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Slate Wants You to Think Columbus Was ‘Driven by Islamophobia’

Oct 14, 2020 5:00 pm By Robert Spencer 15 Comments

My latest in PJ Media:

Yes, the author of this article in the far-Left propaganda organ Slate is apparently really named Rebecca Onion, but this is not The Onion. Christopher Columbus was a “genocidal murderer,” something that Onion’s interviewee Alan Mikhail claims, to which the intrepid Onion replies: “Oh! Of course, I assumed the ‘genocidal murderer’ part was understood, but thank you for making that clear.” Even worse, Columbus – or so Mikhail and Slate would have you believe – was motivated to sail the ocean blue in 1492 by the paranoid fear that “Islam is everywhere; Muslims are all around us.” You are reading this in North America today, you see, because of “Islamophobia.” For shame, infidel! Start packing.

In the entire interview, Onion and Mikhail both behave as if Columbus set out for the New World because of what Mikhail calls “anti-Muslim sentiment,” while doing their best to give the impression that this sentiment was a baseless prejudice, “an ideological extension the Crusades.” Mikhail discusses the fall of Constantinople in 1453 as a cause of this fear, without mentioning the fact that, as The History of Jihad shows, the warriors of jihad entered the great city on May 29, 1453, they made the streets run with rivers of blood. Muslims raided monasteries and convents, emptying them of their inhabitants, and plundered private houses.

In this course of this plunder, pillage, and wanton murder, the jihadis entered Hagia Sophia, which for nearly a thousand years had been the grandest church in Christendom. The venerable old building was filled with Orthodox Christians: the faithful had gathered within its hallowed walls to pray during the city’s last agony. The Muslims halted the celebration of Orthros (morning prayer), while the priests, according to legend, took the sacred vessels and disappeared into the cathedral’s eastern wall, through which they shall return to complete the divine service one day. Right in the church, the jihad warriors then killed the elderly and weak and led the rest off into slavery.

There is much more. Read the rest here.

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  1. gravenimage says

    Oct 14, 2020 at 10:17 pm

    Slate Wants You to Think Columbus Was ‘Driven by Islamophobia’
    …………..

    Just ludicrous–as though Europe wanting direct access to the spice routes after the brutal Islamic conquest of Constantinople was “Islamophobic”.

    Reply
  2. Brando says

    Oct 14, 2020 at 10:44 pm

    SLATE is a LEFTIST journal and REBECCA ONION both promote BLUEPILL info.We in the redpill/blackpill group know their ideas,Slate also promotes Radical Feminism.

    AN EXAMPLE

    Their idea that MEN are responsible for Most of the Evils in Western Society.But there are some women intellectuals who are CLASSICAL LIBERALS ( First Cousins of Libertarians),and they are AGAINST RADICAL FEMINISM.

    There are many youtube videos with them:

    1.CHRISTINA HOFF SOMMERS (write “Factual Feminist” in youtube,and her videos have been seen by 200,000 and 400,000 and 700,000 viewers per video ).

    2.JANICE FIAMENGO: her videos are in “Studio Brule”(youtube)

    3.CAMILLE PAGLIA

    Here is the redpill about the claims of the Radical Feminists:their claim that women are Eternal Victims is wrong:

    1.About 40%(some say 50%) of MOTHERS in the US are SINGLE Mothers( Never Married)

    2.According to US Census Data:around 70-75% of:

    a.HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUTS are the children of SINGLE mothers.

    b.RAPISTS are the sons of SINGLE mothers.

    c.DRUG ADDICTS (like 70-75% of the 12 million COCAINE addicts in the US) are the children of SINGLE mothers.

    d.SINGLE mothers are the Daughters of SINGLE mothers.

    e.VIOLENT CRIMINALS (like MURDERES and ROBBERS ) are the children of SINGLE mothers.

    A RAPE CULTURE

    Slate and its Radical Feminists speak of a Rape Culture in US society,yet don’t want to admit:

    1.That 70-75% of RAPISTS are the sons of SINGLE mothers.

    2.Plus THREE out of FOUR rapes are committed by someone KNOWN to the victim (75%)(acquaintance or relative)

    STATISTICS

    According to the website of the National Sexual Violence Resource Center(US)

    https://www.nsvrc.org/sites/default/files/publications_nsvrc_factsheet_media-packet_statistics-about-sexual-violence_0.pdf

    1.”ONE in FIVE women will be raped” ( That is 20% of AMERICAN WOMEN )

    2.”In EIGHT out of 10 CASES of rape, the victim KNEW the
    person who sexually assaulted them”

    3.” 34% of people who sexually abuse a child are FAMILY MEMBERS”

    WHY ARE SINGLE MOTHERS INCAPABLE OF INSTILLING VALUES?

    If the SON does not turn out to be a Dangerous Antisocial ( even capable of Raping Female Relatives ), he often turns out to be a man who has a WEAK CHARACTER, full of INSECURITIES.

    Single mothers who in spite of RECEIVING GOVERNMENT MONEY,financial assistance,

    are still too dumb to instill basic logical values in their daughters and sons that would make them turn out to be NORMAL. And simply for stating such data we redpillers/blackpillers are attacked as Dangerous/Extremists/Hate Group.

    Reply
    • william carr says

      Oct 15, 2020 at 9:47 am

      WHY ARE SINGLE MOTHERS INCAPABLE OF INSTILLING VALUES?
      Silly question, most likely because they are working two or more jobs to put food on the table and pay rent. Thus the kids, mainly boys are left to find companionship in local street gang, which become their ‘family’. There is lack of an authority figure and role model, though the sort of man who would leave a woman alone with kids HE fathered would not be much of a role model anyway.

      Reply
      • Brando says

        Oct 15, 2020 at 11:20 am

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        5.A woman who gets 1,000 FANS,each of who pays $5/month, gets $60,000 per YEAR.Or if they pay $10/month…..$120,000/year.

        6.Those girls and women are LAUGHING at those guys, and we have one case of an EX-OPTICIAN girl who PRETENDS to be a DOG ( 2020 )and gets:

        minimum $100,000 per MONTH:

        Read:

        “Woman, 21, quits her job in opticians to act like a dog on OnlyFans”

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        Reply
        • gravenimage says

          Oct 15, 2020 at 8:46 pm

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          This may also be illegal in many places.

  3. Art says

    Oct 15, 2020 at 2:22 am

    Islam and its “intellectuals” are so filled with bullshit it is almost funny, if everybody was smart enough to see through the bullshit they spread.
    That said, I could actually justify treating Islam as it treats Christians and Jews and, well, every real religion and even deviants of Islam itself.

    Reply
  4. njlamer says

    Oct 15, 2020 at 8:07 am

    Muslims murdered more people than Columbus.. By about 10 million…

    Reply
    • william Carr says

      Oct 15, 2020 at 9:50 am

      Multiply that by about 1 or two hundreds. See R.Spencer’s History of Jihad

      Reply
  5. wpm says

    Oct 15, 2020 at 11:27 am

    By history Muslim when they pushed into India starting over1000 years ago murder more then 50 million Indians. Columbus land in the New world more native Americans died of European diseases then Columbus try to “murder” .By the way native Americans were enslaving, fighting, killing and in many cases cannibalizing members of tribes they were at war with before Columbus set foot in the new world .Columbus was payed to try to find a new way to the far east by passing Islamic pirates at sea, and Islamic highway on land .I guess to Rebeca Onion it is Islamophobia to not want to robbed, murder or enslaved by our” Muslim overlords”.

    Reply
    • b.a. freeman says

      Oct 15, 2020 at 2:38 pm

      wpm, i think your estimate of 50 million murders of indians by the ummah is a little low. i have seen estimates that range from 120 million to 270 million. keep in mind that the wholesale killing didn’t stop until the brits had consolidated their hold, and of course, the standard 19th-century attitude of whites towards dark-skinned people didn’t make things peachy, either. and finally, the ummah is *S*T*I*L*L* murdering hindus (https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/10/india-muslim-offers-to-discuss-marriage-with-daughters-hindu-boyfriend-murders-him).

      islam is a cult caused by a mind-disease. scratch that; it *I*S* a mind disease.

      Reply
      • wpm says

        Oct 15, 2020 at 2:44 pm

        =1
        The killing goes on to this day

        Reply
    • b.a. freeman says

      Oct 15, 2020 at 2:40 pm

      BTW, i *love* your idea that it is islamophobic to not want to be robbed, enslaved, or murdered; every free person who is educated about islam needs to hold the ummah’s feet to the fire with statements like that!

      Reply
  6. Harryagain says

    Oct 15, 2020 at 12:36 pm

    Colombus was looking for a short cut to China, yes,because the “silk road” was cut for luxury goods for the wealthy.
    He never set foot in the future USA. He id land in various Caribbean islands, Venezuela and Mexico.
    Colombus never admitted to not finding China/Asia.
    He was responsible for thousands of deaths and slavery .

    Reply
    • b.a. freeman says

      Oct 15, 2020 at 3:26 pm

      “He was responsible for thousands of deaths and slavery.”

      … as opposed to HUNDREDS of MILLIONS of deaths, and 3 or 4 times – if not more – the number of slaves taken by the ummah, who PIONEERED commercial chattel slavery in europe and africa. if we’re keeping track, that make’s the admirals kill count about ZERO POINT 1 – or LESS – percent of the number of deaths caused by the ummah.

      and yes, all told, many millions of the people descended from prehistoric immigrants to the americas were killed by the european incursion (including chris’s kills). even so, the estimated population of the americas was around 20 million (see https://worldmapper.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/People_TotalPopulation_1500.xlsx, rows 8, 9, and 10) to 100 million (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas) in 1500; the 20 million number might be low, but the 100 million is almost certainly too high. if EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING living in the western hemisphere had been killed by the europeans, it would still be close to an order of magnitude less than the number killed by muslims – and for no reason other than the victims of the ummah had the wrong religion and refused to give it up.

      swallow leftist lies much?

      Reply
  7. wpm says

    Oct 15, 2020 at 2:42 pm

    “He is responsible for thousand of deaths and slavery”
    There was slavery practice in Mexico ,central America, along with cannibalism by native Americans ,whole capture villages butcher to please pagan gods This all went on before Columbus set foot in the “Americas ” (news flash Mexico is part of North America ,Venezuela is part of South America).It was not only silk for the wealthy but also spices found only in Asia used by many people in Europe. Many tribes join with Columbus to fight other rival tribes .Many Native Americans died off because they had no resistance to European diseases. Slavery was practice in Asia , Africa, the middle east ,and Europe in Columbus time .No civilization hands are clean from the practice of slavery .What does this have to do with so called Islamophobia ?Islam has not rejected the idea of slavery as part of life under Sharia ,it has not rejected the idea that Moslems should own non-Moslems as slave subjects. Modern western governments have reject the institution of slavery.

    Reply

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