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Brussels Journal, Belgium
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2185
J une 13 2007
>From the desk of Fjordman on Tue, 2007-06-12 23:17
Muslim leaders have robustly criticized a forthright "position papier"
[issued by the Lutheran churches in Germany]. Ayyub Axel Koehler,
chairman of the Council of Muslims, [a German who converted to Islam
in 1963] told the church-people that Europe should be ashamed of
the "trail of blood" that it had left throughout the world down
the centuries.
Comment from Fjordman: It would be interesting to see Muslims deal
with the trail of blood they have left behind on several continents,
from Thailand via India to Armenia, during more than 1300 years. To
quote Paul Fregosi's book Jihad in the West:
"The Jihad, the Islamic so-called Holy War, has been a fact of life in
Europe, Asia, Africa and the Near and Middle East for more than 1300
years, but this is the first history of the Muslim wars in Europe
ever to be published. Hundreds of books, however, have appeared on
its Christian counterpart, the Crusades, to which the Jihad is often
compared, although they lasted less than two hundred years and unlike
the Jihad, which is universal, were largely but not completely confined
to the Holy Land. Moreover, the Crusades have been over for more than
700 years, while a Jihad is still going on in the world. The Jihad has
been the most unrecorded and disregarded major event of history. It
has, in fact, been largely ignored. For instance, the Encyclopaedia
Britannica gives the Crusades eighty times more space than the Jihad."
"Western colonization of nearby Muslim lands lasted 130 years, from
the 1830s to the 1960s. Muslim colonization of nearby European lands
lasted 1300 years, from the 600s to the mid-1960s. Yet, strangely,
it is the Muslims, the Arabs and the Moors to be precise, who are the
most bitter about colonialism and the humiliations to which they have
been subjected; and it is the Europeans who harbor the shame and the
guilt. It should be the other way around."
Brussels Journal, Belgium
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2185
J une 13 2007
>From the desk of Fjordman on Tue, 2007-06-12 23:17
Muslim leaders have robustly criticized a forthright "position papier"
[issued by the Lutheran churches in Germany]. Ayyub Axel Koehler,
chairman of the Council of Muslims, [a German who converted to Islam
in 1963] told the church-people that Europe should be ashamed of
the "trail of blood" that it had left throughout the world down
the centuries.
Comment from Fjordman: It would be interesting to see Muslims deal
with the trail of blood they have left behind on several continents,
from Thailand via India to Armenia, during more than 1300 years. To
quote Paul Fregosi's book Jihad in the West:
"The Jihad, the Islamic so-called Holy War, has been a fact of life in
Europe, Asia, Africa and the Near and Middle East for more than 1300
years, but this is the first history of the Muslim wars in Europe
ever to be published. Hundreds of books, however, have appeared on
its Christian counterpart, the Crusades, to which the Jihad is often
compared, although they lasted less than two hundred years and unlike
the Jihad, which is universal, were largely but not completely confined
to the Holy Land. Moreover, the Crusades have been over for more than
700 years, while a Jihad is still going on in the world. The Jihad has
been the most unrecorded and disregarded major event of history. It
has, in fact, been largely ignored. For instance, the Encyclopaedia
Britannica gives the Crusades eighty times more space than the Jihad."
"Western colonization of nearby Muslim lands lasted 130 years, from
the 1830s to the 1960s. Muslim colonization of nearby European lands
lasted 1300 years, from the 600s to the mid-1960s. Yet, strangely,
it is the Muslims, the Arabs and the Moors to be precise, who are the
most bitter about colonialism and the humiliations to which they have
been subjected; and it is the Europeans who harbor the shame and the
guilt. It should be the other way around."