliphate and banned the religious clothing in official buildings.
Barbcvm says
May 29, the anniversary of the Muslim conquest of Constantinople, which took place on May 29, 1453.
is a date that should be taught in world history. What have the consequences been to Christianity? Does anyone really study and understand the effects.
no_one says
This what I mean when I say people don’t know world’s history.
Carolyne says
Even the Turks don’t know their own history. If I were a Turk, I would greatly resent that less than 600years ago, my ancestors were killed or forced to accept a foreign barbaric “Religion” while their native religion was abolished.
gravenimage says
All too many Turks know this all too well. There was a Turkish poster here for awhile who presented himself as a secularist–yet, after another poster said something critical about Turks, he posted videos lauding the bloody conquest of Constantinople as a threat against us. *Very* unpleasant.
somehistory says
It would have been beneficial to have learned that in World History. It should be taught because it happened and many, many were adversely affected by an atrocity. But it must not have been important enough because Christians were the victims. Like today.
David Scoltock says
They don’t teach world history in western nations because western christians are the ones who did most of the genocide.
Ask the Native Americans, Australian Aborigines, natives of south America, peoples of South and Central Africa about world history some time.
Donovan Nuera says
At least the West acknowledges their past sins…over and over and over again. Muslims never!!!! Look how hostile they get when you discuss the Armenian Genocide of 1915! Heck, they (and islamophiles in the liberal west) deny the genocide that is going on this very minute against Syrian and Iraqi and Egyptian Christians….despite hi-def video of the atrocities on the websites of the killers. I am sure Mr. Spencer and his readers of this site and his books know about the sacking of Constantinople by the rival western European crusaders on their way to the Holy Land.
gravenimage says
What a lot of rot. As Donovan notes, Westerners regularly note the less than ideal parts of their history. Muslims never do–they either deny their brutality–if practicing Taqiyya–or else revel in it as use it as a threat.
somehistory says
The history of the Nations of what came to be America has been taught, as has been the history of men who came to conquer the land for their native lands. The so-called “Indian Wars” and the “Trail of Tears,” “Wounded Knee”….etc..
I have “Native American” as a part of my family tree, so your argument holds no water with me. True Christianity has murdered no one.
Amar says
Does anyone really study and understand the effects.?
No.
old white guy says
we will be fighting our own in the streets. the level of stupid will insure this will happen. freedom to an ignorant person just means the ability to get welfare.
Tom Thumb says
Ironically is was on May 29th, 1953, 500 years to the day that Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzig Norkey became the 1st people to reach the summit of Mt. Everest.
mortimer says
Europe is to weak and stupid to do the right thing. In 1919, with Turkey defeated, the European powers could easily have taken over the Bosphorus and kicked Turkey out of Europe forever.
Its me says
And in the process could have saved 1.5 million Armenians from the genocide.
Tom Thumb says
Well, actually by 1919 it was too late to save the Armenians, but a lot of Greeks could have been spared.
gravenimage says
As Tom notes, most of the Armenian Genocide had taken place by then.
It was executed in a series of bloody waves, from about 1895 to the turn of the century; around 1915; and its final savage spasm in 1922, with the destruction of Smyrna.
glenn says
England and their allies were too weakend and sick of war and the Greeks didn’t want it, also Attaturk was taking over from the old Sultan and his vile ways. Attaturk was changing Islam and updating its old ways, ( no burkas or baggy trousers). Unfortunately it has slipped back and is starting to look like the
Sultunate of old.
gravenimage says
Unfortunately, Attaturk did nothing to stop the Armenian Genocide, either–which had continued under both the Ottoman Empire and the “Young Turks” period.
Raja says
/Robert Spencer has been overly kind to evil brutes called Muslims in the conquest of Constantinople, one of the biggest tragedies of mankind. The land and many valuables would never be retrieved. In spite of all the cruelty of Islam through ages the immoral leftist thugs have given “crocodiles” to -each home for pets in the form of migrants.
This is the outcome of denying God or even acknowledging God (Godless society). God’s people in the bible were ALWAYS ALLOWED to be destroyed whenever they departed from God. Even deviation from the TRUTH was not tolerated.
In modern day, Obama tried his best to destroy every democratic institution along with other western leaders.
Amar says
http://www.danielpipes.org/17613/celebrating-in-florida-the-loss-of-hagia-sophia
This site describes what happened when the Muslims broke into the Haga Sophia, the church in which residents of the city, which had been under siege for 7 weeks, took refuge.
gravenimage says
Yes–a savage massacre of women, children, old people, monks, and nuns. They were raped and then slaughtered. The survivors were enslaved.
Carolyne says
Sorry. Raja. If there were a God why in the world would he/she want “His” people destroyed by a barbarian horde? Sorry, no brass ring.
no_one says
It is not just Constantinople. It is the whole of Greece and Bulgaria that were drown in blood. Muzzies are evil, have always been, always will be. They would do the same to the west. There is pre-turks Byzantine icon in a Bulgarian monastery. An emperor gave it to the monks after a miraculous healing by the saint who’s incorrupted body is there. Turk couldn’t do anything to this monastery for the 5 centuries of their rule. The legend says the saint protects it. Even now days whoever steals something from the monastery becomes ill. There is a prophecy that near the end times the city will be Constantinople again. This is what many Greeks call the city. The seat of their patriarch is still called Constantinople.
gravenimage says
Yes–it was not just Constantinople. All of Anatolia, Greece, and Bulgaria fell to Islam, along with other parts of Eastern Europe.
It took centuries for Greece, Bulgaria, and the rest of the Balkans to regain their freedom, and Turkey has been lost forever.
James says
The death of Mehmet “the Conqueror” in 1481, who took Constantinople in 1453, was (humanly speaking) all that saved Rome from going the way of Otranto.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyrs_of_Otranto
The Muzz won the First Battle of Lepanto in 1499 – they were shattered in the Second, in 1571.
gravenimage says
True, James.
gravenimage says
Memorial Day and the conquest of Constantinople
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How many Infidels know this history? Very few.
Amar says
“How many Infidels know this history? Very few.”
By design?
gravenimage says
Firstly, it is taught in schools less and less. Secondly, a lot of Westerners have gotten lazy, or are distracted and no longer consider it relevant.
The irony is that learning such history is easier than it ever was–and there is a lot of fine scholarship on the subject. Just not enough people taking advantage of the information.
Guest says
Meanwhile CAIR has the nerve to honor suicide bombers.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
When the Capitoline Museum “covered up” (they boarded them up) several nude statues for the visit of Rouhani last year, I sent the curator an email berating him. I wrote that I thought he and the museum were unfit to be the keepers of our collective heritage. I told him that perhaps he should consider shipping these works to North America where they would be better respected. Needless to say, I got no response.
I now agree with Dr Bill Warner’s assertion that it was Mohammadism that brought down the Ancient World (and not the Franks, Germans and Goths as we were taught in school.)
Gibbon believed that it was Christianity that made the Romans soft and that that was their downfall. Perhaps in several hundred years there will be a historian that will write that we were made stupid with political correctness. Perhaps.
Rufolino says
How Moslems must have laughed at the covering-up of those amazing statues, Flavius. Laughed with contempt. Later this century when St.Peter’s is a mosque, all of Europe’s great works of art will be despoiled. In a highly symbolic gesture the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel will be brought down. The great public statues of Europe will be destroyed, beginning with the decapitation of every last one…which has already started. Islam, the Religion of Hate.
Carolyne says
The same thing happened in Germany. They put drapes over paintings which contained nudity to please some obscene old Imam.
gravenimage says
A good book on the subject of the fall of Rome and the early Middle Ages is Henri Pirenne’s “Mohammed and Charlemagne”, which you may be familiar with.
My own take is that the Roman Empire as a political entity was indeed shattered by barbarian invasion, but that the region was still largely culturally Roman. The Muslim invasions, takeover of North Africa, and domination of the Mediterranean Sea largely destroyed that and caused Europe to shift her focus inland northwards.
In any case, it would take a thousand years for Europe to regain what she had lost.
Muslims overrunning the free West will cause another Dark Ages if we do not fight back.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“the Roman Empire as a political entity was indeed shattered by barbarian invasion, but that the region was still largely culturally Roman.”
Precisely; I couldn’t have said it better. As Gibbon had stated, the Romans had lost their ‘martial’ nature and the “barbarians” had theirs intact. However, the “barbarians” admired and emulated Roman culture. They wanted to be Roman. The Roman way of doing thing brought the good life. Not so with the followers of the prophet.
Debi Brand says
“…. remember what the consequences will be if we lose this great defense against jihad that the free world isn’t even seriously fighting.”
Marine Steve Gern states fact of our spending in Iraq: “a waste …. time to … walk away.”
http://www.debibrand.org/marine-steve-gern-states-fact-of-our-spending-in-iraq-a-waste-time-to-walk-away/#sthash.b42ONuP8.dpbs
Marine Steve Gern, calls by name the evil we face: Islam, vows to oppose it
http://www.debibrand.org/marine-steve-gern-calls-by-name-the-evil-we-face-islam-vows-to-oppose-it/#sthash.NYKA9BWq.dpbs
Debi Brand says
Good work, Robert. Good work.
Janakiraman Rajalakshmi says
Similarly islam & mosques are NOT indigenous to Hindus’ India.
There is nothing called babri masjid. It is Hindus’ Temple of Lord Sri.Ramar that was razed down by turkish muslim terrorist babur. Likewise lots of Temples were plundered , razed down and / or converted into mosques.
Ditto for churches & christianity which are NOT indigenous to Hindus’ India. Like the muslims , christians also invaded as marauders. The portugese , dutch , british – various christian terrorists have wrought as much havoc as muslim marauders.
So called santhome church , velankanni church etc etc are all Hindus’ Temples usurped & converted into churches.
Christians instead bludgeon on Hindus’ heads that they brought “christian compassion , education , medicare , democracy blah blah.
Hindu Sages & Seers predate christianity , islam , marxism & various such blah blahs.
Yet , contemporary India continues to persecute Hindus like LK.Advani , Uma Bharthi , Murli manohar Joshi over an INIMICAL masjid which is no masjid to start with that was allegedly brought down.
India has become such a slave today it shakes hands with turkish muslim erdogan. babur the muslim tyrant came from Turkey.
Thomas Poovathinkal says
ALL who seek not the one and only God, Jesus The Lord, GET PUNISHED by PURE EVIL.
Christians and Hindus are not EXCEPTION TO THIS LAW OF GOD. Look at and LEARN FROM the punishments meeted out to the OLD ISRAEL
Musalmaanmasala says
You talk with forked tongue Janakiraman Rajalakshmi. L K Advani, M M Joshi and Uma Bharti WERE TODAY 30th May 2017 CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY by a Special CBI Court along with BJP’s Vinay Katiyar (a known rabble rouser) Vishwa Hindu Parsihad’s Vishnu Hari Dalmiya and Sadhvi Rithambara.
Advani’s Rath Yatra STARTED INDIA’S DECENT INTO RABID COMMUNALISM culminating in the Gujarat Riots of 2002 and catapaulting the present PM Modi into power. The Rath Yatra was aimed at bringing down the Babri Masjid and changing equations in a till then secular India. The Government of the day did not have the balls to go after these people fearing a hindu backlash and today 25 years later (the event took place in 1993) they have got their just desserts.
India today is on the cusp of communal division because of the party in power using its overwhelming majority to change things with sops to edify the majority hindu population (though thankfully a majority of thinking thindus are not in favor of this),
YOU CANNOT CHANGE HISTORY. True BABAR WAS A CONQUEROR but that was in the past. A peaceful country is now getting changed slowy but surely by Hindu fanatics who should know better.
You talk of Christians “bludgeoning on hindu heads” (whatever that means in English). But I can say that India today is a better place because of the selfless contribution to Society by Christians through Educational institutions, Hospices, Hospitals and welfare centers which Hindus would never think of seeing THAT THE ONLY THING THEY CAN THINK OF – is themselves.
Janakiraman Rajalakshmi says
babur was a muslim INVADER. He should have remained within his country. Invading Hindus’ Bharath is a crime.
Hindus have always had Ayurvedam ( it is part of Hindus’ Vedas -our Holy Book) , Siddha systems of healing.
Hence spare me typical christian lies about building hospitals
Janakiraman Rajalakshmi says
It is an outrageous lie to say Hindus enjoy peaceful co existence with muslims & christians.
So do not start bandying words cliches like secular , religious freedom & Gujarat riots.
It is muslims & christians who have always waged wars over religion. No way can one bracket Hindus with both intolerant & inimical creeds.
Build as many mosques as you want in your muslim countries. Muslims do not belong to Hindus’ Bharath. Ditto for christians.
Carolyne says
Perhaps your monkey god can save you from the bad old Westerners.
Janakiraman Rajalakshmi says
Wicked knavish christians are spread all over the world including India. For centuries.
Have stolen everything from Hindus including Yoga & Bharathanatyam falsely calling them christian yoga & christian bharathanatyam.
Hindus are powerless . At least Muslims attacking you gives Hindus like me some solace.
It is just not in Hindus’ DNA to invade other sovereign countries & pontificate to them ” my God is the only God…my God is better than your God”.
For Hindus all Animals & Birds are sacred. Vegetarianism is another noble concept of Hinduism that beef eating ( turkey , pork , fish etc eating ) holier than thou christians & muslims would never understand.
Supercilious barbarians -the british christians landed in India only to loot & plunder.
All genocides world over have been perpetrated by christians.
Hindu God who you christian ignoramus contemptuously call Monkey God is All Pervading in Space , Air , Fire , Water & Earth. The tornadoes , cyclones , bomb blasts , tsunamis , earthquakes are all owing to the power of Monkey God.
gravenimage says
Silly false moral equivalence from Janakiraman Rajalakshmi. There were Christians–entirely peaceful–in India as early as the first century. Christianity was fully established there–again, entirely peacefully–by the sixth century.
Janakiraman Rajalakshmi says
“entirely peaceful christians ” ?
Trust a christian like you to rant more such lies.
Aton says
Go to Greece and you will see that the city is still called Constantinople.
They never changed its name.
Aton
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Yeah but the Greeks are not up to retaking Anatolia. Socialism has made them weak and feeble minded.
Brian Riley says
Yes, we had a golden opportunity to take back Constantinople at the end of WW1, when half its population was still Christian or Jewish and British and French troops occupied it. The whole of European Turkey should have been given to Greece under the treaty of Sevres which was never implemented due to the Turkish nationalist rebellion. If only Greece s allies had come to her aid, Ataturk would have been defeated and there would have been justice not only for the Greeks but also for the Armenians and Kurds. The whole sorry episode ended in the sack of Smyrna, when allied warships and sailors stood by while the Turks rampaged through the city, brutally murdering the Greek patriarch. A shameful moment in modern European history.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
And things are no better now when the Prince of Wales likes to prance around dressed as an arab sheik!!
Even Trump did the prancie-dancie sword dance and he was our best hope!!!
Carolyne says
So exactly what was Trump to do? He was a guest in that hellhole and they were giving him an honor. He accepted the honor but did not accept the failure of Saudi Arabia to rein in the barbarians.
I’m telling you folks. The more you try to tear down our government, the more the muslims will win. Who can name anyone better than President Trump? Hillary Clinton? Chuck Schumer? Nancy Pelosi? John McCain? That is what you are doing.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
So exactly what was Trump to do?
Not go there in the first place. Saudi Arabia is the world’s NUMBER ONE sponsor of terrorism!!!! They’ve actually admitted it!!!
Trump promises his ‘base’, elect me and I’ll fix terrorism. Then no less that a few months into his presidency he sells the Saudis over three-hundred billion dollars worth of arms. What is it about that that the blind ‘Trump-no-matter-whats’ don’t get?
I’m not sure what made him go off his agenda but I suspect the trail goes back through his daughter back to Kushner and then further back to the Israelis and the Neo-Cons. Israel is famous for being shortsighted about its foreign policy and security. It seems to focus only on the most immediate threat and has no long term vision. (They can hardly be blamed for that, all things considered.)
I’m not sure what’s going on because I wasn’t in the room but it seems like the plan is to have Iran’s enemies help protect Israel; some kind of unholy alliance. (Like the CIA and Mujahedin in Afghanistan; like McCain et al and the Syrian rebels; like …) Nothing more shortsighted than arming (or getting someone to arm) your sworn enemy so they can help you fight your (perceived) even bigger enemy. (And what’s the difference between Iran and Saudi Arabia, other than the Sunni-Shiite divide? One tells you they want to kill you to your face and other lies about wanting to kill you.)
Let me ask you a question Carolyne: if you were told before the election that Trump would arm the Saudis to the teeth would have voted for him? Seriously. If it was me I would have looked around and said, “where’s that Cruz guy, what does he have to say again?”
The American electorate is Trump’s boss; you hired him based on his promises. Like any good employer you should hold him to those promises and not make excuses for him. You’re part of his base; call the White House and give the man a piece of your mind. You’re his boss.
Pal says
ROBERT SPENCER: I would like to Thank you for your Concise text with a Great message!
When the turks captured Constantinople, their bosses, the padishahs, started more frequently titling themselves “caliphs” of islam, furthering the Muhammad’s connection and succession from Arabia to Turkey.
But that title became even more “justified” in 1517, when the then sultan, Selim I, captured Cairo, Egypt, alongside with the Hejaz, Arabia, and brought from Cairo the last Abbasid caliph with Muhammad’s requisites such as his sandals, tooth, beard, robe, more. One of those ‘relics’ was the seal of the ‘prophet’ – his signet ring. To the present day, it remains exhibited at the sultan’s Topkapi palace, Constantinople: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_of_Muhammad
That seal is the pattern for the Islamic State’s black Flag’s rounded inscription, which reproduces the same words as the ones on Muhammad seal: “Muhammad” “Rasul” “Allah”, meaning “Muhammad, the (sole) messenger of (the sole) Allah”. Black standard itself comes from Muhammad’s Black flag, “Ar-raya”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Standard
ISLAM IS A CONTINUUM!
It is a Civilizational continuity, which has been designed to counter All civilizations in the world, to “overcome” them, and to replace them by ISLAM.
Carolyne says
I somehow missed the ring in Topkapi. However there is a room which was part of the harem where the tiles are painted with delicious looking fruit. This was to give a certain Pasha who had a poor appetite a desire for food. When it was explained to me, I started laughing. Only twice in my life have I been unable to stop laughing. That was one of those times. I barely made it out.
But t did see a square box of mud with a footprint in it, supposedly Mohammed’s. My husband, who was an Orthopedic surgeon, said the poor guy had callouses.
Pal says
Hello, Carolyne,
Maybe I put it wrong.
Most probably, the seal-ring is being kept at the Topkapi in a box or in some other way there, but not visible to visitors.
https://darvish.wordpress.com/2012/08/10/the-seal-ring-of-the-prophet-saw/
Thomas Poovathinkal says
Rufolino says
May 30, 2017 at 4:11 am
“How Moslems must have laughed at the covering-up of those amazing statues, Flavius. Laughed with contempt. Later this century when St.Peter’s is a mosque, all of Europe’s great works of art will be despoiled. In a highly symbolic gesture the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel will be brought down. The great public statues of Europe will be destroyed, beginning with the decapitation of every last one…which has already started. Islam, the Religion of Hate.”
ALL will go the way of dust, IF we do not FOLLOW, OBEY Jesus The Lord and Keep his Word. FOLLOWING and OBEYING Jesus The Lord and KEEPING his Word will MAKE US CONQUERS together WITH HIM.
ALL the CHURCHY CHURCHES, THE DIVIDED CHURCHES, in which there are no TRUE APOSTLES of The Lord in ACTION, are the ENEMIES of The Lord. HENCE we get PUNISHED by HIM in this way.
PKG says
So so true!! …. the Greeks continue to refer not to ‘Istanbul’ but to ‘Constantinople’ and this is how it will always be….
For the Polish and the Hungarians, the domination of the Ottoman empire and its atrocities remains vivid within their collective memory and it’s no accident that they are the only bastion of strength against the ever present threat that Islam continues to pose….
Greece, on the other hand, despite 400 years of Ottoman invasion and domination, has fallen into the hands of a spineless extreme leftist government who are allowing her to fall further and further into the abyss……
I’m sure that Greeks themselves still have national fervour and pride, although at the moment it would be easy to miss…..
Carolyne says
Actually, I don’t believe that’s true. How could a loving and merciful God subject His people to such barbarity? That is neither loving nor merciful.
rara says
The transcript of the video is here:
https://www.memri.org/tv/egyptian-german-scholar-dr-hamed-abdel-samad-analyzes-birth-defect-islam/transcript
One of the nice details:
“most of the people who followed him later, in Medina, did so because they had no choice, after their tribe had been raided and had disintegrated, or because they were opportunists, who wanted to benefit economically from this. They realized that if they joined Muhammad’s camp, they would have booty, they would get money and slave girls. They would benefit from the raids. When this group grew, the Prophet began to have suspicions: Who supports me and who doesn’t? Do they really believe in my ideas? So he founded an inspection mechanism. He made them pray five times a day, thus gathering them five times a day – one at 4 AM and one late at night. That was his way of making sure that they were there. Why did he say that the punishment of someone who does not pray is death? Because he was afraid that someone who did not come to pray would go to the enemy camp and would do him harm. He even said: I almost burned down the houses of people praying out of home, Look how paranoid he was.”
Debi Brand says
“They would benefit from the raids.”
And thus that became a sunnah: it remains so to this day, as in purchased Islam, faith in it, allegiance to it solidified by compensation.
It is a simple sunnah in Islam. Thus one of the many reason many stay in that fold. They do so by choice. They do so because they fear, if not the sword for apostasy, then fear of being cut off from the benefits received from the ummah.
As I have stated before here, we need a leader with both the called for understanding and courage to call every single member of Muhammad’s ummah to either declare their allegiance to the doctrines of “Allah’s Book,” or declare their rejection thus their apostasy to it.
But because our leaders lack that understanding and courage, we will just keep on pretending, those loyal to, those guided by the guidance in “Allah’s Book” are other than those loyal to and those guided by the guidance in “Allah’s Book.”
Walter Sieruk says
Since yesterday was Memorial Day it’s therefore very appropriate to site the wisdom of the first Constitutional President of the United States of America, George Washington, who had, so well explained “To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.” Moreover President Washington stated that “However pacific the general policy of the nation may be ,it ought never be without an adequate stock of military knowledge for emergencies.”
Furthermore, with this post- 9/11 USA it should likewise be remembered that one very good way to defeat the jihadists who compose the many brutal and deadly Islamic terror entities ,such as al Qaeda, ISIS, the Taliban, is by the means of a very strong power of US military might. As Thomas Jefferson had declared “With every barbarous people …force is law.”
ibrahim itace muhammed says
Mr Spencer
Mr Spencer,you have not called for special memorial day for 20 million muslims killed during those brutal crusade wars or for the return of spain back to muslims or even the return of Americas back to Aboriginists?Are you saying it is only filthy mithraist christians and your masters the evil jews that deserve special memorial day?why calling for Turkey to go back to jahiliyya days of worshiping human being inspired by the satan?.Turkey will remain Muslim forever even if you dislike it.You can remain in the united states until you are kicked out by kkk.It is by that time that you will stop hating Turkey,which is your original home land.
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gravenimage says
Appalling apologist for Muslim savagery ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
Mr Spencer
Mr Spencer,you (sic) have not called for special memorial day for 20 million muslims (sic) killed during those brutal crusade wars or for the return of spain (sic) back to muslims (sic) or even the return of Americas back to Aboriginists?
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Note that the vile ibrahim itace muhammed believes that Infidels should not be able to expel Muslim invaders.
But why would he? He thinks that the whole world should be overrun by ravening Muslim conquerors. *Ugh*.
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Are you saying it is only filthy mithraist (sic) christians (sic) and your masters the evil jews (sic) that deserve special memorial day?why (sic) calling for Turkey to go back to jahiliyya days of worshiping human being inspired by the satan?.
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In other words, he is lauding the horrifying Armenian Genocide, where up to two million Christians–Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, and Levantines–were butchered by his pious coreligionists.
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Turkey will remain Muslim forever even if you dislike it.You (sic) can remain in the united (sic) states (sic) until you are kicked out by kkk (sic).
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Why does the witless muhammed believe that the Klan is deporting people from the United States? The Klan has no power here. How can muhammed be so ignorant? I suppose he assumes that savages are in power everywhere–after all, that is the case in Dar-al-Islam.
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It is by that time that you will stop hating Turkey,which is your original home land.
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I other words, Robert Spencer should acknowledge that Muslims had every right to slaughter his grandparents. *Ugh*.
don vito says
itace, what would save the life and property of a kufr like me from the bloody awful hands of your stealing murdering, filthy prophet?
Lydia says
Good article.
That hits it on the nail.
They had built walls all around to protect against invading muslim armies all over Europe, that is why the vatican has such a thick and high wall. (Yes, the same wall from which within the hypocritical pope decries all other walls.)
If we are not vigilant, evil will reign.
If they had not finally succeeded in the invasion of Normandy, the nazi’s might have the power till today. We have seen what evil kingdoms bring to humanity. And now, they choose to turn a blind eye to this potential for evil, all in the name of ‘love.’ They point the finger of accusation against those who tell the truth, whose anchors are still grounded in reality, whose heads are not buried in the sand, (while they still have one), and who don’t see evil through rose colored glasses. They will find out that we were right, but by then it will be too late.
The day to make sure you are right with God is today. The day to hug your family and tell them you love them… is today. Do the things that matter most today. Don’t wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is a gift we don’t yet have. Although that is always true, it is even more true today.
God bless!
Sepp says
The date of the Fall of Constantinople is marked on the traditional Orthodox Church Calendar (adopted in the year 325) on May 29, which is June 11 on the current civil or commercial calendar.
Falsafa says
Bernard Lewis sets the record straight on the Armenian genocide allegations:
https://youtu.be/qG70UWESfu4
dumbledoresarmy says
Lewis isn’t the be-all and end-all.
Vahakn Dadrian has provided a mountain of evidence that shows that the Armenian Christians *were* subjected to an atrocious mass-murder on a truly mind-boggling scale; the first genocide of the 20th century. Mass murder carried out by MUSLIMS, Muslims who butchered and raped and torture-killed, who *stole* children to force-convert them to Islam. Muslims who *butchered* people … and then praised their hideous allah to whom they had just human-sacrificed men, women and little children.
You make me SICK to hear you lying and denying. You make me want to vomit.
Get lost, Falsafa, apologist for evil and denier of the jihad genocide of the Armenian Christians.
Just. get. lost.