Muslim men raided a women's medical school in Bangladesh with weapons, violently claiming "Educating Women is Haram" forcing them to stop studying. Just listen, this is insane. Islam is a sick ๐คข๐คฎ disgusting, cult religion. Wake Up Please.
The most influential immigrant group in American history is the one nobody argues about, because almost nobody remembers it was them.
Start at the beginning. The Continental Army was a half-trained mess until Baron von Steuben, a Prussian officer, showed up at Valley Forge and drilled it into a real fighting force. The freedom of the press you take for granted traces back to John Peter Zenger, a German immigrant printer whose 1735 trial established that you can't be jailed for printing the truth. German-Americans were shaping this country before there was a country.
Then look around your own life. Your Christmas tree is German. The hot dog (Frankfurt), the hamburger (Hamburg), the pretzel, the delicatessen, all German. Kindergarten is German, the word and the idea, brought over and opened by Margarethe Schurz. Blue jeans came from Levi Strauss of Bavaria. Heinz ketchup, Steinway pianos, Oscar Mayer, and the big four beers, Budweiser, Pabst, Miller and Schlitz, were every one founded by German immigrants.
The Brooklyn Bridge was engineered by John Roebling, born in Prussia. The Santa Claus you picture every December, plus the Republican elephant, were drawn by Thomas Nast, a German immigrant. Pfizer was founded by Charles Pfizer, who arrived from Germany in 1848. Boeing was built by the son of a German immigrant. John Jacob Astor showed up from Germany with next to nothing and became America's first multimillionaire. Charles Steinmetz, a disabled immigrant nearly turned away at the border, went on to make modern electrical power possible.
And it kept going. Wernher von Braun designed the rocket that put America on the moon. Einstein was German. Carl Schurz, a refugee, became a Union general and the first German-born US Senator. Eisenhower commanded D-Day and won the White House under a name once spelled Eisenhauer. Babe Ruth was a German-American kid from Baltimore.
Here is the kicker. German is the single largest ancestry group in the entire United States, around 44 million people, bigger than Irish, English or Italian. The biggest thread in the whole American fabric, and somehow the quietest.
They never asked for parades. They just trained the army, freed the press, engineered the bridges, founded the companies, built the rockets and lit up the Christmas mornings, then blended in so completely you forgot they were ever the "other." That might be the most American story there is.
@kinsellawarren Official records clearly show that most children went with the blessing or approval of their parents. How many truly were forcibly removed from their parents (facts please)? Of those, how many were due to parents who were incapable of caring for them due to alcoholism, etc?
๐จ BREAKING: The New York Times reveals that Israel has successfully trained a dog to take over Nakatomi Plaza and steal $640 million in negotiable bearer bonds
Following the publication by Nicholas Kristof in The New York Times of one of the most hideous and distorted lies ever published against the State of Israel in the modern press, which also received the backing of the newspaper, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Saโar have instructed the initiation of a defamation lawsuit against The New York Times.
This is the bilingual CEO of TC Energy, a ๐จ๐ฆ company that moves 30% of ALL natural gas within North America across 94,000 km of pipelines. He successfully chaired a ๐บ๐ธ govโt study to streamline permitting. His analysis of Canadaโs competitiveness?
โCanada has fallen behindโฆ for too long capital has not felt welcome hereโฆ weโre competing with the world under a very different set of expectationsโฆthe US sanctioned $56 billion of LNG projects, Canada zeroโฆ we began construction 8 months after filing our permit (in Mexico)โฆ their Plan 2030 seeks to attract investment of $300 billion."
While Carney dithers with his net zero nostalgia, ๐จ๐ฆ is losing out.
๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐. ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐.
Every time someone trots out the Crusades to lecture Christians or the West, they leave out four centuries of history. I'm putting it back on the record.
๐๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ช๐ฎ๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ง ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐๐๐ข๐๐ญ๐๐ฅ๐ฒ
Muhammad died in 632. Within three years, Muslim armies had taken Damascus (635). The next year, Antioch (636). The year after that, the entire Holy Land (637) โ the spiritual center of Christendom, gone. Armenia became the first Christian nation fully conquered (639). Egypt, the Coptic Christian power, fell two years later (641). By 650, Muslim forces had reached southern Italy and Cyprus, taking thousands of captives as "๐ด๐ญ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ๐ด" and "๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ค๐ถ๐ฃ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด." Then came Spain โ Muslim armies crossed from North Africa in 711 and overran most of Iberia by 715.
In roughly 80 years, Christianity lost the Middle East, North Africa, and most of the Iberian Peninsula.
๐๐ก๐๐ฒ ๐๐ง๐ฏ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐ โ ๐๐๐ฉ๐๐๐ญ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฒ
This was not exploration. This was conquest. In 717, Muslim forces besieged Constantinople itself โ the capital of Eastern Christendom. The siege lasted a year before they were repelled. Had it succeeded, the path into Europe would have been wide open.
In 730, they invaded France. Charles Martel stopped them at Tours. In 792, the ruler of Al-Andalus called for a second invasion of France. Repelled. In 848, a third invasion of France. Repelled again.
In 827, Muslims invaded Sicily and Italy, persecuting monks and pillaging Christian communities. Sicily would remain under Islamic rule for 250 years. In 846, they invaded Rome itself and forced the Pope to pay tribute. By 909, they had taken Sardinia.
This was relentless, coordinated, and existential.
๐๐ก๐๐ง ๐๐ก๐๐ฒ ๐๐ญ๐ญ๐๐๐ค๐๐ ๐๐ก๐๐ญ ๐๐๐ญ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ
In 937, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher โ built over the site Christians believe is the tomb of Christ โ was burned to the ground. More churches in Jerusalem were torched alongside it. In 1009, the Church of the Resurrection was destroyed. By 1012, Al-Hakim's oppressive decrees against Christians had begun in earnest.
Christian pilgrims could no longer safely visit the sites of Christ's ministry. The holiest city in Christendom was ruled by a hostile power systematically destroying the faith itself.
๐๐ก๐๐ง ๐๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฉ
In 1071, Muslim Turkish forces shattered the Byzantine army at Manzikert and occupied most of Anatolia. Constantinople was now directly threatened.
In 1094, Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos sent envoys to Rome begging Western Christendom for military aid.
In 1095, Pope Urban II declared the First Crusade.
๐๐๐ ๐ฒ๐๐๐ซ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ช๐ฎ๐๐ฌ๐ญ. ๐๐ก๐ ๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐. ๐๐ก๐ซ๐๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ฏ๐๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ง๐๐. ๐๐๐ ๐ฒ๐๐๐ซ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ฌ๐ฅ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ซ ๐๐ข๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฒ. ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐๐๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฉ๐๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐. ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๐๐ซ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ง๐๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐.
๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐๐ซ๐๐ง'๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ญ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ. ๐๐ก๐๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ฒ.
๐บ๐ธThis clip is the absolute best. OMG does he nail it. His calm demeanor makes it even better. This is exactly how I picture these crazy liberals.๐บ๐ธ
@HansFiene Scripture is clear, Jesus said: โI am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.โ (John 14:6). Any other way is a vain imagining.