Charles Martel....Where are thou?
Here's a very interesting article detailing how the Christian faith, with fine warriors like Charles Martel under its banner, were able to stop the onslaught of Islam onto Europe and what long-term effects this had on the world at large. Namely that Islam was not able to conquer the world.
Many people don't realize it, but the notion of Islam imposing a world-wide empire is at the core of Islamic political thinking. Islam has little if any regard for local culture and traditions. So if Islam managed to conquer Europe(then or now), you could pretty much kiss goodbye everything we love so dear about European culture.
With the Muslim riots in France still raging(but thankfully I've read reports that things are beginning to calm down) studying the efforts of Charles Martel and other Christian warriors protecting Europe from Islamic invasion couldn't be more relevant. Hopefully we'll be able to repeat the victory that Martel obtained in 732 A.D.!
Many people don't realize it, but the notion of Islam imposing a world-wide empire is at the core of Islamic political thinking. Islam has little if any regard for local culture and traditions. So if Islam managed to conquer Europe(then or now), you could pretty much kiss goodbye everything we love so dear about European culture.
With the Muslim riots in France still raging(but thankfully I've read reports that things are beginning to calm down) studying the efforts of Charles Martel and other Christian warriors protecting Europe from Islamic invasion couldn't be more relevant. Hopefully we'll be able to repeat the victory that Martel obtained in 732 A.D.!
posted by Perun at
3:31 PM
3 Comments:
Thanks for the link, Perun. A good article overall. One of the less-known stories of Europe's history is how powerful and relatively recent the Islamic pressure on Europe has been. While Charles Martel may have stopped the Muslim advance into Europe from the southwest, that advance continued into the 17th century through the Balkins.
"Eminent British Historian Warns of
an Islamicized Europe in Fifty Years"
http://theoccidentalquarterly.com/news/story.php?id=478
I'll have to check that article out, even though I don't care for the Occident Quarterly too much. They're too race-materialist for my tastes, and their pro-Eugenics attitude is something I can never EVER support!
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