In my new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, I recount what happened when Saladin’s forces defeated the Crusaders at Hattin on July 4, 1187.
Saladin ordered the mass execution of his Christian opponents. According to his secretary, Imad ed-Din, Saladin “ordered that they should be beheaded, choosing to have them dead rather than in prison. With him was a whole band of scholars and Sufis and a certain number of devout men and ascetics; each begged to be allowed to kill one of them, and drew his sword and rolled back his sleeve.” The great jihad warrior took particular satisfaction in the scene: “Saladin, his face joyful, was sitting on his dais; the unbelievers showed black despair.” The warriors of jihad captured the True Cross and displayed it in Damascus, upside down.
These kinds of actions are the aspiration of Islamic jihadis to this day.
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rooare says
This is the true face of Islam and what Muslims will do when given the opportunity. Muslims have been emulating their murderous, pedophile prophet Mohammad for 1400 years and will continue to do so because their holy books command this of them.
Eur says
Any other historical reading today would be considered Islamophobic and would entail legal punishment. In addition to legal punishment it would entail the threat of death on the part of practitioners of the religion of peace.
In the West we have made movies, books … denouncing the abuse that was done in the name of God. Those abuses have been suffered by our ancestors. In Muslim countries there is no courage for someone to write or make a critical film with religious excesses. Muslims always see themselves as victims and never as executioners. It is a real insult.
gravenimage says
This whitewash is grimly common, Jay Boo.
Marty says
Violence is always joyful to muslims because that know they are fulfilling allah’s instructions to them. Who wouldn’t get a warm and fuzzy feeling from that?
Westman says
Some recent history about the next UK Royal Monarch attending a beheading. This should make UK citizens wonder about their future. From 2014:
http://www.panarabiaenquirer.com/wordpress/prince-charles-delights-crowds-at-saudi-public-execution/
KJW says
That’s really sick of Prince Charles to attend a beheading, let alone have a swing at the sword. The British bend over for the Saudis in a most pathetic way and I’m sure the Saudis laugh at them.
Go to statedepartment.com which is not the official State Dept site. Very interesting reading and even young girl procurement from Brits to Saudis. Look at Issue 36 for example: Arabian Slave Market. Very disturbing. We need to get rid of them – they are a cause of many problems.
gravenimage says
Guys, this story is satire. (Just note the byline, by “unpaid pae intern”).
The idiotic and Islamophilic Prince Charles *did* perform a sword dance in Saudi Arabia, also in 2014:
“Prince Charles performs sword dance in Saudi Arabia”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/feb/19/prince-charles-sword-dance-saudi-arabia
This is almost certainly what the Pan-Arabia Enquirer is spoofing.
If you Google “Pan-Arabia Enquirer”, you will see that it’s tagline is “The Finest Satire From The Middle East”.
http://www.panarabiaenquirer.com/
Richard says
Marty: Many civilizations live for war, but not so much to conquer, kill or loot as to offer one’s self as a sacrifice. The Aztecs left a very dangerous enemy within their territory because they needed members of that race for acceptable human sacrifices. Similarly, most of their weapons were made, not to kill an enemy, but to would and weaken him so that he could be captured alive for a sacrifice. As I recall, a Lakota prayer is “Wakantonka. tonkashila onshimala”, which means roughly, ‘God, I offer myself so that the people may live.” That was their selfless spirituality. Photographs of war parties of Plains Indians show most of them armed with coup sticks – non-lethal poles which they would use to tap an enemy on the shoulder and ride away in battle. That was counting coup. They tried that with the American troops and were mercilessly gunned down. Eastern Woodland Indians like the Cherokees, Choctaws &c would go out with American or British troops in War. But, again, the reason was mystical: not to kill someone. If, on the way to the battle, they received a sacred dream or vision, they would break off and go home for their reason for going to war had been answered favorably by God.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
So much for the ridiculous myth that Saladin was compassionate and fair (and that the Crusaders were the real savages). So much for the absurd myth that Sufis and Mohammadan ascetics were/are wise, gentle and sage, and not really Mohammadans.
FYI says
But remember that the mass-murdering muslim saladin would have had to face Judgement on his death:not at the hands of his “allah”.But at the hands of the True God.
I’m sure his face was not joyful….
And To add insult to injury ,his Judge would be…….. Jewish.
Mighty saladin Judged by a Jew:Jesus Christ.
Yes,one of those people that allah says are “apes ,to be despised and hated” k2V 65
I have no doubt,through the spirit of God’s truth that saladin’s,evil,infected and demonic soul is not in “allah”s paradise but where it rightfully belongs:in Hell with his equally demonic mass-murdering “prophet”.
I have no doubt at all where these demonic islamic savages go.I am happy to pray for the souls of those Christians…and indeed any muslims who realize the evil done and are willing to repent…
But saladin and his kind will never be forgiven for such evil.
I believe in the reality of hell for the wicked{even though it may not be fashionable these days!}I believe that such evil is punished by the Good God.
saldin has blood on his filthy hands.
God rot his murdrerous,demonic soul.
Save Europe says
Their vile faux God isn’t the same as yours. The scum bag Saladin will have gone to his death bed – genuinely – believing he would be rewarded for his sub-human misbehaviour.
Richard says
I may be wrong, but I recall reading years ago that Saladin gained power by murdering members of his own family. Again, I may be wrong on this.
gravenimage says
Saladin was involved in a lot of “palace intrigues”.
Kasey says
What true god?
It’s all in anyone’s imagination, the concept of which is passed on via indoctrination where the child recipient has no choice in its mind-formatting process.
And when that indoctrination is lethally poisonous, it is a recipe for a Humanitarian disaster.
gravenimage says
Of course, those of most faiths can leave whenever they desire. Not so Islam.
Richard says
Flavius: Your point can’t be stressed enough. Saladin would sell the freedom of many crusaders he captured. the sole exceptions were the Knights Templars and the Hospitalers, all of whom, if taken prisoner, were to have their throats slit. This is your point, for the Templars were an organization of soldier-monks, devoted to the Temple in Jerusalem, whereas the Hospitalers were knights of the Hospital in Jerusalem, where they took care of the sick when they were not fighting. Their hospital work was far more dangerous than facing the Moors, for deadly diseases like the black plague and Typhus were running rampant. Other than that, the knights of both these orders lived very strict lives, bound by strict moral codes, and spent all their free time in prayer. The Templars were eventually massacred by the French king, Philip the Fair, who wanted all the supposed riches of the order. His excuse was that they prayed before the ‘Face of a Man”, which we now know was the Shroud of Turin, which was in their keeping.
Richard says
I cannot comprehend any atheist being opposed to God. Indeed, Islam is the ideal religion for any man who does not believe in God. You can do anything you want to any non-Muslim you want and you are glorified for it
on earth. Your friends will even help you. Rob, rape, murder and torture. What a fine Muslim you are! will say your buddies. Faking a belief in allah is a tiny price to pay for all that. You need have no conscience because those you are harming are not really human, any me than you are, believing as an atheist. If there is no God, then everything on earth is just a chance concoction of chemicals with no soul and no good or bad, so killing or torturing someone is no more evil than flushing a can of Draino down the toilet. Why be a “Humanist” if “Humans” are nothing but bubbling chemicals? Charity (which actually means “the love of God) would be a ridiculous waste of money, just as helping the poor, sick or dying would be a stupid waste of time. If I am wrong delighting in believing in God and His angels and saints, I will never know it when I die, and will have lost nothing in the joys I had meditating on them and loving them in life; but if an atheist is wrong in believing he or she is safe sinning because God does not exist, they will know it when they die – and for all eternity. “Stop, Drop and Roll” does not work with the fires of hell. Besides, as one wonderful commentator keeps writing in this blog, (God bless her!!!), there is an enormous amount of evidence proving the veracity of the Bible. As Joshua said to the Israelites upon entering the Promised Land: “Now each of you must choose what god he will follow; but as for me and my family, we choose the Lord!”
infidel says
The point to note here that even the SO CALLED SUFIS WHO MASQUERADE THEMSELVES AS A PEACEFUL SECT OF ISLAM IN INDIA took delight in these executions….VOW!!!
Cicero says
I know of a Jewess who delights in proclaiming her Sufi faith
Cicero says
I know of a Jewess who delights in proclaiming her Sufi faithh it is very saddening.
Jaladhi says
The Sufis are just as murderous as the rest of the bunch. And as for “spirituality” – there NO spirituality in Islam!
Diane says
Over 25 years ago, I had a female teacher, in College, who said she was “Sufi”. Back then, I didn’t know what it meant. She seemed nice enough…. but the current information I’m learning, day by day, is startling.
gravenimage says
Yes–Sufis actually preach violent Jihad, as well.
FYI says
saladin was clearly following the sunnah of his mass-murdering prophet muhammed.
No compassion for POWs,no mercy.And,if true about displaying the cross upside down{something only the truly demonic or evil would ever do..}well,that says it all about the Godless savagery of allah’s followers.
I’m sure saladin’s face was not joyful at the moment of his death:especially given the realization that the appointed Judge is a Jew ……Jesus Christ.God will most surely punish the wicked,and since all mass murderers are enemies of God,they can expect no mercy upon their demonic souls.
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Lebel says
Sorry these are soldiers that were executed, right?
Are such acts not in line with the military standards of the day or is it only evil when \Muslims do it?
btw we missed the anniversary of the siege of Jerusalem (June 15) where the crusaders massacred jewish and Muslim civlians to clean the city for God.
Mo says
@ Lebel
I am so sick of the, “BUT CHRISTIANS!” routine, every time Islam and its atrocities are mentioned. No one is talking about Christians/Christianity. Address ISLAM, the point of this post and this entire site.
If you’d ever read the Bible you’d know the Bible has zero open ended commands for Christians or Jews to commit violence against unbelievers. That is why there are no Jews or Christians committing such acts, all over the world, on a regular basis, in obedience to those open ended commands.
Okay? So, ENOUGH about a book you’ve never read and a religion you know and care nothing about. I am sick to death of people like you spewing the same nonsense at every turn.
This is not about Christianity. This is about ISLAM. Address it!
Lebel says
It’s not but christians, it’s pointing out that there is nothing unique about this scenario. It is extremely important given the ignorance of many jihadwatchers and the fact that they do not question any of the information they are fed by Robert Spencer.
My main point is actually that there is nothing unique about the behavior of Muslim empires and the evidence is that other empires behaved exactly the same way (despite for example adhering to peaceful religion like Christianity).
Brian hoff says
It was common practice on both side.
Lebel says
This is jihadwatch so 1) it’s only bad when Muslims do it and 2) when Christians (or other non-Muslims) kill Muslims it’s either by accident or they were pushed into it by evil Muslims.
gravenimage says
Actually, mass slaughter of captured and disarmed enemy soldiers was *not* common practice. Such prisoners were most often used in prisoner exchanges, and higher-ranking soldiers were most often ransomed.
Lebel and the nasty “Brian hoff”–really, “DefenderofIslam”–either don’t know this, or–more likely–hope that we don’t.
Terry Gain says
Lebel and Hoff
Muhammad presided over the beheading of 900 members of the Jewish Banu Qurayza tribe and then took the most beautiful woman of that tribe as a sex slave.
This is your idea of a holy man? Are you mad?
gravenimage says
Damn good question, Terry.
And Muslims enslaved *all* of the women and children of that unfortunate tribe.
Richard says
Christ was crucified, suffered and died only once, but in such a way as if He died for each of individually, so He has paid for every soul, and those who are not saved (which Scripture says will be the vast majority) are cheating our Lord out of something He has already paid for; so I pray that all souls will be saved, although that most certainly will not be the case. It was the sight of the sins I would commit which caused Him to sweat blood in the Garden. I was there at the pillar with Him with a whip in my hand, carving my sins into His flesh and writing them in His precious Blood. Every day I add weight to His Cross. Every day I add wounds to His Body. His bloody footprints on the way to Calvary is the path of my sinful life which He has washed clean in His Blood. Every time He fell, it was because I pushed Him out of the way whenever He stood between me and some loathsome sin I wanted to commit. And yet He still loves me. That is the greatest miracle of them all.
Mo says
But… but… Hollywood told us Saladin was basically a humanitarian! You mean, they led to us?
Mo says
*lied
Berengaria says
Thank God for Our Christian Crusaders, they bought, with their Blood, our Western Civilization.
Once Again, we need another group of Crusaders to fight to keep our Western Civilization from the Islamic Onslaught.
The UN & the EU have sold out Christianity to the Wretched Muslims, by ordering all Countries to Welcome Islam & its vile Followers into their Beautiful Countries.
Pray we are able to Fight Back against the Enemy, Islam, & force their Savages back into their Hovels of Filth.
KJW says
There are many Muslims in our armed forces. There are 700 Muslim cops in New York City’s force. I was reading some Australians’ comments about this issue as it is a concern for them too. They asked if Muslim soldiers in our armies or police force would fight for us or theirvMyslim brothers. If they follow the wretched and hateful Qur’an, they would not defend non-Muslim citizens in some kind of war on our soil. Given how they act now, such as not taking responsibility for their actions, what they do that pisses people off, no consideration for their demands, etc., it seems likely all these Muslims (many also join security companies and obtain guns) would not be loyal to the Constitution and citizens.
A 21st century nightmare due to religion. Do Muslims not get how other people feel? You don’t see Americans doing Hijra to Islamic countries causing all sorts of problems. It’s not just a government/foreign policy issue anymore, it’s on the people level, and Americans don’t do what they are doing. Something about Islam has corroded their minds. From Malaysia to Saudi Arabia, many don’t even give equal rights to non-Muslims. Are they not ashamed?? We are far ahead of them on all human rights issues. Islam is pathological and the world is worse off for it as we can well see. The Muslim Brotherhood are loathsome, miserable people as well as their followers.
The European says
In Islam, it is for the imam or the Muslim ruler to decide what will be the fate of prisoners of war.
Qur’anic surahs like surah 76,6 or surah 47,4 favour good treatment of prisoners, ransom or manumission, whereas the story of Muhammad, several hadiths and the sira indicate that Muhammad himself killed prisoners or had them killed.
1.After the Battle of Badr, for example, Muhammad’s men slaugthered several Meccans, including a man named Umayya and his son who had been taken prisoner: “I said (would you attack my prisoners? But… the people formed a ring around us as I was protecting them ( This is the man who had taken them prisoner). Then a man drew his sword and cut off his son’s foot so that he fell down and Umayya ( the boy’s father) let out a cry such as I have never heard… They hewed them to pieces with their swords until they were dead,” ( Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 449)
2. Muhammad himself ordered the killing of 800 men and boys from the Qurayza tribe and watched the beheadings himself.
3. When his men had conducted a raid on the tribe of the Banu Fazara, they came back with an elderly woman named Umma Qirfa, and they killed her by “putting a rope to her two legs and to two camels and driving themuntil they rent her in two”, (al-Tabari)
4. When the apostle ordered him to be killed, Uqba said: But who will look after my children, O Muhammad? Muhammad’s reply: Hell. The man was put to death,” ( Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 458 and Abu Dawud 2686) His crime? Well, he had mocked the “prophet” by throwing the entrails of a dead animal on the back of MO while he was praying.(Muslim 4422)
So,regarding the treatment of prisoners of war, a Muslim leader had always the choice between following the more lenient verses of the Qur’an or conforming himself to the example of Muhammad and his harsh and cruel treatment of prisoners. and if he belonged to the Hanafite school of jurisprudence, he might treat them mercifully, but if he was a Maliki, a Shafi’ite or a Hanbalite he would most certainly have them executed..
Killing prisoners is perfectly in line with Islamic teachings -in the Middle Ages and today ( see ISIS), but the crusaders who sacked Jerusalem and massacred its inhabitants could not claim that their doings were in line with Christian teachings; in fact they were violating all moral principles of Christianity. Comparing is not equating!
gravenimage says
Good post, The European.
KJW says
Good post, but 76:6 has to do with Paradise. Did you mean a different Surah?
gravenimage says
July 4 in Islamic history: Muslim leader, “his face joyful,” orders mass execution of Christians
…………………………..
This is the sort of thing that gives pious Muslims joy.
God, I hate Islam.
It also gives the lie to the idea that Saladin was chivalrous–and that Sufis are peaceful.
Terry Gain says
GI
Yes, the evil of Islam and Muhammad is palpable. It’s hard to believe that Islam can survive the Information Age but despite its obvious failures Soviet Communism survived until a political leader with the rhetorical gifts of Ronald Reagan emerged. Muslims are easily the world’s best propagandists so stopping the spread of Islam despite its privations and irrationality is no easy task.
Trump has temporarily slowed the Islamic conquest of America but we are desperately in need of another Ronald Reagan.
gravenimage says
Agree on all points, Terry.
Paul says
Other than the ugly events described, something caught my eye :
“…captured the True Cross and displayed it in Damascus, upside down.”
Yet ANOTHER thing that makes you realise that the cult of Mohammedanism
and Satanism and its rituals are one and the same thing.
Richard says
Jay Boo: The Muslims have no case, but it fits in quite nicely with their policy of forbidding any pictures of Mohammed, who himself was supposedly light-skinned, and their “god” may not have a body, which means he is missing out on all the drunken orgies they promise in their great whorehouse in the sky. That leaves them free to attack Jesus Christ, who, being both God and man, did indeed have a body. They scoff at the pictures of Him with red hair and light skin, but He came from an area called “Milk” because the light skin of its inhabitants. Also, Scripture records that Jesus was descended from King David, whom the Bible says did indeed have read hair. All of that is totally unimportant, however, because everyone on earth are descended from a single couple: Adam and Eve, and therefore, no matter what we look like after thousands of years, everyone on earth are descended from the same parents, so it would be quite proper to portray Jesus as a Jew, a Viking, a Zulu, an Apache, a Japanese, a Chinaman or a Korean because, being descended from Adam and Eve, all those people ultimately have the same blood and the same relationship to Jesus Christ. Otherwise, He could hardly have died for them in the same way He did for the Jews.
And our ancestors travelled. Putting aside the fact that the earliest human remains found in he Americas were that of a Caucasian, when the first white men met the Cherokee Indians, they were surprised that many of the Cherokees had red hair and freckles. They were likely descended from the Phoenicians – the Same Phoenicians who lived in the Holy Land our Lord came from. We look at the present inhabitants of Palestine/Israel and think our Lord must have looked like them, but we really have no idea what the people living there looked like two thousand years ago. Yes, Scandinavia has lots of blue-eyed blondes, but it also has an enormous influx of Africans and Middle-Easterner Muslims who are busy day and night in a frenzy of raping and impregnating those blue-eyed blondes so that their progeny will not look like their light-skinned mothers. As for Vikings, they had blue eyes and blonde or red hair because their religion demanded the sacrifice of the darkest citizens available, which weeded out the brown-eyed brunets. Further, Palestinians today mean noting compared to what they may or may not have looked like two thousand years ago. Interbreeding aside, where you live has a great influence on how your body adapts to that climate. The Bible teaches that all ALL mankind – all races – came from a single man and woman, so all races are one.
ProudKuffar says
Islam is toxic to the mind, body and soul.
J D S says
Of course Saladin’s massacre of Christians happened centuries before July 4, 1776….but Christians have been massacred in every century since Saladin’s Conquest over the Crusaders of that era and thanks to The Hammer, Charles Mattel, Muslims failed to conquer Europe Buffy with no huge army Muslims are using many aspects of “conquering” to establish their satanic rampage worldwide. AND THE WORLD STANDS STILL!
Martyman39 says
Maybe if you read up on how the Crusaders behaved during those times, how many Jews and Muslims they butchered during the Crusades, you might understand where the Muslims were coming from.
gravenimage says
Firstly, the Crusades–though bloody–were first and foremost *defensive* wars against Jihad.
Then, the idea that Muslims have the right to continue to slaughter Infidels almost a millenium after the Crusades is just grotesque.
Further, the idea that Muslims are somehow acting to protect Jews is just ludicrous–Islam sacralizes the genocide of the Jews.
Richard says
Part of it that is hardly ever mentioned is the Islamic massacre of all other peoples’ records, history and literature, such as their destruction of a library in India that was accounted the greatest in the world. This Islamic obliteration of other people’s history and culture continues to this day. A year ago, a Christian monk in the Middle East was photographed sobbing
outside his burning monastery as he watched going up in flames all the hundreds of ancient historical and religious books the building contained. Some of those documents dated back to the forth century and were the only ones of their kind in existence, totally unknown to the outside world. Now they always will be; gone forever. Muslims especially loved devastating religious libraries in the Dark Ages because those libraries contained books considered so sacred that their covers were made of gold embossed with jewels. Into the fire went the books, which were infinitely more valuable than the treasures which covered them, meticulously copied by the monks working in poor light with quill pens. We know little about those times because what we could have known, the Muslims obliterated. Therefore, failing to kill our religion completely, they murdered vast parts of our culture and history. In a sense, this was more of a victory for them than the massacre of Christian men, women and children who now survived, but could not now know really who they were or where they came from. Is there anything good about Islam?
Thomaspj Poovathinkal says
“Therefore failing to kill our Religion”
DID Jesus the Lord give us a Church for a Religion?
Blurb1000 says
Robert, why are you so negative to beheadings? It’s the Law.
Paul Lund says
Only problem is Muhammad was as white as driven snow. It was even decreed that anyone who said he was colored or black would be put to death. Race by the way is a Nazi construct so goose step your way outa here.
Walter Sieruk says
Those violent and vicious jihad –minded Muslims in their murderous persecution of Christians aren’t really going to get away with their destruction of Christians. As the apostle Paul had written each individual Christian is actually, in the View of God, a temple of God. For to Christians, it is written in the Bible “Don’t you know that that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? If anyone destroys God’s Temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.” First Corinthians 3:16,17. [N.I.V.] As in “A man reaps what he sows.” Galatians 6:7.
el Cid 2 says
Too many do not know history.
Those who consider Islam and Western Civilization morally equivalent should watch Bill Warner’s video “Why we Fight”. See “The Center for the Study of Political Islam”.
It details Islam’s relentless 1400 year war against the West.
Steve says
How many were executed? Saladin is usually portrayed as the epitome of chivalry, this is interesting. He also ensalved a lot of the inhabitants of Jeruslam when he took it, contrary to the Hollywood myth.