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Elsa <elsa@worldtruthsummit.com>
I'm writing to you because more myths have been debunked.
Myth One.
Islam in Spain was a multicultural paradise, with Muslims,
Christians and Jews living in harmony under benign Islamic rule. I
always knew that was a myth. Now: proof.
Myth Two. The Crusaders murdered millions of Islamic s.
Myth Three. CO2 is bad for the planet. I had to learn that
CO2 isn't causing global warming (which is hardly happening). Now I've
come across another bit of very interesting information.
Finally, for those of you who want more tools to reach people
about Islam, a course on Islam from Bill Warner, to debunk myths and
install a solid foundation of facts.
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"You have to read this book," I heard from a couple of people in the last few days.
The book:
The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise
by Dario Fernandez-Morera, Northwestern University professor and
Harvard PhD. I read the outline and breathed a sigh of relief. As I
said, it's never made sense to me that Islamic rule in Spain could have
been benign for Christians and Jews.
But I had nothing more to say than that, while those making
the claim were sure it was an irrefutable fact: Islam in Spain was
practically heaven on earth.
My answer was lame. I said I would have to look into their
claim, and that my concern was Islam now - where it was anything but
benign.
Dario Fernandez-Morera has come to my rescue.
The evidence is
grim: the total decimation of Christianity and Judaism in all areas
held by Islam; slavery, including sex slavery, in areas held by Islam;
the destruction of all Christian churches in these areas.
{ *** BTW all of this is still going on in Islamic controlled areas in the world today!}
Three things.
One. Fernandez-Morera's
credentials are impeccable. Not only does he have a PhD from Harvard,
he's been on the US Council for the Humanities and has written several
other impeccably researched books.
Two. He draws on massive research, the sources (in 8 languages) impeccably documented.
Three.
The book is a page-turner. In other words, it's exactly what those
against truth, against seeing Islam as it is, don't want: for the truth
to be a pleasure to learn, fascinating, enthralling - and out go the
lies!!
Does that mean you have to read the book?
No. It's like a
gun. You don't have to use it, just because you have it. This book is a
weapon against the myth that Islam in Spain was a multicultural
paradise. Just wave it at anyone uttering the myth.
It's so good to have a suitable tool - like a can opener to open a can.
Inside this can: Islam in Spain, as it was.
** About Islamic slavery.
Maybe you knew, but I didn't, that Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, was long a slave of Islamics.
He was sold to several Islamic masters of varying degrees of cruelty.
He recorded the torture he witnessed - casual, brutal, deadly. Don Quixote not
surprisingly includes a negative depiction of Islam, including Islamic
slavery. (There's a link online to much more information on him.)
Of course none of the references to Islam made it into The Man of La Mancha, the musical based on Cervantes' book.
Instead, the musical is just about a sweet old man tilting at windmills and singing To Dream the Impossible Dream.
Moral of the story: any allegation that Islam has been benign
deserves serious exploration.
The allegation is unlikely to survive.
Here's
The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/
And here are lots more links, to interviews with the author (from 10 minutes to 3 hours) and to reviews:
http://elsasblog.com/170129-myth-debunked-islam-in-spain.html
Here's
another myth possibly biting the dust - the myth that
Crusaders murdered millions of Islamic s in their wars of conquest.
You almost certainly already know that the Crusades, far
from being about a group of insane Christians out to butcher as many Islamic s as possible, were the SLOW response to the Islamic invasion of
Christian territories, and to cries for help from fellow Christians.
That's one myth debunked.
However, when the Crusades finally got going, did the
Crusaders kill millions of Islamic s
(of course, those would be still be
self-initiated deaths)? Nick T van Riel did some math:
Crusaders simply didn't have the time. All these
"millions of Muslims" had to be killed by hand because Crusaders simply
didn't have weapons of mass destruction.
For example, killing of "only"
1,000,000 Muslims during the 25 yrs of active war would mean an average
of 110 Muslims a day, based on a 24/7 "workweek."
(Link online, and also more detail:
http://elsasblog.com/170129)
Van Riel contrasts the
allegations that millions of Muslims were killed with the
record of "death by Islam":
1,400 yrs of killing with 270,000,000 innocent people
dead, means an average of 528 murders a day till today. Note that Islam
is still waging war 24 hours a day.
Now,
from history to the present day, and from Islam to the claims about CO2.
You almost certainly have heard the charge that global warming is
caused by CO2. You also almost certainly know that this claim has been
debunked.
In case, you want sources:
http://elsasblog.com/climate-change-theories.html
But a new piece of information (new to me, anyway) recently came my way:
the increase in CO2 is very likely extremely beneficial - more plants, more crops, more food. The
sources for this claim are first rate, including Patrick Moore, a
scientist and co-founder of Greenpeace who now labels himself the
sensible environmentalist:
http://elsasblog.com/170128-more-co2-is-good.html
Behind this debunking of myths and celebration of facts is the question:
who benefits from these myths screening reality?
Who benefits from people in the West holding onto the
delusion about Islamic Spain as, basically, an earthly paradise?
The
West absolutely does not benefit. Islam benefits. Does any other force
also benefit?
If so, it's also clearly inimical to the West.
And who benefits from the delusion that we must cut CO2
emissions?
Again, the West absolutely does not benefit - so whoever is
involved is likewise inimical to the West.
Behind the question, who benefits, is an assumption: what is
going on is not something that is just happening. The evidence is so
clear, for instance, in The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: we have been, and are being, fed lies. That doesn't just happen.
The people regurgitating the myth aren't lying; they're repeating.
But
the myth makes no sense, except as something deliberately created to
mislead.
For instance, one doesn't need to look further than to
Cervantes, for accounts of Islam, including Islamic enslavement, torture
and casual murder of Christians, that shatter the myth.
And
with that, all the best to all of us who care and dare,
Elsa
PS.
Insanity of the week. An Anglican priest
has been forced from his job as Chaplain to Queen Elizabeth because he
objected to a verse from the Quran being read during an Anglican church
service.
The verse denies Jesus as the Son of God.
http://the rebel.media/priest-out
PPS.
Sanity of the week. Trump has made good on his
campaign promise to temporarily halt (120 days) most refugee intake so
"extreme vetting" can be put in place.
PPPS. Finally, if you'd like
to learn more about Islam, Bill Warner has just launched an online study program:
https://learn.politicalislam.com/#/
"This program teaches Islamic doctrine by a story telling
method. You listen and/or read Islamic doctrine, review current events
through a doctrinal lens and join a learning community to discuss the
material."
By the way, in terms of Bill Warner's ability to make "dry stuff" interesting, his
Why We Are Afraid: A 1400 Year Secret has had over 3,400,000 views:
https://youtu.be/t_Qpy0mXg8Y
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ISLAM
IN SPAIN:
http://elsasblog.com/170129-myths-debunked-islam-in-spain.html
MORE CO2 IS GOOD:
http://elsasblog.com/170128-more-co2-is-good.html
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