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100's of Millions Dead: Victims of 1400 years of Islam; the "Religion" of Death and Conquest

From Michael Konrad at American Thinker

When one thinks of mass murder, Hitler comes to mind. If not Hitler, then Tojo, Stalin, or Mao. Credit is given to the 20th-century totalitarians as the worst species of tyranny to have ever arisen. However, the alarming truth is that Islam has killed more than any of these, and may surpass all of them combined in numbers and cruelty.

The enormity of the slaughters of the “religion of peace” are so far beyond comprehension that even honest historians overlook the scale. When one looks beyond our myopic focus, Islam is the greatest killing machine in the history of mankind, bar none.

The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. -- Will Durant, as quoted on Daniel Pipes site.

Conservative estimates place the number at 80 million dead Indians.

According to some calculations, the Indian (subcontinent) population decreased by 80 million between 1000 (conquest of Afghanistan) and 1525 (end of Delhi Sultanate). -- Koenrad Elst as quoted on Daniel Pipes site

80 Million?! The conquistadors’ crimes pale into insignificance at that number. No wonder Hitler admired Islam as a fighting religion. He stood in awe of Islam, whose butchery even he did not surpass.

Over 110 Million Blacks were killed by Islam.

... a minumum of 28 Million African were enslaved in the Muslim Middle East. Since, at least, 80 percent of those captured by Muslim slave traders were calculated to have died before reaching the slave market, it is believed that the death toll from 1400 years of Arab and Muslim slave raids into Africa could have been as high as 112 Millions. When added to the number of those sold in the slave markets, the total number of African victims of the trans-Saharan and East African slave trade could be significantly higher than 140 Million people. -- John Allembillah Azumah, author of The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa: A Quest for Inter-religious Dialogue

Add just those two numbers alone together, and Islam has surpassed the victims of 20th-century totalitarianism. However, it does not end there. Add the millions who died at the hand of Muslims in the Sudan in our lifetime.

Much of Islamic slavery was sexual in nature, with a preference for women. Those men who were captured were castrated. The mulatto children of the women were often killed, which explains why Islam was not demographically shifted towards the black race, unlike slaves in the West, who bore children to breed a mestizo class. Add in those dead children; and we arrive at well over 200 million.

Remember that in the 7th century, North Africa was almost totally Christian. What happened to them?

By the year 750, a hundred years after the conquest of Jerusalem, at least 50 percent of the world’s Christians found themselves under Muslim hegemony… Today there is no indigenous Christianity in the region [of Northwest Africa], no communities of Christians whose history can be traced to antiquity.-- “Christianity Face to Face with Islam,” CERC

What happened to those Christian millions? Some converted. The rest? Lost to history.

We know that over 1 million Europeans were enslaved by Barbary Pirates. How many died is anybody’s guess.

...for the 250 years between 1530 and 1780, the figure could easily have been as high as 1,250,000 - BBC

In the Middle Ages…

…many slaves were passed through Armenia and were castrated there to fill the Muslim demand for eunuchs. -- Slavery in Early Medieval Europe.

The same practice ran through Islamic Spain. North Europeans captured from raids up to Iceland, or purchased, were butchered in the castratoriums of Iberia. Many died from the operations that ran for centuries.

The number of dead from the Muslim conquest of the Balkans and Southern Italy is unknown, but again the numbers add up, surely into the millions over the centuries. Don’t forget the 1.5 million Armenian Christians killed by the Turks during WWI. We do know that over five centuries, vast numbers of Christian boys were kidnapped to become Islamic Janissary mercenaries for the Turks. Add those in, too.

Muslims prized blonde women for their harems; and so enslaved Slavic women were purchased in the bazaars of the Crimean Caliphate. In Muslim Spain, an annual tribute of 100 Visigothic [blonde] women was required from Spain’s Cantabrian coast.

For decades, 100 virgins per year were required by the Muslim rulers of Spain from the conquered population. The tribute was only stopped when the Spaniards began fighting back -- Jihad: Islam’s 1,300 Year War Against Western Civilisation

Add in the death toll from the Reconquista and the numbers climb higher.

Research has shown that the Dark Ages were not caused by the Goths, who eventually assimilated and Christianized:

…the real destroyers of classical civilization were the Muslims. It was the Arab Invasions... which broke the unity of the Mediterranean world and turned the Middle Sea -- previously one of the world’s most important trading highways -- into a battleground. It was only after the appearance of Islam... that the cities of the West, which depended upon the Mediterranean trade for their survival, began to die. -- Islam Caused the Dark Ages

Add in those unknown millions who died as a consequence.

How many know the horrors of the conquest of Malaysia? The Buddhists of Thailand and Malaysia were slaughtered en masse.

When attacked and massacred by the Muslims, the Buddhists initially did not make any attempt to escape from their murderers. They accepted death with an air of fatalism and destiny. And hence they are not around today to tell their story. – History of Jihad.org

We may never know the numbers of dead.

After Muslims came to power in the early 15th century, animist hill peoples eventually disappeared due to their enslavement and ‘incorporation’ into the Muslim population of Malaya, Sumatra, Borneo, and Java via raids, tribute and purchase, especially of children. Java was the largest exporter of slaves around 1500. -- Islam Monitor

In the same manner, Islam arrived in the Philippines. Only the appearance of the Spanish stopped a total collapse, and confined Islam to the southern islands.

The coming of the Spanish saved the Philippines from Islam, except for the Southern tip where the population had been converted to Islam.-- History of Jihad.org

Again, the number of dead is unknown; but add them to the total.

The animist Filipinos were eager to ally with the Spanish against Islam. In fact, much of Southeast Asia welcomed the Spanish and Portuguese as preferable to Islam.

...from the 17th century successive Thai kings allied themselves with the seafaring Western powers – the Portuguese and the Dutch and succeeded in staving off the threat of Islam from the Muslim Malays and their Arab overlords.-- History of Jihad.org

A few galleons and muskets were not enough to conquer Asia. Islam had made the Europeans initially appear as liberators; and to a certain extent they were. Who were the real imperialists?

Even today...

...Malaysian Jihadis are plotting to transform multi-ethnic Malaysia into an Islamic Caliphate, and fomenting trouble in Southern Thailand.-- History of Jihad.org

Add this all up. The African victims. The Indian victims. The European victims. Add in the Armenian genocide. Then add in the lesser known, but no doubt quite large number of victims of Eastern Asia. Add in the jihad committed by Muslims against China, which was invaded in 651 AD. Add in the Crimean Khanate predations on the Slavs, especially their women.

Though the numbers are not clear, what is obvious is that Islam is the greatest murder machine in history bar none, possibly exceeding 250 million dead. Possibly one-third to one-half or more of all those killed by war or slavery in history can be traced to Islam; and this is just a cursory examination.

Now consider the over 125 Million women today who have been genitally mutilated for Islamic honor’s sake. In spite of what apologists tell you, the practice is almost totally confined to Islamic areas.

New information from Iraqi Kurdistan raises the possibility that the problem is more prevalent in the Middle East than previously believed and that FGM is far more tied to religion than many Western academics and activists admit. – “Is Female Genital Mutilation an Islamic Problem?” ME Quarterly

Once thought concentrated in Africa, FGM has now been discovered to be common wherever Islam is found.

There are indications that FGM might be a phenomenon of epidemic proportions in the Arab Middle East. Hosken, for instance, notes that traditionally all women in the Persian Gulf region were mutilated. Arab governments refuse to address the problem. -- “Is Female Genital Mutilation an Islamic Problem?” ME Quarterly

Remember that this has gone on for 1400 years; and was imposed on a population that had been formerly Christian or pagan.

FGM is practiced on large scale in Islamic Indonesia; and is increasing.

...far from scaling down, the problem of FGM in Indonesia has escalated sharply. The mass ceremonies in Bandung have grown bigger and more popular every year. -- Guardian

The horrified British author of that Guardian article is still deluded that Islam does not support FGM, when in fact it is now settled that FGM is a core Islamic practice. Islamic women have been brainwashed to support their own abuse.

Abu Sahlieh further cited Muhammad as saying, “Circumcision is a sunna (tradition) for the men and makruma (honorable deed) for the women.” -- “Is Female Genital Mutilation an Islamic Problem?” ME Quarterly

What other tyranny does this? Not even the Nazis mutilated their own women!

Unlike the 20th-century totalitarians whose killing fury consumed themselves, reducing their longevity, Islam paces itself. In the end, though slower, Islam has killed and tortured far more than any other creed, religious or secular. Unlike secular tyranny, Islam, by virtue of its polygamy and sexual predations, reproduces itself and increases.

Other tyrannies are furious infections, which burn hot, but are soon overcome. Islam is a slow terminal cancer, which metastasizes, and takes over. It never retreats. Its methods are more insidious, often imperceptible at first, driven by demographics. Like cancer, excision may be the only cure.

So whenever you read about this or that Israeli outrage -- and there may be truth to the complaint -- place the news in context. Look whom the Israelis are fighting against. Islam is like nothing else in history.

Nick Fuentes "Nukes" US Blacks, and Gets Agreement from the (Black) Conservative Twins

 

Africa's Islamic Killing Fields: >200,000 Dead in Just a Recent Ten Year Period (2014 to 2023)

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Highlights of African Deaths By Islamic Jihadists (Data from AfricaCenter.org):

Fatalities linked to militant Islamist violence rose by 20 percent in the past year (from 19,412 in 2022 to 23,322)—a record level of lethal violence. This represents a near doubling in deaths since 2021.

83 percent of the reported fatalities have been in the Sahel and Somalia. The two regions saw 43 percent and 22 percent annual increases in the number of violent extremist-linked deaths, respectively.

DEATHS BY MUSLIMS PER YEAR IN AFRICA — APPROXIMATELY 150,000 DEAD FROM 2014 TO 2023 ALONE. TOTAL CASUALTIES NOT ESTIMATED.

 

Year 2023 ALONE

Recent Islamic Deaths/Killings SOMALIA

To understand the impact of Islamic-related violence in Somalia, consider the following statistics:

1. Deaths: Thousands have died due to militant attacks, with estimates ranging from 10,000 to 20,000 since 2007.

    

2. Al-Shabaab Attacks: Al-Shabaab, the primary militant group, has conducted over 1,000 attacks in the last decade.

3. Displacement: Approximately 2.6 million people are internally displaced due to violence and instability.

4. Somalia saw a 22-percent increase in fatalities in 2023—reaching a record high of 7,643 deaths. Virtually all of this violence is attributed to incidents involving al Shabaab.

5. This represents a tripling of fatalities since 2020.

6. The majority of violent events (65 percent) and fatalities (77 percent) were linked to battles, reflecting the continued offensive led by the Somali federal government against al Shabaab.

7. Kenya experienced a doubling in the number of fatalities (279) resulting from violence with al Shabaab in 2023, primarily along the Somalia border. An estimated 96 percent of fatalities in this region are in Somalia, however.

8. The conflict, combined with drought and flooding, has resulted in 4.3 million people facing Crisis levels and above (IPC Phase 3+) of food insecurity in Somalia.   

 

Recent Islamic Deaths/Killings SUDAN

To understand the impact of violence in Sudan, particularly related to Islamic killings, consider the following statistics:

1. Over 300,000 people have died due to the conflict since 2003.

2. Approximately 2.5 million people are displaced within Sudan.

3. Reports indicate that thousands of civilians have been targeted in ethnic violence.

4. Human Rights Watch documented over 1,000 killings in specific incidents in recent years.

5. The UN estimates that around 6 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance.

6. Armed groups, including militias, have been implicated in numerous attacks against civilians.

Recent Islamic Deaths/Killings NIGERIA

Fifty five thousands (55,000) Innocents Murdered by Islamist Jihadists — just in the recent 4 years period ending in 2023:

1. A report by The Observatory for Religious Freedom in Africa (ORFA) covering October 2019 to September 2023 states that ~55,910 people died in “ethnic and religious violence” in Nigeria — of those, ~30,880 were civilians. ACI Africa

   • Among the civilians: ~16,769 Christians killed; ~6,235 Muslims; ~154 adherents of traditional African religions; ~7,722 victims’ religion unknown. ACI Africa

2. A separate research report by International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) gives that between July 2009 and April 2023, ~52,250 Christians were killed for non-violent Christian affiliation (i.e., killed while professing Christianity) and ~34,000 “moderate” Muslims similarly targeted. Total ~85,250. Intersociety+3Intersociety+3ACI Africa+3

3. For 2025 (Jan 1–Aug 10), Intersociety reports ~7,087 Christians killed and ~7,800 abducted for being Christians. ACI Africa+1

4. According to another source, between October 2019 and September 2024: 66,656 deaths (civilians + others) in Nigeria; of those civilians (~36,056) more than half were in Christian-vulnerable communities; the ratio given was 2.4 Christians killed for every Muslim in that period.

Recent Islamic Deaths/Killings NIGER

 

From Niger’s Escalating Jihadist Violence and Humanitarian Crisis:

The Sahel region, a vast expanse of land stretching across Africa, has become a hotbed of violence and instability. Jihadist groups, including the Islamic State Sahel Province (ISSP) and Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM), are escalating their attacks, particularly in Niger. Human Rights Watch (HRW) recently released a report detailing a disturbing increase in attacks on civilians by Islamic State-affiliated militants in Niger (africanews.com). These groups exploit weak state presence and inter-ethnic tensions to expand their influence and launch brutal attacks on both military and civilian populations (studies.aljazeera.net).

Civilian Fatalities in Niger: 770 Under Democratic Rule and 1,599 Since July 2023 Coup

The situation has worsened significantly since the July 2023 coup in Niger. Jihadist violence has more than doubled in the 18 months following the coup, with approximately 1,599 deaths reported, compared to 770 under democratic rule (genocidewatch.com). This alarming increase highlights the junta’s failure to curb the surge in attacks. In fact, the junta’s inability to counter jihadist operations, coupled with its expulsion of Western media, has obscured the true extent of this devastating crisis (genocidewatch.com).

Trump's Whole-of-Government Attack on the Subversive, Transnational Network of NGOs, Foreign Financiers, and Ideological Operatives of "Riot Inc."

 From Jason Curtis Anderson of One City Rising, via ZeroHedge

President Trump’s latest roundtable on ANTIFA wasn’t just a political statement — it was a long-overdue reckoning against rising far-left political violence. For years, journalists and citizens alike have watched America’s streets burn, our cities vandalized, and our law enforcement vilified under banners of “resistance.” But as the President’s meeting revealed, ANTIFA is only one mask worn by a much larger monster — a transnational network of NGOs, foreign financiers, and ideological operatives quietly fueling what Seamus Bruner of the Government Accountability Institute called “Riot Inc.”

Bruner, GAI’s Director of Research, broke down the mechanics of this sprawling protest industrial complex. He traced the money, the messaging, and the movements, exposing how left-wing extremism has evolved from decentralized networks of anarchist collectives into a well-funded infrastructure with global ambitions. Among the various nodes and financiers, he named Neville Roy Singham — a tech billionaire currently under multiple congressional investigations for allegedly funneling money to American-based protest groups doing the bidding of the Chinese Communist Party.

Jonathan Choe, a journalist at the Discovery Institute, added another dimension, one that hits close to home for anyone living on the West Coast. He described how ANTIFA’s organizing hubs are increasingly intertwined with what he called the “homeless industrial complex,” a web of taxpayer-funded nonprofits that profit off permanent social decay. Cities like Portland, Seattle, and Los Angeles, all suffering the twin crises of homelessness and anarchist violence, have quietly become laboratories for this merger of chaos and cash flow.

Choe also revealed deep connections between ANTIFA networks and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) — the same group now running Zohran Mamdani for New York City Mayor. In 2019, the DSA’s national convention voted to formally adopt ANTIFA into its organization — a vote that passed with full approval. And according to new reports, ANTIFA’s latest project, “Stop Cop City”, has been holding meetings at the DSA headquarters in New York City.

Within hours of being named at Trump’s roundtable, Mark Bray, the self-proclaimed ANTIFA historian and Rutgers professor, announced he was leaving the country. Bray’s panic was revealing — because just after his name came up, Stop Cop City posted an official response on a well-known anarchist website, calling on supporters to join new “No Kings” protests nationwide.

Those protests, while marketed as peaceful resistance, have become a predictable cocktail of violence and political theater. In Los Angeles, “No Kings Day” descended into chaos when protesters hurled rocks, bricks, and fireworks at police. Federal buildings were vandalized, hundreds arrested, and at least one deputy hospitalized after a motorcyclist deployed tear gas at law enforcement. In Salt Lake City, a protester was shot and critically injured. In Portland, an ICE facility became the scene of a multi-hour riot. And in Minnesota, a targeted attack on state lawmakers connected to “No Kings” propaganda left two dead and two critically wounded.

All of this, it turns out, was not spontaneous. As ZeroHedge previously reported, the “No Kings” protests were funded by Arabella Advisors, the same dark-money network behind some of the most powerful progressive operations in Washington. Arabella’s fingerprints confirm Bruner’s central thesis: that “Riot Inc.” is a product not of grassroots passion, but of elite engineering — managed, funded, and protected by a nonprofit industrial complex that answers to no voters and fears no audits.

The scale of coordination here should disturb every American. ANTIFA isn’t simply a group of masked agitators smashing Starbucks windows — it’s one visible node of the growing revolution against the West. And while it might be decentralized and loose in structure, the rest of the revolution is not. The permanent protest industry has thousands of nonprofit entities, shell companies, fiscal sponsorships, alternative media arms, an army of lawyers, bail funds, foreign influences, and a multi-billion-dollar network of backers.

Bruner told Trump earlier this week, “We have identified dozens of radical organizations, not just the decentralized Antifa organizations, but dozens of radical organizations that have received more than $100 million from the Riot Inc investors.”

It even has political allies running for major office in America’s biggest cities.

President Trump deserves credit for forcing this conversation into the open. But as Bruner warned, dismantling ANTIFA’s street operations will only address the symptoms. To truly stop the bleeding, America must go after the bloodstream — the NGO networks and offshore foundations that bankroll domestic destabilization.

A “bottom-up” crackdown targets the foot soldiers; a “top-down” strategy targets the financiers, the academics, and the nonprofit executives turning activism into industry.

Riot Inc. is real. It’s organized. And it’s finally being exposed.

SCOTUS Is Set to Allow Trump to Dismantle the Vast, Unaccountable DC Administrative State

 

From Steve Turley

The Supreme Court just handed President Trump one of his biggest wins yet that’s already serving as the legal nuclear weapon that will obliterate the administrative state. In the decisive 6 to 3 ruling, the justices shattered nearly a century of protection that kept unelected bureaucrats safely beyond presidential reach.

Now, what this means is that this isn’t just another legal victory. It’s basically the death certificate for the deep state’s centurylong strangle hold on American government.

For 90 years, a single Supreme Court case called Humphrey’s Executive versus the United States has been the deep state’s ultimate shield. We’ve talked about this before in some of our other videos. Humphrey’s Executive dates from 1935, so, this is the FDR administration. That decision basically made it illegal for the president to fire bureaucrats on commissions. And as such, that decision created an untouchable class of federal commissioners who could ignore presidents, defy voters, and push their own agenda without consequence. So, we’re talking bureaucrats with the Federal Trade Commission, the FTC, uh, in the Securities Exchange Commission, the National Labor Relations Board, the Consumer Product Safety Commission. And so we’re talking literally thousands of positions across Washington that have for decades operated under the same corrupt model.

Now, of course, they justified their existence by calling themselves independent agencies, right? That’s what you’re going to hear over and over and over in the legacy media who just fawn over these agencies. They’re unelected administrative bureaucrats who are supposedly independent. But of course the key question in all of that is independent from what? Or better independent from whom? And we all know the answer to this. Ultimately, they’re not just independent from the president or from Congress. They are ultimately independent from you, the American people, who never elected them. That’s ultimately who they are independent from. They’re independent from us, the American people.

So, you’ve got an entire class, a permanent class of unelected bureaucrats, the legacy media absolutely loves, who since 1935 have run both the domestic and international policies of the federal government. Presidents come and go, but the unelected bureaucracy is permanent, and they’re the ones who have ultimately been calling the shots in how our nation is governed.

So, the key here is that Humphrey’s Executive was a Supreme Court decision that protected permanent Washington from being fired by the chief executive, the president of the United States. And as a result, these bureaucrats weren’t civil servants. They were political operatives embedded in permanent positions, writing regulations with the force of law while answering to absolutely no one.

Well, gang, guess what? That current conservative majority on the Supreme Court just officially overturned Humphrey’s executive. I shouldn’t say officially. So, well, if you’re not familiar with the case that broke everything here, it’s fascinating. So, it involved FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter. She’s a Biden holdover. She was a Biden appointee who Trump fired simply for policy disagreements.

So, you know, he was going to say, I’m not going to have a single auto pen appointee in my government, certainly after January 20th.

Now, under the old system, which has existed for 90 years now, since 1935, Trump would have been powerless to do anything about her. So, commissioners could only be fired by virtue of some inordinate circumstance like malfeasants in office or some kind of blatant corruption or something like that. But the beauty here is that Trump didn’t cite any of those reasons when he fired her. He simply said, “You’re fired.” You’re fired. you’re an autopen hangover and you’re out of here.

Now, when he did that, he knew exactly what he was doing. He knew that was a direct challenge to Humphrey’s Executive. And that’s exactly what Slaughter’s lawyers did. They ran to federal court waving the Humphrey’s Executive precedent like a get out of jail free card and a lower court judge who has yet to realize what time it is ordered her reinstated believing that the old rules still applied.

The Supreme Court has stepped in and they’ve seen enough. In their latest ruling, they didn’t just allow Trump’s firing to stand. They agreed to hear arguments in December on whether to overturn Humphrey’s executive entirely.

And that’s exactly what they’re going to do.

So, we’re now at the precipice of this ridiculous Supreme Court decision getting completely and totally overturned. And liberal justices recognize that. Justice Kagan’s panicked dissent in the decision that allowed the Trump administration to fire Slaughter revealed exactly what the establishment fears. Kagan is freaking out that Trump can now basically remove any member he wishes for any reason or no reason at all.

Miss Kagan, It’s called executive power. It It’s called the power of the people. The people elected President Trump. We booted Biden out and now we expect every single bureaucrat appointed by that auto pen to be booted out right along with him. There was never ever supposed to be an unaccountable permanent bureaucracy running policy in DC. And unfortunately for the Supreme Court liberals, the Constitution is absolutely clear on that matter. Article two; the executive power shall be vested in the president of the United States of America—- not in boards, not in commissions, not in independent agencies.

For literally decades, legal scholars have pointed out the obvious. Humphrey’s executive created a fourth branch of government that the founders never, ever intended. And now the Supreme Court (and DJ Trump) is about to completely obliterate it.

This is what the draining of the swamp really looks like. This is the de dismantling of the administrative state. It’s truly about to happen and it’s absolutely beautiful. This is what we voted for in November the 5th. This is what you voted for. This is how you are changing our nation and the world.

YOU changed the world on November 5th and it’s just getting started. We’re not even a year in.

Ibrahim: The Day 813 Christians Were Beheaded for Refusing Islam

 

Nothing ever changes with murderous Islam. In the month of Sept ‘25 alone, according to thereligionofpeace.com, there were 110 Islamic attacks in 18 countries, in which 507 people were killed....

Transcript:

We are in an age when we’re told that ‘modern-day terrorists have hijacked Islam.’ “There’s nothing Islamic about ISIS.” Or “They’re hijacking an entire religion,” “What we see today as, if I could use President Bush’s term, and this is a term we’ve all used. Our religion has been hijacked. ‘ Obama apologized “And we are not at war with Islam. We are at war with people who have perverted Islam.”

This is nonsense.

Events that occurred today in history on a lonely hilltop in Italy force us to confront a more uncomfortable truth. Entire Sultanates and caliphates, the most legitimate expressions of Islamic authority, once all acted with the same radicalism, the same theological conviction and the same blood soaked methods as today’s so-called extremists.

Okay, first some background.

When he conquered Constantinople in 1453, Ottoman Sultan Muhammad II was only 21 years old with many decades of conquering still ahead of him. Now he had heard it prophesied that quote, “We Muslims will conquer Constantinople before we conquer Rome.” Not content with being the conqueror of Constantinople, greedy Muhammad was determined to fulfill the second half of that prophecy by conquering old Rome as well.

So he spent 27 years terrorizing and expanding into the Balkans until 1480 when his forces crossed into Italy and seized the city of Toronto. The sack was horrific. More than half of the city’s 22,000 Christian inhabitants were massacred and 5,000, the unlucky ones, mostly women and children, were enslaved.

Then came the Muslims magnanimous gesture. Freedom was offered to the remaining male Christian captives, 813 of them. But first they were ordered to renounce Christ and embrace Islam. The Christians responded in keeping with the exhortation of one of their numbers. My brothers, one of the captives had earlier said, we have fought to save our city. Now it’s time to fight to save our souls.

Outraged by their defiance, on August 14th, all 813 Christians were decapitated by the Muslims at top a barren hill that would forever after be known as Martyr’s Hill. Their families, the now enslaved women and children were forced to watch the carnage of their husbands and fathers as a reminder of the price of defiance. As for their archbishop, he was slowly sawn in half to triumphant cries of Allah Akbar. The bodies and heads of the Christians were left to rot at top the hill for over a year until the Italians managed to liberate and kick the Muslims out of Toronto.

The skulls of some of these martyrs are still displayed in the Cathedral of Toronto, silent witnesses to the horror of that day. Here is how Giovani Antonio Sumanti, an Italian contemporary, described that event. Quote, “When the city of Atrant was taken by the Ottoman forces in the year of our Lord, 1480, the invaders demanded that the Christians renounce their faith and convert to Islam, though steadfast in the Christian confession numbering over 800, refused this demand.

As a result, the Sultan’s men led them forth to the place now called the martyr’s chapel, and there, with cruel hands, executed them by the sword. Their bodies were left unburied, a grim testament to their faith and courage in the face of death. These brave souls have since been venerated by the faithful as holy martyrs who bore witness unto death rather than deny Christ.

Now, keep in mind, this was not the work of lone wolves or twisted radicals. It was the command of the most powerful Muslim ruler of his age. A man who was a virtual head of Sunni Islam and who kept around him a band of muis and other learned sheh to guide his treatment of Christian infidels. Surely today’s political refrain that modern-day jihadist terror is a distortion of otherwise peaceful Islam collapses in the face of such a history.

The slaughter at Toronto was Islam as practiced by its khalif, its jurists and its armies. Just as today’s mass atrocities and beheadings are Islam as practiced by ISIS and other terrorist or organizations and their self-declared khalifs and scholars, the difference is one of century, not of creed.

Hence why as American statues and monuments get toppled all over America, Sultan Muhammad II remains a hero in modern Turkey. President Erdogon’s conversion of the Hagya Sophia into a mosque was partly in homage to this man who was responsible for the slaughter and enslavement of possibly millions of Christians over the course of his 30-year reign!

Nor, needless to say, was a Toronto an isolated atrocity. As recorded in many Muslim and Christian chronicles over the centuries, the leaders and spokesmen of Islam, Sultans, khalifs, amirs, and shehikhs of every stripe have repeatedly spoken and acted like the Islamic State or rather the Islamic State has modeled itself on them.

The record is consistent across nearly 14 centuries as documented in this book, Sword and Scimitar, 14 centuries of war between Islam and the West.

Even more sobering is that then as now much of the west preferred to deny rather than confront reality. Pope Sixus IV appalled at Western Europe’s indifference soon after a Toronto warned in a letter that quote let them not think that they are protected against invasion those who are at a distance from the theater of war. He meant about Western Europe.

The Turks have sworn the extinction of Christianity a truce to sophistries. It is the moment not to talk but to act and fight. This was an old lament. Decades earlier, before Constantinople’s fall, Cardinal Julian had chastised Christendom’s indifference in very similar tone. Look all around you and see how the people of Christ are trotten upon and devoured by Turks, Sarris, and Tartars, Muslims, all. “Why do you not commiserate with the many thousands of your brothers who year after year are reduced to the harsh servitude of the infidel?”

But what is more pitiful is that many of those who are led into captivity and who are not able to bear such a hard servitude deny the Christian faith and are led to the abhorrent sect of Muhammad, meaning they convert to Islam. How many kingdoms, provinces, cities, towns are daily seized and depopulated. They have now cornered you in a small area in the west. Discord among Christians is the cause of all these calamities. If they would only grow wise and harbor love, this sort of persecution would soon end.

But the west remained in a stuper. Some 85 years after Otranto in 1565, as the Ottomans prepared their massive siege of Malta, Pope Pius IV complained that the king of Spain has quote “withdrawn into the woods and France, England, and Scotland are ruled by women and boys.”

That said, and like now, a few did see the pattern clear enough. Sebastian Brandt’s Ship of Fools, a poem from 1494, lamented how Christendom had lost the strongholds it once held throughout the Middle East to Islam. He wrote, quote, “Our faith was strong in the Orient, but now we perish, sleeping one and all. The wolf has come into the stall and steals the holy church’s sheep. The while the shepherd lies asleep. Four sisters of our church you find Constantinople, Alexandria, Jerusalem, Antioch. But they’ve been forfeited and sacked and soon the head Rome will be attacked. To learned Europeans, the Ottoman threat was simply the latest wave in a relentless tide. As one clergyman put it, quote, “The Arabs were the first troops of locusts. The Turks, a brood of vipers, are worse than their parent, the Sarissens, their mother.”

In short, the names always change. Omayads, Abbassad, Ottoman, Al-Qaeda, Boo Haram, Islamic State, but the creed and the methods remain the same. Each is a fresh brood of vipers hatched from the same nest, carrying forward the same jihad. The martyrs of Toronto are a reminder that the past is never really passed, and that the supposed gulf between the Islam of the caliphates and the Islam of modern-day terrorists is an illusion we impose on ourselves.

Ibrahim: Columbus Didn't Sail for 'Spices'— He Sailed to Crush Barbaric Islam

 

[Forward from Doug:  The Left tries to 'whitewash' the horrible and murderous history of Islam that continues today. This video is immensely important to understand the still worldwide scourge of Islam.]

Video dates from May 2025. Here’s the Transcript:

A few days ago on April 27, Donald Trump said, quote, “I am bringing Columbus Day back from the ashes. The Democrats did everything possible to destroy Christopher Columbus, his reputation, and all of the Italians that love him so much. They tore down his statues and put up nothing but woke, or even worse, nothing at all.” Well, you’ll be happy to know Christopher is going to make a major comeback. I am hereby reinstating Columbus Day under the same rules, dates, and locations as it has had for all of the many decades before.

Trump is referring to the fact Columbus Day that for years now, Columbus Day, also increasingly known as Indigenous People’s Day, has been condemned as a day when Americans celebrate “the genocidal actions of an Italian psychopath, and racist to boot, who savagely targeted the peaceful Pocahontas-like natives of America.”

Trump’s point that the Democrats did everything possible to destroy Christopher Columbus is especially validated by none other than his 2024 Democratic presidential candidate and competitor Kamala Harris. Not only is Kamala Harris on record affirming that she wants to officially cancel Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous People Day.

But in 2021 as vice president, she condemned America’s shameful past in the context of Columbus. She said, quote, “Since 1934, every October, the United States has recognized the voyage of the European explorers who first landed on the shores of the Americas. Those explorers ushered in a wave of devastation for tribal nations, perpetrating violence, stealing land, and spreading disease. We must not shy away from this shameful past, and we must shed light on it and do everything we can to address the impact of the past on native communities today.”

So good for Trump for caring about and wanting to reinstate Columbus. Even better, however, would be if we took this occasion to remember why Columbus sailed west in the first place. Although the fake history we were all taught in school claims Columbus and other Europeans sailed west for spices or to prove the world was round, the reality is that they all did so first and foremost to circumnavigate and fight Muslims.

When Columbus was born, the then more than 800 year-old war with Islam, or rather defense against jihad, was at an all-time high. In 1453, when Columbus was but 2 years old, the Turks finally sacked Constantinople. An atrocity laid an event that rocked Christendom to its core. Over the following years, Muslims continued making inroads deep into the Balkans, leaving much death and destruction in their wake, with millions of Slavs enslaved. Yes, the two words Slavs and slaves are etmologically connected for this very reason.

In 1480, when Columbus was 29, the Turks even managed to invade his native Italy. In the city of Atronto, they ritually beheaded 800 Italians and saw the local archbishop in half for refusing to recant Christianity and embrace Islam. Their skulls are still housed invisible to see at the Cathedral of Toronto.

It was in this backdrop that Spain’s monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella themselves avowed crusaders especially the queen who concluded the centuries long reconquista of Spain by liberating Granada from Islam in 1492 took Columbus The Crusade against Islam into their service. They funded his ambitious voyage in an effort to launch in the words of historian Lewis Bertrand quote a final and definite crusade against Islam by way of the Indies which culminated of course in the incidental founding of the new world.

Many Europeans were convinced that if they could only reach the peoples east of Islam, who if not Christian, were at least not as yet infected by the Muhammadan plague, to quote Nicholas the 5th, who was Pope during Columbus’ youth. Together they could crush Islam

The plan was centuries old and connected to the legend of Prester John, a supposedly great Christian monarch reigning in the east who would one day march westward and avenge Christendom by destroying Islam. All this comes out in Columbus’s own letters. In one, he refers to Ferdinand and Isabella as quote “enemies of the wretched sect of Muhammad.”

In another written to the monarchical couple after he reached the new world, Columbus mentions trying “to raise an army for quote the war and conquest of Jerusalem” unquote.

That his voyage is centered on The War for Jerusalem liberating Jerusalem from Islam is further evident in the title of one 2011 book, Columbus and the quest for Jerusalem. Nor were Spain and Columbus the first to implement the strategy.

Once Portugal was cleared of Islam as early as 1249, its military orders launched into Muslim Africa. According to historian George Grant, the great and overriding motivation behind Prince Henry the Navigator’s explosive energy and expansive intellect was the simple desire to take the cross, to carry the crusading sword over to Africa, and thus to open a new chapter in Christrysendom’s holy war against Islam.

Prince Henry launched all those discovery voyages because he quote “sought to know if there were in those parts any Christian princes who would aid him against the enemies of the faith’” wrote a contemporary. By the way, do all Fear of Islam

these inconvenient facts behind the founding of the new world make Columbus, Ferdinand, Isabella, Prince Henry, indeed the whole of Christendom all Islamophobes, as those few modern-day critics who bother mentioning the true motivation of Columbus’s voyage allege.

For example, in an LA Times op-ed, Yale historian Alan Mikyel or Mikyle wrote, quote, “A primary force behind Columbus’s Atlantic crossings was a fear and hatred of Islam. This shaped how white Europeans engaged with the new world and its native peoples for centuries and how today’s Americans understand the world.”

Columbus was born into Europe’s anti-Islamic mindset in 1451. While much of this is true, Mikyle does not bother explaining why there was such a fear and hatred of Islam or why Europe had an anti-Islamic mindset in the first place. Rather, white Europeans were just unenlightened bigots, racists in contemporary of infinitely overdone parlance. But therein lay the irony.

Yes, Columbus and Europeans were Islamophobes, but not in the way that word is used today. While the Greek word phobos has always meant fear, its usage today implies irrational fear. However, considering that for nearly a thousand years before Columbus, Islam had repeatedly attacked Christendom to the point of swallowing up threequarters of its original territory, including for centuries Spain.

That Islam’s latest iteration in the guise of the Ottoman Turks was during Columbus’ lifetime devastating the Balkans and Mediterranean, slaughtering and enslaving any European who dare travel east through their domains. And considering that even centuries after Columbus, Islam was still terrorizing the West, marching into Vienna with 200,000 jihadists in 1683 and even provoking America into its first war as a nation around the year 1800 [Doug here: Thomas Jefferson’s war on the marauding Islamic pirates along the North African mediterranean.]

The very suggestion that Western fears of Islam were or are irrational is itself the height of irrationalism.

At any rate and in short, let’s not just receelebrate Columbus Day, but let’s also remember and learn from the events that gave rise to it.

A Cheat Sheet on Leftist Organizations Destroying America

From ZeroHedge:

Civil terrorism expert Jason Curtis Anderson offers a cheat sheet on dark-money-funded foundations and radical organizations that operate with little regulation, functioning in many ways as a parallel form of government aligned with the Democratic Party to wage endless war against President Trump and his MAGA base, while also pursuing more sinister goals of collapsing the nation and dismantling capitalism.

Anderson’s cheat sheet to better understand “the orgs who are setting America on fire” that should be investigated first includes:

Notice that Soros’ Open Society is at the top of everyone’s list.

Anderson further explains:

Everyone acknowledges the political power held by people like George Soros, but no one understands how it works. It’s quite simple:

There are two channels of power: America’s dark money foundation network, and the activist nonprofits that they fund. Think of them as the troops.

The dark money NGO world launders tax-exempt 501c3 donations into the activist groups, which drum up interest in the current popular cause, which strengthens the progressive voting bloc, and also organizes mass-scale protests and occasional riots.

In many ways, this is an unelected parallel form of government, working to subvert our actual government, and these are the people who want to burn America down. It makes sense why George Soros is the self-appointed king of this sector, because there’s much more power there than there is in government, with all of their pesky rules.

He can push dangerous policies like drug legalization, decriminalizing crime, fund an electoral machine that will elect the most far-left politicians who will pass those bills, and then elect DAs like Alvin Bragg who will refuse to prosecute violent crime. You can accomplish all of this through these channels.

Both the dark money foundation world and the activist nonprofits are completely unregulated. There are no clear deliverables, no safeguards to ensure they are working in the public good, and when they burn a city down, they are never held responsible.

Ten nonprofits can co-sponsor an event that becomes a riot and burns cop cars, and there is no mechanism to hold these tax-exempt nonprofits accountable, as they proved in the anti-ICE riots in LA.

About 90% of the revolution against the West is driven by the activist nonprofit sector, which is funded by a network of billion-dollar progressive foundations.

The choice is clear: begin to enforce this sector or let it take over our government.

[Doug here: I think the commie NGOs already have taken over much of our governance: crazy local prosecutors that refuse to prosecute, crazy judges that are very left-wing biased, sanctuary cities/mayors that encourage illegal immigration (at the expense of locals), and corrupted officials at all levels. ]

 

Biden's 2020 Election Was Fraudulent as Hell

 

Where did all those supposedly legitimate ~14 MILLION EXTRA Democrat “votes” from 2020 go?? Huh? I don’t remember any enthusiasm for Biden by voters —hell he could hardly fill a small room during his campaign. And remember, he was mostly in his basement during the campaign season. And Kamala was a huge dud.

THERE WERE 14 MILLION FAKE VOTES.

The big question: How and Why did the Democrat popular vote revert to ‘trend’ in 2024?

Think of the hell that we had to endure for 4 frigging years of "autopen" Joe as Obama and his assistants continued their assault on America. We're still suffering the consequences....

 

 

Trump Is Right About D.C.: Their Murder Rate is "World-Class"

 Just about every black community in the country (and world) resembles "Haiti" or "Gaza"

TRUMP IS RIGHT AGAIN: WASHINGTON DC IS THE CRIME-INFESTED MURDER CAPITAL OF AMERICA (AND HAS BEEN FOR A LONG TIME)

 Worldwide Murder Rates

From Worldpopulation Review:

Top Murder Rates per 100k Population. DC is in the top five IN THE WORLD

Worldwide Murder Rate by Country; Washington DC is “World Class” in Murder!

Armstrong: ActBlue Funded Democrat Party By Fraud (One of many)

 

From Martin Armstrong:

ActBlue is a self-proclaimed grassroots fundraising platform for the Democratic Party. The Democrats want the public to believe that the everyday American fully supports them, but the truth has come to light after an ongoing investigation found that the organization has been upheld by dark money from both “foreign and domestic fraudulent actors.”

The House Judiciary Committee, the Committee on House Administration, and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released a joint interim staff report titled, “Fraud on ActBlue: How the Democrats’ Top Fundraising Platform Opens the Door for Illegal Election Contributions.” When the investigation began, seven senior staff members resigned from their positions. Every lawyer affiliated with the organization stepped away, further raising suspicions. ActBlue’s chief fraud-prevention specialist stated he was solely focused on DEI work even as he listed his top goal as “not allowing more than 10 [percent] additional missed fraud.”

Internal documents revealed that ActBlue lowered its standards for fraudulent donations twice ahead of the 2024 US elections. Instead of actively looking for fraud, employees were encouraged to be “more lenient” and actively “look for reasons to accept contributions.”

“Internal documents also indicate that there have been instances in which bad actors have fraudulently taken control of user accounts, giving them the ability to make straw donations appearing to be from regular donors,” the report noted. There were over 22 ongoing fraud campaigns to Democratic candidates, nine of which received donations from foreign actors.

 

“Internal documents also indicate that there have been instances in which bad actors have fraudulently taken control of user accounts, giving them the ability to make straw donations appearing to be from regular donors,” the report stated. In a separate case, a Wisconsin Republican strategist claims ActBlue stole his identity to make 385 fraudulent donations on his behalf. “ ActBlue has even seen brazen instances of fraud in which multiple people have made donations using the same credit card information, and has internally acknowledged multiple incidents in which fraudulent donations evaded ActBlue’s automatic fraud review processes,” the report found.

One tactic used was collecting and saving card verification values (CVVs) for the first donation and using that information for recurring contributions. These contributions were found to amount to nearly half of all funding to ActBlue.

ActBlue violated the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (FECA). Enacted by President Nixon, FECA established regulations for campaign fundraising, spending, disclosures, and penalties for those in violation. The act has been amended numerous times, with the last amendment occurring in 2002 known as the McCain-Feingold Act. FECA bans foreign national from donating to US elections to prevent foreign interference. We heard the rumors of Russian collusion, but ActBlue openly accepted donations from foreign nations like Iraq, Saudi Arabia, India, Brazil, and Colombia.

ActBlue used straw donor schemes, also illegal under FECA, that permitted contributions under false names. There were even instances of identical small fonations occurring from the same day under different names, which points to bundling or automated donations that the individual may not have approved of.

FECA also establishes contribution caps and limits to prevent undue influence. The investigation found that donors bypassed this law by using prepaid cards or varying billing details. “Smurfing” practices, breaking large donations into a series of smaller donations, also occurred.

Transparency went out the window as the agency processed 1,900 flagged fraudulent transactions between 2020 and 2024. Employees were encouraged to accept every and any donation even if that meant turning a blind eye to fraud.

ActBlue is the Democratic Party’s main fundraising platform. These allegations seriously undermine the ethics of the Democratic Party in general. Charges have not been filed at the time of this writing but the agency could face a DOJ case, but since things are (D)ifferent, they may get a slap on the wrist with FEC fines.