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“You have heard that in this country there are a large number of ravishingly beautiful Greek maidens”

Jun 3, 2018 3:50 pm By Robert Spencer

Ramadan Day 18 thought for the day from my new book The History of Jihad: when the renowned Muslim warrior Tariq ibn Ziyad landed with his troops in Spain in the year 711, he motivated his men for jihad conquest by telling them this:

You have heard that in this country there are a large number of ravishingly beautiful Greek maidens, their graceful forms are draped in sumptuous gowns on which gleam pearls, coral, and purest gold, and they live in the palaces of royal kings.

He was telling them that if they won, they would be rewarded with sex slaves.. The Qur’an allowed a Muslim to have sexual intercourse not only with his wives but with the “captives of the right hand” (4:3, 4:24, 23:1–6) that were the spoils of war (33:50), and there were plenty of “ravishingly beautiful Greek maidens” in Spain who could be used in this way.

The lives of those girls and women were, accordingly, destroyed.

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  1. Lydia Church says

    Jun 3, 2018 at 3:59 pm

    islam is the devil’s religion.

    • mortimer says

      Jun 3, 2018 at 5:41 pm

      Lydia, Mohammed may have been the offspring of a line of “kahannas” … i.e. pagan spirit mediums who received messages from the jinn. However, Mohammed was most likely mentally ill from temporal lobe epilepsy according medical doctors who have analyzed Mohammed’s reported symptoms in the hadiths.

  2. Lydia Church says

    Jun 3, 2018 at 3:59 pm

    Their phallus is their god.

  3. CogitoErgoSum says

    Jun 3, 2018 at 4:39 pm

    Muslim men have to look outside their religion to find a beautiful woman.

    • CogitoErgoSum says

      Jun 3, 2018 at 8:11 pm

      I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder and, as they say, it’s only skin deep but to me a lack of intelligence immediately drops a woman’s attractiveness to below a certain threshold. How smart can a woman be if she follows Islam? Not smart enough. Not smart enough at all.

    • Eur says

      Jun 4, 2018 at 4:17 am

      There are really beautiful Arab women. The Magrebies are another thing, and at that time they must be really horrendous more than they are today. Today they are very mixed with the Arab invaders and it is still difficult to find a beautiful Maghrebi woman. 1300 years ago there were no women in the Maghreb with Arab mixture, they would all be ugly, it is also normal for Arabs, Berbers, … to be attracted to Europeans because they are so different. The same thing happened with the Europeans when they went to the East. From my point of view the current magrebies are the ugliest women on the planet along with the Bolivian, Australian aborigines … but I understand that it is a matter of taste. The most beautiful women seem to me Scandinavian, Caucasians, slaves… and those that are mixtures of different races. Beauty is in the mix.

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 5, 2018 at 12:03 am

        Eur, Muslims *everywhere* rape Infidel women. It has nothing to do with whether the local Muslim women are considered attractive or not.

      • alex smythe says

        Jun 5, 2018 at 12:10 am

        Raquel Welch is partly of Bolivian origin.

  4. Eur says

    Jun 3, 2018 at 4:41 pm

    1300 years later the Moroccans rape Spanish women every week, they are a real plague. Moroccans and Algerians commit the vast majority of rapes in Spain.The Spanish prisons are full of Magrebies for committing robberies and especially for jihadism.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 3, 2018 at 5:02 pm

      All grimly true, Eur. After the valient fight to take back Spain, her leaders are now cluelessly allowing for another Muslim conquest.

      And Spain, of course, is not the only place–this is a problem throughout Europe, and the whole of the West.

    • Mockingjay says

      Jun 3, 2018 at 7:14 pm

      Eur, you could just as easily exchange `Spanish` and `Spain` for `German` and `Germany` in your post…it´s the same everywhere in Europe now.

  5. gravenimage says

    Jun 3, 2018 at 5:00 pm

    “You have heard that in this country there are a large number of ravishingly beautiful Greek maidens”
    …………………………….

    All maidens that those Mohammedans could rape.

    God, I hate Islam.

    • Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

      Jun 3, 2018 at 5:12 pm

      Why all the Greeks in Spain in the year 711? See also
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Greco

      • Mockingjay says

        Jun 3, 2018 at 7:09 pm

        – Could it be that these primitives simply called all Europeans `Greek`, because that were all the Europeans they had known up until then?

        • gravenimage says

          Jun 3, 2018 at 7:14 pm

          Probably. Muslims have never much cared about being accurate about their victims.

  6. dumbledoresarmy says

    Jun 3, 2018 at 5:00 pm

    Ravishingly beautiful women, who would be… terrorised, raped, gang-raped, starved, beaten and even if not murdered and mutilated, then… turned into near-catatonic submissive zombies in the harem. Things.

    No longer beautiful.

    Is a weeping, screaming, bleeding… or blank-eyed catatonic plastic doll… beautiful? Is she beautiful when the light is extinguished from her eyes? Islam is insane.

    Islam seizes the beautiful and then obsessively destroys it.

    John Quincy Adams summed it up perfectly, way back in 1829.

    “…In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth….
    “Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust, by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion.
    “He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind.
    “THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST: TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE…” (and those capitals are in Adams’ original text; it is remarkable that someone as lucid, sober and erudite as Adams felt it necessary to use all-capitals at this point in his essay).
    The American Annual Register for the Years 1827-8-9, pp. 269,

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 3, 2018 at 5:24 pm

      Spot on, Dumbledore’s Army.

  7. Wellington says

    Jun 3, 2018 at 5:30 pm

    There are many reasons to look upon Islam completely in the negative, death for apostasy being one of them and severe harm or death for those who dare criticize or mock the Koran or Mohammed being another. But the sanctioning of rape by Islam, which it most surely does sanction (examples to be found in the Koran in Suras 23 and 33, never mind what can be found in the hadiths and sira)), this just alone, and ignoring all its other many pathologies, iniquities and stupidities, should be reason enough to consign this warped belief system, and sorriest-ass excuse for a major religion ever developed by man, to the metaphorical cellar where mankind’s ideas at their worst can be placed, right along with other aberrancies such as those propounded by Nazism, Neo-Nazism, Marxism and the KKK.

    If one is not repelled by Islam, this in and of itself speaks volumes about such a person. No exceptions. Yes, very tired of ALL excuses made anymore by anyone, whether Muslim or non-Muslim, for Islam. Enough already. This religion is iniquitous and any attempt to salvage it is at least retrograde and stupid, at worst purely evil.

  8. Jay says

    Jun 3, 2018 at 6:58 pm

    Some things never change

  9. Patrick says

    Jun 3, 2018 at 7:06 pm

    ‘Greek’ might refer to the small East Roman enclaves like of Julianos or Don Julian, a governor of Cueta who, according to legend hired and transported Moorish mercs to avenge the rape of his daughter. Anyhow, Islam is a depraved ideology, suited to the criminal and stupid.

  10. abad says

    Jun 3, 2018 at 7:58 pm

    Where was that line taken from? The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan?

  11. mortimer says

    Jun 3, 2018 at 8:05 pm

    MOHAMMED motivated his troops with PORNOGRAPHIC descriptions of ROMAN WOMEN: “You have heard that in this country there are a large number of ravishingly beautiful ROMAN-BYZANTINE (Greek) maidens”.

    The word “RUM” (i.e. the Roman Empire) is the name of a chapter in the Koran. The word is mistranslated in the above hadith as ‘GREEK’ when it actually means ROMAN (RUMI).

    The ROMAN EMPIRE was the chief target of Muslims then as the EUROPEAN UNION (the successor of the Roman Empire is now).

    Muslims want to plunder the EU and rape the ROMAN women in it.

  12. Terry Gain says

    Jun 3, 2018 at 10:09 pm

    Muslims love rape even more than Liberals love power.

  13. Eur says

    Jun 4, 2018 at 2:04 am

    During the Spanish Civil War the Francoist side had Moroccan troops. The violations from south to north of the country are still remembered. In each town that the Moors entered, they raped the women, cut the men’s penis and put them in their mouths. In a report from a few years ago an old Moroccan man said that he was in the Spanish war, showed his military papers. He was not ashamed of the atrocities he committed, he calmly admitted that they raped the women as spoils of war.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 5, 2018 at 12:06 am

      Muslim troops in Italy during WWII also regularly raped Italian women. This is their MO.

  14. Proud Kaafir says

    Jun 4, 2018 at 3:44 am

    All those who are commenting about the Muslim men forget about their guiding power. Remember the Bible verse “You are not fighting against flesh or blood. ” You are fighting against principalities and powers and unless you keep this in your mind you will not be able win the fight. These forces slowly reshapes you. You have to be in touch with god on a daily basis. Only then can you wash away their daily influence and strengthen yourself. I have gone through that cycle and I understand that. Once your spirit is tuned in a certain way the turning back is very painful. This is what has happened to Europe today. To turn back, drastic steps are required. You will never win this fight with principalities without getting help from Jesus Christ.

    • Chand says

      Jun 4, 2018 at 6:33 am

      TYPO………….Ziyad motivated his men

  15. Chand says

    Jun 4, 2018 at 6:32 am

    “You have heard that in this country there are a large number of ravishingly beautiful Greek maidens, their graceful forms are draped in sumptuous gowns on which gleam pearls, coral, and purest gold, and they live in the palaces of royal kings.”
    Muslim warrior ZIyad motived his men thus. Yeah, armies seem to need motivation.
    Nazi officers probably motivated their German soldiers with: “endless stocks and grain and livestock for you to steal, men to enslave for forced labor, beautiful Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, Byelorussian, Czech, Bulgarian women for you to…………”
    And the Conquistadors their European soldiers with: ” tons of gold for the taking, helpless, backward naked men for you to slaughter easily, whole populations for you to easily decimate with you European germ, beautiful Inca, Maya, Aztec women for you…………………..”

    • Chand says

      Jun 4, 2018 at 6:34 am

      sorry typo…………Ziyad motivated his men……

      • Chand says

        Jun 4, 2018 at 6:36 am

        t;ypo…………..your European germs…………….

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 5, 2018 at 12:08 am

        Note that Chand has to compare Muslims to Nazis. And why not? They are very similar.

        Civilized troops, of course, do not need such “motivation”.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Jun 4, 2018 at 10:00 am

      Just stop with the stupid tu quoque, which is a logical fallacy.

      And bear this in mind: had the Europeans been *obeying* the teachings of Jesus they would NEVER have behaved as they did toward colonised peoples.

      Hitler *despised* Christianity; it is nonsensical for people to claim that he was ‘Christian’ or ‘Catholic’. Every word of the Gospels, every aspect of what Jesus taught and did, is directly *opposed* to Nazism; Nazism was only able to be born because many in Europe had *abandoned* Christianity. Incidentally: Hitler very much admired … ISLAM.

      Similarly, when the Spanish conquistadors went into the Americas, they were *disobeying* Jesus’ explicit teachings and example when they pillaged, and killed, and enslaved. They behaved *exactly like the Muslims from whom they had LEARNED a whole lot of bad habits over many dreadful centuries of living under Muslim rule*.

      Whereas: when MUSLIMS rape, rob, mass-murder, enslave people, and generally behave abominably, they are OBEYING the teachings of warlord Mohammed, and FOLLOWING his example to the letter.

      THAT is *the* very big difference between the bad behaviour of nominal Christians (or of supposedly-devout Christians who have managed to deceive themselves about their motives and conduct) and the bad behaviour of Muslims. The Christians know, deep down, that their God will *judge* them for their cruelty, lust, and greed in which they have indulged; the *Muslims* believe that their horrible God *approves* of what they are doing, and will *reward* them for it.

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 5, 2018 at 12:08 am

        +1

  16. Infidel says

    Jun 4, 2018 at 7:53 am

    And this is the same thing they tell prospective immigrants to the West, esp about Sweden and about its houri like Blonds waiting for Muslim men to impregnate them.

  17. Tom says

    Jun 4, 2018 at 10:46 am

    The motivational speech given in the year 711 seems eerily familiar in tone to those given today in mosques around the world by Imam’s filled with Islamic hatred for not only Greeks but ALL westerners and non believers.

    It proves that Islam has never progressed beyond the barbarian stage and is still instilling barbarism in its faithful.

    If the fundamental tenets of a religion are violent, then the more fundamental a devotee becomes the more violent they become. That describes Islam and the majority of its followers to a tee.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 5, 2018 at 12:09 am

      True–Islam never changes.

  18. J D S says

    Jun 4, 2018 at 11:12 am

    Somewhere in the conquest for Spain the Islamic horde met “the hammer” Charles Martel and they didn’t get to ravish too many Spanish maidens…….
    Although the Muslims do not have an army horde, as back then, we still need a
    “Hammer” today. A Hammer in the form of elected leaders who see the problems in Islam and then quash their advances…….Martel at that time probably saved Christianity and the whole of Europe from Islamic take over.
    Today Europe is being taken over by Muslims but the enemy is really the European leaders who seem to have given up without a fight…..

  19. Mark Berlinger says

    Jun 4, 2018 at 11:48 am

    Caliph Al-Walid ordered Tariq ibn Ziyad and 17,000 Jihad warriors to invaded Spain in 711. Ziyad encouraged his men with the great promise of Islam, namely the capture and abuse of infidel women. Sex slavery is so important to Islam that it’s allowed by four Qur’an verses. Islam is the religion that appeals to the immature male whose brains begin at the tip of the penis.

    • Eur says

      Jun 5, 2018 at 8:34 am

      The vikings also did this kind of thing, the Crusaders also … but the current Scandinavians admit that the Vikings were rapists and plunderers and the Christian religion does not admit the behavior of the Crusaders. However, Muslims are still the same as they were 1300 years ago … exactly the same. Their book justifies all the outrages.

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