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When Mohammed II or Mehmet II [Mehmet is Mohammed in Turkish], assaulted, took, butchered and enslaved Constantinople in 1453 in the name of the Allah-thing and Jihad; the world became a much poorer place. 40.000 were slaughtered by the Muslims in the siege. Another 30.000 were sold off into slavery. The slave market price for whites plummeted for a few years after the bloody and awful Muslim sacking of the city. Few Western Marxists and ahistorical scribblers give a whit or a jot about the millions of white slaves taken by the Muslims over 1400 years [about 10 million in total]. In fact when the Muslims fired by Jihad took the great city of Constantinople, the usual 3 day rite of unfettered pillage, given to the victors who subdued a besieged city was cut short to one day by Mehmet II. The rape, butchery and theft was so violent that the city would have been completely and permanently disfigured and denuded if the Islamic fanatics had not been called to heel. For the record this destruction far surpassed the Fourth Crusade's sack of the city in 1204. In that event, thousands were killed but certainly not the 40.000 lanced by the Turks, and no one was sold into slavery. The Western Christians were more interested in gold, silver, statues and works of art. They had to be. Enormous debts were owed to the Venetians and this is one reason – and the main one – as to why the 'Franks' conquered the city in 1204 [other good reasons were Byzantine perfidy in aiding the Turk during the Crusades, the massacres of Western traders and townspeople in the 12th and 13th centuries by the Byzantines, the piracy by the Eastern Romans against Western sea traffic etc.]. It is trite and somewhat true to state that the Eastern Roman empire pre-1453 was weak, ossified and suffering from many rigidities in the political-economy, as well as from over-taxation, poor governance, orthodox fanaticism and a weak military. In fact if one reads the history of Byzantium the weaknesses are all too apparent and self-reinforcing. It would have been better for Christendom had the Venetians not been ousted in 1261 by the heir of Eastern Rome's monarchy, and the West had invested time, money, and brains in reorganizing the febrile remains of Justinians's former glory. But one point is worth emphasizing and it is made by Mr. Crowley – the Eastern Romans could have, and very well might have defeated the hordes of Mehmet if they had received more men from the West: The most interesting aspect of this book, is just how unlucky the Byzantines were in not defeating the Ottomans and their young emperor Mehmet. It is clear that with a few thousand more professional fighting men, a few dozen more large Western galleys; and with a little more good luck on their side, the Byzantines would have prevailed; the Ottomans would have failed, and a failure of such a magnitude would have prompted an internal Muslim civil war. The Ottoman Sultan Mehmet was young and unpopular. In good Muslim fashion he would most likely have been deposed and a 'pro-peace' party elevated to party. How different would the world be if Constantinople was still Christian? How much better would the world be if the great city had held out in 1453? Sometimes we give up too easily. As Churchill wrote, sometimes it is that one final push, that lasting perseverance, or that indomitable will to survive, which allows us to claw back victory from defeat. In today's world a lot of Western cities are under siege from Islam. Muslim demography, the stupidity of relativity, inane and frankly barbaric immigration policies, a lack of social awareness of what Islam truly means – all these and more make many Western cities the new Constantinople. Are we brave enough like the followers of the last emperor Constantine XI to defend ourselves? Or are we craven cowards who will meekly submit to the cult of death, slavery, and racist-supremacism? Resource Islam is a cult . To find out more about how Islam is fascist , go to western-civilisation.com
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