Islamic Ottoman Destruction of Byzantium

Submitted by Domenic Pepe (United States), Mar 3, 2007 at 16:38

Dr. Pipes stated that

"Correctly anticipating that course is the more difficult for being historically unprecedented. No large territory has ever shifted from one civilization to another by virtue of a collapsed population, faith, and identity; nor has a people risen on so grand a scale to reclaim its patrimony. The novelty and magnitude of Europe's predicament make it difficult to understand, tempting to overlook, and nearly impossible to predict. Europe marches us all into terra incognita."

I do not think a possible islamic takeover of a Christian Europe is historically unprecedented. The collapse of the Byzantine Empire and civilization with the accompanying loss of vast Christian territories including the Balkans and all of the middle east and North Africa to the barbarian islamic hoardes and their murderous violence demonstates historically that once before a large Christian territory did indeed shift from a civilized Christian land to a barbaric islamic tyranny. There may be something we can learn today by a study of the islamic Ottoman destruction of Christian Byzantium and how the current resurgent islamic madness can be defeated and crushed.

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