Archive for January 25th, 2012
Steynian 456nd
We Owe Them That Much
~ ITEM: Byzantium 1200; Byzantium 1200 Videos
~ ITEM: The Emperor’s Lost Harbour
~ ITEM: The Byzantine Empire
~ ITEM: Charles Martel
~ ITEM: Mystras
~ ITEM: Iran targets Baha’i cemetery for destruction
~ ITEM: Binks: Finders, Keepers
~ TEH BINKS LOVES many aspects of the Eastern Roman Empire: Byzantium, The Eastern Orthodox Church, and the fact that the Byzantines held back the hateful tide of ruination, murder, destruction and Jihad from swamping Eastern Europe in the AD 600s and after.
On the other end of the Med, it was only the last-minute intervention and skill of Charlie “The Hammer” Martel which stemmed the Jihad-flood from taking France, Flanders and Northwards, Austria, Germany, and the opposite tide meeting them from across the Bosphorus into Central Europe. They did that for us, and for them.
A Response To War
The West began the Crusades as a response to Muslim cruelties and destruction–
“On October 18, 1009, Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, has the Church completely destroyed. It is believed that Al-Hakim “was aggrieved by the scale of the Easter pilgrimage to Jerusalem…. everything was razed ‘except those parts which were impossible to destroy or would have been too difficult to carry away’.” The Church’s foundations were hacked down to bedrock. The Edicule and the east and west walls and the roof of the cut-rock tomb it encased were destroyed or damaged (contemporary accounts vary), but the north and south walls were likely protected by rubble from further damage…”
