PJM: This week in history, a large fleet transporting tens of thousands of jihadists across the Sea of Marmara was either drowned in a vicious sea-storm or engulfed in flames from a volcanic eruption.
Far from dying in anguish, one year earlier, in August 717, these selfsame jihadists were part of one of the largest (200,000 fighters) and most confident Islamic armies ever to invade and seek to conquer Constantinople, the capital of Eastern Christendom.
Although the caliphs had conquered thousands of square miles of Christian territory—from Syria in the east to Spain in the west—they were discontent; for their prophet, Muhammad, had, in the guise of a “prophecy,” personally called for the conquest of Constantinople—promising paradisiacal rewards beyond imagination (which is saying much) for the one who would accomplish it.
While headed towards Constantinople, and devastating every other Christian village on the way with, to quote a chronicler, “both sword and fire,” emir Maslama, the caliph’s brother, vowed that he would “enter this city knowing that it is the capital of Christianity and its glory; my only purpose in entering it is to uphold Islam and humiliate unbelief.” read more
This week in present day: Joe runs and hides.
This week in present day: Constantidiot Jackass Joe has Western Civilization on a collision course with disaster!
Why did Constantinople get the Works?
Constantinople fell after being sacked by Christian crusaders egged on my Venice in 1204. Not that the Byzantines were all that great at managing their ever shrinking realm, still the Muslims needed the West to weaken Constantinople before they finally conquered it 250 years later.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Constantinople#:~:text=The%20sack%20of%20Constantinople%20is%20a%20major%20turning,largest%20Christian%20city%20was%20unprecedented%20and%20immediately%20controversial.
Still, we in the West benefit from not forgetting our centuries long struggle against the decay and decline inherit in the Islamic culture.
Death and dishonor to the followers of the false prophet.
@Bobcat: That’s nobody’s business but the Turks.
(Well, somebody had to say it.)
I’ll have that stuck in My Head all Day at Work!
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I was not put on God’s green earth, to lend credence to FALSE religion.