My latest in PJ Media:
Yes, the author of this article in the far-Left propaganda organ Slate is apparently really named Rebecca Onion, but this is not The Onion. Christopher Columbus was a “genocidal murderer,” something that Onion’s interviewee Alan Mikhail claims, to which the intrepid Onion replies: “Oh! Of course, I assumed the ‘genocidal murderer’ part was understood, but thank you for making that clear.” Even worse, Columbus – or so Mikhail and Slate would have you believe – was motivated to sail the ocean blue in 1492 by the paranoid fear that “Islam is everywhere; Muslims are all around us.” You are reading this in North America today, you see, because of “Islamophobia.” For shame, infidel! Start packing.
In the entire interview, Onion and Mikhail both behave as if Columbus set out for the New World because of what Mikhail calls “anti-Muslim sentiment,” while doing their best to give the impression that this sentiment was a baseless prejudice, “an ideological extension the Crusades.” Mikhail discusses the fall of Constantinople in 1453 as a cause of this fear, without mentioning the fact that, as The History of Jihad shows, the warriors of jihad entered the great city on May 29, 1453, they made the streets run with rivers of blood. Muslims raided monasteries and convents, emptying them of their inhabitants, and plundered private houses.
In this course of this plunder, pillage, and wanton murder, the jihadis entered Hagia Sophia, which for nearly a thousand years had been the grandest church in Christendom. The venerable old building was filled with Orthodox Christians: the faithful had gathered within its hallowed walls to pray during the city’s last agony. The Muslims halted the celebration of Orthros (morning prayer), while the priests, according to legend, took the sacred vessels and disappeared into the cathedral’s eastern wall, through which they shall return to complete the divine service one day. Right in the church, the jihad warriors then killed the elderly and weak and led the rest off into slavery.
There is much more. Read the rest here.