With a Cross at the Helm

Crusaders attacking Muslims
From a fourteenth-century manuscript
(Bibliothèque Boulogne-sur-Mer)

I didn't write anything on September 11, the morbid anniversary of the 2001 attack on the Twin Towers in New York by Muslims. What is there to say? Now, twelve years later, it looks like we have learnt nothing from those attacks, and are meekly waiting for another (or blithely going about our own ways).

Laura Wood at The Thinking Housewife writes:

In a 2006 post at Gates Of Vienna, Baron Bodissey described the Battle of Vienna on September 11, 1683, when the Christian army under Jan Sobieski, the King of Poland, ended the Muslim siege of the city.

A commentator at her site writes:

It is good to be reminded of what should have been Christendom’s conclusive triumph over Islam, in the persons of the Ottoman besiegers of Vienna in 1683

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So while we should lament that, through our moral weakness, Vienna was not the last word in the struggle between Islam and the West, we can draw hope from its example that the West can endure if we can only summon the will to prevail.

I think we are at a more difficult juncture than ever before. The Christian spirituality of the world, and especially the Western world, has diminished. Are we ever going to get those armies which march forward with the cross at their helm?

I think it is still possible, but it will be a difficult undertaking. The boldness of the Muslim world has occurred now because of our spiritual weakness. Muslims are not weak. They know they come in the name of Allah. We have to counter that by marching in the name of God.
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Posted By: Kidist P. Asrat
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