Thoughts from Mark Tapson on Charles Martel and the Battle of Tours, where in 745 A.D., he turned back the Muslim invaders threatening Europe, can be found here: “Where is Charles Martel When You Need Him?,” by Mark Tapson, FrontPage Magazine, October 13, 2026:
As I watched Paris burn recently at the hands of what the whitewashing news media call “students,” I was reminded that last week was the anniversary of an epic battle that dramatically shaped the future of the Western world, and which may still hold inspiration for us in the West today.
After the death of the Muslim prophet Muhammad in 632, Islam spread like a bloody tide throughout the Arabian peninsula, north to the Caspian Sea and east through Persia and beyond, westward through Egypt and across North Africa all the way to the Atlantic Ocean. From there it crossed the Straits of Gibraltar and consumed virtually all of the Iberian peninsula, or al-Andalus as the Saracens called it. In a mere one hundred years, the warlord Muhammad’s imperialist legacy was an empire larger than Rome’s had ever been.
By 732 that fallen Roman empire had devolved into a patchwork of warring barbarian tribes across what is now continental Europe. When Abd-al-Rahman al-Ghafiki, the governor of al-Andalus, crossed the Pyrenees with the world’s most successful fighting force and began pillaging through the south of what would become France toward Paris, there was no nation, no central power, no professional army capable of stopping them.
No army except one – led by the Frankish duke Charles, the eventual grandfather of Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne. His infantrymen, as historian Victor Davis Hanson puts it in a fascinating chapter of Carnage and Culture, were “hardened veterans of nearly twenty years of constant combat against a variety of Frankish, German, and Islamic enemies.” Hanson writes that the Roman legions had crumbled “because of the dearth of free citizens who were willing to fight for their own freedom and the values of their civilization.” But the seasoned warrior Charles had gathered spirited, free fighters under his command who were willing to defend their Christian society, and he led them to intercept the marauding infidels leaving a ravaged trail toward the ultimate prize, Paris.
In October 732 (the exact date is disputed, but it is commonly held to be the 10th), the two armies met on a wooded field between Poitiers and Tours (and so the ensuing confrontation is sometimes called the Battle of Poitiers), barely 175 miles from Paris as the crow flies. Abd-al-Rahman arrayed his cavalry against Charles’ solid block of Frankish footsoldiers, which at 30,000 was by some estimates not even half the size of the Arab and Berber army (Hanson speculates that the armies were more evenly matched, but the Franks were unquestionably outnumbered)….
Europe needs not one, but many Martels, who will recognize the demographic peril of Muslims in their midst, and fight to end Muslim immigration into their countries. And that will not be enough, for there are already tens of millions of Muslims now living in Europe. These new Martels must find ways to make their countries no longer hospitable to those Muslims already inside, so that some will choose to leave. For example, since Muslims come as economic migrants, intent on receiving the cornucopia of benefits that the generous welfare states of Europe have heretofore lavished upon them, a law making immigrants ineligible to receive any benefits during their first five years in a country would keep many of them out, or if they are already inside the country, impel them to leave if they can no longer count on a free ride. Another law might end the jus soli,or birthright citizenship. Still another might require that any migrant convicted of a crime, after serving his sentence, must be deported back to his country of origin.
Among those prepared to assume such a charles-martel role — many martels will be needed — are Alice Weidel of Alternative für Deutschland in Germany, Marine Le Pen of the National Rally and Éric Zemmour of the Reconquête Party in France, Santiago Abascal of the Vox Party in Spain, Giorgia Meloni of Fratelli d’Italia in Italy, Rupert Lowe of Restore Britain in the U.K., and Geert Wilders of the Party for Freedom in the Netherlands, among others, and there will be many others who no doubt will appear as the demographic situation worsens. A case, one might say, of “Cometh the hour, cometh the man.” There is still time — just — for Europe to turn back the Muslim tide.
somehistory says
If anyone stood up and said they needed to fight for Christianity, screams of ‘phobia’ would be deafening.
Those people in the past, made their own decisions about what they should do. They had some success in defeating satan’s hordes.
Today, the muzzies have not just gained land and territory, they also have made so many gains in political power that a new Crusade would be met with that power as well as the physical slaughter.
The world is headed for Armageddon, a war that will be won by Righteous armies and islime will lose forever, never to return.
Wellington says
745? In any case, yes, many Martels are needed, not just in France but throughout the West, because both politically and religiously the West has gone soft and stupid over the past sixty years.
Rob Porter says
It is encouraging to see that there are still westerners willing to take draconian actions to rid their countries of the Muslim scourge. As to the Muslims, they don’t assimilate and integrate, don’t accept the laws of countries they inhabit, considerr their pathetic, seventh-century sharia trash superior, quickly make known their lack of acceptance of the ways and cultures of countries to which they have migrated, constantly create chaos, their men rape women and girls, stab and murder, ruin lives and incessantly display uncivilized conduct fit for barbaric societies. So, screw them, throw them out without mercy.
Andrew Knight says
I agree with other commenters here. We need true believers in the lies of Islam gone from our countries. They are quite simply the enemy within. They truly and totally believe cruelty and destruction will bring about salvation and world peace – and they are quite wrong. The religion is seductive, but in practice brings only terror and death. The more people realise this, the more hope we have. But ultimately our hope is in God, who has made it quite clear that Mohammed’s way is not to be followed, or permitted.
somehistory says
Absolutely, Andrew
abu taleb says
If we only want another person to become like Charles Martel, and not we ourselves, then just let muslims conquer us.
gravenimage says
Hear, hear!
gravenimage says
As France Burns From Mobs of Students and Muslims… Where Is Another Charles Martel?
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Good questions from Marc Tapson. As he notes, the closest we have in France are Marine and Éric Zemmour. May they be enough.
And the idea that these Islamic riots–which include shooting teachers and burning down schools–are about staffing shortages could not be more grotesque.
Gunter Deleyn says
Not only did the Muslims conquered Spain, but also Sicily in the 12th century, parts of the Balkan and twice sieged Vienna. They also colonised India. So why are, according to the left, western colonisers so bad, and nobody talks about Muslim colonisers. Also why did the UN recently only condemn the trans Atlantic slave trade but didn’t mention the trans Sahara slave trade? The slave market in Mekka was forbidden only in 1962
Robert says
IT’s doubtful if Muhammad even existed or if there was Islam at that time. Of course the Islamists claim there was, according to Islamic “tradition” which is never wrong. Robert Spencer has a book Did Muhammad Exist?
Joe1 says
They don’t need Charles Martel, he fought organized armies; they need Abraham Lincoln and the way he put down the riots in New York City during the civil war. The Muslims would either rally in greater numbers which would not turn out well for them, or they would leave France.
David says
Karl Martel did nothing wrong. Today he needs not only fight the muslim invaders plus the leftist censorship machine. But in the end we will win.
Major Tom says
Methinks we need to start re-celebrating those great victories at Tours and Vienna to remind this generation of the sacrifices made to preserve our God given freedoms!
Where I live, last week, we held a mixed formal dinner honoring those brave Christian souls who fought at Tours! We will continue to remember!
gravenimage says
Hear, hear!
Edmund Carey says
“There is still time — just — for Europe to turn back the Muslim tide.”
I hope this is true, but I fear it is not. Neither Charles Martel nor any European politician today can fight what is really causing the disaster, because that is an idea – the idea that selecting from among aspiring immigrants (or migrants) on the basis of race, culture, or religion, is no better than Nazism, and the almost religious need to demonstrate that modern societies are morally superior to whatever is deemed to have been wrong about their predecessors.
Victor Hugo famously said that there was no force in the world that could withstand an idea whose time had come. But he never said that that only happened with good ideas.
Jerome from Layton says
A lot of this comes down to responsible governments. Compare Seattle to Spokane. Chaos in one verses law and order in the other. Same state, different attitudes. There are other scenarios and some are terrifying. 1984 is one version while the gang rule depicted in Mad Max is another. “Interesting time are coming, try not to be caught in the cross fire.
gravenimage says
Spokane is also generally a lot more consdervative than is Seattle. I think this is a big part of it–not just different governments. Of course, a more conservative populace typically votes in more conservatve candidates, as well, so these are linked.
Tim gallagher says
In democracies it is all about having enough of the population wake up and see what an evil load of filth Islam is and Muslims are. The poles, Hungarians and Czechs prove that it can be done maybe too many french people, especially leftist fuckwits, hate their country and society and want to side with the Muslim scum in destroying french society. Time is running out for France. It will soon be a Muslim sewer.