Mark Steyn in his usual succinct way points out what many of us have written – that once a territory is part of the Dar al-Islam – it always remains so in the eyes of the Muslims and this includes Spain. The Jewish community of Morocco is now 1% of what it once was several decades ago. Ironically in the 1930′s the cry of the anti Semites was “Jews to Palestine”, now it is “Jews out of Palestine” – as Helen Thomas so hatefully put it “Go back home to Poland and Germany”.
by Mark Steyn
Thanks to the wonders of globalization, I’m writing this in a fairly decrepit salon de thé off the rue de la Liberté in Tangiers, enjoying a coffee and a stale croissant grilled and flattened into a panini. What could be more authentically Moroccan? For some reason, the napkins are emblazoned with “Gracias por su visita.”
Through a blizzard of flies, I can just about make out the plasma TV up in the corner on which Jimmy Carter, dubbed into Arabic, is denouncing Israel. Al Jazeera doesn’t so much cover the Zionist Entity as feast on it, hour after hour, without end. So here, at the western frontier of the Muslim world (if you don’t include Yorkshire), the only news that matters is from a tiny strip of land barely wider at its narrowest point than a rural Canadian township way down the other end of the Mediterranean.
Notwithstanding saturation coverage of the “Massacre In The Med” (as the front page headline in Britain’s Daily Mirror put it), there are other Jewish stories in the news. This one caught my eye in Canada’s Shalom Life: “No danger to the Jewish cemeteries in Tangiers.” Apparently, the old Jewish hospital in this ancient port city was torn down a couple of months back, and the Moroccan Jewish diaspora back in Toronto worried that their graveyards might be next on the list. Not to worry, Abraham Azancot assured Shalom Life readers. The Jewish cemetery on the rue du Portugal is perfectly safe. “Its sanctity has consistently been respected by the local government that is actually providing the community with resources to assist in its current grooming.”
[...]
You can sense the same process already under way in, say, London, the 13th-biggest Jewish city in the world, but one with an aging population; and in Malmö, Sweden, where a surge in anti-Semitism from, ahem, certain quarters has led Jewish residents to abandon the city for Stockholm and beyond; and in Odense, Denmark, where last year superintendent Olav Nielsen announced he would no longer admit Jewish children to the local school. The Jewish presence almost anywhere on the map is as precarious as, to coin a phrase, a fiddler on the roof. And Israel’s enemies are determined that the biggest Jewish community of all should be just as precarious and prove just as impermanent.
In 1936, during the Cable Street riots, the British Union of Fascists jeered at London Jews, “Go back to Palestine!”, “Palestine” being in those days the designation for the Jewish homeland. Last week, Helen Thomas, the doyenne of the White House press corps, jeered at today’s Jews, “Get the hell out of Palestine,” “Palestine” being now the designation for the land illegally occupied by the Jewish apartheid state. “Go home,” advised Miss Thomas, “to Poland and Germany.” Wherever a Jew is, whatever a Jew is, he should be something else somewhere else. And then he can be hated for that, too.
North Korea sinks a South Korean ship; hundreds of thousands of people die in the Sudan; millions die in the Congo. But 10 men die at the hands of Israeli commandos and it dominates the news day in, day out for weeks, with UN resolutions, international investigations, calls for boycotts, and every Western prime minister and foreign minister expected to rise in parliament and express the outrage of the international community.
Odd. But why?
Read the rest here: The lesson of a Jewish cemetery
Tags: Mark Steyn
NOt to OT the thread before it has begun but the USA has come back from 2-0 down to tie the game with 7 minutes to go. And they just scored the go ahead but the ref called it off because he hates America because it was good
@1. Nevergiveup
Watched the match…even the german sport announcer said “the Amis were robbed.”
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
Yeah that ref sucked. That last goal was good. if there was any foul, it was against us
I don’t understand the fascination with metric football. Of course, I don’t understand the lure of regular football, either…
Kyron Horman’s Stepmom Under Scrutiny in Missing Child Case
I had a feeling about her all the time. The story never sounded right
@ Nevergiveup:
Yep, I just watched the robbery as well. Slovenia was holding at least three US players. It was a clean play by the US and it was a goal.
Soccer, Ironfist, soccer. Football is the real sport.
@Nevergiveup
The ref never gave a reason or named a penalty for disallowing the goal. The germans replayed it a couple of times and said it was a clean one and should have been allowed. Stupid game and this is just another reason why.
@ Buckeye Abroad:
They said it was the officials first World Cup game.
@ Nevergiveup:
Goal redistribution?
@8 Bumr50
With decisions like that, it should be his last.
Back OT- America has a real opportunity to stop the Jewish scapegoat buck here, if we can elect the right people.
The momentum appears to be on our side.
Oh good grief.
To be honest one thing that amazes me is that Hilliary and Bill seem to complicate with this anti-Israel anti-American President and willing to see what’s left of their reputations go down in flames with him?
Did y’all ever think that the ref was trying to prevent Президент Оба́ма from attending a second-round game, or worse yet, a Final? It’d have been a nightmare you know!
/
@ Iron Fist:
ya know what would make soccer fun to watch……
landmines
World Cup: 4 ‘missing’ N. Korean players turn up at practice
Published: 06.18.10, 19:08 / Israel News
The four North Korean soccer players reported as “missing” have turned up for World Cup practice.
The four players missed North Korea’s match Tuesday against Brazil. FIFA denied the players were ever missing and said they were left out of Tuesday’s lineup because of a technical error.
Too bad then, that their families in North Korea are already dead?
rain of lead wrote:
Maybe throw in some tiger pits like in Gladiator.
They love him! They really, really love him!
/not
Poll Reveals Growing Muslim Antipathy to Obama Foreign Policy
m wrote:
I guess that unclenched fist was met by a kick in the nuts!
rain of lead wrote:
oh wait, found this instead
bwahahahahaha
Vuvuzela too loud? Wait for the kuduzela
Vuvuzela too loud? Wait for the kuduzela
Football fans worried that blasts from the vuvuzela could damage their hearing have been warned that an even louder horn – the kuduzela – could soon be appearing in stadiums around the world.
By Martin Evans in Cape Town
Published: 1:21PM BST 18 Jun 2010
Link to this video Based on the shape of the horns of the kudu antelope, the instrument is longer than the vuvuzela and emits a deeper and noisier sound.
The mouthpiece is on the side and they are more difficult to master but South Africans predict they could soon become a fixture at matches around the world
The kuduzela has been a traditional instrument among many African cultures for centuries and was used to call warriors into battle.
Fifa issued a ban on kuduzelas at World Cup stadiums because they are heavier and longer than the vuvuzela and there was concern that they could be used as weapons.
But companies are already manufacturing thousands of the horns in a lighter plastic so that they can be taken into matches once the World Cup is over
again I say….Bwahahahaha!
@ m:
@ Speranza:
They don’t respect him because he is weak. The only thing they respect is strength, power and the willingness to use them.
huckfunn wrote:
Fuck respect. I want those bastards to FEAR us.
rain of lead wrote:
Already been thought of and expanded.
@ m:
That must really make him sad!
@ Nevergiveup:
Exactly, you don’t see them messing with China.
@ rain of lead:
the vuvuzela were banned at Yankee Stadium.
@ Nevergiveup:
Too bad then, that their families in North Korea are already dead?
That’s what I think!
@ Speranza:
Maybe he just didn’t do it right. I’m sure he’ll keep trying!
(gaah!)
@ huckfunn:
YUP!
Nevergiveup wrote:
In their world, I think fear and respect are damn near synonymous.
@ rain of lead:
That put a smile on my face!
@ m:
He will announce in the increase of Islamic Immigration to AMerica.
The mental breakdown of the far Left spankers is so funny . . . makes me laugh.
It is very evident when you watch a show like Democracy Now. In many ways they see the ‘Obama Administration’ as degrees worse than the ‘Bush Administration’
BTW these are the kinds of Fckrs that would love to see all of our servicemen and women put behind bars for doing what We ask them to do. Makes me want to barf.
rain of lead wrote:
My feelings, ezzackly.
@ huckfunn:
That’s why they don’t mess with China. The Chinese don’t play around, ask the Uighurs.
huckfunn wrote:
Good point.
@ spinmore:
They openly support the Jihad.
The guy leading the US Open is some fat guy
Rodan wrote:
Listen, we’ve tolerated these Fkrs for too long. I hope and pray that We are all committed to righting this ship. Our kids are going to have a long row to ho.
garycooper wrote:
Mine, too.
@ Rodan:
And increased aid or something. We’re just not paying enough jiyza.
Rodan wrote:
Right after 911, the Chicoms banned all air travel from about 18 different countries, all of them muzz. They had the right idea.
Bottom line. There is no “fixing” of islam. It cannot be moderated in any way. You can’t change someone who wants to kill you. You either contain them (like leave them to wallow in a desert in arabia) or you remove the problem… premanently!!!
Anti-Semitism is the hatred of Jews for everything and its opposite.
Jews are too weak (wimps) and too strong (bullies). Jews are too rich (own everything) and too poor (with struggling Jews in European ghettos before the Holocaust and with 5.7 million Jews supposedly being fed every day by U.S. tax dollars today).
In the century leading up to the Holocaust, Jews were seen as Middle Eastern (therefore, outsiders with inferior blood to Europeans).
Now, Jews are seen as European (thus, not belonging in the Middle East and viewed instead as European colonizers).
“Get the hell out of Europe” has turned into “Get the hell out of Palestine.”
Everything and its opposite.
Charles Johnson, Kilgor Trout, Cato the Elder, Dark Fowl, Ludwigged Out, Space Juice, etal are loon commie know nothings of low IQ.
Link: http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com
@ MikeA:
Here in Texas we have scorpions. They’re not the deadly variety but they will sting the bejesus out of ya. You cannot reeducate them or teach them moderation. You cannot bargain with them. You cannot simply leave them alone and hope they won’t sting you. They’ll end up in your bed or in your shoes and they will sting you. I understand them perfectly. Find ‘em and kill ‘em.
Interesting fact about scorpions. They fluorese under a black light. I have an 18 inch tube black light and a 100 foot extension cord. It’s great sport to go hunting them at night around the outside of the house. Wasp spray is the effective weapon of choice.
Nevergiveup wrote:
Think dog without the inbred sense of decency. You’re dealing with pit bulls. A well trained dog respects the owner because he fears the owner. A pit bull who feels no fear is dangerous. It’s that simple.
Anyone watch the video of Hillary announcing that Obama will launch a lawsuit against the AZ 1070 law? If you want to watch a classic parsing of words so that she makes Obama look stupid, and distances herself from such a decision, that will prove to be wildly unpopular, well she must have learned something from Billy-Boy.
AZ governor is furious that she learned a lawsuit was coming from an announcement by a Sec of State in a foreign land, another thing I think Hillary did on her own hook. I bet Obama is FURIOUS, but can do nothing. Hillary is going to use the Sec of State office as long as possible to prep for a run in 2012.
This AZ stuff is going to go front burner, as Obama came and visited Gov Brewer two weeks ago and promised 1,500 or so National Guard withing two weeks. So far nothing zip, nada, and Brewer has called and gotten no answer. But in the meantime FOX news has been increasing coverage of the bloody border, including the closing of a national park to Americans because it has too many illegals, drug runners etc.
Cops being shot down here, that rancher a month ago, kidnappings in Phoenix, second only to Mexico City. Drop houses, gunfights between drug cartels, O, yeah, just one big incident away from this being front page.
@ MikeA:
This is where the left goes particularly bananas. They want to be so sweet to those who want to kill us to get them to fall in love with us all so they won’t want to kill us anymore.
The left sees containment of terrorism as being its root cause.
Nevergiveup wrote:
Fear has a perverse way of eliciting respect.
I can live with that.
@ Eliana:
Sort of to your point, there’s a moonbot who is in dire need of a smacking here.
In west Texas eastern New Mexico there is this “dark brown” stinging scorpion,(the small ones with the curled up tain) its sting is so potent that your hand,foot,leg will go num and it hurts so bad you want to vote Democrat if that will stop the sting. like that bad@ huckfunn:
@ huckfunn:
I always think of the scorpian and frog story. It perfectly shows how islam works.
The story is about a scorpion asking a frog to carry him across a river. The frog is afraid of being stung, but the scorpion reassures him that if it stung the frog, the frog would sink and the scorpion would drown as well. The frog then agrees; nevertheless, in mid-river, the scorpion stings him, dooming the two of them. When asked why, the scorpion explains, “I’m a scorpion; it’s my nature.”
tail@ taxfreekiller:
Eliana wrote:
Just as the Progressive believe that this time Communism/Socialism will work out because the right people are implementing it, appeasing an enemy that despises anything less than raw brutal power will work this time because “damn it, Obama cares”.
Nevergiveup wrote:
I suspect that there are two things at work here: first, that the Clintons—being more or less insiders even if not in Obama’s inner circle—believe that Obama and his handlers and henchmen are going to keep their grip on the government, and want to remain loyal enough to share in the spoils. Second, they may be more in sympathy with Obama’s positions than they felt they could safely show when they were in power.
taxfreekiller wrote:
That’s what we have here in Central Texas. I got stung on my hand and my lips went numb.
Eliana wrote:
Have you ever met individuals who are like that in their interpersonal relationships? I have. They tend to be women, but a few men are like that too. They seek out the “bad boys”, and pass over the nice guys, and then complain about the abusive relationships they find themselves in. And if you suggest dumping the loser, they go into a rage.
Some bad psychology going on.
@ snork:
I like Caroline Glick’s and LatmaTV’s new video.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
I don’t doubt they have no principals. I just thought they were more attuned to what is going on around them. Obama is going to go down in flames ( hopefully we don’t go with him). We will see and anyway a pox on both their houses
The universal, timeless, and unreasoning hatred of Jews is the worlds best proof that there is a Satan, that he is an eternal spirit and is filled with Hatred for God. That he is imprisoned here on earth and can no longer directly attack God, therefor he attacks what God has claimed as His.
Same goes with the hatred of Christianity, cannot get to God, but you can get to those that claim to have a relationship to God. And that is not saying either Jews or Christians are great specimens, or effective salesmen of the existence of God. It goes to the Biblical claim that all men hate God, are in rebellion to God, even if it is hidden down in the depths of their subconscious and spirit.
Drag a professing Christian though a bunch of people that think they are intrinsically good (liberals) and watch the hatred come out. Same thing, drag a tiny nation that has people that claim God gave them some tiny sliver of land, and watch huge nations and billions of people turn into rabid dogs. Anyone paying attention should take pause.
@ Eliana:
That’s great
@ Eliana:
Scheduled already for 7 edt.
@ snork:
You’re describing half the women I’ve ever met.
I’m so glad that I seem to have found a sane one, for once…
RNC just ran a “teaser” about an upcoming story on the ever widening scandal of malfeasance at Arlington National Cemetery. Since the story broke I have yet to see any talking head make the connection with the poor maintenance and trashing of the cemetery and the fact that it is a GOVERNMENT run institution. For me this explains all the crap happening. Government ruins everything it lays its hands on.
taxfreekiller wrote:
Hmmm, but do scorpion’s taste like lobster? Garlic butter anyone?
@ Eliana:
Hey I asked nevergiveup about what you wrote on the overnight about Cyprus and Greece. I’ll find out when I get in touch with my Greek peeps, they might know more.
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
@ snork:
Great!!
One of my all time favorite LatmaTV videos is the “Palestinian Minister of Uncontrollable Rage”.
The character actor really captures the way the “Palestinian” spokespeople say the most ridiculous things in the world while alternately yelling and smiling.
lobo91 wrote:
Ahhh, and there is one of life’s greatest conundrums, if you are the bad boy, you attract the psycho chicks, if you’re not the bad boy the good girls wont come near you.
@ snork:
That’s what happens with me. They assume I’m a bad boy becasue of the music I listen to or my past an ex LK. Then they get to know me and see I’m a good person. They try to take advantage and then my evil side comes out. They always say when I break up with them, why weren’t you this nasty the whole relationship it would of worked. I tell them, I get this way when I have to get rid of the trash.
@ Eliana:
Hey did M email you yet?
@ doriangrey:
Precisely.
things that make you go hmmmm…..
Issa has eye on subpoena team
HERSHEY, Pa.— Rep. Darrell Issa, the conservative firebrand whose specialty is lobbing corruption allegations at the Obama White House, is making plans to hire dozens of subpoena-wielding investigators if Republicans win the House this fall.
Issa has told Republican leadership that if he becomes chairman, he wants to roughly double his staff from 40 to between 70 and 80. And he is not subtle about what that means for President Barack Obama
“That will make all the difference in the world,” he told 400 applauding party members during a dinner at the chocolate-themed Hershey Lodge. “I won’t use it to have corporate America live in fear that we’re going to subpoena everything. I will use it to get the very information that today the White House is either shredding or not producing.”
In other words, Issa wants to be to the Obama administration what Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.) was to the Clinton administration — a subpoena machine in search of White House scandals
(obama) “will no one rid me of this meddlesome congressman?”
@ Rodan:
It seems that the meetings between Greek and Cyprus officials with their Israeli counterparts might have been quiet or even secret.
Cyprus DID refuse to let the Flotilla boats launch towards Gaza from Cyprus, though, and the “Free Gaza” group (or whatever it’s called) is now shutting down their main offices in Cyprus. These are good signs.
@ lobo91:
Congratulations! Lucky chick too! yay!
doriangrey wrote:
Then add on even a smidgen of being less than a “hunk”, let alone disabled, and you might as well be invisible.
@ Eliana:
Keep in mind North Cyprus is occupied by the Turks.
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
Yup.
A friend tells me Italian papers are saying the Utah firing squad is made up of volunteers. Do they have a translation problem?
@ Rodan:
Thanks! I just saw her message and replied.
m wrote:
Thanks. I’m still in a slight state of disbelief over the whole thing, honestly.
@ lobo91:
I’m glad for you!
waldensianspirit wrote:
It’s true, although they’re all state employees.
@ Eliana:
OK.
@ lobo91:
Thanks!
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
I’m convinced most women are evil. The good ones are usually taken.
Rodan wrote:
Most men are probably evil also. It’s just you don’t want to sleep with them
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
Cough cough… Well, I’ve never actually had that problem, being 6’1″ and 160 lbs until I was in my mid 40′s. I always ran into the you’re too beautiful and perfect bullshit.
@ Rodan:
Thanks!
@ 42 huckfunn: chicom as in Chicago?
@ waldensianspirit:
There are cases where I’d be happy to volunteer to be on the ‘firing’ side of one of those…
@ Rodan:
Please! Please! Must I list the things men do to women? The world is in a horrible state in all this.
Nevergiveup wrote:
That’s probably true.
@ Eliana:
My understanding is the Cypriot Greeks are more rightist than their counterparts on the mainland…probably as a consequence of being in close proximity to the Turks. I could see them being more sympathetic to Israel as well.
mfhorn wrote:
You can only volunteer to be on the receiving side once
Rodan wrote:
Watch it, guy. You’re sounding an awful lot like our friend Ned.
waldensianspirit wrote:
How many men are gold-diggers?
The left always talks about proportionate response as a way of handicapping their own side. But the attitude of a lot of the world towards Israel seems vastly disproportionate. It is an odd psychology. On another forum I talk a pretty well reasoned guy, but he went all emotional and livid with anti israel posts during the flotilla. I threw back some stuff at him that people have posted here and he went silent.
The left likes to play up institutional racism. Maybe they should start playing up institutional anti-semetism. there are billions of people in the world getting a false faulty f**cked up education.
Men, love your woman as if she is your own body.
Women, give your heart to the one you are with and quit pining after Ryan Reynolds.
See? With a little balance the world would be a better place.
doriangrey wrote:
Plenty. I just sucked at it
@ 98 doriangrey: TFK’s friend John Kerry would be one.
@ Nevergiveup:
I don’t go that route!
But what ever floats a person’s boat!
@ doriangrey:
John F’n Kerry, John McCain, … quite a few actually
Have ya’ll seen this? I love the Carvelle part.
@ waldensianspirit:
I agree with what you wrote. People should be honest and keep it real!
@ Nevergiveup:
lol!
waldensianspirit wrote:
About as many men are, as women who are not…
@ doriangrey:
John Fuckin’ Kerry.
orangecrush wrote:
HAW!! Good point. From now on anyone using the term “Chicom” needs to clarify.
@ Rodan:
I’ve never quite understood the attaction, personally. Aside from the whole “not going thre” factor, I don’t get why a guy would want to be involved with another guy.
@ 71 Rodan:
For Women the man:
1. Has to be able to stand on his head.
2. Can lose gracefully at Monopoly when you and friend gang up on him
3. Likes his family
For Men the women:
1. lights up when you are thoughtful and give her things
2. Matches you sexually
3. Sticks by you through your rough periods and is forgiving to people
For all: No serious mental illness in the past 3 generations. the funny ones are ok.
@ doriangrey:
Paul Dirac’s mom worked for a pittance from his father most of her adult life. The dad dies and she begins to live. Then the authorities came and explained her late husband never paid taxes; the amount was more than she earned her whole life.
Just one story of many
@ Nevergiveup:
Depends on how bad a shot the people on the other side are.
@ Iron Fist:
Didn’t he serve in Vietnam?
oh my god!
this is so sweet
The IPCC consensus on climate change was phoney, says IPCC insider
The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change misled the press and public into believing that thousands of scientists backed its claims on manmade global warming, according to Mike Hulme, a prominent climate scientist and IPCC insider. The actual number of scientists who backed that claim was “only a few dozen experts,” he states in a paper for Progress in Physical Geography, co-authored with student Martin Mahony.
“Claims such as ‘2,500 of the world’s leading scientists have reached a consensus that human activities are having a significant influence on the climate’ are disingenuous,” the paper states unambiguously, adding that they rendered “the IPCC vulnerable to outside criticism.”
oh noes!
the un LIED!
I am shocked, shocked I say.
nobody tell those fools at the other place, we’d go deaf from the noise of all those heads exploding
mfhorn wrote:
They’re about 10 yards away, with rifles, and they pin a target over the guy’s heart.
It doesn’t require much marksmanship.
@ Jehu:
How true. Having seared their own conscience they seek to destroy any outside themselves less the mere presence of righteousness remind them they are dwelling in darkness.
Piglet-U93 wrote:
Will there be any faith left on the earth…
rain of lead wrote:
Hey now, I used to be a Nearly Practically Almost Famous Rock Star, I like loud noises, well every now and then, I am getting old ya know, but I pretty much always love the sound of bat shit insane barking moonbat leftist assholes heads exploding, specially when it a whole group at ones.
doriangrey wrote:
well DG this is what it would be like
news alert
BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward was relieved from duties today.
BP’s chairman Carl-Henric “Small People” Svanberg will take over PR duties… After all, he cares about the small people.
Yahoo reported:
A day after he was grilled by Congress, BP chief executive Tony Hayward is being demoted. According to Britain’s Sky News, BP Managing Director Bob Dudley will take over day-to-day oversight of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill while BP’s chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg (he of the “small people” comment) will assume major PR duties. (Yes, you read that right—the BP executive who famously expressed his compassion for “the small people” will be tasked with enhancing the company’s public image.)
http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/
Septimania (Southwestern France) was briefly part of the Emirate of Cordoba in the 8th century, so therefore it is Dar al-Islam.
Also, from their base in al-Farakhshinit (aka the Emirate of Fraxinet) in southeastern France (the Gulf of St. Tropez), significant parts of Provence (southeastern France), Savoy (southeastern France and Northwestern Italy), Piedmont (Northwestern Italy), and Switzerland (all the way to modern-day Pontresina ["the bridge of the Saracens"] near the Swiss-Italian and Swiss-Austrian border as well as St. Gallen near the border with Austria) were occupied and colonized by Andalusian mujahedin between the years 888 and 975.
The Great St. Bernard Pass in the Alps between Italy and Switzerland was occupied by the mujahedin who, naturally, levied the jizya on kuffar traveling along this route, occasionally even kidnapping for ransom (or, in the zealous spirit of tawhid, just slaying infidel passers-by).
Though the range of their conquests was limited during this nearly-100-year period (888-975) to the Mediterranean regions of France and Italy as well as Switzerland, they traveled up the Rhone several times and sacked major cities in Burgundy (east-central France)
Cities all throughout southern France, northwestern Italy, and much of Switzerland were raided and conquered and subsequently colonized and Islamized, while other new cities were established in these regions by Saracens with the blessing of the Umayyad Caliph residing in al-Andalus.
Also, the city of Bari (in Puglia, Italy) was conquered by the Saracens in 847 and transformed into an Emirate under Khalfun. Bari, however, was liberated from the Muhammadan yoke in the year 871. Taranto and Brindisi on the Italian mainland underwent similar short-lived conquests.
Also on the Italian mainland, from 861 to 916, al-Muslimin occupied strategic regions in Latium (western-central Italy where Rome [sacked by the fedayeen in 846] is located), conducting constant ghazwat. Civitavecchia, in the outskirts of Rome, was seized in 828, after its entire population had fled, rightly fearing massacre, rape, and enslavement. Today, the town of Saracinesco survives as a reminder of this age of jihad imperialism on the Italian mainland.
Of course, the conquests of the Balearics, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Malta, Rhodes, Crete, and Cyprus are all well-known.
That’s just a small sample of the early futuhat in Europe within the first few centuries of Islam prior to the Crusades.
[No, don't ask me where I've been all this time, and don't ask about the fact that my blog is "gone". I'll only be posting online once-in-a-while.]
Rodan wrote:
Ok, that’s fucked up.
@ Philip_Daniel:
Welcome back!
Hey everyone, new thread!
posted for informational purposes only
no comment pro or con
Simmons Says Nuclear Device Only Option to Stop Oil Flow
Rodan wrote:
Thank you. I’ll be visiting intermittently.
Rodan, were you aware of the scope of the Islamic conquests in Provence, Italy, and Switzerland in the 9th and 10th centuries? The fact that the subjugation of numerous French- and Italian-speaking cities and even of entire Swiss cantons such as Le Valais (in 939) has remained obscure is really discouraging.
Dr. Bostom quotes Islamic history scholar Charles-Emmanuel Duforcq:
m wrote:
I don’t know if you sane women know how many crazy ones there are, and how bizarre they can be. None of this surprises me.
@ Philip_Daniel:
Yes the North African pirates and the Andaluzi Arabs controlled some ports in the 10th Century. They set up emirates. Itw as only when the Byzantines, French and Germans countered attacked in the late 10th century where these strong holds taken. This contributed to extended the dark ages as trade was resitricted.
snork wrote:
There are just as many crazy and psycho men that make Hannibal Lecter seem normal.
@ Rodan:
Take a look at this –
A map of Crimean Tatar ghazwat in Austria, including regions WEST of Vienna.
Again, kept out of the history textbooks…