Tuesday, June 16, 2015

War With Islam

     This is not politically correct, but needs to be addressed.  Our government can criticize the Christian crusades, but won’t criticize Muslims in any way.  The fact that the Christian crusades were in reaction to Muslim conquests seems to be irrelevant.  Here is a brief summary of Muslim conquests.

610-750 – Conquest of Byzantine and Sassanid
633-651 – Conquest of Persia and Mesopotamia
637 – Conquest of Syria
639 – Conquest of Armenia
639 – Conquest of Egypt
644 – Conquest of Iraq/Persia
652 – Conquest of North Africa
654 – Conquest of Cyprus
662-751 – Conquest of Transoxiana
664-712 – Conquest of Sindh
665 – Second conquest of North Africa
674-678 – First siege of Constantinople
700-1600 – Conquest of Nubia
711-718 – Conquest of Hispania
711-750 – Attempts to conquer Caucasus
717-718 – Second siege of Constantinople
718-750 – Umayyad conquests
719-720 – Conquest Septimania
736 – Conquest of Georgia
820- Conquest of Crete
827 – Conquest of Sicily and invade southern Italy
831-902 – Invade central and southern Italy
1060-1360 – Conquest of Anatolia
1299-1453 – Byzantine-Ottoman Wars
1200-1800 – Conquests in Eastern Europe, Asia, and India
1801-1805 – U.S Barbary War with Tripoli
1815-1816 – U.S. Barbary War with Algiers

Do you see a pattern here?

The tactics of the Islamic war have changed to a terrorist war except for some areas like Iraq and Afghanistan, and some Islamic groups like Isis, which take and hold ground.
I am not going to list terrorist’s attacks against Americans on foreign soil, although it is hard to ignore civilian beheadings, attacks against our military like the USS Cole, and attacks on our embassies like Benghazi.  We t end to think we are safe at home because oceans insulate us, but that is not true.  Here is a list of Islamic terrorist attacks on American soil. 

Date                    City/State                            Killed         Injured
4/14/1972           New York, NY                         1                 3
1/19/1973           Brooklyn, NY                          1                 1
7/01/1973           Bethesda, MD                        1                 0
7/18/1973           Washington, DC                     8                 2
10/19/1973         Oakland, CA                           1                 1
10/29/1973         Berkeley, CA                          1                 0
11/25/1973         Oakland, CA                           1                 0      
12/11/1973         Oakland, CA                           1                 0
12/13/1973         Oakland, CA                           1                 0
12/20/1973         Oakland, CA                           1                 0
12/22/1973         Oakland, CA                           2                 0
12/24/1973         Oakland, CA                           1                 0
1/24/1974           Oakland, CA                           4                 1
4/01/1974           Oakland, CA                           1                 1
4/16/1974           Ingleside, CA                         1                 0
3/09/1977           Washington, DC                    1                 1
7/22/1980           Bethesda, MD                        1                 0
8/31/1980           Savou, IL                                2                 0
11/06/1989         St. Louis, MO                         1                 0
1/31/1990           Tucson, AZ                            1                 0
11/05/1990         New York, NY                         1                 0
1/25/1993           Langley, VA                            2                 3
2/26/1993           New York, NY                         6          1040       
3/01/1994           Brooklyn, NY                          1                  0
3/23/1997           New York, NY                         1                 6
4/03/1997           Lompoc, CA                           1                 0
3/17/2000           Atlanta, GA                             1                 1
9/11/2001           Washington, DC                184               53
9/11/2001           Shanksville, PA                    40                 0
9/11/2001           New York, NY                   2752            251
3/19/2002           Tucson, AZ                            1                 0
5/27/2002           Denton, TX                            1                 0
7/04/2002           Los Angeles, CA                   2                 0
9/05/2002           Clinton, MD                            1                 0
9/21/2002           Montgomery, AL                    1                 1
9/23/2002           Baton Rouge, LA                   1                 0
10/02/2002         Wheaton, MD                         1                 0
10/03/2002         Montgomery, MD                   5                 0
10/09/2002         Manassas, VA                        1                 1
10/11/2002         Fredericksburg, VA               1                 0
10/14/2002         Arlington, VA                          1                 0
10/22/2002         Aspen Hill, MD                       1                 0
8/06/2003           Houston, TX                           1                 0
12/02/2003         Chicago, IL                             1                 0
4/13/2004           Raleigh, NC                            1                 4
4/15/2004           Scottsville, NY                        1                 2
6/16/2006           Baltimore, MD                        1                 0
6/25/2006           Denver, CO                            1                 5
7/28/2006           Seattle, WA                            1                 5
1/01/2008           Irving, TX                                2                 0
7/06/2008           Jonesboro, GA                      1                 0
2/12/2009           Buffalo, NY                             1                 0
4/12/ 2009          Phoenix, AZ                           2                 0
6/01/2009           Little Rock, AR                       1                 1
11/02/2009         Glendale, AZ                          1                 1
11/05/2009         Ft. Hood, TX                        13               31
12/04/2009         Binghamton, NY                     1                 0
4/14/2010           Marquette Park, IL                 5                 2
4/30/2011           Warren, MI                             1                 0
9/11/2011           Waltham, MA                         3                 0
1/15/2012           Houston, TX                          1                 0
2/07/2013           Buena Vista, NJ                    2                 0
3/24/2013           Ashtabula, OH                       1                 0
4/15/2013           Boston, MA                           3             264
4/19/2013           Boston, MA                           1                 1
8/04/2013           Richmond, CA                      1                 0
3/06/2014           Port Bolivar, TX                    2                 0
4/27/2014           Skyway, WA                         1                  0
6/01/2014           Seattle, WA                          2                  0
6/25/2014           West Orange, NJ                 1                  0
9/25/2014           Moore, OK                            1                 1

That adds up to 3,103 Americans killed by Muslims on American soil in 75 terrorists attacks.  The number of attacks surprised me.  Many just killed one person, which may seem insignificant unless it happened to you or your family.  This list does not address any terrorist acts that were stopped by law enforcement, or brave citizens.
Why don’t we hear more about these attacks?  When we do hear about them, they are also not identified correctly.  Calling the Ft. Hood attack “workplace violence” is a joke.  If a white police office kills a black person, it is on the news for months even if the action is justified.  We need to get our priorities straight.
The Muslim religion has always demanded continual expansion or conversion by whatever means possible.  The saying, “Kill all infidels” is still considered part of the Muslim religion by the Islamic extremists.  I am not saying all Muslims are bad, but the peace loving Muslims must take a more active role in stopping violent extremists.  A passive response by Muslims to terrorist’s acts condones those acts.
We are at war with radical Islam.  We all better recognize and deal with that fact.  As Winson Churchill said before WWII, “Fight your enemy while you can beat them.”  I hope we don’t wait until it escalates to WWIII.

 


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