The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades

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T H E C R U S A D E
W E
MUST FIGHT TODAY
When asked at the end of Pope John Paul II's long pontificatei f t h e
C a t h o l i c C h u r c h m i g h t c h a n g e i t s s t a n c e o n I s l a m ,
A r c h b i s h o p M i c h a el F i t zg e r a l d , p r es i de n t o f t he P o nt i f i c a l
C ounci l for Inte r-Reli gio us Dial ogue , rep lie d,'The re may be a
grea ter insistence on religious liberty. ButIdon't think we're going to go
to war. "The times of the Crusades are over,'
Thi s sur el y goe s wit hou t sa yin g. Des pit e th e fe ver ed fan ta sie s of
Jihadistsaround the world, the Crusades of the history books are definitely
over. But the jihad that the Crusaders faced is not over, The thousand-year-
old Muslim dream of an Islamic Europe is definitely not over. In fact, in a
certain sense, it is now closer to fulfillment than at any time in history.

The Is lam iz at io n of Eu rop e

Willtouri sts in Paris in the year 2105 take a moment tovisit the "mos que
of Notre Dame" and the "Eiffel Minaret?" Through massive immigrat ion
and off ici al dhi mmit ude fro m Eur ope an lea der s, Mus lim s are acc om-
plis hing toda y what they fail ed to do at the time of the Crusa ders: con-
quer Europ e. How quic kly is Europ e bein g Isla mized? So quic kly that
eve n his tor ian Ber nar dLe wis ,whoha s co nti nu edthr oug hou t his hon or-
fil led car eerto be disingenuous about Islamic radicalism and terrorism,

Guesswhat?

Europe could be

Islamic bythe end

of the twenty-first

century.

In order to defeat the

International jlhadlst

threat, the U.S.must

reconfigure its alli-

ances on the basis of

wh er e co un tr ie s

stand onIslamic

Jihad,

Converts from Islam

toChrlstianity must

live in fear even in

the UnitedStates.