Missed It By That Much

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Remember that tag line from 'Get Smart'?




History has situations that could be describes in much the same way, such as the events from July 15, 1683, when the Muslims missed the brass ring in their attempt to conquer the world.....stopped at the Gates of Vienna.





1. "The largest Islamic army ever to invade European territory—which is saying much considering that countless invasions preceded it since the eighth century—came and surrounded Vienna, then the heart of the Holy Roman Empire and longtime nemesis of Islam, on July 15, 1683.

2. Some 200,000 Muslim combatants, under the leadership of the Ottomans—the one state in nearly fourteen centuries of Islamic history most dedicated to and founded on the principles of jihad—invaded under the same rationale that so-called “radical” groups, such as the Islamic State, cite to justify their jihad on “infidels.” Or, to quote the leader of the Muslim expedition, Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa, because Vienna was perceived as the head of the infidel snake, it needed to be laid low so that “all the Christians would obey the Ottomans.”



3. ...sources describe this Mustafa as “fanatically anti-Christian.” After capturing a Polish town in 1674 he ordered all the Christian prisoners to be skinned alive and their stuffed hides sent as trophies to Ottoman Sultan Muhammad IV.



4. ...the sultan, “desiring him [Mustafa] to fight generously for the Mahometan faith,” to quote a contemporary European source, placed “the standard of the Prophet…into his hands for the extirpation of infidels, and the increase of Muslemen.”




5. Once the massive Muslim army reached and surrounded the walls of Vienna, Mustafa followed protocol. In 628, his prophet Muhammad had sent an ultimatum to Emperor Heraclius: aslam taslam, “submit [to Islam] and have peace.”

6. Heraclius rejected the summons, jihad was declared against Christendom (as enshrined in Koran 9:29), and in a few decades, two-thirds of the then Christian world—including Spain, all of North Africa, Egypt, and Greater Syria—were conquered.




7. Now, over a thousand years later, the same ultimatum of submission to Islam or death had reached the heart of Europe. "
Eastern Europe’s ‘Subconscious Fear’ of Islam: The Siege of Vienna - Raymond Ibrahim

 

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8. "On the next day, Mustafa unleashed all hell against the city’s walls; and for two months, the holed-up and vastly outnumbered Viennese suffered plague, dysentery, starvation, and many casualties—including women and children—in the name of jihad.



9. on September 12, when the city had reached its final extremity, and the Muslims were about to burst through, Vienna’s prayers were answered. As an anonymous Englishman explained:

After a siege of sixty days, accompanied with a thousand difficulties, sicknesses, want of provisions, and great effusion of blood, after a million of cannon and musquet shot, bombs, granadoes, and all sorts of fireworks, which has changed the face of the fairest and most flourishing city in the world, disfigured and ruined [it] . . . heaven favorably heard the prayers and tears of a cast down and mournful people.




10. The formidable king of Poland, John Sobieski, had finally come at the head of 65,000 heavily-armored Poles, Austrians, and Germans—all hot to avenge the beleaguered city.
“It is not a city alone that we have to save, but the whole of Christianity, of which the city of Vienna is the bulwark,” Sobieski led a thunderous cavalry charge—history’s largest—against and totally routed the Muslim besiegers."
Eastern Europe’s ‘Subconscious Fear’ of Islam: The Siege of Vienna - Raymond Ibrahim

 

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11. The Muslim army had thousands of Christian slaves, captured in their march of conquest toward Vienna, and when Mustapha saw defeat coming….

“…before fleeing, the Muslims ritually slaughtered some 30,000 Christian captives collected during their march to Vienna—raping the women beforehand. On entering the relieved city, the liberators encountered piles of corpses, sewage, and rubble everywhere.



12. It is this history of Islamic aggression—beginning in the fourteenth century when Muslims first established a foothold in Eastern Europe (Thrace), and into the twentieth century when the Ottoman sultanate finally collapsed—that informs Eastern European views on Islam. As one modern Pole, echoing the words of Sobieski, said, “A religious war between Christianity and Islam is once again underway in Europe, just like in the past.”

13. For whatever confused reasons elites hide this sort of history, and “cite lack of integration, economic disparities, and grievances to explain away the exponential growth of terrorism, violence, and sexual assaults that come with living alongside large, unassimilated Muslim populations, Eastern nations tend to see only a continuity of hostility.”
Eastern Europe’s ‘Subconscious Fear’ of Islam: The Siege of Vienna - Raymond Ibrahim



"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana

 

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14. "The military history of Islam and the West covers a thousand years, from the Battle of Yarmuk (636) until 1683. For almost a thousand years, from the first Moorish landing in Spain [711] to the second Turkish siege of Vienna [1683], Europe was under constant threat from Islam," Bernard Lewis elaborates: "All but the easternmost provinces of the Islamic realm had been taken from Christian rulers... North Africa, Egypt, Syria, even Persian-ruled Iraq, had been Christian countries, in which Christianity was older and more deeply rooted than in most of Europe.

Their loss was sorely felt and heightened the fear that a similar fate was in store for Europe," as wave after wave of Islamic attacks crashed against the continent."
The Dire Consequences of Rewriting Western-Muslim History





15. But the King of Poland, John III Sobieski, relieved the siege of Vienna, routed the largest Muslim army ever assembled, and the Pope proclaimed September 12th as a feast day.

“The Holy League formed under Pope Innocent, spearheaded by Sobieski’s Poles and the Austro-German forces, …went on the offensive against the Turks. Two years later, Orthodox Russia joined the Catholic League. Between 1683 and 1697, fifteen major battles were fought between the Turks and the Christians, twelve won by the latter.”
Ibrahim, “The Sword And The Scimitar,” p. 279.



Treaties were signed, territories re-claimed by the Christian forces…..but no one who has studied the history of Islam, or its doctrines, would be led to believe the millennia-long war was over.

 

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16. “…from Islam's first contact with Western civilization and for more than a millennium thereafter, Muslims behaved not unlike the Islamic State and on the same conviction: that Islam commands war on – and the enslavement or slaughter of – non-Muslims.



During this perennial jihad that began in the seventh century, almost three-quarters of Christendom's original territory – including all of North Africa, Egypt, Greater Syria and Anatolia – was permanently swallowed up by Islam.

European nations and territories that were attacked and/or came under Muslim occupation (sometimes for centuries) include: Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Iceland, Denmark, England, Sicily, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Greece, Russia, Poland, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Lithuania, Romania, Albania, Serbia, Armenia, Georgia, Crete, Cyprus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Belarus, Malta and Sardinia.

Between the 15th and 18th centuries alone, approximately five million Europeans were abducted and enslaved in the name of jihad.” The Dire Consequences of Rewriting Western-Muslim History



But.....that was long ago.....

Bygones and all that.....


Is there any reason to bring it up now????



You betcha' there is......

 

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17. Is this material fodder for history books? Or important for contemporary purposes?

The latter.




Most westerners have been trained…..beaten into ignoring both said history, and it’s echoes, daily, throughout the world: most Muslims are not terrorists…but nearly all modern terrorists are Muslim.

“…all around the globe, many Muslims are still exhibiting the same imperial impulse and intolerant supremacism of their forbears (reportedly 215 million Christians are currently experiencing "high levels of persecution," mostly in the Muslim world; others are experiencing a genocide in the name of jihad.)”
Raymond Ibrahim





18. “CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamic State released a video on social media on Thursday calling on its followers to claim victory and wage jihad… It featured the training of Belgian militants suspected in the Nov. 13 shooting and suicide bombing rampage by Islamic State that killed 130 people in Paris.

“Every Muslim who is well aware of the history of Islam, knows that the holy war against infidels is an integral part of Islam, and those who read history would know.” Islamic State video calls for jihad after Brussels blasts - Reuters




You may believe the war is over, that it is just history.....

They don’t.