Friday, October 10, 2014

Anniversary of the Battle of Tours: Another of the West's Victories Over the Islamic Threat Which Continues Today

Edit: On 732 the Battle of Tours took place at nearby Poitiers, France. The King of the Franks, Charles Martel and his men, defeated a large army of Moors, stopping the Muslims from taking over Western Europe. This would be an opportune time in the Synod to discuss the importance of raising properly catechized children in the face of threats from within and without both new and old.

Here's an excerpt from Front Page Magazine:


But at dawn, Charles and his men discovered that the Muslim army had vanished, leaving the booty stolen from ransacked churches behind, as well as 10,000 of their dead – including Abd-ar-Rahman himself. It was not the last Muslim incursion into Europe, but it was the beginning of the end.

Some contemporary historians downplay the magnitude of the Muslim threat, claiming that Abd-ar-Rahman’s force was only a raiding party. They minimize the significance of the battle’s outcome, too; at least one historian even claims that Europe would have been better off if Islam had conquered it. But Hanson notes that “most of the renowned historians of the 18th and 19th centuries… saw Poitiers as a landmark battle that signaled the high-water mark of Islamic advance into Europe.” Edward Creasey included it among his The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World. Many believe that if Charles – whom the Pope afterward dubbed Martel, or “the Hammer” – had not stopped Abd-ar-Rahman at Tours, there would have been nothing to prevent Europe from ultimately becoming Islamic. Edward Gibbon called Charles “the savior of Christendom” and wrote in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in 1776 that if not for Charles’ victory, “perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now be taught in the schools of Oxford.”

If only Gibbon could see Oxford now. Not only is the interpretation of the Koran taught there, but Islam thrives in Oxford, thanks partly to the patronage of dhimmi Prince Charles. In his essay “Islam in Oxford,” faux moderate Muslim scholar Muqtadar Khan writes smugly that “Gibbon would have been surprised to learn the lesson that military defeats do not stop the advance of civilizations and the globalization of Islam is unimpeded by the material and military weaknesses of the Muslim world.”

Apart from his dubious suggestion that Islam has anything to do with the advance of civilization, Khan is right. Today the Islamic invasion of Europe and the rest of the West is of the demographic, not military, sort. The continent faces an immigration crisis from at least one generation of young Muslims, many of whom not only are willfully unassimilated, but who are waging cultural and physical aggression against their hosts, establishing parallel communities ruled by sharia and “no-go” zones of violence toward infidels. “Nothing can stop the spread of Islam,” insists Islamic apologist Reza Aslan. “There are those who would try, but it simply will not happen. Absolutely nothing can stop the spread of Islam.”

Link to Front Page Mag... Photo from Medieval Monday...

18 comments:

LeonG said...

Surely, isn't this obsessively traditional and unecumenical. Such Mohamatenaphobia! I can't see the protestant NO bishops celebrating this one today.

Tancred said...

I would love it if at least one bishop would bring it up.

Anonymous said...

You should see how many remember Lepanto and Our Lady of Victory.

Adrian said...

There is no reason to be offensive to HRH the Prince of Wales.

Genty said...

The former Anglican bishop of Rochester (UK) Michael Nazir-Ali said recently: "The Catholic Church has both a great opportunity and also a great responsibility” to speak out against the tide of Islamic militancy and the global persecution of Christians.
Many people, he claimed, including Evangelicals with no historic affection towards the Catholic Church, are now looking to Rome for leadership. Let's hope he, and we, are not disappointed.

Brian said...

Good summary...

Mohammed died in 632. By 638, Muslim armies are already in Jerusalem. As you say, by 732, they are in central France. It infuriates me when Muslims and their useful idiot apologists in the mainline press/academia blame, that 100 year blitzkrieg, on Arab expansionism and attempt to absolve Islam from all responsibility. Oh, by the way, Islam also went east and raped Hindu India.

Damask Rose said...

"“Nothing can stop the spread of Islam,” insists Islamic apologist Reza Aslan."

Reza Aslan has forgotten she who stands on the crescent moon. Long live the Empress of the Americas - Our Lady of Guadalupe and her powerful Rosary.

Anonymous said...

Mohammedanism killed 80 million Hindus in India.

I have no idea why certain secular academics try to defend this barbaric religion that promotes rape culture. Psychologically speaking Catholicism is the ultimate symbol of patriarchy (priests are called father, pope/papa is called Holy Father, etc.), so maybe it's subconscious hatred of their father, which in turn is really just hatred of God the Father. Psychoanalysis aside, it's based on hate, not facts.

Just look at what the Moors did in Spain and how some academics tried to distort historical reality: http://youtu.be/DhlvJ7jyYBg

Anonymous said...

Our Lady defeated Mohammedanism at sea when the Holy League crushed the Turks at the Battle of Lepanto.

Our Lady defeated Mohammedanism on land when Poland crushed the Turks at the Battle of Vienna.

We now await Our Lady leading Catholics to victory over the diabolic sect of Mohammed in the air. I do hope however that they may all convert to Catholicism before such a battle may happen.

Anonymous said...

Jesus said "Blessed are the Peacemakers" but He did not say "Peace-lover" in fact, those who claim to love peace are some of the worst instigators of war. Guess what Muslims believe their religion is?

In semitic languages like Hebrew and Arabic, there are no vowels, so the written languages are consonants with diacritic marks used as guide for pronouncing the word.

Islam has the root words, SLM, which is derived from the word "Salaam" which means "Peace"

Muslims in their purest theology divides the world into two basic places: "Dar al Islam" or "The house of peace" and "Dar al Harb" or "The House of War" And so, unless the rest of the world is subjugated, we are considered a place of war, and those Muslims who live in the House of War being warriors who must strive to advance "Peace"

With such an ideology that clearly intends on world domination, the world's submission, how can a "Peace-loving" religion such as Christianity exist? Yes, all the saints are in Heaven, and we the baptized must also struggle for we are the Church Militant...

But there must be an uprising in the Catholic Church, for to follow the blind will put us all into the Pit.

Bridgeport Guy said...

Reza Aslan is making a film called "Zealot" that portrays Our Lord as a violent revolutionary. Hollywood doesn't mind allowing films about Our Lord to be made as long as they don't give us the truth like Mel Gibson did.

J.G. Ratkaj said...

The postconciliar church is self-righteous, naive pacifist and obsessive in her absurd dialogue hallucinations. The postconciliar papacy has neither the zeal nor the faith of the Champions of the cause of Christ like Charles Martel, Bl. Urban II, John Hunyadi, St. Pius V, Andrea Doria et al

Anonymous said...

We must pray for a great saint that the enemies of the Faith are destroyed and lead the faithful to victory.

Jacobi said...

We lost the great Catholic civilisation of North Africa, that of St Augustine, to small but ferocious Muslim armies. Charlemagne stopped the catastrophe at Tours, in 732.

We failed in the Crusades to win back some of the lost ground from Islam, but Nicolas of Salm in 1529, (first Vienna siege ), La Valette at Malta in 1565, Don John at Lepanto in 1571, and Sobiesky at Vienna again 1683, all succeeded in throwing back successive waves of ferocious militant Islam.

The tragedy is that now in the 21st century Islam has penetrated into Europe in numbers unthinkable to these earlier Catholic commanders and are here to stay and one way or another, and, in their own time and according to their own abilitiesn and inclinations, to establish the Caliphate..

That is the problem!

sunny said...

Thanks for sharing. Really very useful and informative post about anniversary of battle of tours another. But Apart from his dubious suggestion that Islam has anything to do with the advance of civilization, Khan is right. Today the Islamic invasion of Europe and the rest of the West is of the demographic, not military, sort.

Gerald said...

War is a fascinating subject. Despite the dubious morality of using violence to achieve personal or political aims. It remains that conflict has been used to do just that throughout recorded history.

Your article is very well done, a good read.

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