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The Cross and the Crescent
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Middle ages
Islam and Christianity: Islam > (15 tot. documents)
In the more than thousand-year history of relationship between Islam and Christendom has always been the last one to need to defend itself from the muslim attach. The Islam attempt to invade the Christian nations is almost concurrent to the birth of the faith in Allah. From the VII century, the Christian nations suffered a terrible comparison that has had some break but has never had an end.
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Islam: Introduction to Islam by Gianandrea de Antonellis > (6 tot. documents)
Islam and Christianity: can a dialogue exist? A concise guide to understanding the Muslim religion and the long history of fights against the western world since its inception.
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Islam: Science and culture into Islam > (6 tot. documents)
Islam cannot nurture culture and does not underwrite the rise of science because it considers the natural laws as blasphemy. The idea that Islam has contributed to civilization, or worse still, that the medieval Islam was culturally and technologically superior to European Christianity, is fallacious and bias. Admittedly, science and philosophy have a place in the Islam world but that is only possible despite Islam.
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Islam and Christianity: Saracens > (18 tot. documents)
"La ilaha illa Allah" (God is God) was the battle cry of Saracens that for a lot of centuries has terrorized the Christian people of Mediterranean area.
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Islam and Christianity: Marine Republics > (10 tot. documents)
The Muslim conquest from the Anatolia coast to the Gibraltar strait breaks for ever the Mediterranean unity: the "Mare Nostrum", the basin where men, ideas and goods have free circulation.
Europe has no more connection with Africa and Asia that are closed by the islamic wall.
Mediterranean Africa and Asia will be more and more far-away from Europe.
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Islam and Christianity: Crusades > (16 tot. documents)
"There can be little doubt that the crusades slowed the advance of Islam, although how much is an open question. The presence of the crusader states in the Near East for almost two centuries certainly destabilized Muslim power, and therefore hindered unification into a single Islamic state. Even the crusades that failed or did not materialize forced Muslim powers to divert resources from conquest to their own defense. At the very least, then, the crusades bought western Europe some time. Judging by the number of occasions it narrowly escaped Turkish invasion in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries, Europe had need of that tim" (Thomas Madden).
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Islam and Christianity: Crusades - The Crusades in the culture > (7 tot. documents)
The usually negative meaning that the term «Crusade» has in the common language shows how the prejudices played a determining role in the way of considering the millenary comparison between the Christian West and the Islamic East.
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Islam and Christianity: Knights Templar > (10 tot. documents)
"You carry out in deeds the words of the Gospel, 'Greater love than this hath no man, that he lay down his life for his friends." (pope Innocent III to the Knights Templar)
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Islam and Christianity: "Reconquista" Spain > (16 tot. documents)
The «Reconquista», the epos of the christian civilization, deserves a special place in the defeat of Christian liberation of Spain ended only in 1492. The muslim domination of the Iberian peninsula lasted almost eight centuries.
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Modern age
Turks and Europe: The fall of Constantinople 1453 > (16 tot. documents)
On 29 May 1453 the Ottomans of Mehmet II spread in Constantinople with ravages and massacres. The winners entered the basilica of St. Sophie and transformed it into a mosque. In Occident, the fall of the thousand-year capital of the Eastern Roman Empire caused a very strong impression: the land, that from that moment was called Turkey, had been the homeland of the most flourishing Christian communities and traces.
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Turks and Europe: The Battle of Belgrade 1456 > (14 tot. documents)
In 1453 Constantinople fell into the hands of the Turks of Mohammed II that tried to enter Europe poushing up through the Balkans. Christians and Turks fought in Belgrado and at 6 August, against any hope, Christians wan. The great enterprise had three main characters: St. John of Capistrano, the captain John Hunyadi and the Cardinal John Carvajal.In memory the Pope Callisto III founded the feast of Transfiguration to symbolize Europe transfigured with joy.
Belgrade will fall in 1521. The Turks of Suleiman the Magnificent will succeed in conquering the Balkans,invading Hungary (battle of Mohàcs, 1526) and in besieging Vienna for the first time (1529). Belgrado will be free only in 1717, after almost two centuries of occupation.
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Turks and Europe: The martyrs of Otranto, 1480 > (11 tot. documents)
In the summer 1480, the Turks of Acmet Pascià besieged Otranto.
They entered into the town with force and gathered the surviving men.
The inhabitants were brought on the near hill of Minerva and were obliged to deny Christ.
Those men chose the death.
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Turks and Europe: The siege of Malta > (6 tot. documents)
After the XV century disastrous defeats, the Christendom continued to run away from the Turks of Suleiman the Magnificent both in Balkans and in Mediterranean area. In 1521 Belgrade fell, in 1522 Rhodes surrendered, in 1526 with the battle of Mohàcs, Hungary was invaded and, in 1529, Vienna was besieged. In 1541 The Christian armies were beaten in Buda, and in 1560 in Gerba. In 1565 Suleiman wanted to arrive in Rome and to succeed in doing it he decided to siege Malta, but the eroic resistance, sometimes at the limit of credible, of the Knights Hospitallers of the Order of St. John (the Knigths of Malta commanded by Grand Master Brother Jean de la Vallette) upset the sultan's projekts.
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Turks and Europe: Famagosta, 1571 > (7 tot. documents)
On 2 August 1571 the Venetian garrison in Famagosta, the last Christian defence in Cyprus, was obliged to surrender. Under the command of Marcantonio Bragadin, the fortress had extraordinarily resisted for ten months. Venetians showed an exceptional bravery hoping in the rescue of the fleet of the Serenissima. Six Thousand Christians made head against one hundred thousand Muslims. In the end, exhausted, Venetians accepted the honorable surrounder offering that the head of the Ottoman army proposed. The Pasha, however, did not keep the agreement: any violence was allowed and a terrible destiny was reserved to Bragadin.
The help from the Christian world arrived just at the beginning of October when the two fleets clashed off the coast of Lepanto.
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Turks and Europe: The Battle of Lepanto 1571 > (34 tot. documents)
The Venetian Senate: "It was neither the generals nor battalions nor arms that brought us victory; but it was Our Lady of the Rosary."
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Turks and Europe: The Battle of Vienna > (14 tot. documents)
At the walls of Vienna they fought against Turks "Not in favor of one and unique city, or of one empire, but of the Catholic religion, of the Christian civilization of the whole western Europe".
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Isabella of Castiglia > (9 tot. documents)
Towards Isabel of Castile (who reigned from 1474 to 1504) and her husband Ferdinand of Aragon such a campaign of calumny and detraction has been made that too often it is not possible to approach these great figures without preconceptions.
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Contemporary age
Genocide of Armenian > (15 tot. documents)
The Armenian nation -the first Christian state in the history- has suffered, throughout the Twentieth century, the terrible genocide inflicted by the Turkish Empire and then the pogrom and deportation operated by the soviet communism.
Today the Armenian Republic is an example of stability and economic development for the whole Caucasus; its martyrdom, however, is still rejected both by the Turkish goverment and the post-communist world.
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Nazism: Nazism and Islam > (4 tot. documents)
Although little known, the relationship between the Nationalsocialism and Islamic world was close and confident. The Muslim crescent and the Nazi swastika had common enemies and, above all, convergent aims.
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Current events
Europen Union: Turkey in Europe? > (14 tot. documents)
"In the history, Turkey has always represented a different continent in permanent contrast to Europe" (card. Joseph Ratzinger to «Le Figaro», 13 august 2004).
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Actuality: Islam in the world > (15 tot. documents)
In many areas of the world, Islam is advancing in a threatening manner. As it was for communism in the last century, even the disciples of Mohammed, today, plan the conquest of power in an ever-increasing number of nations either through careful political actions and aimed diplomatic strategies, or through continuous persecutions and constant pogroms that are perpetrated in the indifference of the West and in the silent complicity of many goverments. Today at least 250 milions of christians risk their life every day and every day this risk is transformed into martyrdom for christened people from Morocco to Pakistan, from Algery to Philippines, from Egypt to Indonesia, from Sudan to Bangladesh, from Somalia to Malaysia, from Middle East to Africa, from Maghreb to Caucasus.
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Islam in the world: Magdi (Cristiano) Allam > (17 tot. documents)
"Yesterday evening I converted to the Christian Catholic religion, renouncing my previous Islamic faith. Thus, I finally saw the light, by divine grace, the healthy fruit of a long, matured gestation, lived in suffering and joy, together with intimate reflection and conscious and manifest expression [...] Since yesterday evening therefore my name is «Magdi Cristiano Allam». For me it is the most beautiful day of [my] life" (Magdi Cristiano Allam, 23 March 2008).
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Islam in the world: Iran > (15 tot. documents)
The establishment of the Islamic Iranian Republic, arose from the popular revolt led by ayatollah Khomeini at the beginning of 1979, was one of the most important signal of the Islamic revolution through which conquer the world to Koranic religion. Until Ahmadinejad, most propaganda against United States (the «Big Satan») and Israel (the «Little Satan») came from Iran, so as the organization of terrorism. The free World will never have to allow Iran to have atomic bomb. At all costs.
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Islam in the world: Africa > (6 tot. documents)
The North Africa, which had housed important Christian communities, were subdued by the Allah military supporters since the end of the VII century. Over the last decades, the movement has expanded dramatically - literally, a conquer of the entire continent.
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Islam in the USA > (18 tot. documents)
The United States is the bulwark of the free Occident and, because of the weak and insubstantial European governments, the only true obstacle to the worldwide expansion of Islam. As at the time of the Cold War, the best weapon to weaken from inside the Occident is the cultural propaganda that tends to criminalize every possible contrasting initiative and every possible USA strengthening.
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Islam in the USA: a case of weakness > (2 tot. documents)
The US, still the military and economic bulwark of the western world, bows down the worldwide expansion of Islam and its uninterrupted threats to the United States. The Obama administration is more concerned with not offending his enemies rather than striking back.
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Islam in USA: Jihad within US Army > (7 tot. documents)
November 5, 2009, Fort Hood, Texas. Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an Islam with Arabian background, opened fire killing 13 people and wounding 30 others. This is the worst, and not the only one episode of the effect of the Jihad infiltration into the US Army. Refusing to recognize the very nature of these facts will not avert new and worse gory attacks.
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Islam and Europe: the Islamization of Europe > (35 tot. documents)
The continent where civilization is born is in agony. Today the vestigia that cover the old continent, and that are the demonstration of its roots, appear as the headstones of its decline.
Europe is dying in a dramatic combination of suicide and murder: prejudice and allergy to everything that is Christian and tolerance and sympathy towards everything that is Islamic.
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Islam and Europe: Bat Ye'or, Eurabia > (15 tot. documents)
It was Bat Ye'or to name «Eurabia» (term used by Oriana Fallaci as her own) the fusion process of the two Mediterranean banks; a fusion that would be better to define as a submission and an invasion which aim is to transform Europe as a subdued continuation of Islam.
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Islam and Europe: Oriana Fallaci (1929-2006) > (13 tot. documents)
"Wake up Occident, wake up! They declared war on us and war is what they got. We have to hang tough!" (Oriana Fallaci).
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Islam and Europe: Robert Redeker's case > (7 tot. documents)
"Islam tries to impose on Europe its rules.....As in the past with Communism,the West finds itself under ideological scrutiny." («Figaro», 19.9.2006).Because of these words, Robert Redeker has been targeted with a fatwa of death and obliged to hide.
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Actuality: Islam and terrorism > (32 tot. documents)
Islamic terrorism is a kind of modern way to resume the conquest of West which was providentially stopped twice just outside Vienna in 1683.
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Islam and terrorism: George W. Bush > (25 tot. documents)
Perhaps one day we will understand the unreplaceable role played by the president George W. Bush. He has been one of the best leader that modernity has benefited from, the right person at the right time. If we only think about the attack to the Western world performed by islamic terror, only one thought springs to our mind: we couldn't do without him.
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Islam and terrorism: Norman Podhoretz > (6 tot. documents)
George W. Bush has chosen the only surefire way to defend the West society after the September 11, 2001 attacks. There is only one alternative: pretend to not be at war, but this won't avoid the war. Nor will it soften the war. On the contrary, it will let terrorism expand violently and prevent us from battening down the hatches. Those who chose to let U.S. go ahead alone, have also chosen to shoulder a huge responsibility.
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Iraq and Afghanistan war > (22 tot. documents)
The war to Islamic terror could only continue by suppressing supports offered to the closely-woven and deadly net made to cover, recruit, prepare, finance, organise the international of terror. It is only propaganda (that preludes to the total defeat of the Occident) to imagine to succeed stopping the terrorists with the only fear of our ridiculous courtrooms.
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Islam and terrorism: Islam, communism and political Left > (15 tot. documents)
We need to query ourselves not only on the cultural sympathy, but on the operative contiguity too between the left and the Islamic claims. But then, strong connections may be founded between the targets of Communism and those of the Islamic terrorism. A chilling union of modality and aims. Political and terroristical ones.
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Islam and terrorism: September 11, 2001 > (13 tot. documents)
"None of us will ever forget this day. Yet, we go forward to defend freedom and all that is good and just in our world. Thank you. Good night, and God bless America." (Statement by the President George W. Bush to the Nation, September 11, 2001 - 8:30 p.m.)
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Actuality: Islam and immigration > (16 tot. documents)
The massive immigration to European Countries, especially to Italy, is a part of a plan to build a great Islamic community in Occident too and make of Europe an Islamic land.We don't need to wait too long: the Occidental submission to the sacrality of Koran is already started thanks to a wrong conception of tolerance.
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Islam and immigration: Left and immigration > (12 tot. documents)
Toward the great immigration problem, the left's behavior can only be judged in two ways: either as totally irresponsible or as interestedly conniving for electoral reasons.
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Islam and immigration: Multiculturalismo and multiethism > (14 tot. documents)
Multiethnicity and multiculturality are not interchangeable concepts. A multicultural society is a political product that asserts itself (with some strains) at the expense of who receives, in the name of a bad understood and even worse applied acceptance.
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Occident: Dinesh D'Souza, «The Enemy at Home» > (16 tot. documents)
"The cultural left is responsible for causing 9/11." The cultural left and its allies in Congress, the media, Hollywood and universities "are the primary cause of the volcano of anger toward America that is erupting from the Islamic world" (Dinesh D'Souza "The Enemy at Home - The Cultural Left and its responsibility for 9/11").
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Occident: André Glucksmann > (6 tot. documents)
André Glucksmann (1937-live) is surely one of the most sharp present-day intellectuals. His analysis about communism and the present pacifism made him particularly unpopular to the Left. Glucksmann, inconvenient and countercurrent thinker, did not let to be frightened. Today he courageously takes a stand in favor of the war in Iraq and declares the islamic terrorism the new devastating nihilism.
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Occident: Marcello Pera > (8 tot. documents)
"A foul wind is blowing through Europe. I am referring to the idea that all we have to do is wait and our troubles will disappear by themselves, so thatwe can afford to be lenient even with people who threaten us, and that in the end, everything will work our for the best. This same wind blew through Munich in 1938" (Marcello Pera).
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Occident: Mark Steyn, «America alone» > (13 tot. documents)
"Don't you notice nothing strange? It begins with «I» and end with «slam»" (Mark Steyn).
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