Thanks to Deuce for this link.
If you are interested in Islamic encroachment in Europe and the U.S. Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch seems to have the most comprehensive data pool and also knows how to interpret the information.
Personally I have long been of the opinion that though Charles Martel may have stopped the scimitars of the Crescent from sweeping through Europe, that his descendent, Charlemagne set up Europe for eventual Islamic conquest when he successfully spread Christianity at the point of a sword. Over the world, Pagans and heathens in Indian, Africa and Asia have proved more resistant to the seduction of Islam than Christians. The Vikings were fierce opponents of Islam. But, the adoption of so many pagan deities into the cult of the Catholic saints [look at our days of the week: Moonday, Thor’s Day, Freya’s Day, Saturn’s Day, Sunday] made Cathlocism palatable enough for pagans for the power hungry rulers to win conversions to the submissive Christian way. Christianity, looked at this way, is the way station between paganism and Islam.
In my mind, if anything truly doomed Christianity to fall before Islam it was the Reformation, which largely scrubbed pagan elements from the religion and hastened the secularization of Christianized Europeans. This may seem nutty and I am a renowned crackpot. But when you borrow a desert religion and sell it in a forested land by mixing in the local beliefs, and then scrub the local beliefs out, the faith that is left will be vulnerable to a competing faith born in the desert and true to itself. Hell, during the Turkish conquest of Europe they were only resisted by Catholics and Greek orthodox Christians. While the Polish cavalry was rescuing their fellow Austrian Catholics, the English navy would not even protect its home waters from Turkish slave raiders!
Where I see Islam failing to prevail is in Eastern Europe, catholic Latin America, and in those portions of America where Protestantism has taken on charismatic forms and folkways. Catholicism in its American version is dying like a lich in his tomb, and mainstream Protestantism in America has become too secularized to survive commercialism let alone Islam. I predict, that within 90 years, those portions of North America that have not been colonized by Latinos or maintained by Christian fundamentalists will be ruled by an American caliphate.
Savor the character of some emerging youth via the link below.
Maybe there was an even earlier event. In the South of France a large group of Christens were called Cathars. They believed the old testament of the Jews was the rantings of a Demon tied to Satan and only the New Testament was important to Christens. The Jesuits were formed and they killed all of them. It's in this battle that the phrase,“Kill them all,” , “God will recognise his own!" was first said. The Cathars lost and every since the Bible has been contaminated by the old testament. What did Jesus have to say about the Jews?
JESUS CHRIST, speaking to the Jews in the Gospel of St. John, 8:44 “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lust of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is not truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar and the father of it. – then answered the Jews — ” (which makes it clear that Christ was addressing the Jews.)
Maybe they should have listened to him.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharism
philipcoppens.com/catharism.html
I'm not so religious, in an institutional sense, but if forced to choose I always tell whoever asking I'm a Catharist.
You are referencing the siege of Beziers, in which a knight informed the Papal Legate that he had 10,000 souls crowded into a church and could not tell which was true and which heretic, to which the papal Legate said, "Kill them all. God shall know his own."
I'd love to play Empires in Arms with that guy.