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YES, “ISLAM IS PART OF OUR HISTORY”

… but hardly in the way that European elites claim.

2018-04-06T00:07:00-04:00

Raymond Ibrahim

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Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center

European Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans recently chaired a roundtable with ten Muslim imams from six EU Member States (Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy and The Netherlands).  Afterwards Timmermans announced that “the Commission is strongly committed to promoting diversity in Europe. Islam is part of our history, Islam is part of our present and Islam will be part of our future.”

Such assertions are as true as the assumptions they are based on—and whether such assumptions are grounded in historical facts or fictions. In prefacing his claims about Islam’s historic role in Europe by saying “the Commission is strongly committed to promoting diversity in Europe,” it is clear which perception Timmermans is invoking.

The true, historically documented role that Islam played has a much different story to tell: in the early seventh century, sword-waving Arabs burst out of the Arabian Peninsula and in a few decades conquered some two-thirds of what then constituted the Christian world—from Syria and Egypt in the east to Carthage and Spain in the west and everything in between.  One hundred years after the death of their prophet (traditionally dated to 632), they were in the heart of France where, thanks to their defeat at Tours in 732, and other Frankish victories, the whole of Europe was also not conquered.

But where lands could not be subjugated, bodies still could, and for the next few centuries the jihad turned into a giant slave trade of European flesh, as slave raids left virtually no part of Europe untouched (even the Viking raids in northern Europe were in large measure fueled by Arab gold).

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Those of us that understand the dis-ingenuousness of politicians who promise but never

deliver are seeing once again the Congress has passed a six month budget that will cost us

more than $1 trillion, ‘funded’ with debt and will not address important issues that will

now have to wait until 2020 when another budget will be due!

Three key campaign issues of President Trump, defunding of Planned Parenthood and

sanctuary cities, and building the wall on the Southern border are not included in this

budget to the satisfaction of Democrats and half of Republicans than couldn’t care

less about the president’s promise to the people that elected him.

Even one issue Democrats say are deeply concerned about, ‘Dreamers’, DACA children

are also not protected, even though it really doesn’t hurt their cause as until legislation

is written they’re here to stay and the “chain’ of relatives also will not be deported.

This was enough to warrant a presidential veto which did not occur, but, will it be

enough to give Democrats a Congressional majority in November?

What else is in this legislative concoction? The following are requests from the Trump

Administration which were rejected.

1. No increased in the number of ICE ( Immigration and Customs Enforcement)

2. Detention centers for apprehended illegals are not being increased.

3. Sanctuary cities will continue to be funded.

4. Only 33 miles of new fencing on the Texas border will be funded,  none may

     resemble the wall prototypes being tested.

5. Funding to enhance border security of nations in conflict in the Middle East,

    not here in the United States.

6. African Development Foundation, Corporation for National Community Service,

    Corporation for Public Broadcasting ALL will receive funding.

7. The National Endowment for the Arts & Humanities did get a cut, $1000 less than

     the combined $300 million received in previous budget!

8. Woodrow Wilson Center, a “think tank”  receives $12 million.

9. Planned Parenthood gets $500 million a year.

Many organizations on this list are self sustaining, pay their executives and employees

handsomely, yet each year they grovel to Congress for more funding, all indifferent

to the great debt taxpayers carry.

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