When ISIS tried genocide on the Yadzi people of upper Iraq
they were following an ancient Muslim tradition. The last great King of the
Sassanid Empire was named Yadzgird III and he was killed by Muslim forces after
the conclusive battle of ending the Sassanid Empire at Qadisiyya in 637. From
then on the Muslim advance increased inexorably until being revered in 1061 by
Roger the Norman at Palermo Sicily. Sicily had been invaded and occupied by
Muslims since 831. Innumerable interesting historical facts can be found in
Michael Angold’s 2001 book named Byzantium.
The left have developed a narrative for decades whereby the
Crusaders one day decided to invade south of the Mediterranean. Nothing is
mentioned of the real history of the Middle East’s history of the Sassanid,
Byzantine, Muslim and Carolingian Empires meeting and interacting militarily
and theologically. The Sassanids worshipped fire. Isis described the Yadzis as devil worshippers. When Islam expanded
the Sassanind was it first rival followed just later by the Byzantine.
The book Byzantium;
The Bridge from Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages is a brief, informative
read. Perhaps the examination of iconoclasts vs iconodules would be too much
theology for today’s godless atheists of the Democrat Party. Angold notes that
some theologians actually used polemic in their writing and policy expressions.
It seems that politics were fused with religion in the day. Even Charlemagne
brought together theologians and scholars to form opinions and works for the
western church that was not subordinated then to the church under the Papacy at
Rome. Angold’s treatment of the relationships between the Frankish Church, the
Roman Church and the Byzantine as well as from theological and political points
of view is quite interesting.
The three major civilizations of the day outside of China were
all devoted to religion. If one thinks about it, illiteracy, images and popular
ideas about God and government were inextricably meaningful and continue to
shape the politics of the world. Classical civilizations, pagans (an equivalent
of modern atheists in some ways especially if they worship string theory) and
even scientifically inclined philosophers receded into the past.
When Muslims ruled Sicily from 830 to 1061 it is written that the major export was Slavs south as slaves. Roger the Norman ended that, however slavery of Europeans continued for hundreds years more elsewhere in Islam. It is thus ironic that the Byzantine Empire itself disassociated itself from an Arab tribe of Christian monophysites that guarded 'the desert approaches' (to the east) for Byzantium because they were monophysite Christians (from Yemen). The byzantine Emperor's decision to get rid of those Arabs with a theology somewhat at variance with their own allowed an easy avenue of attack for first Sassanids and later, Mohammadans.
When Muslims ruled Sicily from 830 to 1061 it is written that the major export was Slavs south as slaves. Roger the Norman ended that, however slavery of Europeans continued for hundreds years more elsewhere in Islam. It is thus ironic that the Byzantine Empire itself disassociated itself from an Arab tribe of Christian monophysites that guarded 'the desert approaches' (to the east) for Byzantium because they were monophysite Christians (from Yemen). The byzantine Emperor's decision to get rid of those Arabs with a theology somewhat at variance with their own allowed an easy avenue of attack for first Sassanids and later, Mohammadans.
It is important for American policy makers to be aware of
world history beyond the rather narrow viewpoint of far western Europe and the transatlantic
migration that at any rate misses the history of Irish and Viking journeys to
America. As wild feminists go about their intifada of the new Potus as
unleashed wild bitches without historical reason they should be aware that the
world is not a potential Utopia, that Soviet communist sentimentality still is
alive and well in many municipal, state and federal government workers, that
Soviet collective bargaining and godless atheist bureaucratic power is not an
actual supporter of civil liberties beyond those required for conformity to
Bitchdatorship bureaucracy.
American sanctuary cities should support internal refugees from the U.S. economy as well as non-citizen Muslim ‘refugees’ from Syria driven from their homes by U.S. foreign policy of the Obama administration that threw fuel on the fire of that civil war so far as it possibly could. The radical left should be leashed and harnessed to the sled of bettering the U.S. economy for all Americans including straight, white males. The sole competent policy for any party calling itself democratic should be the economic betterment of the poor and middle class-not just placing feminists and homosexuals in high public places. Perhaps they are so cinched economically that they are concerned solely with power for-themselves.
