American Minute with Bill Federer
SEPT. 11- Siege of Malta 1565, Vienna 1683,
New York City, Washington DC....2001
 In 1565, Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent dominated the Mediterranean, with intentions of not only taking Sicily, Sardinia, Majorca, and southern Spain, but Rome itself. The only thing standing in his way was the small rocky island of Malta just south of Sicily, defended by the Knights of Malta.  In March of 1565, Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent sent Algerian Admiral Dragut to Malta with 200 ships and 40,000 Muslim soldiers, including 6,500 elite Janissary troops.  Dragut stated: "Unless you have smoked out this nest of vipers, you can do no good anywhere."  Queen Elizabeth I of England is said to have remarked: "If the Turks should prevail against the Isle of Malta, it is uncertain what further peril might follow to the rest of Christendom."  The Knights of Malta were led by a 70 year old Frenchmen, Jean Parisot de la Valette. Pleas for reinforcements went out across Europe, but defense seemed futile. La Valette addressed his men: "A formidable army composed of audacious barbarians is descending on this island. These persons, my brothers, are the enemies of Jesus Christ..."  La Valette continued: "Today it is a question of the defense of our faith -- as to whether the Gospels are to be superseded by the Koran. God on this occasion demands of us our lives, already vowed to his service. Happy will be those who first consummate this sacrifice."  The Turks attacked again and again, even reducing one of their fortresses to rubble, but the Knights kept fighting, resolved to save Western Civilization.  Finally, Dragut was killed and the Muslims sailed away on SEPTEMBER 11, 1565. Another major event was in 1683.  Sultan Mehmed IV sent over 138,000 Muslim Ottoman Turks to surround Vienna, Austria, led by General Mustafa Pasha.  For two months they had starved the 11,000 Hapsburg-Austrian defenders. Sultan Mehmed IV sent the message to Austrian King, Leopold I: "Await us in your residence...so we can decapitate you."  Polish King Jan Sobieski gathered 81,000 Polish, Austrian and German troops and on SEPTEMBER 11, 1683, led a surprise attack.  In one of the largest charges in history, 38,350 cavalry and dragoons, with many wearing wings which made a thunderous sound, caused the Turks to flee in confusion.  Upon entering the abandoned Turkish tents, Sobieski found bags of beans - coffee beans - revealing how Turks could fight day and night.  The beans came from Ethiopia, the one African country which stayed Christian, and the Muslims called them infidels or "kafir," from which the word "coffee" was derived.  The legend is that Pope Clement VIII was petitioned to declare coffee "the drink of the devil" due to its association with Muslims, but the Pontiff tasted it and stated: "This devil's drink is so good, we should cheat the devil by baptizing it."  Shortly after the victory of Vienna, Polish General Kulczycki opened Vienna's first coffeehouses and coffee quickly spread across Europe.  The Pope and European leaders hailed Jan Sobieski as the "Savior of Western Civilization." The humiliated Muslim army beheaded General Mustafa Pasha and sent his head back to Sultan Mehmed IV in a velvet bag.  Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) wrote in The Great Heresies (1938): "Less than 100 years before the American War of Independence a Mohammedan army was threatening to overrun and destroy Christian civilization... Vienna was almost taken and only saved by the Christian army under the command of the King of Poland on a date that ought to be among the most famous in history - SEPTEMBER 11, 1683."  President Theodore Roosevelt wrote in his 1916 book, Fear God and Take Your Own Part: "From the hammer of Charles Martel to the sword of Jan Sobieski, Christianity owed its safety in Europe to the fact it...could and would fight as well as the Mohammedan aggressor."  On SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, Islamic terrorists hijacked passenger jets. Two were flown into New York's World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon and one crashed in Pennsylvania. President Bush stated: "Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended,"  That evening, President Bush stated: "Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. Pictures of planes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger."  Get the book, What Every American Needs to Know About the Qur'an-A History of Islam & the United States President Bush continued: "America was targeted...because we're the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world...I ask for your prayers for all those who grieve...I pray they will be comforted by a power greater than any of us spoken through the ages in Psalm 23: 'Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil for you are with me.'" On September 13, 2001, President Bush stated: "In the face of all this evil, we remain strong and united, 'One Nation Under God.'"  Get the DVD, Political Islam's War on the West (eight 30 minute episodes) Watch Faith in History |
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My goodness! Thanks for sharing this!!! I will pass it on.
When the interests of many are subverted, and the greed of man prevails, the Islamic threat will continue it's attack on all of those who believe that the enemy is of the devil.
Thank you Twana. This I will forward to everyone I know - it needs to be read and appreciated today of all days! I found it so inspiring.
Today our American Patriotic Bikers/Vets - heroes - defied a permit denial and Rode into D.C. to honor our Veterans, to honor the 9/11 Victims and families, and to defy the 1,000,000 Muslim Man March that was planned for this very date in 2001 that they and their brothers bombed and killed over 3,000 Americans, on our own land.
Not since Pearl Harbor, has anything like this happened to our country. And what was the first thing the liberals asked the question - basically - "What have Americans done to cause this? Why don't they like us?" They hate us - always have - always will. They hate everything we stand for.
They have always hated us and always will
Amazing post.
WOW!