The Truth Behind the Christian Crusades: Protect the Innocent and End Islam's Dominance

     Many in the West have been misled as to the true reason for the Christian Crusades, and tend to view Islam as an innocent victim of European conquest.  This indoctrination can only be unwound by a careful study of Islam prior to the Crusades.  Although this work is in no means an exhaustive look into the past, it will attempt to give an overview of the time and what was transpiring.

     Islam has long been called a religion of peace, which proves if you keep repeating something long enough, eventually people will believe it.  The truth is Islam and its spread was based in war and the spilling of blood.  As Bryant Wright states, "Lewis went on to note that in the eighth century, Muslims conquered Spain and Portugal.  It was truly a religion on the move.  In their minds, these continued conquests reinforced the Superiority of Islam.  They continued on and invaded France, and, as I shared in chapter 1, if France had not turned back the Muslim onslaught in AD 732, most of Europe and eventually North and South America could have easily been dominated by the Muslim Faith."  Charles Martel's great victory saved Europe, but never stopped the Muslims belief in a worldwide Caliphate and dominance of Islam.

     Long before the Christian Crusades, the Muslims were Massacring any who would not submit to Islam.  In AD 633 Khalid al-Walid, whom Muhammed named 'The Sword of Allah', captured the city of Ullay's (todays Iraq) and beheaded so many people that the canals ran full with blood.  Muhammed led his Muslim forces to 66 straight victories in his murderous spread of Islam.  At one point the Muslims even sacked Rome herself.

     Constantinople had long been the Eastern Empires capital for Christendom, but it, Jerusalem and other Christian cities in the Middle East were coming under attack by Muslims and desperately needed help from the Western Empire based in Rome.  So the main purpose for the Crusades (allowing that some acted in error of the original purpose) was to protect Christian pilgrims, save Constantinople, and retake Jerusalem. 

     Yes, some Crusades went astray from the original purpose, but that does not change the fact that it was a defensive move against the onslaught of Islam.  The peaceful religion of Islam was eventually able to sack and take Constantinople and rename it Istanbul, and at the end of one Crusade the Muslim leader in Egypt had every Christian beheaded before him, while he ate lunch...that is all the Christians who couldn't pay the bribe.  I hope this very brief article sheds light on the true conquest nature of Islam.

By Jeffrey Brandon Lee

Obama, ISIS, Israel and Oil

     The current Administrations foreign policy has puzzled many experts, because what Obama says and does seem to be two completely different things.  He is repeatedly heard vowing the United States support for Israel, but every action he takes weakens the Jewish nation.  If you look at just one area of Democratic policy, oil, you can see the contradiction and possibly intentional betrayal of our ally Israel

     It is widely known that Muslim nations are desperately dependent on the price of oil, and ISIS uses oil as its main source of revenue to promote terror.  The Saudis are fierce adversaries of ISIS, but fund their own form of terrorism, and have tried to drive down the price of oil to destabilize the Shiites (ISIS and Iran).  US production is now at 9.3 million barrels a day, and when you include inventories on hand and OPEC's stance on production, you had the drastic drop in oil to the low $40's/barrel.  So what was Obama's response to this desperately needed relief to the American poor and middle class?  He vetoed the Keystone oil pipeline, which his own environmental organization said would be less harmful to the environment than his major donor Warren Buffett's trains.  Not only that, but according to CNN Obama has blocked a major source of oil in Alaska, in effect declaring war on Alaska, as oil is their lifeblood. 

     The effects of these decisions have caused oil to pop above $50/barrel.  This helps oil inch nearer Market Watches fiscal break even for Iran of a whopping $131/barrel, who we now know Obama has been in secret talks with to build nuclear power since 2014.  There is a reason Obama has always stated that he wants oil prices high, and it's not because of the environment!  According to a Kuwaiti newspaper, Obama even went as far as telling the Israelis if they attacked Iran the US would shoot down their planes with drones.  

     There is one problem Obama and the Democrats are going to have a hard time avoiding.  The United States has over 414 million barrels of oil in storage and the investors are running out of places to store it.  They're resorting to storing it in salt mines and train cars.  According to one CNBC analyst they will run out of places to store it sometime next week.  This will require producers to sell it right out of the well and drive prices drastically lower.  So be on alert for some sort of international crisis or government intervention to attempt to prop up oil prices.  We can win the war against ISIS and Russia in the short term by driving prices as low as possible.  This will help Israel have time to prepare for the inevitable. 

By Jeffrey Brandon Lee