Wars of Vital Importance, Historic and Current

 

The name Arab/Israeli Conflict, or the newer more scandalizing title of Israeli/Palestinian Conflict, is actually, if we were to be honest with ourselves, the Islam/Judeo-Christian War for World Domination. What makes this name so difficult for Western minds to wrap their neurons around is because neither Christianity nor especially Judaism has any desire to rule the world but the same cannot be said in any form of honesty of Islam. Yes, the Christians originally had desires to rule the world and becoming the sole or at least the dominant religion on Earth. The leaders of Christianity were disabused of that notion at some point during the Enlightenment at the same time as the concept of a separation between any formal control of governments by religion nor allowing any state religion to be enacted or religion be favored by the government. So Christianity has adopted the concept of a division making religion free from the influences or restrictions of the government though voters of any specific religion are permitted to actually place candidates up for election, they are just restricted by the various governments in the Western World from showing any partiality, support, legal privilege, or other favorable treatments which have been upheld by the courts. The Church of England even though technically a state founded religion; they receive no real preference as a rule throughout the West.

 

Islam, and both the Sunni and Shiite Muslims are not so restricted and everywhere they have gained sufficient power the Muslims will do all within their power to forge Islam as the sole religion permitted by the State. Saudi Arabia has an official religion of Sunni Islam while Iran has an official religion of Shia Islam. They are far from alone. Currently Iraq is having a war, identical to what is happening in Syria, to decide which version of Islam will be supreme and dominate over the other with Iranian forces led by the IRGC (Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps) and with Hezballah support fighting with the remains of the Iraqi Army which has either murdered or forced desertion of any Sunni Muslims making the Iraqi military a purely Shia; or with Syrian forces remaining faithful to Bahir al-Assad and his Alawite Shia Muslims, outfitted military while the central Sunni parts of Iraq and southern and central Syria has fallen under the control of the Islamic State which represents Sunni Islam. The final insanity which is today Iraq as well as Syria is populated by Kurdish peoples who have made their two areas in Iraq and Syria into a singular autonomous zone and their militias are fiercely defending their people despite lack of proper assistance as they had been promised and against any bombing by Turkish Air Force or other interferences by any other forces in the area and would likely be content to just retain their lands and not go on any offensive to gain lands though they might try to reacquire the lands they lost to the Islamic State and perhaps assist the Yazidi retake their mountainous region from which they were forced to flee by what was then known as ISIS and now has changed their preferred name to Islamic State.

 

 

 

Islam, neither Shia nor Sunni, have ever experienced a reformation nor have they ever forsaken the concept of world dominion. Both Shia and Sunni still believe they should not only be the preeminent for Islam but also the foremost religion on the face of all of Earth. Further, Islam fervently believes that any lands which have ever come under the rule of Islam must remain under the rule of Islam for all time and must never be surrender no matter the cost. This has been true concerning Andalusia which was the Islamic name given to Spain and Portugal when they fell under Muslim rule but were freed beginning in 1492 when King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella began the reconquest of Spain and the Iberian Peninsula as well as the Spanish Inquisition which forced the peoples to either flee, convert to Christianity, which meant Catholicism, or be put to death, a very similar fate befalling those who come under the forced rule of the Islamic State except they demand you convert to Sunni Islam or face torturous death which they can publically display on the Internet using such barbarity as a lure to gain followers and to impress fear on their enemies, which are all who are not Sunnis Muslims under Islamic State rule (it had to do with that rule the Earth thing). This is also the reason that no Muslim entity can ever make a peace with Israel which does not entail transforming Israel into a Muslim ruled state with the Jews at best permitted to live as Dhimmi and pay the special Jiyza tax for as long as their Muslim betters permit their existence as a protected second class citizen lower than the Muslim children’s pets which can end at any time at which it will be decided what the fate of those refusing to convert will face, expulsion or execution. Additionally, there is the concept that the Islamic messiah can only come when the Muslims are fighting the Jews everywhere they can be found and the trees and rocks will call out to Muslims saying, “Oh Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him.” There is presumably an exception made where only the Gharkad tree (the Boxthorn tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews. This will presumably only happen when the warriors of Allah, the holy Islamic armies have had one side prevail eliminating the other between Shia and Sunni and the winner of that struggle is close or has acquired complete rule over the entire planet, then the final struggle which commences with the hunting down and extermination of the Jews as the Jews were the first to refuse to accept Allah or Mohammad as a prophet and secondly the followers of Islam believe that the Jews murdered Mohammad through poisoning. Further, there is the rallying cry used by Muslims during the rioting and demonstrations to taunt the IDF, police or other Jews which goes, “Khaybar Khaybar, ya Yahud, Jaish Muhammad, sa Yahud,” which means, “Jews, remember Khaybar, the army of Muhammad is returning.” Below is a video of the actors in an Arab Television Series Khaybar describing the themes, characters and even some of their roles in the shows in their own words for Egyptian television as advertisements for the show before and while it aired translated by MEMRI.

 

 

 

 

There have been in history two main thrusts by which Islamic armies attempted to conquer Europe, one from North Africa into Spain and repulsed at the Battle of Tours where Charles the Hammer Martel repulsed the forces of the Umayyad Caliphate under the command Abd Ar-Rahman Al Ghafiqi. This was the thrust from the west in October 732. The other main assaults came after the fall of Constantinople where the forces of the Ottoman Caliphate (Empire) twice made attempts to seize much of Europe and were likely hoping for their conquest to lead them to Rome itself. Both times, as fate would have it, their efforts came to an end on the outskirts of Vienna. The first battle came in 1529 with Suleiman I as the commander of the Ottoman Caliphate forces with two assisting commanders, Grand Vizier and Pargalı İbrahim Pasha. A combination of causes ended this thrust with the inability to breach the walls and deteriorating weather and excessively long supply lines weakening the Ottoman forces which were outlasted and had to retreat. The second thrust came in 1683 culminating on September 11 and 12 after having begun to lay siege to Vienna on July 14. The crucial turning point gave this battle a hero when King John Sobieski III of Poland and his heavy cavalry (Polish Hussars) ride in to crush the Ottomans wearing heavy plate (pictured below) and carrying pikes on horseback. King Sobieski III leading approximately eighteen thousand heavy horse cavalry, some of the finest in Europe at the time, supported by fifty to sixty thousand German and Austrian troops making up the Holy Roman Army broke the siege and saved Europe once again at the gates to Vienna.

 

 

 

These are the furthest extents to which the armies of Islam ever attained before being repulsed by the European defenders. These defenders are almost nonexistent today and the armies of Islam invading Europe are disguised as refugee families with babies and small children if one is to believe many of the pictures which are often chosen to make the greatest impact and engender as much sympathy for the Islamic refugees within which is the initial seeds for a future army which will rise up all across Europe and the continent will be lost in a single day. The invasion is being planned now and is in progress yet one would be hard pressed to find a single Islamic soldier who is ready to rise up today. The majority of the refugees, the ones who are not Iranian, Pakistani, Taliban or Islamic State planted organizers and eventual leaders, are actually refugee families and single mothers whose husbands have died or been impressed into serving one of the warring parties, are seeking a better life. These refugees will more resemble the families who immigrated to Europe seeking a better life and who contributed working and paying taxes. Even the children will mostly be upright and contributing members of European society. It will be the second or third generation educated either entirely or after school programs or through word of mouth and weekly or weekend classes which will teach them Jihad and slowly train an entire generation of Islamists ready to murder and even die for Allah. These will be children of middle class and upper middle class families which appear to have it all, television, microwave, two cars and kids spoiled and left alone after school to send to the Madrassahs because they promise a proper Islamic and general education but will also choose the leaders of each class to foment the hate and bile necessary for forming an army that will take the entirety of Europe for Allah. This is what Israel is currently facing as the entirety of social media, schools which indoctrinate, camps which provide military training, television which glorifies Jihad, sport teams which incite and teach that sports is a form of training for Jihad where each victory over the infidel proves Islamic superiority and all loses to infidels must be because they cheated or the officials stole it for them and this will build resentment.

 

We watch this in Israel taking place in Gaza and the Arab areas of Judea and Samaria. Since the signing of the Oslo Accords in September of 1993, the Arab areas in Judea and Samaria as well as Gaza have run their own schools, collected their own taxes, collected their own garbage, used largely Israeli provided electricity and water without making payments to the independent private companies who have had to raise rates in Israel to cover the literal tens to hundreds of millions of dollars, let alone shekels, and run their own governments with Gaza run by Hamas and Judea and Samaria run by Fatah and they have even held an election; that’s right, just one election as Mahmoud Abbas rightly fears he would be unseated and lose his multi-million dollar schemes and perhaps lose a lot more. Their entire society is predicated on glorification of the martyrs and raising each generation to aspire to martyrdom and the murder of Jews; that’s right, murder of Jews as they are not satisfied with just Israelis, they mean every Jews even the most secular Jew living the life in Anytown, U.S.A. Mahmoud Abbas has stated any number of times that he demands all of Israel as he just did before the United Nations Human Rights Council session in Geneva where he claimed that the occupation had lasted sixty-seven years, from the founding of Israel and the inability of seven Arab armies to destroy the nascent Jewish State in its crib. These poor youths who are so brainwashed with hatred and so programmed to violence that they are literally bringing a knife or a rock to a gun fight and then their leaders whine about their being shot. One can only imagine what would happen to a Jew charging an Arab in Gaza City except for one small problem, they would never get that far without being shot dead on the spot as soon as they cleared the checkpoint to enter Gaza, and yes a Jew, if they were even permitted, would need pass through an inspection at the same checkpoint that Gazans must pass through to enter Israel. There are no Jews or Israelis living in Gaza and it has been completely turned over to the Arabs to rule and they have ruled that they should fire rockets into Israel ramping it up to hundreds a day until Israel attacks every two years and then they complain that Israel is suppressing their rights to fire rockets into Israel indiscriminately aimed mostly at civilians. Hamas claims they are targeting military targets because they define every Jew as a military target. Much of the deceptions here are due to definitions which the media never bother to discern. They just repeat the lie. The media know that Hamas and Fatah define every Jew as soldiers even in their swaddling cloths and yet to speak or even crawl let alone walk. The difference between Israelis and the Arabs is that where the Arabs celebrate the deaths of each Israeli and celebrate the death of each of their own children attacking soldiers with kitchen knives and many celebrated the 9/11 attacks handing out sweet cakes and candies, the Israeli by and large mourned each and every one of these deaths and will continue to mourn every senseless death in this endless war. The saddest truth is the only way this Arab war with Israel will end is either Israel along with every Jew on Earth is murdered or Israel deals the Arab nations such a defeat that when their children in a thousand years hear the sound of an airliner flying lower than normal will quake and ask their mother, “Mommy, are we going to die now?” This is not what is desired as living together is far more preferable than this constant fighting and deaths of our children on both sides and our older citizens who are well beyond being capable of hurting anybody. Any senseless death is a death too many and there have been far too many on either side. Unfortunately the leadership in Israel will remain unable to do what is necessary as they fear that others might say nasty things about us and denounce us unless we allow ourselves to be slaughtered just as we allowed before we gained our own nation. I want to end with a question for my fellow Jews; how many of our infants need die, our youths, our teenagers, our octogenarians. When do we decide to do what is necessary and right for us, and in the end for the Arabs, to end this farce from September 1993 already and begin to build a society which respects Arab and Jew, ending the incitement and sending the instigators packing! When?

 

Beyond the Cusp

 

Will Europe Submit or Awaken?

There has been an immeasurable change in the fabric of European society with the influx of millions of immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) who have brought their customs and religious beliefs with them. Europe has survived waves of immigrants into the individual nations for centuries, even millennia, but those influxes were intra-European transfers and not people from outside of Europe. Those historical immigrant transfers were often caused by famines, large local natural catastrophes, societal collapse as a result of government dictate forcing certain peoples to leave their locations over religious or other societal defining identities. But this time it appears to be very different as the new immigrants are not seeming to have any intent to meld with the existing society as the previous immigrants had done. Instead they appear to be carving out areas where they are planning to enforce their own laws, permit worship only of their religion, the imposition of dress codes for men and women, though the codes for women appear stricter, and they post signs warning any who enter their areas that they are expected to obey these foreign laws and codes, often despite the native individual not being familiar or even remotely aware of these codes and laws. These neighborhoods, which have become small inserts of foreign national identities right down to law enforcement, courts, religious observance, social custom, dress and other alien actions and understandings across virtually every strand of societal structures, are growing as the need to find workers to replace the worker lost due to negative growth factors which have been afflicting Europe for the past few decades but showing signs of a population decrease that is accelerating. What might this mean for the future in Europe and will it eventually strike anywhere else?

The bigger problem which has started rearing an ugly side to this influx of foreign elements into Europe is they have begun to grow beyond their small communities and are demanding ever greater accommodations. These demands are of a different nature than those made previously when groups migrated across Europe. These demands are for societal level changes replacing existing norms and even laws with alien laws and practices rather than simple acceptance and incorporating tolerance and show acceptance for them as a new subsect within the society. These newest immigrants demand not just acceptance but to supercede and replace the existing society and the insertion and replacement of the existing laws with those laws they brought with them from their homes amongst the nations within MENA. These demands have been exercised through disruptive demonstrations often using a political correctness against the existing norms or conjoining their political viewpoints intertwined with their demands for societal accommodation by altering laws and societal norms. We have seen them take the forefront of demonstrations against Israel and using them as a springboard to press their views into the society. Some of the demonstrations have taken on a violent contingency which came to the fore in news coverage recently in Paris with the assaults by mobs of immigrants of two Paris Synagogues. Are these disruptive actions a prognostication of the future and foretelling of bigger and more destructive episodes should their demands meet resistance or even blowback and refusal? That such is a valid debate and one which leans towards a dark and disruptive future should worry anybody who values peace and quiet over societal unrest.

If history is any evidence of where this influx of immigrants who are refusing to adjust and accept the existing society and are insisting that their societal norms replace those which have existed with only periodic adjustments for centuries all the way back to ancient Greece and Plato and Aristotle and maybe further to Moses and Abraham, there will be only one result and the victor in the struggle will erase the existence of the other’s culture. The last historic influx into Europe by masses of immigrants from MENA was during the last push by Islam to conquer Europe. Those Islamic invaders reached across Spain (Andalusia) and reached into southern France only to be turned back by a German General commanding French armies. This was the famous Battle for Tours where Charles the Hammer Martel turned back the Moors who would later be vanquished from Spain by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella along with the Spanish Jewish population in 1492. King of Poland, Jan III Sobieski led the entirety of the Polish army to relieve the siege of Venice and beat back the Ottoman Empire forces threatening the city, and with the aid of German and Holy Roman armies who were placed under the command of the Polish King as his superior ability as a commander was well established, led the relieving efforts to push the Ottoman Empire forces from the gates of Vienna in September of 1683. Could the recent influx of MENA immigrants who are Islamic be the tip of a stealth conquest of Europe by immigration, conversion and finally subversion?

There are many Muslims who live, work and interact within Europe with no apparent designs on changing European society and appear to simply desire to live their lives and worship Allah and practice Islam while melting into European society. Some research has indicated that even in these families, once they reach the third or fourth generation in their new European home their children tend to be more likely to become radicalized. Some researches claim that this tendency is due to their removal and lack of knowledge of the difficulties and disadvantages of life in their former home nation. I have a feeling the real source of this radicalization amongst the youths from these families is actually due to the teaching they are getting in the radicalized Mosques, especially as in many instances the radicalization is not necessarily reflected during services but is clandestinely secluded in their youth programs in order to influence the most vulnerable amongst us. It has been known that Islamic Imams have targeted prison clerical programs to spread Islam in the prisons systems. But if this was the entirety of the problem it would be manageable as disaffected youth falling for the promises of a solution to all their questions and an end to the turmoil in their lives is an old problem which has haunted parents and society for eons but has yet to lead to the destruction of a society, well, except for in the book “Lord of the Flies” where the society was constructed by young boys marooned by themselves on an island.

In addition to the disaffected youth there is the addition of thousands of immigrants who are adamant that they be permitted to not only bring their religion and customs with them from their homeland but also that the peoples of their newfound homes also adapt their lives not only to accommodate their way of life but to adapt their way of life in place of their current lives. As the numbers of these immigrants increase their demands are repeated in louder voices and with increasing violence. Currently much of their violence is limited to those who cross into their neighborhoods as they believe that within these communities their laws rule supreme. Where will these demands lead? Will Europeans be compliant and simply convert rather than resist the demands of their new neighbors or will the Europeans react as their history has demonstrated all too well throughout recorded history and even likely before? Earlier in this article were references to earlier European reactions to invasive Islam, but that was centuries ago and today’s Europeans are not your great-great-great-great-grandfather’s Europeans. Where this may be true, they are still Europeans with a rich history and age-old customs that lie as the basis for their societies and lives even today. The demands made thus far by the radical Islamic living in Europe have not crossed any societal lines or made any direct demands for actual changes in the basic societal norms as yet. What is likely to be the reaction when the demands change and start becoming more invasive on the culture? Imagine what will be the reaction of the average teen and young adult in Europe when the demand becomes they must no longer listen to any music other than the muezzins’ call. No more rock-n-roll or classical music or whatever your poison happens to be. What happens when dancing between men and women is demanded to be ended as the practice leads to familiarities which are forbidden. Further, what happens when included in newly forbidden actions demanded to prove the populations’ submission includes holding hands, choosing one’s own marriage partner, premarital dating, provocative clothing, and eventually forced conversion to Islam even if one has no religion.

How far will the demands need to go before Europe turns to what they do, what they historically have proven so capable at doing? There were those who took up the fight to force the retreat of the assaults on the Parisian synagogues which occurred after demonstrations became open riots which broke past police barricades and launched attacks on Synagogues numerous blocks away. There have been other incidents which have made the news as such resistances to the encroachments of Islam are currently the exception and not the rule. This may be partially because the Jewish population of Europe has been particularly sensitive as they have received a larger proportion of Islamic directed hatreds than any other group. This does not mean that there are not others who are sensitive to the encroachments but such are exceptions rather than the rule even in the Jewish European society. Any kickback to Islam may take some time before it becomes a reality in Europe and it may even come too late to rescue the European culture as it has evolved. And should Europe fail to resist the waves of change which are threatening to take place should Islam redefine European religion and culture, will Islam then take that victory across the Atlantic Ocean to the United States and then Canada? If Islam should transform Europe and then both the United States and Canada, where would such a wave of Islamic be stopped or even would it be stopped. I guess that question need be answered in Europe first and foremost as they are currently sitting on the front lines next to Israel, or perhaps immediately behind Israel. Perhaps Europe will eventually see Israel as the friend they potentially are capable of becoming and not the cause of all Europe’s ills. One thing which is certain, if the current conceptions and suspicions are not repudiated by facts and such facts taken into serious contemplation, our world will be facing a seismic change which while it may not turn the calendar back more than the almost six-hundred year difference between the Islamic calendar and the Gregorian calendar but it will slow the technological advance into the future and possibly do so permanently. If that were the only change such an outcome would produce.

Beyond the Cusp