Islam And The West

The hordes of Muslim “invaders/conquerors” that have made their way to the West post World War II are creating in many westerners whether they be from Europe or North America a certain amount of nostalgia and yearning for a bygone age and Christian rulers long since dead. The memory of Charlemagne is one such medieval Christian king whose memory is evoked by some today as a defender of Europe from the Muslim enemy.

Charlemagne or Charles the Great was the first Frankish king to unite the many “disparate tribes” of Europe. He is considered by many as founding a unity in Europe not seen since the Roman Empire.

Born in 742 A.D the grandson of the “great” Charles Martel, Charlemagne was well renowned for both his Catholic “piety” and his use of the sword. With military campaigns against the Lombards in Italy, the Saracens (Muslims) in Spain and the Saxons in northern Europe Charlemagne’s time here on earth was spent murdering for Jesus while being steeped in the blood of his enemies and in papal veneration. Crowned “Emperor of the Romans” by Pope Leo III he did much to advance his own personal power and the writ of the Catholic Church. In doing so the Church gave divine sanction to murder and the rivers of blood that flowed from his actions.

One of his most infamous campaigns was not against the “evil” Muslim invaders from Spain but rather against his fellow Europeans. Charlemagne spent most of life with the cross in one hand and the sword in the other murdering in the name of Jesus . For years he fought in battles to Christianize the pagan Germanic Saxon tribes of northern Europe. Once conquered Charlemagne would leave Saxony to wage murder in the name of Christ further south in Italy. On Charlemagne’s return the Saxons had normally revolted and returned to their pagan ways. In punishment for this apparent apostasy from the religion of Christ, Charlemagne ordered the beheading of 4,500 Saxons in one day at the massacre of Verden. The river Aller was said to be red with the blood of those murdered.

Charlemagne suffered his most unsuccessful campaign in trying to rid the Iberian peninsula of Muslims in 778 A.D. After marching to Pampola in Spain he feared treachery from his allies only to retreat back to his kingdom.

Charlemagne while on one hand piously murdering in the name of Christ had enough time during his reign to marry, own concubines and sire children. According to reports he fathered 13 children from 5 wives and 6 bastard children from 5 concubines.

Charlemagne died in 814 and was buried in at the Cathedral in Achen.

How anyone in today’s modern day wishes to idealize this man is beyond me. He baptized and murdered in the name of Jesus Christ. He split blood like rivers with his Christian sword for over 30 years in Europe. He murdered in over 50 expeditions against 12 different nations. Why on earth would anybody in the west want to venerate this individual who probably has more European blood on his sword than Muslim blood ?

For those that think that names like Charlemagne, Richard the Lion Heart and Saladin are just ancient history and have no bearing upon us today let me remind you of the words of the French General Henri Gouraud who in 1920 while he entered the tomb of Salahuddin Al-Ayyubi in Damascus publicly announced :

“Saladin, we have returned. My presence here consecrates the Cross over the Crescent.”

Charlemagne and those like him prove that the West’s “dislike” of all things Islamic long precedes September 11th 2001.

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