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Interesting Historical Facts About Islam
Posted: 20 May 2011 11:04 AM PDT
<http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CUttQuMz1UM/TdauwRpiytI/AAAAAAAACr4/3BawFNwiCZo/s
1600/islamic-history-top.jpg> WHILE READING about things totally unrelated
to the counterjihad movement, I have occasionally come across some
interesting historical facts about Islam. I was surprised to discover that
Islam had a hand in many important historical events I already knew about
without ever knowing Islam had anything to do with them. Here are a few of
the most interesting:
1. The creation of the U.S. Marine Corps was initiated in response to
Islamic warriors. The Barbary Coast pirates were following in Mohammad's
footsteps, raiding caravans (in this case, oceangoing ships), taking slaves,
capturing people to hold for ransom, and demanding "protection money" from
any kafirs <http://www.citizenwarrior.com/2008/09/definition-of-kafir.html>
who didn't want to be raided. This had been going on for centuries along the
North African Mediterranean coastline.
Any ships that wanted to do business in the Mediterranean were at risk. Many
European countries did the easy thing and paid the protection money to the
Muslims to avoid being raided, which, of course, helped fund their
operations against anyone who wasn't paying. The U.S. did not have enough
military resources to protect its ships, so it paid the protection money
too. This bothered Thomas Jefferson. Before he was president, when he was an
ambassador to France, Jefferson had a chance to meet with an ambassador from
Tripoli, and he asked why Tripoli did this. The Muslim explained it was
written in the Koran.
<http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7o8FHbvzlgI/TdavUuL2nNI/AAAAAAAACsA/GeP27R_ynhI/s
1600/islamic-history-lower.gif> So Thomas Jefferson did something every
leader of the free world should do: He bought himself a Koran and read it.
Then when he became president, he knew what he needed to do: He formed the
United States Navy, created the Marine Corps, and sent them to the shores of
Tripoli, where they soundly defeated the Muslim warriors.
This was the first foreign war fought by the United States. America's
victory was the beginning of the end of the "Barbary Coast Pirates." The
military aggressiveness of Islamic countries remained contained and weakened
for over a century.
Read more about that here: Why Did President Jefferson Read the Quran?
<http://www.citizenwarrior.com/2010/09/why-did-president-jefferson-read-qura
n.html>
2. The New World was discovered because of Islam. Christopher Columbus was
looking for a new trade route to the East. But why was he looking for a
trade route?
During the Second Jihad
<http://www.citizenwarrior.com/2008/12/third-jihad.html> , Islam invaded
Central Asia and defeated Constantinople in 1453, cutting off the overland
route for Europeans. Islamic armies continued their jihad northward, and
conquered much of what is now Eastern Europe, until they were finally
stopped at the gates of Vienna in 1683. Read more: The Second Major Wave of
Jihad: the Turks, 1071-1683
<http://www.citizenwarrior.com/2007/10/second-major-wave-of-jihad-turks-1071
.html> .
Europe had been trading with the Far East for centuries, and their old
overland route now went through territory that was hostile and dangerous to
anybody but Muslims. The economy of Europe was threatened.
So, in 1492, the year Islam was finally defeated in Spain, ending Islam's
780-year occupation, Columbus set off to find a passage to the Far East by
boldly sailing West into the unknown. Desperate times call for desperate
measures.
3. The .45 caliber 1911 semiautomatic pistol was created to stop Islamic
warriors. From 1902 until 1913, the United States fought a war with the
"Moro Warriors" in the Philippines. These Islamic warriors were named
"Moros" by the Spanish. Their unstoppability was legendary. "In one
instance," writes Robert Boatman
<http://www.boatmanbooks.com/samplelw1911.html> , "a Moro warrior received
14 bullet wounds in five minutes, three of which penetrated his brain, and
yet he fought on."
At the time the army was using .38 caliber guns, which were unable to stop
the Moros, so in 1906, they began testing different guns to find something
better. In 1911, they chose the .45 caliber semiautomatic pistol. It had
enough stopping power to kill even a Moro warrior with one shot. Read more
about this interesting piece of history here
<http://www.boatmanbooks.com/samplelw1911.html> , here
<http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/917289/posts> and here
<http://www.alpharubicon.com/leo/1911care.htm> .
4. The Great Pyramid of Giza looks unfinished because of Muslims. The
pyramid was once covered by a smooth, beautifully polished layer of white
stone. This outer layer was removed by Muslims, who used the white stone for
mosques and palaces, leaving the ancient pyramids with their somewhat
unfinished appearance.
The physicist, John Zajac <http://www.europa.com/~edge/pyramid.html> ,
wrote: "This protective covering was made up of...hard, white limestone,
similar to marble but superior in hardness and in durability against the
elements...The casing stones, 144,000 in all, were so brilliant that they
could literally be seen from the mountains of Israel hundreds of miles
away...The people of the area had viewed the pyramid and its polished stones
with awe for centuries. But when a 13th century earthquake loosened some of
these casing stones, the Arabs recognized a great quarry of precut stones
that could be used to finish off palaces and mosques. For instance, the
casing stones were used to rebuild the new city of El Kaherah plus Cairo
mosques and palaces, including the Mosque of Sultan Hasan."
Historically, this is Islamic standard operating procedure. Wherever Islam
established itself throughout the world, it destroyed or defaced monuments
that represented the previous (conquered) culture and replaced it with
Islamic structures and mosques. Afghanistan used to be Buddhist. Turkey used
to be Christian. Pakistan used to be Hindu. The former cultures and any
symbols of them were annihilated and replaced by Islam.
5. The Crusades were a limp, late, defensive response to four hundred years
of Islamic war against what was then largely Christian lands (the Middle
East, Northern Africa, and Europe). Four of the five main centers of
Christianity, including the Byzantium and Constantiople, were eventually
conquered by the Islamic warriors' relentless conquests, and the countries
were forcibly converted into Islamic states. But before the Crusades,
Byzantium was still fighting to defend itself, and repeatedly appealed to
Rome for help.
The different nations of Europe were largely competitors with each other.
They were not a united force - far from it - but the Pope thought he could
unify Europeans if he made it a matter of "defending Christians," so that's
how he made his appeal. It helped unite Europeans against a common threat,
and it may have saved Europe from the forcible Islamization suffered by the
nations of the Middle East, part of India, and North Africa. Read more: What
About the Crusades?
<http://www.citizenwarrior.com/2007/10/what-about-crusades.html>
Here's another interesting historical tidbit about Islam's influence: The
defense of Europe during the Crusades was devastatingly expensive, and the
Church of Rome tried many ways to raise funds. Some of these fundraising
efforts were deeply offensive to Martin Luther, so he intitiated the
Protestant Reformation.
Islam has had a profound impact on important historical events throughout
its history, and it is still being felt today.
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