The Greatest Murder Machine in History
By Mike Konrad
When one thinks of mass murder, Hitler comes to mind. If not Hitler, then Tojo, Stalin, or Mao. Credit is given to the 20th-century totalitarians as the worst species of tyranny to have ever arisen. However, the alarming truth is that Islam has killed more than any of these, and may surpass all of them combined in numbers and cruelty.
The enormity of the slaughters of the "religion of peace" are so far beyond comprehension that even honest historians overlook the scale. When one looks beyond our myopic focus, Islam is the greatest killing machine in the history of mankind, bar none.
The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history.-- Will Durant, as quoted on Daniel Pipes site.
Conservative estimates place the number at 80 million dead Indians.
According to some calculations, the Indian (subcontinent) population decreased by 80 million between 1000 (conquest of Afghanistan) and 1525 (end of Delhi Sultanate).-- KoenradElstas quoted on Daniel Pipes site
80 Million?! The conquistadors' crimes pale into insignificance at that number. No wonder Hitler admired Islam as a fighting religion. He stood in awe of Islam, whose butchery even he did not surpass.
Over 110 Million Blacks were killed by Islam.
... aminumum of 28 Million African were enslaved in the Muslim Middle East. Since, at least, 80 percent of those captured by Muslim slave traders were calculated to have died before reaching the slave market, it is believed that the death toll from 1400 years of Arab and Muslim slave raids into Africa could have been as high as 112 Millions. When added to the number of those sold in the slave markets, the total number of African victims of the trans-Saharan and East African slave trade could be significantly higher than 140 Million people.-- John AllembillahAzumah, author of The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa: A Quest for Inter-religious Dialogue
Add just those two numbers alone together, and Islam has surpassed the victims of 20th-century totalitarianism. However, it does not end there. Add the millions who died at the hand of Muslims in the Sudan in our lifetime.
Much of Islamic slavery was sexual in nature, with a preference for women. Those men who were captured were castrated. The mulatto children of the women were often killed, which explains why Islam was not demographically shifted towards the black race, unlike slaves in the West, who bore children to breed a mestizo class. Add in those dead children; and we arrive at well over 200 million.
Remember that in the 7th century, North Africa was almost totally Christian. What happened to them?
By the year 750, a hundred years after the conquest of Jerusalem, at least 50 percent of the world's Christians found themselves under Muslim hegemony… Today there is no indigenous Christianity in the region [of Northwest Africa], no communities of Christians whose history can be traced to antiquity.-- "Christianity Face to Face with Islam," CERC
What happened to those Christian millions? Some converted. The rest?Lost to history.
We know that over 1 million Europeans were enslaved by Barbary Pirates. How many died is anybody's guess.
...for the 250 years between 1530 and 1780, the figure could easily have been as high as 1,250,000 -BBC
In the Middle Ages…
…many slaves were passed through Armenia and were castrated there to fill the Muslim demand for eunuchs. -- Slavery in Early Medieval Europe.
The same practice ran through Islamic Spain. North Europeans captured from raids up to Iceland, or purchased, were butchered in the castratoriums of Iberia. Many died from the operations that ran for centuries.
The number of dead from the Muslim conquest of the Balkans and Southern Italy is unknown, but again the numbers add up, surely into the millions over the centuries. Don't forget the 1.5 million Armenian Christians killed by the Turks during WWI.We do know that over five centuries, vast numbers of Christian boys were kidnapped to become Islamic Janissary mercenaries for the Turks. Add those in, too.
Muslims prized blonde women for their harems; and so enslaved Slavic women were purchased in the bazaars of the Crimean Caliphate. In Muslim Spain, an annual tribute of 100 Visigothic [blonde] women was required from Spain's Cantabrian coast.
For decades, 100 virgins per year were required by the Muslim rulers of Spain from the conquered population. The tribute was only stopped when the Spaniards began fighting back -- Jihad: Islam's 1,300 Year War Against Western Civilisation
Add in the death toll from the Reconquista and the numbers climb higher.
Research has shown that the Dark Ages were not caused by the Goths, who eventually assimilated and Christianized:
…the real destroyers of classical civilization were the Muslims. It was the Arab Invasions... which broke the unity of the Mediterranean world and turned the Middle Sea -- previously one of the world’s most important trading highways -- into a battleground. It was only after the appearance of Islam... that the cities of the West, which depended upon the Mediterranean trade for their survival, began to die. -- Islam Caused the Dark Ages
Add in those unknown millions who died as a consequence.
How many know the horrors of the conquest of Malaysia? The Buddhists of Thailand and Malaysia were slaughtered en masse.
When attacked and massacred by the Muslims, the Buddhists initially did not make any attempt to escape from their murderers. They accepted death with an air of fatalism and destiny. And hence they are not around today to tell their story. – History of Jihad.org
We may never know the numbers of dead.
After Muslims came to power in the early 15th century, animist hill peoples eventually disappeared due to their enslavement and ‘incorporation’ into the Muslim population of Malaya, Sumatra, Borneo, and Java via raids, tribute and purchase, especially of children.Java was the largest exporter of slaves around 1500. -- Islam Monitor
In the same manner, Islam arrived in the Philippines. Only the appearance of the Spanish stopped a total collapse, and confined Islam to the southern islands.
The coming of the Spanish saved the Philippines from Islam, except for the Southern tip where the population had been converted to Islam.--History of Jihad.org
Again, the number of dead is unknown; but add them to the total.
The animist Filipinos were eager to ally with the Spanish against Islam. In fact, much of Southeast Asia welcomed the Spanish and Portuguese as preferable to Islam.
...from the 17th century successive Thai kings allied themselves with the seafaring Western powers – the Portuguese and the Dutch and succeeded in staving off the threat of Islam from the Muslim Malays and their Arab overlords.-- History of Jihad.org
A few galleons and muskets were not enough to conquer Asia. Islam had made the Europeans initially appear as liberators; and to a certain extent they were. Who were the real imperialists?
Even today...
...Malaysian Jihadis are plotting to transform multi-ethnic Malaysia into an Islamic Caliphate, and fomenting trouble in Southern Thailand.--History of Jihad.org
Add this all up. The African victims.The Indian victims.The European victims. Add in the Armenian genocide. Then add in the lesser known, but no doubt quite large number of victims of Eastern Asia.Add in the jihad committed by Muslims against China, which was invaded in 651 AD. Add in the Crimean Khanate predations on the Slavs, especially their women.
Though the numbers are not clear, what is obvious is that Islam is the greatest murder machine in history bar none, possibly exceeding 250 million dead. Possibly one-third to one-half or more of all those killed by war or slavery in history can be traced to Islam; and this is just a cursory examination.
Afghan Air Force Trainees go AWOL
Two men from Afghanistan being trained by the U.S. military have disappeared from an Air Force base in Georgia and were being sought by federal authorities, officials said on Tuesday.
The two Afghan air force students failed to show up for duty on Monday at their regular maintenance training at Moody Air Force Base in Valdosta, Georgia, an Air Force spokesman said in a statement.
The two men have been at the base since February, and were screened prior to their arrival in the United States more than a year ago, he said.
The students do not pose any apparent threat, the spokesman added.
The reason the men might have left the base was not known.
Federal agencies were trying to locate the individuals and return them to the proper authorities, the spokesman said.
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In January, a soldier in the Afghanistan army who went missing during a training exercise at a U.S. military base in Massachusetts was granted asylum by the United States.
The soldier was one of three Afghans who turned themselves in at a Canadian border crossing in New York state in 2014 after disappearing from an exercise, provoking a search by military officials and state police.
The missing Afghan nationals in Georgia are assigned to the 81st Fighter Squadron, which was re-activated in January and charged with training Afghan airmen, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
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More than 160,000 Afghans have left their country for Europe this year, most spurred by poor job prospects and worsening security as Taliban insurgents grow more powerful after the bulk of NATO troops withdrew at the end of 2014.
Stealthy Russian Submarine Fires Missiles at Terror Targets in Syria
By Patrick Goodenough | December 8, 2015 | 5:18 PM EST
Russia's Rostov-on-Don diesel-electric submarine, touted by Russia to be the quietest in commission anywhere. (Photo: Admirality Shipyards, St. Petersburg)
(CNSNews.com) – In the latest in a series of “firsts” for the Russian military in its ongoing mission in Syria, the Russian Navy has for the first time fired cruise missiles at targets from a submarine in the Mediterranean Sea, the Kremlin confirmed late Tuesday.
The news came during a briefing to President Vladimir Putin by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on the military mission in Syria – which Moscow says is aimed at the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS/ISIL) and other extremist groups.
“Mr. President, inline with your instruction onDecember5 we increased theintensity ofour strikes andprepared andlaunched amassive aviation andmissile attack using Tu-22 strategic bombers from theterritory oftheRussian Federation,” Shoigu told Putin, according to a Kremlin transcript.
“Forthefirst time we launched Kalibr cruise missiles from theRostov-on-Don submarine based intheMediterranean Sea,” he added.
“Both theaviation andthesubmarine fleet were successful, hitting all thetargets,” Shoigu told Putin. “TheKalibr missiles have once again demonstrated their efficiency atlong distances. We tested both thelaunch ofthemissiles andtheir flight, aswell asensuring they hit thetargets, which were two major terrorist facilities inRaqqa.”
A clip broadcast by the Russian defense ministry TV channel Zvezda showed a submarine on the surface, then from a distance at least four missiles being launched. Aerial footage then showed several explosions at the purported targeted area in Raqqa, a major ISIS stronghold.
Kalibrs are the same surface-to-surface missiles Russia launched at targets in Syria from warships in the Caspian Sea, last October 7 and again on November 20. Those missiles traveled more than 900 miles, traversing Iranian and Iraqi airspace.
The offensive Putin launched at the end of September has given Russia a rare opportunity to test – and prove to the West – its military capabilities after years of stagnation following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Between 2004 and 2014 Russia doubled its military expenditure as Putin seeks to restore Russia’s image as a global power.
Earlier Tuesday Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian media he had no information to share about unconfirmed reports that a submarine had taken up station off the Syrian coast.
The Rostov-on-Don, a diesel-electric submarine that was commissioned last December, is an updated version of what NATO calls the Kilo-class. It is one of four new boats in its class attached to Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol, Crimea. Two more are currently being built for a total of six.
According to the Russian Navy they are smaller than nuclear submarines, designed for use in waters closer to home rather than for long-range deployments. Russian also claims they are the quietest submarines deployed anywhere.
During Shoigu’s report to Putin he referenced a repeat of another ambitious element of the Russian campaign in Syria – long-range assault missions flown by Tu-22 Backfire supersonic bombers, from bases on Russian soil.
And last month, supersonic Tu-160 bombers took off from an airbase north of the Arctic Circle, circumnavigated Europe before flying eastward over the Mediterranean and launching cruise missiles, then returning to base over Iran and the Caspian Sea – a round trip of almost 10,000 miles, taking more than 16 hours.
Russia says its mission is designed to defeat ISIS, the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front and other unnamed “terrorist groups.” The West views as Putin’s overriding goal the strengthening of his ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Too Much Sleep is Bad for You.
We’re often told that sleep is the best medicine.
But, a new study revealed that too much sleep is hazardous to your health.
Sleeping more than nine hours a night – combined with sitting too much during the day and a lack of exercise – can be just as bad for you as smoking and drinking alcohol.
People living sedentary lives are four times as likely to die early, experts warned.
There has been mounting evidence over the past few years that sitting for too long is bad for you.
Previous studies have also indicated that sleep can have an impact on your health.
This study, from the University of Sydney, was the first to look at the impact of both sleep and sitting together.
Dr Melody Ding, study author and senior research fellow at the University of Sydney: ‘When you add a lack of exercise into the mix, you get a type of “triple whammy” effect.
‘Our study shows that we should really be taking these behaviors together as seriously as we do risk factors such as levels of drinking and unhealthy eating patterns.’
Dr Ding and a team of researchers looked at the health behaivors of more than 230,000 participants in ’45 and Up Study’ – Australia’s largest study, which looks at health as we age.
Our study shows that we should really be taking these behaviors (sleep and sitting) together as seriously as we do risk factors such as levels of drinking and unhealthy eating patterns
Dr Melody Ding, University of Sydney
The researchers analysed lifestyle behaviors that are already known to increase the risk of disease – including smoking, excess drinking, poor diet and being physically inactive.
They added excess sitting time and too little or too much sleep into the equation as well.
The researchers also looked at different combinations of the risk factors to determine which of the groupings were most likely to increase a person’s risk of premature death.
They determined that prolonged sleep, sitting and lack of exercise were a deadly trio.
However, the study also discovered that lack of sleep – less than seven hours a night – also increases your risk of early death four-fold, when combined with smoking and high alcohol intake.
Other troubling combinations included being physically inactive and having too much sleep; being physically inactive and sitting too much; and smoking and high alcohol intake.
Professor Adrian Bauman, study co-author, said: ‘The take-home message from this research – for doctors, health planners and researchers – is that if we want to design public health programs that will reduce the massive burden and cost of lifestyle-related disease we should focus on how these risk factors work together rather than in isolation.’
He added that non-communicable diseases – including heart disease, diabetes and cancer – now kill more than 38 million people around the world.
These diseases cause more deaths than infectious diseases.