Progressive Europe erased or rewrote its own history. Now
they can't recognize an invasion by people to whom history is everything.
The world as understood by Islamic nations
varies wildly from the Western nations’ understanding of the world. Whereas
Muslims see the world through the lens of history, the West has jettisoned or
rewritten history to suit its ideologies.
This
dichotomy of Muslim and Western thinking is evident everywhere. When the
Islamic State declared that it will “conquer Rome” and “break its crosses,” few
in the West realized that those are the verbatim words and
goals of Islam’s founder and his companions as recorded in Muslim sources —
words and goals that prompted over a thousand years of jihad on Europe.
Most recently, the Islamic State released a map of the areas it plans on
expanding into over the next five years. Not only are Mideast and Asian regions
included, but the map includes European lands: Portugal, Spain, Hungary, the
Czech Republic, Slovakia, Greece, parts of Russia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Romania,
Armenia, Georgia, Crete, and Cyprus.
The
reason for this is simple. According to Islamic law, once a country has been
conquered (or “opened,” as the euphemistic Arabic words it), it becomes Islamic
in perpetuity.
This,
incidentally, is the real reason Muslims despise Israel. The motivation is not
sympathy for the Palestinians — if it was, neighboring Arab nations would’ve
absorbed them long ago, just as they would be absorbing all of today’s Muslim
refugees. No, Israel is hated because the descendants of “apes and pigs” —
according to the Koran — dare to rule land that was once “opened” by jihad and
therefore must be returned to Islam. (Read more about Islam’s “How Dare You?” phenomenon to understand the source
of Islamic rage.)
All
of the aforementioned European nations are seen as being currently “occupied”
by Christian “infidels” and in need of “liberation.” This
is why jihadi organizations refer to terrorist attacks on such countries as
“defensive jihads.”One rarely hears about Islamic designs on European
nations because they are large and blocked together, altogether distant from
the Muslim world. Conversely, tiny Israel is in the heart of the Islamic world,
hence it has received most of the jihadi attention: it was a more realistic
conquest. But now that the “caliphate” has been reborn and is expanding before
a paralytic West, dreams of reconquering portions of Europe — if not through
jihad, then through migration — are becoming more plausible, perhaps more so
than conquering Israel.
Because
of their historical experiences with Islam, some central and east European
nations are aware of Muslim aspirations. Hungary’s prime minister even cited
his nation’s unpleasant past under Islamic rule (in the guise of the Ottoman
Empire) as a reason to disallow Muslim refugees from entering. But for more
“enlightened” Western nations — that is, for idealistic nations that reject or
rewrite history according to their subjective fantasies — Hungary’s reasoning
is unjust, inhumane, and racist.
To
be sure, most of Europe has experience with Islamic depredations. As late as
the 17th century, even Iceland was being invaded by Muslim slave traders.
Roughly 800 years earlier, in 846, Rome was sacked and the Vatican defiled by
Muslim raiders.
Some
of the Muslims migrating to Italy vow to do the same today, and Pope Francis
acknowledges it — yet he still suggests that “you can take precautions, and put
these people to work.”
We’ve
seen this sort of thinking before: the U.S. State
Department cited a lack of “job opportunities” as reason for the existence of
the Islamic State.
Perhaps
because the UK, Scandinavia, and North America were never conquered and
occupied by the sword of Islam — unlike the southeast European nations that are
rejecting Muslim refugees — they feel free to rewrite history according to
their subjective ideals. Specifically, they stress that historic Christianity
is bad and all other religions and people are good. Indeed, books and courses
on the “sins” of Christian Europe from the Crusades to colonialism abound.
(Most recently, a book traced the rise of Islamic supremacism
in Egypt to the disciplining of a rude Muslim girl by a Christian nun.)
This
“new history” – which claims that Muslims are the historic “victims” of “intolerant” Western
Christians —
has metastasized everywhere, from high school to college and from Hollywood to
the news media, institutions which are becoming increasingly harder to
distinguish from one another. When U.S. President Barack Obama condemned medieval Christians as a way to relativize Islamic
State atrocities — or at best to claim that religion,
any religion, isnever the driving force of violence — he
was merely being representative of the mainstream way history is taught in the
West.
Even
good, authoritative books of history contribute to this distorted thinking.
While such works may mention “Ottoman expansion” into Europe, the Islamic
element is omitted. Turks are portrayed as just another competitive people, out
to carve a niche for themselves in Europe with motivations no different than,
say, the Austrians, their rivals. That the “Ottomans” were operating under the
distinctly Islamic banner of jihad, just like the Islamic State is today, is
never made clear.
Generations
of this false history have led the West to think that being suspicious or
judgmental of Muslims is unacceptable, and that Muslims need to be accommodated.
Perhaps then, they’ll like the West.
Such
is progressive wisdom.
Meanwhile,
in schools across much of the Muslim world, children are being indoctrinated
into glorifying and reminiscing about the jihadi conquests of yore — conquests
by the sword and in the name of Allah. While the progressive West demonizes
European/Christian history — when I was in elementary school, Christopher
Columbus was a hero, when I got into college, he became a villain — Mehmet the
Conqueror, whose atrocities against Christian Europeans make the Islamic State
look like boy scouts, is praised every year in “secular” Turkey on the anniversary of the savage sack of Constantinople.
The
result of Western fantasies and Islamic history is that today Muslims are
entering the West unfettered in the guise of refugees. They refuse to
assimilate with the “infidels,” and form enclaves — in Islamic terminology, ribats –
that serve as frontier posts to wage jihad against the infidel one way or another.
This
in not conjecture. The Islamic State is intentionally driving the refugee
phenomenon, and has promised to send half a million people — mostly Muslims —
into Europe. It claims that 4,000 of these refugees are its
own operatives:
Just wait. … It’s our dream that there should
be a caliphate not only in Syria but in all the world, and we will have it
soon, inshallah.
It
is often said that those who ignore history are destined to repeat it. What
happens to those who rewrite history in a way to demonize their ancestors while
whitewashing the crimes of their ancestors’ enemies? The result is before us.
History is not repeating itself; sword-waving Muslims are not militarily
conquering Europe. Rather, they are being allowed to walk right in.
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Robert Spencer explains the larger implications of the fight against the Islamic State
11: 11 into the video
“As a matter of
fact, last February they [ISIS] explained to us after the manner of Hitler in
Mein Kampf, exactly what they were going to do and how they are going to do it,
and they said last February, that they are going to flood Europe with 500
thousand refugees. Does that sound familiar? Do you think conceivably there can
be any connection to this present refugee crisis? Of course, world leaders
Barak Obama, David Cameron and Angela Merkel and all the rest of them, they all
are sure that, of course, there is no possible connection between the Islamic
State threatening to flood Europe with refugees, just a few months ago, and
Europe being flooded with refugees now. Any connection would be inconceivable.
However the Islam State, a spokesman from them recently said “we’ve already got
4000 of our men into Europe among the refugees and more are coming all the
time.”
