CFPSpare us , O Lord - Appeasing Muslims, Europe and the West by Gary Reid
We are urged on all sides to appease Muslims.
Why?
Well, because they get angry and kill people. Not all of them, of course, just some of them. But, enough of them to matter. Mr. Garth Pritchard, CFP’s foreign war correspondent in Afghanistan, thinks we should appease Muslims because it undermines our military in that country. Apparently, doing the Canadian thing of waving and smiling is the way to go, the peace-keeping protocol. It is not a contest between Christianity and Islam. It is struggle between Islam and the secular west. We do not support censorship with respect to religion. We do not allow proponents of any religion to dictate what we can read, see, hear or write. That is what means to be a western civilization.
Mr. Pat Buchanan, well-known American conservative commentator, and two-time candidate for the U.S. Presidency, claims that the provocation of the Muslims by the Europeans has undermined all of America’s good work in ensuring that the American invasion of Muslim lands is not seen as a war on Islam. Buchanan thinks we need to appease Muslims to save America’s foreign policy, which is to "win the hearts and minds" of the moderate Muslims.
It was 36 years after the death of Mohammed (632 A.D.) that a Muslim army first laid siege to the eastern gateway to Europe, Constantinople (now Istanbul).
After that, Islamic armies battled Europeans in Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Sicily, Austria, Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Rumania, Wallachia, Albania, Moldavia, Bulgaria, Greece, Armenia, Georgia, Poland, Ukraine and Russia.
"From the fury of the Mohammedan, spare us, O’Lord," was a common prayer uttered in European churches for centuries. Spain was occupied by Muslims for 800 years, Portugal 600, Greece 500, Sicily 300, Serbia 400, Bulgaria 500 and Hungary 150 years. Western occupation of Muslim lands lasted less than 150 years. Muslims forced Europeans in conquered territories to renounce Christianity and embrace Islam. Muslims in territories occupied by Europeans kept their religion.* So yes, Mr. Buchanan, it is possible that Europeans might have a keener sensitivity to the Islamic dynamic than Americans. As clumsy and offensive as the Danish cartoon contest might have been, we owe a debt to the European media for reminding us who we are supposed to be.
