By Raymond Ibrahim – 3:21 PM on August 16, 2023 – for PJ Media This week in history, on August 15, 718, Constantinople defeated the forces of Islam — and in so doing, saved Western civilization. The story is worth recounting: After several failed sieges, in the year 715, the Umayyad caliphate had concluded that enough was enough: it would vomit forth all it had in one final, all-out effort to conquer the ancient Christian capital. Caliph Suleiman summoned his younger brother, Maslama, and commanded him to lead Islam’s combined forces to Constantinople and “stay there until you conquer it … Continue reading How Constantinople Saved Western Civilization

06/18/2023 by Raymond Ibrahim – his website Today — or rather, tonight — in history, Vlad the Impaler launched a midnight raid against Muslim invaders that would cause his name to live on forever as Dracula, the terror of the night. The year was 1462. Ottoman sultan Muhammad II (or “Mehmet”) had demanded tribute, by way of gold and Romanian boys, to serve as his slave soldiers (janissaries). Vlad III Dracula — better known as Vlad Țepeș, or the “Impaler” — the ruler of Wallachia (in modern-day Romania) responded by sending the Muslim emissaries back to Muhammad with their turbans nailed onto their … Continue reading Vlad’s ‘Night Attack’ on the Ottomans: How the Legend of Dracula Was Born

BY: AUGUSTE MEYRAT – JUNE 02, 2023 – 10 MIN READ – for The Federalist Raymond Ibrahim’s book, ‘Defenders of the West,’ makes the case that the heroic actions of a few great crusaders saved the West from Muslim conquest. Fewer moments in history are as misunderstood and revised (or reviled) as the Crusades. This series of violent clashes between Christian and Muslim cultures spanning three continents and nearly a millennium has been characterized as a futile war of aggression. In the telling of most modern historians, belligerent, greedy, and racist Christians in Western Europe were periodically guided by a bloodthirsty … Continue reading An Unapologetic Defense Of The Crusades

By Raymond Ibrahim – 1:42 PM on August 01, 2023 – for PJmedia Today in history, a small band of knights, led by Richard the Lionheart, terrorized a massive horde of Muslims, which had been cruelly torturing Christians, into retreating. Background: On July 27, 1192, Saladin, the great sultan-hero of Islam, surrounded and besieged the tiny Christian-held town of Jaffa. According to contemporary chronicles, the Muslims numbered as much as 20,000 and “covered the face of the earth like locusts.” Messengers were instantly dispatched to King Richard I, who was then in Acre, preparing to sail back to England.  Before … Continue reading Today in History: Richard the Lionheart and Outnumbered Christian Knights Defeat a Horde of Muslim Terrorists