Yussuf Nazeer

THE RETURN OF THE CRUSADERS

Nine hundreds years ago, in November 1095 the Christian "representative of God", one Pope Urban the Second, mounted an outdoor public platform in an ancient country town called Claremont, in France.

A large crowd of peasents, serfs and knights had gathered around to lend ear to this man of God who assured the ignorant that when he spoke, it was surely the word of the Lord in heaven they were hearkening unto.

Jabbing his fist to the heavens, he called on believers to overlook, for a while, Christ's preaching about loving your fellowman, and take up the Sword and the Cross in the name of Almighty God, and head southeastward overland to Anatolia or Asia Minor (modern Turkey and its surroundings) and down neighbouring Syria to Jerusalem where the "son of God" was born, died and sleeps in the holy sepulchre there - the sacred Christian tomb said to be Christ's resting place, where he was said to be crucified, and the Church of the Sepulchre built.

Pope Urban, a master orator, not to be outdone by Mark Antony, informed his crowd of 11th Century listeners that the rule of the "wicked moors, the barbaric Moslems" (the Seljuk Turks who controlled Eastern Europe between the 11th and 13th Centuries, and the Arabs that ruled the Middle East) had to be removed, and the reign of Christendom restored.

Hazrat Omar Ibn Khattaab first took Islam into the Middle East via Jeruselam in 638 A.C (Six years after the demise of the Holy Prophet. The Muslims were rulers there for 461 years, or right up to 1099 in Pope Urban's time.

Muslims were ruling parts of Easterns Europe at the time particularly Turkey. They were also in Spain from the 8th Century on when Taariq Ibn Ziyaad from Morocco took his armies there to liberate the oppressed Christian Unitarians from the autocratic King Roderick.

So when Pope Urban belted out his racist haterhetoric to "free Anatolia and Jeruselam from the babaric nations"' he whipped up enough gut power for successive crusading armies to carry out his call, and four years later, in 1099, it bore fruit.

History records that one of the most bloodiest ethnic cleansing genocides on the people of Allah took place in Jeruselam. Thousand of men, women and children were butchered. After that, the killing crusade was carried through Eastern Europe, all the way to spain, France and Sicily.

From that day onward the Christian world, now joined by Zionism and Communism, has never stopped its bid to crush the resurgence of Islam in Europe and the Middle East. The Ottoman (Turkish Muslim) rule was in Eastern Europe from the 14th Century right up to the end of the First World War when their power was broken in 1918 by the British and French with the help of the Arabs.

The present day Serbian "ethnic cleansing" war against Muslims in Bosnia goes back to the 19th Century. Conflicts between them due to ethnic, racial and nationalistic reasons have been going on for decades.

Historians reveal the Serbs as a cruel, war-oriented nation with a violent history filled with barbaric atrocities against their enemies, particularly women and children. The recent three-year long war seems to verify this according to all reports coming out of Bosnia-Herzegovina, formely Communist Yugoslavia.

Red Cross, United Nations and the world media report that in the past three years, Christian and communist soldiers that comprise the Serb army, had raped more than 50,000 Bosnian Muslim and Croatian Christian women and butchered tens of thousands of helpless and defenceless children including infants, their mothers and aged grandparents.

In 1876 the Serbs, with the help of the Russians, attacked their Turkish rulers in a bid to set up an independent Serb state. Historians tell us the two -year bloody war saw similar atrocities. The Turks defeated the Serbs. It also ended the war between Russia and Turkey, and by the Treaty of Berlin, the Muslims granted the Serbs their independence.

We also learn that World War 1 (1914-18) was triggered by a Bosnian Serb, Gavrillo Principle, who shot and killed the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, who was driving through a crowd lining a street in Sarajevo.

Their intolerence and hatred for Muslims are said to stem from the time of the Ottomen rule in Eastern Europe. Neither the Serbs nor the other white races of Europe believe that non-Europeans should hold any power in that side of the world. This view, historians maintain, is similar to Hitler's Nazi supermacist "pure white Aryan race" concept that led to the horrifying murders of millions of other races.

When Turkish rule came to an end after World War 1 with the help of the Hijaaz Arabs led by the well-known British intelligence agent, T.E Lawrence (of arabia), there was great jubilation throughout Europe. The European nations swore never to let Islam rise to power there again. This belligerent attitude towards Islam, historians assert, is also one of the primary reasons why Christians, Jews, Communists and other non-Muslims are today in an alliance against Muslims.

However, the militant resurgence of Islam in Iran which overthrew the Shah in 1979, a surrogate ally of Europe and America, coupled with the defeat of Russia in Afghanistan which led to the break-up of Communism in the Balkan states of Eastern Europe, has given rise to western fears that Islam could once more become the dominant powerforce there!

This, maintain historical analysts, why the western superpowers, America, Britain and France, along with Russia and their allies, will NOT help the Bosnian Muslims against the Serb armies that are going all out to try and exterminate or totally expel the followers of Islam from the whole of former Yugoslavia, and WHY, too they will NOT lift the arms embargo on Muslim Bosnian that was imposed by Christian countries in the United Nations.

Yet Islam poses no real military threat to them.

The Quran instructs Muslims NEVER to begin aggression, but to defend ONLY when they (the Muslims) are attacked (2:190-2).