The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam
“may have begun with the Prophet Muhammad’s veiled threat, issued over 450 years before the Crusaders entered Jerusalem, to neighboring non-Muslim leaders to “embrace Islam and you will be safe.”3 Nor does he discuss the possibility that Muslims may have stoked that “millennial hostility” by seizing Christian lands—which amounted to two-thirds of what had formerly been the Christian world—centuries before the Crusades. Esposito’s “five centuries of peaceful coexistence” were exemplified, he says..., by the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem in 638: “churches and the Christian population were left unmolested.”4 But he doesn’t mention Sophronius’ Christmas sermon for 634, when he complained of the Muslims’ “savage, barbarous, and bloody sword” and of how difficult that sword had made life for the Christians.5 Muhammad vs. Jesus “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”Jesus (Matthew 5:8–10)“Allah assigns for a person who participates in (holy battles) in Allah’s Cause and nothing causes him to do so except belief in Allah and His Messengers, that he will be recompensed by Allah either with a reward, or booty (if he survives) or will be admitted to Paradise (if he is killed in the battle as a martyr).”6 PC Myth: The Crusades were an unprovoked attack by Europe against the Islamic world Wrong.MoreLess
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