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570:
Muhammad born in Mecca.
610:
Muhammad receives revelations written in the Quran. He began to preach and soon
built a significant following.
622: The
Flight (Hegira). Prophet Muhammad flees Mecca and finds refuge in Yathrib (Medina).
Muslim calendars are dated from this year.
630-631:
Unification of the Arabian peninsula under Caliphs.
632:
Muhammad's death.
635-650:
Conquest of Syria, Palestine, the Persian Empire, Egypt and parts of North Africa, West
Africa and Spain. A bloodbath followed in the wake of Islamic victories
around the Mediterranean Sea. Countless large Christian and
Jewish communities destroyed, and the land promised to God's
people in Old Testament days was wrenched from them.
638: The
capture of Jerusalem.
650: The
final text of the Quran is established.
656: The
murder of the third caliph, Othman, who was succeeded by Ali, Muhammad's son-in-law. Civil
war.
661: Ali
assassinated. His rival, Muawiya, takes his place as caliph. Muslim loyalties split,
but most remained Sunnis. Ali's descendant led the splinter group, the Shi'ites (about 10%
of Muslims).
650-732:
Expansion into Eastern Turkey, India and China.
673-797:
Repeated attempts to penetrate deeper into Europe and capture Constantinople (Istanbul),
the capital of the Greek Byzantine Empire. Leo IV defeats the Muslim swordsmen
twice, then dies of Anthrax in 780 AD at the age of 30.
1453:
Collapse of the Byzantine Empire when the Ottoman Turks finally captured Constantinople,
renamed Istanbul.
[This 16th
Century painting by Tintoretto shows Muslim warriors
climbing the city wall and conquering Istanbul.]
1669: The Mediterranean
island of Crete is conquered by the Ottoman Turks.
1915-16: A
million Armenians killed by Ottoman Turks.
1983:
"...more people were killed or injured by international terrorists 'than in any year
in which governments began keeping records... The United States is the favorite target of terror.'
...Some two hundred of the five hundred terrorists attacks worldwide in 1983 were
against U.S. facilities and personnel."[7]
1984:
"...he number of terrorist attacks increased to 652, according to State Department
figures."
1990-2001:
Over two million Christians in the Sudan have been killed and many more sold into slavery.
1941-1945: Click on
The Nazi/Arab
plots to exterminate Jews
Since 1975: Indonesian Muslims kill
over 300,000 East Timorese Catholics.
Since 1990: Countless Christian martyrs in Pakistan.
[See
Her All for
Him and
Risking
her life]
2001: "...at
least 15 Christians from Africa have been arrested in Jedda over the last few
months for conducting non-Islamic services in private homes."
[See
Christians persecuted in Islamic nations]
Islam's
self-described drive toward World Conquest:
Muslims shout at Jesus' home: 'Islam will
dominate the world':
"The Islamic Movement, the main Muslim political party in
Nazareth, said it organized yesterday's march to celebrate Eid
ul-Adha, or the Feast of the Sacrifice, which commemorates the
Muslim belief Abraham was willing to sacrifice his son Ishmael
for Allah. Christian and Jewish faith dictates it was Isaac, not
Ishmael, whom Abraham almost sacrificed....
"Young
Muslim men in battle gear marched and beat drums as a man on
loudspeaker repeatedly exclaimed in Arabic, 'Allah is great.'
Hundreds of activists strutted screaming Islamist epithets,
including 'Islam is the only truth' and 'Islam shall rule
all.'...
"'The march
is meant to intimidate Christians,' said Saleem, a Nazareth
Christian resident who asked that his last name be withheld for
fear of what he said was 'Muslim retaliation' for speaking out.
'It's part of the methods used by the Muslims in very obvious
ways to create an atmosphere where the Christians should know
the Muslims are the main power and we are not welcome anymore."
...the majority of anti-Christian violence in Nazareth goes
unreported because local Christians are too afraid to report
crimes."
The Islamic Tide:
"[Muslims have] a saying. 'First comes Saturday, then comes
Sunday.' According to Brigitte Gabriel, a survivor of the Muslim
terror in Lebanon, this saying means, 'first we fight the Jews,
then we come for the Christians.' It must be admitted, of
course, that Muslims haven’t waited for Israel’s defeat to begin
attacking Christians.'
"Once upon a time the peaceful Christians of Lebanon built a
democracy with open borders in the Middle East, and the Muslims
destroyed it.... One day they began murdering Christians until
the country was no longer recognizable. Christians fled the
rubble of their homes.....
"In Iraq, under a Muslim majority, democracy signifies nothing
more than the unleashing of Islamic gangs that authorities
either cannot or will not control. While the neo-communists and
their useful idiots around the world decry U.S. war crimes
against Muslims, the Muslims have been perpetrating crimes
against Christians.... And don’t imagine the U.S. military has
intervened to save the Christians. The American military is weak
because it is governed by political correctness. The
commander-in-chief has already declared that Islam is 'a
religion of peace.'...
“Whether motivated by naďve wishful thinking or rigid political
correctness,' wrote Brigitte Gabriel, 'they assert that Islam is
a ‘moderate,’ ‘tolerant,’ ‘peaceful’ religion that has been
hijacked by ‘extremists.’
" 'Their
grievance is our freedom of religion.... 'We must not forget
that
Allah’s rules have to be established in all lands, and
all our efforts should lead to that direction,' [says the
"moderate" Muzammil H. Siddiqi, leader of the Islamic Society of
North America]."
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