Today’s holy month inspiration comes from the time of the Crusades. In 1268, as I recount in my new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, when the jihad forces of the Mamluk sultan Baybars took Antioch from the Crusaders, Baybars was annoyed to find that the Crusader ruler, Count Bohemond VI, had already left the city. So he wrote to Bohemond to make sure he knew what his men had done in Antioch:
You would have seen your knights prostrate beneath the horses’ hooves, your houses stormed by pillagers and ransacked by looters, your wealth weighed by the quintal, your women sold four at a time and bought for a dinar of your own money! You would have seen the crosses in your churches smashed, the pages of the false Testaments scattered, the Patriarchs’ tombs overturned. You would have seen your Muslim enemy trampling on the place where you celebrate the Mass, cutting the throats of monks, priests and deacons upon the altars, bringing sudden death to the Patriarchs and slavery to the royal princes. You would have seen fire running through your palaces, your dead burned in this world before going down to the fires of the next, your palace lying unrecognizable, the Church of St. Paul and that of the Cathedral of St. Peter pulled down and destroyed; then you would have said, “Would that I were dust, and that no letter had ever brought me such tidings!”
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mortimer says
The letter of sultan Baybars is surely one of the most BARBARIC messages ever penned. This is the message of RAMADAN:
“Submit to Islam and you will be spared.” But that is a lie. Submit to Islam and then Muslims will have you at their mercy to do anything to you that they want.
IanB says
Thank you Jay Boo.
boakai ngombu says
love what the allah god loves. hate what the allah god hates.
the allah god: the best of all deceivers. the exemplar for all to imitate, muhammad: not a holy man (lately contrived)
gravenimage says
Horrible.
DHazard says
Islam, religion or the world’s oldest crime family?
mortimer says
Hazard, Islam began with the SAALIK … a band of gangsters that helped Mohammed to plunder caravans in the name of the deity of PLUNDER …. Islam is indeed a CRIME ORGANIZATION!
A book in the Koran is named “BOOTY”… Sura 8.
8:1: They ask thee concerning (things taken as) spoils of war. Say: “such spoils are at the disposal of Allah and the Messenger”
Wellington says
As a follow-up on what Robert Spencer has written above and somewhat off-topic but not really, I note here that I am currently reading the great Portuguese epic, The Lusiads, by Luis Vaz de Camoens, who had both Virgil and James Bond in him (study his life and you will know why I assert what I have about this remarkable 16th-century man).
But I bring this up because in Camoens’ majestic epic, which is the single greatest example of the admirable and extensive corpus which is Portuguese literature, the real bad guys, the great deceivers, are the Mohammedans (and Bacchus too). Warms my heart reading it. It will do the same for you if you understand the menace Islam posed to the 16th century as it does now in the 21st century.
Besides, it is so anti-PC/MC, including the assertion that Christianity is a faith like no others, the quintessential faith, and with the Mohammedan as nothing but a confused and nefarious infidel. Oh yeah, rich, very rich, in promoting Western Civilization above all; something, to put it mildly, which is not happening in Western educational centers today because fools, for the most part, are in charge of Western education currently. And so reason enough to read it, though there are many other reasons as well, not least of these being that it is literature at the highest level.
Camoens knew the truth of Islam. Yes he did. His masterpiece, a magisterial work, helps substantiate this. Indeed. And sorry I wandered a bit in this comment but, ultimately, though indirect in its approach, I would aver it is, in the final analysis, very much germane.
mortimer says
Agree about the “LUSIADS” and its author Camoens. A fine, epic poet.
A Christian is MOTIVATED to act according to the GOLDEN RULE… which is SERVICE to others.
A Muslim is MOTIVATED to act according to AL BARAA (hatred of kafirs) and JIHAD (aggression towards the kafirs). This motive is ENSLAVEMENT of others.
Jihad is AGGRESSION.
Terry Gain says
Wellington
No need to apologize. Thank you very much. I will add Camoens to my reading list.
Stevie says
Thank you, Wellington, for your reading recommendation– I look forward to reading “The Lusiads”
gravenimage says
I’ll check it out, Wellington.
Brigitte from Germany says
Day 5 of a bad, bad month.
CogitoErgoSum says
An excerpt from the Wikipedia article on Baibars:
In 1268, he besieged Antioch, capturing the city on 18 May. Baibars had promised to spare the lives of the inhabitants, but he broke his promise and had the city razed, killing or enslaving much of the population after the surrender, prompting the fall of the Principality of Antioch. The massacre of men, women, and children at Antioch “was the single greatest massacre of the entire crusading era.” Priests had their throats slit inside their churches, and women were sold into slavery.
Note the phrases “he broke his promise” and “single greatest massacre of the entire crusading era.” You mean to say the greatest massacre of the Crusades was committed by a Muslim against the Christians? What a surprise!
gravenimage says
Good post.
Timothy says
The Dhimmi by Bat Ye’or is also a good book to read.
overman says
A well overdue book by Robert, which might finally rip the mask off the so-called ‘religion of peace’.
Let’s hope it will one day be essential reading in every college and university worldwide (at least in western academia). The present generation has been totally brainwashed by lslamic and leftist propaganda.
David M says
Dozens of Pakistanis die from dehydration as a heat wave hits Pakistan. Any so-called religion that denies people water during daytime Ramadan should ring alarm bells, people need to drink water during heat or this will happen. What a fake, barbaric “religion ” Islam is.
http://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/heatwave-in-pakistans-karachi-during-ramadan-kills-dozens/527961
Xero_G says
Two years ago, Ramadan occurred during the summer solstice and in Canada with sunrise at 5:15 AM and sunset at 10:00 PM, a Muslim colleague at work passed-out and was taken to hospital while fasting nearly 17 hours in the heat, without food or water. What do Muslims do, who live above the Arctic Circle when Ramadan occurs in the summertime and the sun does not set at all?
gravenimage says
They revert to Cairo time–no joke.
Billy Chickens says
Just an example of the religion of Satan taking revenge on the religion of Christ. This is what real hatred looks like.
Debi Brand says
“Nothing that a bit of ‘dialogue’ won’t fix! “
Indeed–my thoughts precisely.
So too, pretend, pretend, pretend — Islam and those who live guided by it are other than what history’s blood-filled leaves attest that they are. All will be just fine… worst case scenario, as Spencer stated, “Nothing that a bit of ‘dialogue’ won’t fix! “
Indeed, as in “‘Shahada’ (la ilaha ill Allah) [Al-Misri, ‘Reliance,” P.1197],” lacking that, agreement to, in submission to and in humiliation before Islam, render the jizyah.
Kim Bruce says
In my opinion, Islam is this; it is the terrifying Genghis Khan, Mongol Hordes of old, cloaked this time in a religious ideology.
OldFatBaldSociallyIneptRon says
Steven Seagal lookalike.
Shy Guy, Jerusalem, Israel says
Hey! What’s with the lead picture of Steven Seagal?!?!?!
Dr. Darkpool says
Islam, the religion of peace and harmony, as long as everyone converts. Oops, my bad. They kill each other too. Oh well—-nothing that a little dialogue can’t fix.
Bill says
Robert, thank you for keeping us informed.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Here is a proper reply to such a letter (From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_of_the_Zaporozhian_Cossacks):
Sultan Mehmed IV to the Zaporozhian Cossacks:
“As the Sultan; son of Muhammad; brother of the sun and moon; grandson and viceroy of God; ruler of the kingdoms of Macedonia, Babylon, Jerusalem, Upper and Lower Egypt; emperor of emperors; sovereign of sovereigns; extraordinary knight, never defeated; steadfast guardian of the tomb of Jesus Christ; trustee chosen by God Himself; the hope and comfort of Muslims; confounder and great defender of Christians – I command you, the Zaporogian Cossacks, to submit to me voluntarily and without any resistance, and to desist from troubling me with your attacks.”
–Turkish Sultan Mehmed IV
The Cossacks’ reply came as a stream of invective and vulgar rhymes, parodying the Sultan’s titles:
Zaporozhian Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan!
” O sultan, Turkish devil and damned devil’s kith and kin, secretary to Lucifer himself. What the devil kind of knight are thou, that canst not slay a hedgehog with your naked arse? The devil shits, and your army eats. Thou shalt not, thou son of a whore, make subjects of Christian sons; we have no fear of your army, by land and by sea we will battle with thee, fuck thy mother.
Thou Babylonian scullion, Macedonian wheelwright, brewer of Jerusalem, goat-fucker of Alexandria, swineherd of Greater and Lesser Egypt, pig of Armenia, Podolian thief, catamite of Tartary, hangman of Kamyanets, and fool of all the world and underworld, an idiot before God, grandson of the Serpent, and the crick in our dick. Pig’s snout, mare’s arse, slaughterhouse cur, unchristened brow, screw thine own mother!
So the Zaporozhians declare, you lowlife. You won’t even be herding pigs for the Christians. Now we’ll conclude, for we don’t know the date and don’t own a calendar; the moon’s in the sky, the year with the Lord, the day’s the same over here as it is over there; for this kiss our arse!”
– Koshovyi otaman Ivan Sirko, with the whole Zaporozhian Host.
E. Maria says
Islam, a twisted Political Ideology who masquerades as a religion of Peace….
Simone says
I recently finished reading the Crusade trilogy by Robyn Young, it was all about Baybars. What a book – took me right there!
gravenimage says
Ramadan Day 5 thought for the day from Robert Spencer’s The History of Jihad
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More of that vaunted Islamic tolerance, I see…