As concern the Islamization of Europe: Democracy – Thou art a Trojan horse.
The Hindi proverb “Loha Loheko Kaat-ta hai” means “iron cuts iron”. The meaning is obvious. One cannot cut iron with copper, bronze or brass. You can cut iron only with tempered steel. Similar is the case with Islam. Today, Islam is the most stubborn, savage and uncivilized totalitarian creed. It is not possible to tackle such a cruel and violent creed with the liberal and civilized legal system of modern democracy. It has to be tackled with firm, effective measures. The Muslims in non-Muslims countries are using the liberal and democratic laws of the host countries to multiply their kind so as to gain in strength. The purpose, or the ultimate impact of it, would be: overpopulate the native population and conquer those nations through a nonviolent, even somewhat democratic, way.
In the olden days of dictatorial and totalitarian monarchy in Europe, Muslims had to fight with European forces to make their foothold in that continent. In 711, Moors, after the Umayyad conquest of Hispania, occupied large parts of the Iberian Peninsula establishing the Al-Andalus (Moorish Spain), but further advancement was arrested. That monarchy, today, has been replaced by democracy, which is facilitating the Muslim invasion of European countries as they come in as innocent immigrants, who are treated as civilian residents and even valued citizens. It can also be recalled that European monarchies had once organized the Crusades in order to recover Jerusalem from the Muslim occupation. But in today’s democratic Europe, organizing such an effort would be impossible. In this context, it would be relevant to discuss the Muslim conquest of Spain.
Islam in Spain
Islamic rule in Spain began with the Umayyad conquest of Hispania in 711 and lasted until 1492, when the Muslims of Granada were either converted to Christianity or massacred or driven out. Hispania was the Latin name given to the whole Iberian Peninsula (covering the territories of present-day Spain and Portugal). After the fall of the Western Roman Empire (476 AD), the Teutonic tribe of Visigoths captured and ruled the whole peninsula until the Islamic conquest. It is frequently stated in historical sources that Spain was one of the former Roman provinces where the Latin language and culture grew deep roots. After the fall of the Empire, the Visigoths continued that tradition by becoming probably the most Romanized of all Teutonic tribes.
On April 30 of 711, Berber leader Tariq ibn-Ziyad landed at Gibraltar and by the end of the campaign in most of the Iberian Peninsula (except for small areas in the north-west such as Asturias and the Basque territory) were brought under Islamic rule. The turning-point of the campaign was the battle of Guadalete, where the Visigothic king Roderick was defeated and killed on the battlefield. After a eight-year-long campaign, Muslim forces attempted to move north-east across the Pyrenees Mountains toward France, but were defeated by the Frankish Catholic Charles Martel at the Battle of Tours in 732. In fact, all areas previously under the rule of the Visigoths went under Islamic rule.
Islamic rule in the Iberian peninsula lasted for varying periods ranging from only 28 years in the extreme northwest (Galicia) to 781 years in the area surrounding the city of Granada in the southeast.
Lessons from Granada
Resistance to Muslim occupation started since the very beginning. And as Muslims were successively ousted from parts of Spain, their last fortess of power was a small settlement called Granada (88 sq. Km.), situated at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, at the confluence of three rivers, Beiro, Darro and Genil---now a province of Spain.
On January 2, 1492, the last Muslim sultan in Iberia, Emir Muhammad XII, known as Boabdil to the Spanish, surrendered complete control of Emirate of Granada, to Ferdinand II and Isabella I after the last battle of the Granada.
By 1499, the Muslims and Jews of Spain were given a choice of baptism or emigration. As a result, the Muslim population of Spain were subjected to persecution, execution, or exile---a treatment, which is now unthinkable in Europe. It nonetheless brought peace in Europe, which is now being perturbed again by the new influx of Muslims as refugees and immigrants. As of 2007[update], an estimated over 1 million Muslims live in Spain and most of them are recent immigrants from North Africa, Middle East, and South Asia; although there are some 20,000 converts.
Ottoman Empire and Europe
Similar is the history of the invasion of Europe by the Ottoman Turks. During the 8th and 9th centuries, Turkish nomadic tribes converted to Islam, were pressured out of their homes in the Asian steppes by the Mongols. One of the Turkish tribes, the Seljuk, had become a significant power in the Islamic world. However, many other Turkish groups remained nomadic, sought to conquer land for Islam and to acquire war booty for themselves. This led them into conflict with the Seljuk Turks, and to pacify the nomadic tribes, the Seljuks directed them to the eastern domain of the Byzantine Empire, Anatolia. The tribe known as the Ottomans arose from one of the smaller emirates established in northwestern Anatolia after 1071. The dynasty was named for Osman (1259-1326), who began to expand his kingdom into the Byzantine Empire in Asia Minor, moving his capital to Bursa in 1326. The empire lasted from 1299 to 1923. At the height of its power, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the empire spanned three continents, controlling much of Southeastern Europe, Western Asia and North Africa during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent (r. 1520-1566), the empire was at the center of interactions between the Eastern and Western worlds for six centuries.
In the century after the death of Osman I, Ottoman rule began to extend over the Eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans. The important city of Thessaloniki was captured from the Venetians in 1387. The Turkish victory at the Battle of Kosovoin 1389 effectively marked the end of Serbian power in the region, paving the way for Ottoman expansion into Europe. The Battle of Nicopolis in 1396, widely regarded as the last large-scale crusade of the Middle Ages, failed to stop the advance of the victorious Ottomans. To consolidate his claim, Mehmed II wanted to gain control over the Western capital, Rome, and Ottoman forces occupied parts of the Italian Peninsula.
Later on, the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by Mehmed II cemented the status of the Empire as the preeminent power in southeastern Europe and the eastern Mediterranean. During this time, the Ottoman Empire entered a long period of conquest and expansion, extending its borders deep into Europe and North Africa.
Selim's successor, Suleiman the Magnificent (1520–1566), further expanded upon Selim's conquests. After capturing Belgrade in 1521, Suleiman conquered the southern and central parts of the Kingdom of Hungary.
He then laid siege to Vienna in 1529, but failed to take the city after the onset of winter forced his retreat.[20] In 1532, he made another attack on Vienna with an army thought to be over 250,000 strong, but was repulsed 97 kilometres (60 mi) south of the city at the fortress of Güns.
As a treachery, France united with the Ottoman Empire, as their mutual opposition to Habsburg rule in both Southern and Central Europe, became strong allies during this period. The alliance was economic and military, as the sultans granted France the right of trade within the Empire without levy of taxation. By this time, the Ottoman Empire was a significant and accepted part of the European political sphere. It made a military alliance with France, the Kingdom of England and the Dutch Republic against Habsburg Spain, Italy and Habsburg Austria.
Battle of Vienna in 1683, which marked the end of Ottoman expansion into Europe. In the final assault the Ottoman forces were swept away by allied Habsburg, German and Polish forces spearheaded by the Polish king Jan Sobieski at the Battle of Vienna. Then after the Treaty of Karlowitz (January 26, 1699), which ended the Great Turkish War, the Ottoman Empire was forced to surrender control of significant European territories.
The Ottoman Empire came to an end, as a regime under an imperial monarchy, on November 1, 1922. It formally ended on July 24, 1923 under the Treaty of Lausanne. It was succeeded by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923.
Conclusion
The history of Europe, narrated above, tells us how resolutely the European monarchies had to fight for saving the continent from being overrun by the Islamic hordes – firstly by defeating the Moors in Spain in January, 1492, and secondly, by defeating the Ottoman Turks in January, 1699. But today, with liberal democracy in place as a system of governance, which demands human rights to all and is against any form of discrimination based on religion or race. But collectively Muslims are as determined as ever to fulfill their God-ordained command to conquer the world for establishing Islamic theocracy globally. And liberal democracy, undoubtedly, presents Muslims with the golden opportunity for Islamizing Europe and by extension of whole world, by over-breeding and influx of Muslim immigrants from Islamic countries.
This prospect of Islamizing Europe through increasing Muslim population through migration and fast breeding was expressed most eloquently by none other than the Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi, who said: There are signs that Allah will grant victory to Islam in Europe without swords, without guns, without conquest. We don’t need terrorists, we don’t need homicide bombers. The 50+ million Muslims (in Europe) will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades.
Therefore, as concern the Islamization of Europe: Democracy – Thou art a Trojan horse.
