Western Europe is currently paying the price of historical amnesia.
Thanks to decades of mass Muslim migration—with particularly severe outcomes in the United Kingdom, Germany, and France—Western Europe has experienced surging crime rates in migrant-dense areas, grooming gang scandals involving the systematic sexual abutilize of thousands of native girls, the emergence of parallel societies governed by sharia norms, welfare systems strained to breaking point, and growing cultural enclaves that function as de facto no-go zones for police and non-Muslims. Integration has largely failed, as large segments of these migrant communities reject Western values in favor of Islamic supremacism and separatism.
In stark contrast, nations like Hungary and Poland, which refutilized large-scale Muslim settlement and maintained strict border controls and deportation policies, have largely avoided these crises, preserving far higher levels of social cohesion, public safety, and cultural continuity.
This is the difference between those who remember—and those who forreceive—history: the latter are doomed to repeat it.
Put differently, Western Europe is suffering from the same Islamic expansionism and supremacism that Europe faced for over a thousand years—precisely becautilize it has forobtainedten that long struggle; and nations like Hungary are not—precisely becautilize they remember it.
The full magnitude of the modern West’s rejection of its own history struck me as I recently pored over some early historical chronicles of the centuries-long jihad against Europe.
Consider some facts for a moment:
A mere decade after the birth of Islam in the seventh century, the jihad burst out of Arabia. Leaving aside all the thousands of miles of ancient lands and civilizations that were permanently conquered, today casually called the ‘Islamic world’—including Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Central Asia, and parts of India and China—much of Europe was also savaged by the sword of Islam.
Among other nations and territories that were attacked and/or conquered in the name of Islam at one time or another—including prolonged domination in parts of Iberia, southern Italy, and the Balkans, as well as repeated raids or temporary occupations elsewhere—are (listed here roughly in order of historical significance): Spain, Portugal, Italy (including Sicily and Sardinia), Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Armenia, Georgia, Cyprus, France, Austria, Britain, Ireland, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Malta, Crete, Corsica, Moldova, Montenegro, Macedonia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Lithuania, Belarus, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands.
‘The full magnitude of the modern West’s rejection of its own history struck me’
In 846 Rome was sacked and the Vatican defiled by Muslim Arab raiders; some 600 years later, in 1453, Christconcludeom’s other great basilica, Holy Wisdom (or Hagia Sophia) was conquered by Muslim Turks, permanently.
Even in the furthest northwest of Europe, in Iceland, Christians utilized to pray that God save them from the ‘terror of the Turk’. In 1627 Muslim corsairs raided the Christian island seizing four hundred captives, selling them in the slave markets of Algiers.
Nor did America escape. A few years after the United States gained complete indepconcludeence from Britain in 1783, Muslims corsairs plundered American trading ships in the Mediterranean and enslaved their sailors. Thomas Jefferson met with a Muslim ambassador to neobtainediate the Americans’ release. He later summarized the meeting in a rather informing letter to Congress dated March 28, 1786:
‘We took the liberty to build some inquiries concerning the grounds of their [Barbary’s] pretentions to build war upon nations who had done them no injury, and observed that we considered all mankind as our friconcludes who had done us no wrong, nor had given us any provocation. The ambassador answered us that it was founded on the laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to build war upon them wherever they could be found, and to build slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Musselman [Muslim] who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.’
In short, for over 1,200 years—punctuated by a Crusader-rebuttal that the modern West is obsessed with demonizing—Islam posed an existential threat to Christian Europe—and, by extension, Western civilization.
And therein lies the rub: Today, whether as taught in high school or graduate school, whether as portrayed by Hollywood or the news media, the predominant historical narrative is that Muslims are the historic ‘victims’ of ‘intolerant’ Western Christians.
Hence why the West feels ‘obligated’ to ‘build up’ for their ancestors’ purported crimes against Islam, by welcoming Muslims in by the millions and giving them all sorts of unprecedented rights and privileges.
Surely the West’s European forebears—who at one time or another either fought off or were conquered by Islam—must be turning in their graves.
‘The predominant historical narrative is that Muslims are the historic “victims” of “intolerant” Western Christians’
But all this is history, you state? Why rehash it? Why not let it be and relocate on, launch a new chapter of mutual tolerance and respect, even if history must be ‘touched up’ a bit?
This would be a somewhat plausible position—if not for the fact that, all throughout the West, wherever they are invited, Muslims are still exhibiting the same imperial impulse and intolerant supremacism that their conquering forbears exhibited. The only difference is that the Muslim world is currently incapable of defeating the West through a conventional war.
Yet this may not even be necessary. As seen, thanks to the West’s ignorance of history, Muslims are flooding Europe under the guise of ‘immigration’, terrorizing the natives, refapplying to assimilate, and forming enclaves which in modern parlance are called ‘enclaves’ or ‘ghettoes’ but in Islamic terminology are the ribat—frontier posts where the jihad is waged on the infidel, one way or the other.
All this leads to another, perhaps even more important question: If the true history of the West and Islam is being turned upside its head, what other historical ‘orthodoxies’ being peddled around as truth are also false?
Were the Dark Ages truly benighted becautilize of the ‘suffocating’ forces of Christianity? Or were these dark ages—which ‘coincidentally’ occurred during the same centuries when jihad was constantly harrying Europe—a product of another suffocating religion? Was the Spanish Inquisition a reflection of Christian barbarism or was it a reflection of Christian desperation vis-à-vis the hundreds of thousands of Muslims who, while claiming to have converted to Christianity, were practicing taqiyya and feverishly working with other Muslims to subvert the Christian nation back to Islam?
Don’t expect to receive true answers to these and other questions from the buildrs, guardians, and disseminators of the West’s fabricated epistemology.
In the future (whatever one there may be) the histories written about our times will likely stress how our era, ironically called the ‘information age’, was not an age when people were so well informed, but rather an age when disinformation was so widespread and unquestioned that generations of people lived in bubbles of alternate realities—till they were finally popped.
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