How Christianity spread by the sword, crucifixion and torture...with pictures and explanation
How did Christianity spread?
How did Christians command good and forbid evil throughout history and to this day? We must all acknowledge the truth. To be honest, Christians were initially subjected to killing, insult, slaughter, and all kinds of torture. This is what caused the Bible to be lost from the hands of Christians until true Christians were killed. Here are the followers and disciples of Christ. This one was killed and this one was crucified. And so all the followers of Christ, even those who believed and did not see the disciples, were killed, slaughtered, and tortured. Christianity continued like this for centuries. The holy books were burned, the writings of the fathers were burned, and the original copies of the Bible were lost. The true followers of Christ, the disciples and apostles, died, until Christians in the third century began to submit to the pagan empire. The pagan Constantine began to help Christians and entered Christianity. From here I say the spread of pagan Christianity that Constantine drew began. Who is Constantine who spread Christianity by the sword? Constantine and spread Christianity by the sword
Constantine, about whom Father Markos Daoud [1] said:
(In the history of Christianity, many figures emerged who played major roles in the church. This is the biography of one of these people. It suffices to say here that the writer is the same Eusebius, author of the book History of the Church, who is considered by all historians to be the father of church history..)
Indeed, the Egyptian Orthodox Church intercedes for him and prays for him.
Constantine claimed that he saw Christ in a vision holding a cross. Eusebius of Caesarea [2] says:
( How the Christ of God appeared to him in his sleep and ordered him to use in his wars a flag made in the shape of a cross. In addition to this, he said that doubts crept into him about the meaning of this vision, and while he was contemplating and thinking about its content, night suddenly fell, then the Christ of God appeared to him in his sleep with the same sign that he saw in the sky.) Eusebius also conveys to us the history of this man, his conquests, and his possession of the world in the name of the cross, saying [3]: (However, Our emperor began his reign at the age at which the Macedonian died, and yet he lived twice as long and reigned three times as long. And having given his army instructions to be kind and merciful within the limits of piety, he marched with his soldiers as far as the Britons and the nations that dwelt on the borders of the western ocean. And he also subjugated the entire Scythian kingdom, although it was in the far north, and although it was divided into countless savage tribes, and his conquests extended even to the Blemmyes and Ethiopians in the farthest borders of the south, and it did not occur to him that possessing the eastern kingdoms was something that did not deserve his attention. In short, the light of his holy light spread to the farthest reaches of the world, even to the distant borders of India, and to the valuable peoples in the farthest corners of the inhabited world. This is Constantine, who followed the orders of the Holy Book and considered that everyone who disagreed with his thought deserved to be killed and was against him, and this is based on the saying of Jesus (He who is not with me is against me... ) Luke 9:50. This is how Constantine fought, and even this Constantine, this king whom the Orthodox Church prays to and considers one of the greats like Moses, forced people to pray to Christ, even though they were pagans. Eusebius of Caesarea says[4]: **How did he even order his pagan soldiers to pray in The Lord's Day: As for those who were still far from the divine faith, he issued a second order, which included that they should appear on the Lord's Day in a square near the city, and if a certain sign was given, they should offer to God with one accord a prayer they had learned before. He advised them that they should not rely on their spears, weapons, or physical forces, but that they should acknowledge God Almighty as the giver of all good, .... The text of the prayer was: We acknowledge that you are the one God, and we acknowledge that you are our King, and we seek your help, by your grace we have conquered, and by you we are stronger than our enemies. We give you thanks for your past blessings, and we trust in you for future blessings. We beseech you and entreat you long to keep our Emperor Constantine and his pious sons safe and victorious..) He also forced his enemies to engrave the sign of the cross on their shields [5]: **And he ordered the sign of the Savior’s cross to be engraved on the shields of his soldiers: And not only that, but he also ordered the blessed sign of victory to be engraved on the shields of his soldiers themselves, and he ordered that only the banner of the cross should precede his fighting forces in their march, not the golden statues as was followed before...)
Even this man was the ruler and had the authority to issue decisions in the councils, regardless of the number of opponents. The Christian historian John Lorimer comments on the events of the Council of Nicaea, saying [6]:
(And then he wanted to control the policy of the church with regard to the validity of belief and heresy. Although he himself did not claim to have a distinct and unique knowledge in theological matters, and submitted to the judgment of the bishops, it was the influence of Constantine that decided the final decision..) This is just an example of how Christianity spread in these centuries, and not only these centuries, but Christianity continued to spread by imposing opinion, even if it reached the point of the sword, deprivation, threats, and other methods that impose belief on people who refuse to believe in it. For example, Theodoret of Cyrrhus refused to agree to the decision to excommunicate Nestorius, but under duress and pressure he agreed to this. Father Tadros Yacoub Malti says [7]: (Theodoret’s love and loyalty to Nestorius led him to consider that what Nestorius meant was the same as what he himself meant.... Theodoret’s Christological opinions aroused Much controversy. Many scholars agree that he adopted Nestorius' views until 435-436 AD, and possibly until the Council of Chalcedon. He abandoned those ideas at least after 451
at the Council of Chalcedon in 451 AD. He was initially met with strong opposition. Then his case was discussed in a special session and the assembled fathers insisted that he pronounce anathema against Nestorius. Finally, he was forced, reluctantly, to obey their order and declared: Nestorius is anathema and everyone who does not recognize that the Holy Virgin Mary is the Mother of God, and everyone who divides the only begotten Son into two. Accordingly, he was officially restored to his episcopal seat....) Thus, the opinion was imposed on those who disagreed with their thought and they were forced to embrace a thought or doctrine or agree to a doctrine that differed from theirs, and this is completely contrary to the explicit text of the Holy Qur’an and completely in accordance with what is in the Bible!! History never forgets Saint Arius, who declared his belief that Christ was a prophet, a messenger, and a creature, not God. Of course, his books were burned, and even his followers were killed. The Christian historian John Lorimer [8] says: (Although Constantine, who was never clear on theological issues, was convinced by the opinion of Eusebius, Bishop of Media, about reconsidering Arius’ ideas, he did not care about Arius at all until the year 332 AD. He wrote thus: “If a letter written by Arius is discovered, let it be burned... so that no memory of him is left, whatever it may be... and if anyone is caught hiding a book by Arius and does not reveal it and burn it immediately, his punishment is death, and the punishment is carried out immediately after the crime is proven.”) The Christians continued to kill and terrorize everyone who disagreed with them in opinion, and no one forgets what the Catholics did to their Protestant brothers, to the point that they considered them heretics. The church believed that every reformer must be killed. Andrew Miller [9] says: (In the year 1400 AD, the burning of Heretics were a constitutional law in England that stated, “In a high public place and in the sight of the people, the irreformed heretic shall be burned alive.” And soon the bishops and clergy began their work...) This is not the whole truth, but only examples of what Christians have done throughout history to spread Christianity by force, terror, murder and the sword!! And I tell you the truth, the phrase “there is no compulsion in religion” is a well-established Islamic principle that has no existence in Christianity, and its exact opposite is true in Christianity.
After this simple introduction, we will read together what happened in some of the invasions in which fighting took place between the people of truth and falsehood, and was it really a defense or an attack!!
[1] The Life of Constantine the Great - written by Eusebius of Caesarea - translated by Father Markos Daoud, introduction to the book. [2] The Life of Constantine the Great - written by Eusebius of Caesarea - translated by Father Markos Daoud - Book 1, Section 29, Page 33. [3] The Life of Constantine the Great - written by Eusebius of Caesarea - translated by Father Markos Daoud - Book 1, Section 8, Page 13,14. [4] The Life of Constantine the Great - by Eusebius of Caesarea - translated by Father Markos Daoud - Volume 4, ch. 19.20, page 199, 200 [5] The Life of Constantine the Great - by Eusebius of Caesarea - translated by Father Markos Daoud - Volume 4, ch. 21, page 200. [6] The History of the Church - by the Christian historian John Lorimer - page 46. [7] A Comprehensive View of Patrology - by Father Tadros Yacoub Malati - page 152, 153. [8] The History of the Church - by the Christian historian John Lorimer - Part Three, page 50. [9] A Brief History of the Church - by the Christian historian Andrew Miller, page 395
This is how Christianity spread!!
By this you shed the blood of your enemies and slaughter them, by this you increase the influence of the oppressive Roman state and preserve your contemptible worldly kingdom - so what evidence after this that the cross is a symbol of the sword? And we say to the Christians that if you say that Constantine is not an argument, then we said that before you, and by God, how can anyone believe in a person who used religion in wars to obtain power, to the point that he killed his wife and son after that and remained a pagan at the time when he was drawing Christianity with the gang of the Council of Nicaea, the owners of the law of "contemptible treason",
and Constantine was not baptized except on his deathbed, although baptism is a condition for entering Christianity according to them, so Western historians such as Will Durant said about him that he was a pagan with the pagans and an Arian with the Arians and a Synagogue with the Synagogue to achieve his political purposes, and his vision of the cross is nothing more than a satanic vision as happened with Paul before, and whoever reads the biographies of both of them clearly sees the extent of their misguidance,
God Almighty says: " Did (221) I will inform you upon whom the devils descend. They descend upon every liar and sinner. (222) They listen, but most of them are liars. (223) (Ash-Shu’ara’) At that time, you must abandon the crosses because he is the one who introduced them. However, if you say that Constantine’s vision is true, then this is an admission from you of the truth of the meaning of the cross. Before that, and for 300 years, Christianity remained an obscure claim followed by only 10% of the population of the Roman Empire until the time of Constantine and his sons, who subjected the followers of other religions {the pagans} in the empire to terrible torture. As for the Crusades, their name and what happened in them are enough to reveal the ugliness of Christianity, so much so that the famous saying in Egypt, “The blood reached the knees,” traces its origin back to what happened in Jerusalem when the Crusaders slaughtered seventy thousand children, women, and elderly people at Al-Aqsa Mosque in a few nights without mercy.
The massacres of the Serbs against the Muslims in Bosnia are not far from us. In four years, the Christians slaughtered 200,000 Muslim men and women, raped women, slit open the bellies of pregnant women, and buried people alive.
The story of Srebrenica, that small village that the United Nations helped make a safe zone, but the Serb Crusaders cooperated with their Dutch brothers and betrayed the safe village and killed ten thousand Muslims in one night. So if the Christians boast as usual and say that the war was ethnic, not religious, we say, what was the ethnicity of the Muslims?!
The whole science knew that the war was between the Serbs, Croats and Muslims, and the Muslims’ fault was that they were Muslims. Then what teachings are these that forbid killing because of religion and allow it because of authority and occupation, if you are honest? Or what religion is this whose followers failed to understand its teachings for more than 1700 years, from Constantine,through the butcher Urban, the Pope of the Vatican, who said that the Crusades were the will of God,
and finally Bush, who talks about the crusader war. Christianity would not have appeared without this warlike thought. America did not intervene in Bosnia for the sake of the Muslims. It left the Serbs to slaughter the innocent for four years, and it was able to stop the war, but it intervened after it saw in socialist Yugoslavia a threat to its influence in the region. As for the Inquisition and the burning of Muslims and their books,
There is no doubt that the Christian crosses are a painful symbol that reminds us of a bloody history associated with them since the Christians adopted them as a symbol of their religion. Know, my dear reader, that the cross was not adopted as an official symbol of Christianity and was not placed on churches, walls, and chests in this shameful manner except during the reign of Constantine, that unjust pagan emperor, when he was fighting Maxentius in a vile struggle for control of the eastern and western parts of the Roman Empire . Constantine claimed that after sunset he saw a halo of light in the sky in the shape of a cross and under it the phrase “In this you conquer.”
When he slept, he saw in his dream the image of Christ with the cross itself and he ordered him to take the cross as his symbol and to march on his enemy immediately. This was the phenomenon and what followed from it of his support for Christianity. Of course, this shameful story is not an argument against anyone, and people are not required to believe this murderer. Even the soldiers in the battle did not fight for Christ or Christianity, but rather for power and influence. However, this story is an argument against the Christians, as it is clear evidence that the cross is a symbol of war, killing and blood. Constantine did not see a cross ordering him to be pious and to stop the bloodshed, but rather he saw a cross telling him, “With this you will prevail.”
By this you shed the blood of your enemies and slaughter them, by this you increase the influence of the oppressive Roman state and preserve your contemptible worldly kingdom - so what evidence after this that the cross is a symbol of the sword? And we say to the Christians that if you say that Constantine is not an argument, then we said that before you, and by God, how can anyone believe in a person who used religion in wars to obtain power, to the point that he killed his wife and son after that and remained a pagan at the time when he was drawing Christianity with the gang of the Council of Nicaea, the owners of the law of "contemptible treason",
and Constantine was not baptized except on his deathbed, although baptism is a condition for entering Christianity according to them, so Western historians such as Will Durant said about him that he was a pagan with the pagans and an Arian with the Arians and a Synagogue with the Synagogue to achieve his political purposes, and his vision of the cross is nothing more than a satanic vision as happened with Paul before, and whoever reads the biographies of both of them clearly sees the extent of their misguidance,
God Almighty says: " Did (221) I will inform you upon whom the devils descend. They descend upon every liar and sinner. (222) They listen, but most of them are liars. (223) (Ash-Shu’ara’) At that time, you must abandon the crosses because he is the one who introduced them. However, if you say that Constantine’s vision is true, then this is an admission from you of the truth of the meaning of the cross. Before that, and for 300 years, Christianity remained an obscure claim followed by only 10% of the population of the Roman Empire until the time of Constantine and his sons, who subjected the followers of other religions {the pagans} in the empire to terrible torture. As for the Crusades, their name and what happened in them are enough to reveal the ugliness of Christianity, so much so that the famous saying in Egypt, “The blood reached the knees,” traces its origin back to what happened in Jerusalem when the Crusaders slaughtered seventy thousand children, women, and elderly people at Al-Aqsa Mosque in a few nights without mercy.
The massacres of the Serbs against the Muslims in Bosnia are not far from us. In four years, the Christians slaughtered 200,000 Muslim men and women, raped women, slit open the bellies of pregnant women, and buried people alive.
The story of Srebrenica, that small village that the United Nations helped make a safe zone, but the Serb Crusaders cooperated with their Dutch brothers and betrayed the safe village and killed ten thousand Muslims in one night. So if the Christians boast as usual and say that the war was ethnic, not religious, we say, what was the ethnicity of the Muslims?!
The whole science knew that the war was between the Serbs, Croats and Muslims, and the Muslims’ fault was that they were Muslims. Then what teachings are these that forbid killing because of religion and allow it because of authority and occupation, if you are honest? Or what religion is this whose followers failed to understand its teachings for more than 1700 years, from Constantine,through the butcher Urban, the Pope of the Vatican, who said that the Crusades were the will of God,
and finally Bush, who talks about the crusader war. Christianity would not have appeared without this warlike thought. America did not intervene in Bosnia for the sake of the Muslims. It left the Serbs to slaughter the innocent for four years, and it was able to stop the war, but it intervened after it saw in socialist Yugoslavia a threat to its influence in the region. As for the Inquisition and the burning of Muslims and their books,
As we have explained above, Christianity remained for three centuries an obscure religion that was only embraced by a very small number of the inhabitants of the Roman Empire. They were not united by one word or one doctrine, but rather by widely differing doctrines in belief until Constantine came and supported Christianity and tried to reconcile these Christian sects.
However, the dispute remained between the Unitarians, followers of Bishop Arius, who said that Christ was human and that he was not equal to God Almighty in essence, and the Synasians, followers of the criminal polytheist Synasius, who embraced the Pauline thought and said that Christ was equal to God and that they had one essence, upon him be the curse of God. From that time, the persecution of Muslims began, and Arius’s books were burned. Killing and torture of the monotheistic worshippers of God became widespread. As for the spread of Christianity throughout the world, the Crusader sword began to be drawn since the time of Constantine himself, so he lavished privileges and gifts on the church and Christians at the expense of the pagans, whose influence began to diminish by force. The extremism in the use of violence and force against the pagans during the reign of Emperor Theodosius I, who used all forms of persecution against them after he succeeded in unifying the Roman world under his rule in 394 AD. The war waged by Theodosius against the pagans continued for thirty years after his own death, and temples were closed, books were destroyed, and pagans were prevented from practicing their rituals even inside their homes!! Rather, Emperor Arcadius issued a decree to organize the pagan temples, not only closing them, but also using their stones and resources to build public facilities. Then, paganism realized that its inevitable fate was death or replacement by a new pagan form called Christianity.Paganism had no choice but to flee and head to the areas of second isolation in Italy and Gaul. This remained the case until the sixth century, when the unclean Benedict established his famous monastery in 529 AD on the ruins of the last remaining temples of Apollo in Monte Caspino. From Osiris to Apollo to Buddha to Christ, we see this dark chain of human gods worshipped instead of the great God.Dr. Shawqi Abu Khalil says: Since the Roman Empire controlled all of Europe, imposing Christianity by the sword on all of Europe was the practice followed by the Roman emperors. Charlemagne continued to fight the Romans for thirty-three years, all of them violent and bloody, until he subdued them and forcibly converted them to Christianity.It also required eight consecutive decisive journeys until he defeated the Avars, whose accumulated treasures were said to have lifted Charlemagne from the heights of wealth and riches to the heights of abundance and plenty. Christianity was imposed on the Romans by the filthy hand of Ludger and Willihad. Egypt was forced to embrace Christianity, but it sank to the bottom from which it was only saved by the Islamic conquest. People entered the religion of God in droves, and even those who remained in disbelief were saved by the Islamic conquest from the persecution of the Romans (Catholics).
The conquest of Egypt and the tolerance of Islam were the reason for their exit from the caves in which they were hiding.
We will explain, God willing, the details of the entry of Islam into Egypt when we talk later about the conquests of Islam and the tolerance of this great religion, a tolerance that does not compromise the concepts of loyalty, disavowal, and the glory of Islam, while at the same time believing in others and being good to them.
In Denmark, King Count played a dangerous role in spreading Christianity in his possessions by force and terror. He then subjected the conquered nations to Christian law after he had engaged in fierce wars with the barbarian kingdoms, driven by the longing that was burning within him to spread the faith. In Russia, Christianity spread at the hands of a group
called the “Brothers of the Sword.”
As for how Christianity entered Russia, it seems that it was first at the hands of Vladimir, Duke of Kiev (985-1015), a descendant of Rourke, who is an example of brutality and lust. He came to the duchy over the corpse of his last brother and acquired three thousand five hundred women. However, all of this did not prevent him from being registered as a saint among the saints of the Orthodox Church!!
Because he was the man who made Kiev Christian and ordered Vladimir to baptize all the people of the Russian Duchy against their will in the waters of the Dnieper River, Basil II, one of the greatest spreaders of Christianity in Russia, blinded 15,000 Bulgarian prisoners, except for 150 of them, each of whom he kept one eye to lead their brothers back to their country. As for Norway, King Olaf Travisson slaughtered those who refused to enter into Christianity, or cut off their hands and feet, or exiled and displaced them, and by these (generous) means he spread Christianity in (Viken), the southern part of Norway as a whole.
However, the dispute remained between the Unitarians, followers of Bishop Arius, who said that Christ was human and that he was not equal to God Almighty in essence, and the Synasians, followers of the criminal polytheist Synasius, who embraced the Pauline thought and said that Christ was equal to God and that they had one essence, upon him be the curse of God. From that time, the persecution of Muslims began, and Arius’s books were burned. Killing and torture of the monotheistic worshippers of God became widespread. As for the spread of Christianity throughout the world, the Crusader sword began to be drawn since the time of Constantine himself, so he lavished privileges and gifts on the church and Christians at the expense of the pagans, whose influence began to diminish by force. The extremism in the use of violence and force against the pagans during the reign of Emperor Theodosius I, who used all forms of persecution against them after he succeeded in unifying the Roman world under his rule in 394 AD. The war waged by Theodosius against the pagans continued for thirty years after his own death, and temples were closed, books were destroyed, and pagans were prevented from practicing their rituals even inside their homes!! Rather, Emperor Arcadius issued a decree to organize the pagan temples, not only closing them, but also using their stones and resources to build public facilities. Then, paganism realized that its inevitable fate was death or replacement by a new pagan form called Christianity.Paganism had no choice but to flee and head to the areas of second isolation in Italy and Gaul. This remained the case until the sixth century, when the unclean Benedict established his famous monastery in 529 AD on the ruins of the last remaining temples of Apollo in Monte Caspino. From Osiris to Apollo to Buddha to Christ, we see this dark chain of human gods worshipped instead of the great God.Dr. Shawqi Abu Khalil says: Since the Roman Empire controlled all of Europe, imposing Christianity by the sword on all of Europe was the practice followed by the Roman emperors. Charlemagne continued to fight the Romans for thirty-three years, all of them violent and bloody, until he subdued them and forcibly converted them to Christianity.It also required eight consecutive decisive journeys until he defeated the Avars, whose accumulated treasures were said to have lifted Charlemagne from the heights of wealth and riches to the heights of abundance and plenty. Christianity was imposed on the Romans by the filthy hand of Ludger and Willihad. Egypt was forced to embrace Christianity, but it sank to the bottom from which it was only saved by the Islamic conquest. People entered the religion of God in droves, and even those who remained in disbelief were saved by the Islamic conquest from the persecution of the Romans (Catholics).
The conquest of Egypt and the tolerance of Islam were the reason for their exit from the caves in which they were hiding.
We will explain, God willing, the details of the entry of Islam into Egypt when we talk later about the conquests of Islam and the tolerance of this great religion, a tolerance that does not compromise the concepts of loyalty, disavowal, and the glory of Islam, while at the same time believing in others and being good to them.
In Denmark, King Count played a dangerous role in spreading Christianity in his possessions by force and terror. He then subjected the conquered nations to Christian law after he had engaged in fierce wars with the barbarian kingdoms, driven by the longing that was burning within him to spread the faith. In Russia, Christianity spread at the hands of a group
called the “Brothers of the Sword.”
As for how Christianity entered Russia, it seems that it was first at the hands of Vladimir, Duke of Kiev (985-1015), a descendant of Rourke, who is an example of brutality and lust. He came to the duchy over the corpse of his last brother and acquired three thousand five hundred women. However, all of this did not prevent him from being registered as a saint among the saints of the Orthodox Church!!
Because he was the man who made Kiev Christian and ordered Vladimir to baptize all the people of the Russian Duchy against their will in the waters of the Dnieper River, Basil II, one of the greatest spreaders of Christianity in Russia, blinded 15,000 Bulgarian prisoners, except for 150 of them, each of whom he kept one eye to lead their brothers back to their country. As for Norway, King Olaf Travisson slaughtered those who refused to enter into Christianity, or cut off their hands and feet, or exiled and displaced them, and by these (generous) means he spread Christianity in (Viken), the southern part of Norway as a whole.
In the Americas, the great tragedy was the extermination of tens of millions of Native Americans
, as well as the Antilles, Maya, Aztec, and Inca civilizations in Peru . Newspapers published a picture of what accompanied the discovery of Haiti by the Spanish, and the scientific material under it was as follows: - (Spanish officers (successors of the explorer who led the expedition) were busy discovering and occupying Haiti, which was still an unknown land. This mission was undertaken by Dingo Velasquez and Panfilo Donarvez, who displayed unprecedented brutality, excelling in torturing the island’s inhabitants by cutting off their fingers, gouging out their eyes, pouring boiling oil and molten lead into their wounds, or burning them alive in full view of the prisoners, so that they would confess to hiding gold and be guided to the religion of love!! One of the monks tried to convince the leader (Haiti) to embrace the religion, and he was tied to the fire, so he told him that if he deliberately He goes to heaven, so the Indian leader asked him saying: - Are there Spaniards in heaven? He answered him: - Yes, as long as they worship the God of truth! The Indian leader said: - I do not want to go to a place where I encounter the sons of this savage nation!! And among the examples of what the Christians did to the children of the Incas, Mayans and Aztecs, is that a Christian came to an Indian woman who was carrying a child in her arms and was breastfeeding him, and since the dog that was accompanying them was hungry, they snatched the child from his mother’s arms and threw him to a dog that began to tear him apart in front of his mother. And when there were a few women among the prisoners who had recently given birth, as soon as the newly born children began to scream, they would grab them by their legs and throw them into the rocks. It was also reported that when the soldiers arrived at the village after breakfast on the grass, a new idea occurred to the Spaniards, which was to check whether their swords were sharp enough to appear. Suddenly, the Spaniard drew his sword and the other hundred quickly followed suit and began to The evisceration and slaughter of these sheep, men, women, children and elderly who were sitting quietly watching in amazement at the horses and the Spaniards, and in a few seconds not one of these innocent people remained alive until blood flowed everywhere as if an entire herd of cows had been slaughtered. Las Casas could not find any explanation for this brutality. The sight of the wounds covering the bodies of the dead was a scene of horror and panic, according to him, and the Church (the one with religious and temporal authority) did not utter a single word regarding all the massacres that were taking place with its blessing!! In America, during the era of the Protestant Irish immigration, a law was issued allowing the extermination of the Red Indians wherever they were, because America was the Promised Land according to the Protestant interpretation of the Bible at the time. This distortion is not new. They are now helping the Jews slaughter Muslims in Palestine, because the modern interpretation of the Bible requires this in order to “prepare the ground” for the return of Christ (the Prince of Peace). However, it seems that the carpet they are laying out is a red carpet, the color of the blood of the children of Palestine. The Jews remained, in the eyes of the entire Christian world, a “cursed nation” for a period of one thousand five hundred years, because they are – in the belief of Christians – the killers of Christ.
The Jews suffered all kinds of persecution and contempt based on this perception that was entrenched in the Christian mind and endured over the centuries, supported by many texts from the Bible and special social and political circumstances. However, the fifteenth century AD showed profound transformations in the Christian psyche - at least the Western one - with the emergence of what was known as the Reformation movement, and the political and doctrinal schism that followed within the Christian religion in general, and Western Catholicism in particular. One of the results of these transformations was that the new Christianity known as Protestantism became a child of Judaism:
the Torah - or the Old Testament - became more important in the eyes of Protestants than the Bible or the New Testament, and the image of the Jewish nation began to change accordingly in the minds of the new Christians. This transformation in the Christian view of the Jews appeared in the writings of the pioneer of the Protestant Reformation, the priest and philosopher (Martin Luther). In 1523, Luther wrote a book entitled: “Christ Was Born a Jew,” in which he presented a fundamental vision of Jewish-Christian relations from a perspective completely different from what Christians had been accustomed to before. Among the things he said in his book was: “ The Holy Spirit wanted all the books of the Holy Bible to be revealed through the Jews alone. The Jews are the children of God, and we are the strange guests, and we must be content to be like dogs that eat the crumbs from the table of their masters”!!! And the same is the case of the complete and total genocide practiced by the English against the indigenous people of Australia, and the Spanish and Portuguese did the same against the people of South America. Father Franz Greis says: ( The Christian nations, and more than that, the history of the Church in particular, is stained with blood and stained, and perhaps more stained and brutal than any other pagan people in the ancient world. Nations with brilliant and dazzling civilizations have been removed, exterminated, and erased simply and easily from existence, and all of that in the name of Christianity ) - and even in the relationship of Christians with each other, the sword was the means to spread doctrines, as the Catholics did in Egypt with the Orthodox, as happened and is still happening from massacres between Catholics and Protestants in Europe. We mention here a very small example, which is what is known as ( the epic of Saint Bartholomew) , which is a massacre carried out in 572 AD by Charles IX and Catherine de Medici, when Catherine killed five thousand Protestant leaders in Paris and thought that they were conspiring. With it and with the king, and the news had hardly spread in Paris until it was rumored that he had begun to kill the Protestants. The Catholic nobles, the royal guard, the nobility, and the public pounced on the Protestants and killed ten thousand people in various cities after Paris. The Catholic Church blessed this massacre, and no one was more pleased than Pope Gregory XIII, who repeated the striking of special medals to commemorate this massacre!! These medals depicted a picture of Gregory and next to him a king striking the necks of the Protestants with a sword. (Renaud) mentioned in his book (A Brief History of French Rights):
In 1685 AD, France issued an order to ban the Protestant religion, demolish its churches, and exile its leaders. In 1715 AD, it considered any marriage not concluded in the Catholic manner to be illegal. In 1724, Protestants were banned from holding jobs, and France ordered that Protestant children be forcibly taken from their mothers to be raised Catholic. This method is still alive to this day. An Egyptian young man who married a Polish woman was deprived of his four children after their mother died, so he returned with them to Egypt and was able to kidnap three of them (according to the church).
His daughter is still in the church, being humiliated and forced to worship Christ instead of God, and being qualified to be one of the church’s (servants). This case is now famous and has been covered by Egyptian newspapers
The Inquisition:
These courts began in the thirteenth century to terrorize (heretics) who had left the church, but the most heinous chapters began with the fall of Granada and the Muslims falling prey to a treacherous enemy who criticized all the covenants and agreements that were signed in 1491 AD between Abu Abdullah the Younger and Ferdinand, which the Muslims stipulated that the Pope would approve and swear to do so, but no way, for these people had no covenant or conscience. Among what was stated in the treaty: - ((...the security of the young and old in life, family, and money, keeping people in their places, homes, and quarters, and the establishment of their law as it was, and no one among them shall be judged except by their quarters, and that the mosques shall remain as they were and the endowments as well, and that no Christian shall enter the home of a Muslim, and that no one shall be usurped...and that no one shall be taken for the sin of another, and that no one who converted to Islam shall be forced to return to the Christians and their religion, and that no Christian shall be seen in the homes of Muslims, nor shall he enter any of their mosques, and that he shall walk in the lands of the Christians in security in his soul and His money... and he does not prevent the muezzin, nor the praying person, nor the fasting person, nor anyone else in matters of his religion)) and despite Ferdinand and Isabella’s oath on all this, the oaths and covenants were not for the Christian kings except a cover for treachery and betrayal, and all these conditions were broken, and the Western historian (Broscott) did not hesitate to describe it as the best material for estimating the Spanish treachery, so the Spanish criticized this treaty clause by clause, so they prevented the Muslims from speaking Arabic in Andalusia and imposed the expulsion of the Muslims present there and the burning of what remained of them, and Cardinal (Ximenes) went
further than that, so he ordered the collection of all the books of the Muslims that he could, and in them there is science that is priceless, rather it is the essence of what remains of human thought, and he burned them. Gustave Le Bon says, regretting the actions of that ignorant Ximenes: - ( (Archbishop Ximenes thought that by burning what he was able to collect recently from the books of his Arab enemies (i.e. eighty thousand books), he erased their memory from Andalusia forever, so he did not know that what the Arabs left behind of antiquities that fill the lands of Spain is enough to immortalize their name forever))
The Inquisition aimed to convert Muslims to Christianity under the supervision of the church authorities and by the most heinous means, and the covenants that were made to the Muslims did not prevent the Crusader tendency that bestowed on the treacherous policy of Spain the garb of piety and religion!!
The Muslims resisted the conversion to Christianity and its father, and the killing and torture began against them, so they revolted in Granada and its countryside, so the Spaniards tore them apart without mercy. In 1501 AD, the two Crusader kings issued a decree, the gist of which was: “ Since God has chosen them to rid Granada of the infidels (meaning the Muslim worshippers of God), the presence of Muslims is prohibited in it, and violators are punished by death or confiscation of their money .” So
the masses of Muslims migrated to Morocco to save their religion, and whoever remained of the Muslims hid his Islam and showed his conversion, so the Inquisition began its horrific, brutal activity. When a Muslim was reported who was hiding his Islam, he was thrown into prisons, and the prisons were terrifyingly brutal, dark, and deep, full of insects and rats, and the accused were shackled in them after their money was confiscated to pay the expenses of their imprisonment!!
- And among the types of torture of Muslims: -
Filling the stomach with water until suffocation, tying the accused's hands behind his back, tying him with a rope around his palms and stomach, raising and lowering him while hanging, either alone or with weights tied to him and heated rods, tearing the legs, and dislocating the jaw. Most of the sentences were burning, which was the sentence that was often carried out by the rabbis who witnessed its implementation with the Catholic kings in (burning parties) . On the day of Nalbilion's occupation of Spain after the French wealth was established on the ruins of the church, he abolished the Inquisition, but the Jesuit monks, the owners of these courts, continued to kill and torture, including the kidnapped French soldiers. Marshal Soult, the civil military governor of Madrid, sent Colonel Lemonki with a thousand soldiers and four hundred cannons,
and attacked the monastery of the diwan. After searching the monastery, they found nothing, so the colonel decided to examine the ground, and then the monks looked at each other with anxious looks, and the colonel ordered his soldiers to raise the stick, so they raised it, and then he ordered that They poured water into each room separately, and then the water seeped down from one of the rooms. He knew that there was a door here that opened in a cunning way by a small ring placed next to the president’s desk leg.
These courts began in the thirteenth century to terrorize (heretics) who had left the church, but the most heinous chapters began with the fall of Granada and the Muslims falling prey to a treacherous enemy who criticized all the covenants and agreements that were signed in 1491 AD between Abu Abdullah the Younger and Ferdinand, which the Muslims stipulated that the Pope would approve and swear to do so, but no way, for these people had no covenant or conscience. Among what was stated in the treaty: - ((...the security of the young and old in life, family, and money, keeping people in their places, homes, and quarters, and the establishment of their law as it was, and no one among them shall be judged except by their quarters, and that the mosques shall remain as they were and the endowments as well, and that no Christian shall enter the home of a Muslim, and that no one shall be usurped...and that no one shall be taken for the sin of another, and that no one who converted to Islam shall be forced to return to the Christians and their religion, and that no Christian shall be seen in the homes of Muslims, nor shall he enter any of their mosques, and that he shall walk in the lands of the Christians in security in his soul and His money... and he does not prevent the muezzin, nor the praying person, nor the fasting person, nor anyone else in matters of his religion)) and despite Ferdinand and Isabella’s oath on all this, the oaths and covenants were not for the Christian kings except a cover for treachery and betrayal, and all these conditions were broken, and the Western historian (Broscott) did not hesitate to describe it as the best material for estimating the Spanish treachery, so the Spanish criticized this treaty clause by clause, so they prevented the Muslims from speaking Arabic in Andalusia and imposed the expulsion of the Muslims present there and the burning of what remained of them, and Cardinal (Ximenes) went
further than that, so he ordered the collection of all the books of the Muslims that he could, and in them there is science that is priceless, rather it is the essence of what remains of human thought, and he burned them. Gustave Le Bon says, regretting the actions of that ignorant Ximenes: - ( (Archbishop Ximenes thought that by burning what he was able to collect recently from the books of his Arab enemies (i.e. eighty thousand books), he erased their memory from Andalusia forever, so he did not know that what the Arabs left behind of antiquities that fill the lands of Spain is enough to immortalize their name forever))
The Inquisition aimed to convert Muslims to Christianity under the supervision of the church authorities and by the most heinous means, and the covenants that were made to the Muslims did not prevent the Crusader tendency that bestowed on the treacherous policy of Spain the garb of piety and religion!!
The Muslims resisted the conversion to Christianity and its father, and the killing and torture began against them, so they revolted in Granada and its countryside, so the Spaniards tore them apart without mercy. In 1501 AD, the two Crusader kings issued a decree, the gist of which was: “ Since God has chosen them to rid Granada of the infidels (meaning the Muslim worshippers of God), the presence of Muslims is prohibited in it, and violators are punished by death or confiscation of their money .” So
the masses of Muslims migrated to Morocco to save their religion, and whoever remained of the Muslims hid his Islam and showed his conversion, so the Inquisition began its horrific, brutal activity. When a Muslim was reported who was hiding his Islam, he was thrown into prisons, and the prisons were terrifyingly brutal, dark, and deep, full of insects and rats, and the accused were shackled in them after their money was confiscated to pay the expenses of their imprisonment!!
- And among the types of torture of Muslims: -
Filling the stomach with water until suffocation, tying the accused's hands behind his back, tying him with a rope around his palms and stomach, raising and lowering him while hanging, either alone or with weights tied to him and heated rods, tearing the legs, and dislocating the jaw. Most of the sentences were burning, which was the sentence that was often carried out by the rabbis who witnessed its implementation with the Catholic kings in (burning parties) . On the day of Nalbilion's occupation of Spain after the French wealth was established on the ruins of the church, he abolished the Inquisition, but the Jesuit monks, the owners of these courts, continued to kill and torture, including the kidnapped French soldiers. Marshal Soult, the civil military governor of Madrid, sent Colonel Lemonki with a thousand soldiers and four hundred cannons,
and attacked the monastery of the diwan. After searching the monastery, they found nothing, so the colonel decided to examine the ground, and then the monks looked at each other with anxious looks, and the colonel ordered his soldiers to raise the stick, so they raised it, and then he ordered that They poured water into each room separately, and then the water seeped down from one of the rooms. He knew that there was a door here that opened in a cunning way by a small ring placed next to the president’s desk leg.
(Just as we see in horror movies, and they could not have come up with these ideas except from the dark Christian heritage) and the door opened and the faces of the monks turned yellow and a staircase appeared leading to the interior of the earth and the colonel mentions that in his memoirs: - ((So we are in a large square room, which is their courtroom, and in the middle of it is a marble column with a huge iron ring attached to chains to which the victims were tied pending trial, and in front of that column is the throne of (judgment), which is a bench on which the head of the Inquisition sits and next to him are other seats of lower height for the rest of the judges, then we headed to the torture machines and the tearing of human bodies, and those rooms extended for great distances underground and I saw in them what provokes my soul and makes me disgusted as long as I live,
we saw small rooms the size of a human being, some vertical and some vertical, so the prisoner of the vertical remains standing in it on his feet for the duration of his imprisonment until he is killed and the prisoner of the horizontal remains stretched out in it until death and the body remains in the narrow prison until it decays and the flesh falls off The bones and to drain the foul odors emanating from the decaying corpses, a small window was opened to the outside and we found several human skeletons still in their chains imprisoned and the prisoners were men, women, children and elderly people between the ages of fourteen and seventy and the prisoners were naked to further spite them and we moved to the other rooms and we saw what would make the bodies shudder with horror we found machines for breaking bones and crushing the body and we found a box exactly the size of the head in which the head of the tortured person was placed after it was bound with chains on his hands and feet so that he could not move so by dripping cold water on his head from the top of the box drop by drop and many went crazy from this type of torture and we found a machine called the beautiful lady and it is a coffin in which the image of a beautiful girl sleeps made in the form of readiness to embrace whoever sleeps with her and several sharp knives protruded from its sides and they would throw the tortured young man on this image then close the door of the coffin on him with its knives and daggers and when the door was closed the young man was torn to pieces as We found a machine for pulling out the tongue, for tearing off women's breasts and pulling them from their chests with terrible hooks, and a barbed iron whip for beating the naked torturers until the flesh ripped from the bones.
As for the rest of the atrocities committed by Christians against Muslims, they cannot be counted since the Crusades until the occupation and killing of millions and their enslavement, until Algeria became the country of a million martyrs. The Italian soldier who went to occupy Libya used to chant, saying: “
Oh mother, pray and do not cry, but laugh and hope. Don’t you know that Italy is calling me and I am going to Tripoli, happy and joyful, to shed my blood in order to crush the cursed nation and to fight the Islamic nation? I will fight to erase the Qur’an, and if I do not return, do not cry over your son, and if someone asks you why you are not sad for me, answer him that he died fighting Islam.” As for the atrocities committed by the Portuguese against Muslims
, which continued for two centuries after the fall of Andalusia, talk about them and there is no harm, even the Cape of Good Hope route was named thus because the Portuguese wanted to encircle the Islamic world and discovered that route during this malicious attempt.Christians invaded Africa and Asia and enslaved African Muslims, dragging them in chains and throwing them into the bottom of warships in preparation for distorting their identity and enslaving them in countries overseas. This history is known to all
. Finally, what we have mentioned is only a drop in the ocean of the history of the religion of love that rejects terrorism. Our final supplication is that all praise is due to God, Lord of the Worlds.
we saw small rooms the size of a human being, some vertical and some vertical, so the prisoner of the vertical remains standing in it on his feet for the duration of his imprisonment until he is killed and the prisoner of the horizontal remains stretched out in it until death and the body remains in the narrow prison until it decays and the flesh falls off The bones and to drain the foul odors emanating from the decaying corpses, a small window was opened to the outside and we found several human skeletons still in their chains imprisoned and the prisoners were men, women, children and elderly people between the ages of fourteen and seventy and the prisoners were naked to further spite them and we moved to the other rooms and we saw what would make the bodies shudder with horror we found machines for breaking bones and crushing the body and we found a box exactly the size of the head in which the head of the tortured person was placed after it was bound with chains on his hands and feet so that he could not move so by dripping cold water on his head from the top of the box drop by drop and many went crazy from this type of torture and we found a machine called the beautiful lady and it is a coffin in which the image of a beautiful girl sleeps made in the form of readiness to embrace whoever sleeps with her and several sharp knives protruded from its sides and they would throw the tortured young man on this image then close the door of the coffin on him with its knives and daggers and when the door was closed the young man was torn to pieces as We found a machine for pulling out the tongue, for tearing off women's breasts and pulling them from their chests with terrible hooks, and a barbed iron whip for beating the naked torturers until the flesh ripped from the bones.
As for the rest of the atrocities committed by Christians against Muslims, they cannot be counted since the Crusades until the occupation and killing of millions and their enslavement, until Algeria became the country of a million martyrs. The Italian soldier who went to occupy Libya used to chant, saying: “
Oh mother, pray and do not cry, but laugh and hope. Don’t you know that Italy is calling me and I am going to Tripoli, happy and joyful, to shed my blood in order to crush the cursed nation and to fight the Islamic nation? I will fight to erase the Qur’an, and if I do not return, do not cry over your son, and if someone asks you why you are not sad for me, answer him that he died fighting Islam.” As for the atrocities committed by the Portuguese against Muslims
, which continued for two centuries after the fall of Andalusia, talk about them and there is no harm, even the Cape of Good Hope route was named thus because the Portuguese wanted to encircle the Islamic world and discovered that route during this malicious attempt.Christians invaded Africa and Asia and enslaved African Muslims, dragging them in chains and throwing them into the bottom of warships in preparation for distorting their identity and enslaving them in countries overseas. This history is known to all
. Finally, what we have mentioned is only a drop in the ocean of the history of the religion of love that rejects terrorism. Our final supplication is that all praise is due to God, Lord of the Worlds.
The Betrayal of the Christians
Time / 14 Jumada al-Ula - 658 AH Place / Damascus - Ash-Sham Subject / The Tatar armies led by Hulagu occupy Damascus and then quickly leave it. Events / The events begin with the great tragedy that befell the Islamic nation when the savage Tatars invaded the lands of Islam and overthrew the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate, Baghdad, and killed the Caliph and his sons, along with nearly two million Muslims, in the year 656 AH. When the year 658 AH came, the Islamic world was controlled by four kings, with the exception of North Africa. 1- North Asia, which includes the lands beyond the river and Iraq, and was ruled by Hulagu the Tatar. 2- The Levant, ruled by Al-Nasir bin Al-Aziz bin Al-Adil Al-Ayyubi. 3- The lands of Al- Karak, ruled by Al-Mughith bin Al-Adil. 4- The lands of Egypt, ruled by the Mamluk Sultan Qutuz. It is truly amazing that kings fight for the sake of the kingdom and are oblivious to their enemies. When Al-Nasir agreed with Al-Mughith to fight Qutuz to take Egypt from him by force and restore the Ayyubid rule over it, Hulagu crossed the Euphrates River with his massive armies and then headed to Aleppo, besieging it for seven days. Then its people surrendered, so he betrayed them and killed and took them captive. The heart of the King of Hama was broken, so he sent him the keys to the city. Then Hulagu headed immediately after that and made the commander of his armies Kitbughana. Kitbughana did not find any resistance worth mentioning in the city, so they entered it quickly. Rather, the city’s leaders welcomed them with open arms and Hulagu wrote a letter of safety to the people of the city, but the city’s citadel did not surrender, so the Tatars tightened the siege on it and set up catapults, including a giant catapult. They continued to strike the citadel day and night until its stones collapsed and it fell on the 14th of Jumada al-Awwal. They killed the citadel’s custodian, Badr al-Din ibn Qaraja, and its leader, Jamal al-Din ibn al-Sayrafi. Then they handed over the city to a prince from among them called Ibl Sian. From here, chapters of new suffering began. This man, may God curse him, was a great venerator of the Christian religion. The Christian bishops of Damascus met with him and he greatly honored them. He visited their churches, and they gained power and influence because of that. A group of Christians went to Hulagu and took with them gifts and presents. He gave them security and a decree from him. They entered through Bab Thumā, carrying an erected cross on people’s heads, calling out their slogan and saying, “The true religion, the religion of Christ, has appeared.” They denounced the religion of Islam and its people. They had vessels of wine with them. They did not pass by the door of a mosque without sprinkling wine at it. They sprinkled it on people’s faces and clothes, and they ordered everyone they passed through the alleys and markets to stand up for their cross. They entered through the small and large path of al-Hajar and stopped at the ribat of Sheikh Abu al-Bayan and sprinkled wine at it. The Muslims multiplied against them until they returned them to the market of the Church of Mary. Their preacher stood at the bench of a shop in the alley of the market, praised the religion of the Christians and denounced the religion of Islam. Then they tried to enter the Great Mosque with wine, and they intended to do so. If the Tatars continued for a long time, they would destroy the mosques. Then the Muslim judges, witnesses and jurists gathered and entered the castle to complain about this situation to Prince ‘Ibl Sian’. The truth of the Crusader hatred among the Christians of the Levant appeared, and what had been buried since the Crusades appeared. At the same time, the Sultan of the Levant, Al-Nasir bin Al-Uzair, had many armies with him to fight the Tatars, but they were not united, so they were scattered and scattered, not knowing what fate had in store for them after that.
Only four months had passed for the Muslims in Damascus and the rest of the Levant, suffering from the barbaric Tatars and the spiteful Crusaders, when the good news came of the Muslims’ victory over the Tatars at Ain Jalut and that the armies of Islam were pursuing the Tatars to Damascus. When the news of this spread, the Muslims were extremely happy and set out to retaliate twice against the spiteful Christians. The Muslims headed to the Christian church from which the cross had come out, and burned it and the Christian homes around it. The common people killed a Rafidi sheikh in the middle of the mosque who had been a facilitator for the Tatars on people’s money. He was called Al-Fakhr Al-Kanji, who was evil-natured and siding with them on Muslims’ money. They killed a group of hypocrites like him, and cut off the roots of those who had wronged them. God Almighty humiliated the spiteful Christians. The Muslims set out to kill the Tatars and free the captives from their hands. Their entry and exit to Damascus was like a summer cloud that quickly dissipated, but it revealed the truth about the Christians of the Levant and the extent of their hatred.
Time / 14 Jumada al-Ula - 658 AH Place / Damascus - Ash-Sham Subject / The Tatar armies led by Hulagu occupy Damascus and then quickly leave it. Events / The events begin with the great tragedy that befell the Islamic nation when the savage Tatars invaded the lands of Islam and overthrew the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate, Baghdad, and killed the Caliph and his sons, along with nearly two million Muslims, in the year 656 AH. When the year 658 AH came, the Islamic world was controlled by four kings, with the exception of North Africa. 1- North Asia, which includes the lands beyond the river and Iraq, and was ruled by Hulagu the Tatar. 2- The Levant, ruled by Al-Nasir bin Al-Aziz bin Al-Adil Al-Ayyubi. 3- The lands of Al- Karak, ruled by Al-Mughith bin Al-Adil. 4- The lands of Egypt, ruled by the Mamluk Sultan Qutuz. It is truly amazing that kings fight for the sake of the kingdom and are oblivious to their enemies. When Al-Nasir agreed with Al-Mughith to fight Qutuz to take Egypt from him by force and restore the Ayyubid rule over it, Hulagu crossed the Euphrates River with his massive armies and then headed to Aleppo, besieging it for seven days. Then its people surrendered, so he betrayed them and killed and took them captive. The heart of the King of Hama was broken, so he sent him the keys to the city. Then Hulagu headed immediately after that and made the commander of his armies Kitbughana. Kitbughana did not find any resistance worth mentioning in the city, so they entered it quickly. Rather, the city’s leaders welcomed them with open arms and Hulagu wrote a letter of safety to the people of the city, but the city’s citadel did not surrender, so the Tatars tightened the siege on it and set up catapults, including a giant catapult. They continued to strike the citadel day and night until its stones collapsed and it fell on the 14th of Jumada al-Awwal. They killed the citadel’s custodian, Badr al-Din ibn Qaraja, and its leader, Jamal al-Din ibn al-Sayrafi. Then they handed over the city to a prince from among them called Ibl Sian. From here, chapters of new suffering began. This man, may God curse him, was a great venerator of the Christian religion. The Christian bishops of Damascus met with him and he greatly honored them. He visited their churches, and they gained power and influence because of that. A group of Christians went to Hulagu and took with them gifts and presents. He gave them security and a decree from him. They entered through Bab Thumā, carrying an erected cross on people’s heads, calling out their slogan and saying, “The true religion, the religion of Christ, has appeared.” They denounced the religion of Islam and its people. They had vessels of wine with them. They did not pass by the door of a mosque without sprinkling wine at it. They sprinkled it on people’s faces and clothes, and they ordered everyone they passed through the alleys and markets to stand up for their cross. They entered through the small and large path of al-Hajar and stopped at the ribat of Sheikh Abu al-Bayan and sprinkled wine at it. The Muslims multiplied against them until they returned them to the market of the Church of Mary. Their preacher stood at the bench of a shop in the alley of the market, praised the religion of the Christians and denounced the religion of Islam. Then they tried to enter the Great Mosque with wine, and they intended to do so. If the Tatars continued for a long time, they would destroy the mosques. Then the Muslim judges, witnesses and jurists gathered and entered the castle to complain about this situation to Prince ‘Ibl Sian’. The truth of the Crusader hatred among the Christians of the Levant appeared, and what had been buried since the Crusades appeared. At the same time, the Sultan of the Levant, Al-Nasir bin Al-Uzair, had many armies with him to fight the Tatars, but they were not united, so they were scattered and scattered, not knowing what fate had in store for them after that.
Only four months had passed for the Muslims in Damascus and the rest of the Levant, suffering from the barbaric Tatars and the spiteful Crusaders, when the good news came of the Muslims’ victory over the Tatars at Ain Jalut and that the armies of Islam were pursuing the Tatars to Damascus. When the news of this spread, the Muslims were extremely happy and set out to retaliate twice against the spiteful Christians. The Muslims headed to the Christian church from which the cross had come out, and burned it and the Christian homes around it. The common people killed a Rafidi sheikh in the middle of the mosque who had been a facilitator for the Tatars on people’s money. He was called Al-Fakhr Al-Kanji, who was evil-natured and siding with them on Muslims’ money. They killed a group of hypocrites like him, and cut off the roots of those who had wronged them. God Almighty humiliated the spiteful Christians. The Muslims set out to kill the Tatars and free the captives from their hands. Their entry and exit to Damascus was like a summer cloud that quickly dissipated, but it revealed the truth about the Christians of the Levant and the extent of their hatred.
History of the extermination of Muslims, monotheistic Christians and Jews in Spain.
The mission of Jesus Christ and the difficulties of the beginning.
Jesus Christ began his mission at the age of 30, a mission that lasted only 3 years. He left behind 12 apostles, 60 disciples and many followers in the rural area of Judea (Israel and Palestine today).
These villagers - called Am Ha Arez - formed the majority of the population. They were attracted by the wisdom and miracles of Jesus Christ, so they gathered around him and followed him. They recognized the light that shone to illuminate the teachings of Moses, peace be upon him, and Jesus was sent only to clarify and revive them.
“The mission of Jesus Christ was limited to proving the worship of the Creator in the way he was commanded. Jesus and his followers were prepared to fight against all who tried to prevent them from living in the way their Lord wanted” (1).
The Essenes
Many of the priests of the temple used their position as a means of gaining wealth and reputation, but their unpopularity among the people worried them because it threatened their privileges. The Romans, the rulers of Judea, considered the rise of this “new leader” a danger to them, as it might lead to another Jewish revolt, and they had already had enough trouble caused by the Essenes, the cave dwellers on the outskirts of the Dead Sea. This sect of Jews refused to accept Roman customs and laws when they conflicted with the teachings of Moses; they were determined to preserve the purity of their way of life and to liberate Judea from foreign aggression. In addition to their daily prayers and studies of the “holy” writings, many of them practiced the arts of war. Members of this “fighting force” were called Zelotes (defenders). It is likely that Jesus spent a significant part of his childhood among the Essenes, not only at the Dead Sea, but also in their other stronghold near Alexandria. Many of their sect members later followed him.
The Ascension of Christ and the Crucifixion of His Identical One
Thus, the interests of the Roman rulers and the corrupt clique of temple priests met in their hostility to Jesus and his followers. And under these circumstances the conspiracy against him took place, and another man was crucified in his place, perhaps Judas Iscariot:
“And when the soldiers with Judas approached the place where Jesus was, Jesus heard a great multitude approaching, so he withdrew to the house in fear, and the eleven were asleep. And when God saw the danger to his servant, he ordered Gabriel, Michael, Raphael, and Uriel, his ambassadors, to take Jesus out of the world. So the holy angels came and took Jesus from the window overlooking the south, and they carried him and placed him in the third heaven in the company of the angels who praise God forever. And Judas entered violently into the room from which Jesus was taken up, and all the disciples were asleep, and the wonderful God did a wonderful thing, and Judas changed in speech and in face and became like Jesus, so that we thought he was Jesus. But after he woke us up, he began to search to see where the teacher was, so we were amazed and “We answered: You are our master, he is our teacher, have you forgotten us now?” But he said, smiling: “Are you so stupid that you do not know Judas Iscariot?” While he was saying this, the soldiers entered and laid their hands on Judas, because he resembled Jesus in every way. “The Gospel of Barnabas, p. 308”
“And Judas was handed over to the scribes and Pharisees as if he were a criminal deserving of death. They condemned him to be crucified, along with two thieves with him. They led him to the Mount of the Skull, where they used to hang criminals.And there they crucified him naked, exaggerating his humiliation. ( Gospel of Barnabas, p. 314)
“That he may taste the torment for denouncing another man” (2)
The false belief that the crucified one was the Messiah – an idea that Saul of Tarsus fervently defended – was the first cause of the schism within the Church in its early days:
“Those disciples who did not fear the Lord stole the body of Judas by night and hid it, then spread the rumor that Jesus had risen, and this caused great confusion. The high priest forbade talk about Jesus of Nazareth, threatening the punishment of damnation. Thus a great campaign of persecution began; some were stoned, others were flogged, and many left the country because they could not live in peace in this situation” (3).
Saul the Jew or Paul, the racist who Christians sanctify today
The persecution of the followers of Christ, peace be upon him, was not a Roman monopoly. They were aided in this by the Jews who refused to believe in him, and this was another cause of the division that the Church experienced in its early days. One of the great persecutors was the “high priest” Saul of Tarsus, who would later become known as Paul. Paul played a decisive and effective role in the persecution, as he himself testified:
“You have heard of my former conduct in the Jewish religion, how I persecuted the church of God without mercy and tried to destroy it, and how I was more zealous than most of my own generation among my own people in the Jewish religion and in the traditions of my fathers.” (Galatians 1:13-14)
The persecution of Christians and Romans strengthened some, but weakened the resolve of others. The weaker followers adopted their beliefs and actions to avoid their brutality, which led to the emergence of contradictions and disputes among the followers of Christ, peace be upon him.
Saul the Jew claims to embrace Christianity and takes the name Paul
. Here Paul intervenes, once again, and plays an important role in reaching a settlement that tarnishes the purity of the way of life that Christ called for. Paul suddenly announces that he saw Christ in a vision and decided to become one of his followers. However, he waited 3 years in the Arabian Peninsula and in Damascus before returning to Jerusalem and telling the disciples - who were known at that time as the “Nazarenes” - about his miracle. The disciples were the closest people to Christ before he was taken up and they were not convinced of the authenticity of Paul’s conversion. Their doubts increased when Paul - who had never met or sat with Christ - began to practice a doctrine that was contrary to and even contradicted what they had heard with their own ears from Christ himself. But Paul later explained this contradiction, saying:
“You must know, brothers, that the gospel that I preached to you did not come from men. For I neither received it nor received it from man, but it was revealed to me by Jesus Christ.” (Galatians 1-11/12)
The Apostle James - Santiago - and the Apostles' Attitude Towards Paul
The Nazarenes could not believe that when Christ was on earth, He taught His twelve Apostles to defend His teachings, then withdrew this trust and changed His original teachings without telling them. What made matters worse and the melody sang was His assignment to a man they did not know. Saint JamesSantiago,Boanerges" (sons of thunder).
According toEusebioJames continued to pray for his people for a long time until his knees became swollen like those of a camel. He was known for his sincerity and righteousness as Saint James the Just, and he was the first bishop of Jerusalem, although this title was not yet in use at that time. He was one of the most respected figures in Jerusalem, and was asked on several occasions to stop Paul’s tongue and silence his new doctrine of Christ. He was, in short, the main face of the apostles in their conflict with Paul. (4)
Barnabas Interceded with the Apostles to Have Paul Accepted
It is possible that the Nazarenes still remembered the persecution they had suffered at the hands of Paul and rejected him. But thanks to Barnabas’ influence he was finally accepted into the sect. Barnabas probably thought that Paul would eventually accept their way of life if he accompanied those who had received it directly from Christ. But Paul, who knew that his acceptance into the group was due to the support of Barnabas and not due to his merit, left the group and returned to his hometown of Tarsus in discontent.
The departure of the apostles from Jerusalem.
Many of Christ's closest followers had gone to Antioch, fleeing Jewish and Roman persecution. Barnabas joined them and became the leader of this growing sect of Nazarenes outside Jerusalem. They clung to Christ's way of life and began to accept into their midst people who were not Jews. It was during this period that the word "Nazarene" ("cristiano") began to be used , and it was used more as an insult and contempt than as a description.
After a while, Barnabas decided to take Christ's message to more distant regions. Since he was in Tarsus, he took Paul with him to Antioch. Once again Paul found himself face to face with those whom he had persecuted the day before. They received him in Antioch with the same coldness with which they had received him in Jerusalem. They had a bitter argument not only about the teachings of Christ, but also about the people to whom the message was to be preached. But once again, thanks to Barnabe, Paul was accepted into the group. Eventually, Barnabe and Paul, accompanied by Barnabe's nephew Mark, set out for Greece on their first missionary journey.
Paul distorts the teachings of Christ in response to the whims of the Greeks and his disagreement with Barnabe.
Accepting the call of Christ was easy for an open-hearted Jew, for the teachings of Christ were merely a guide to a way of life to which he was accustomed. But for the non-Hebrew, who saw the Jewish tradition as alien and contemptible, the teachings of Christ were difficult. The Greeks, worshippers of a vast multitude of gods, paid no attention to increasing the number of their gods, but they often firmly opposed the doctrine of monotheism and the denial of worship of any other god. Here Paul appeared as the right man to adapt the teachings of Christ to their whims. Barnabe did not accept this. The strained relations between them led to their separation. Barnabe took Mark with him, and together they set out for Cyprus.
Paul spreads distorted Christianity to the West
Paul, however, made his way westward with Peter. In the absence of Barnabas’ integrity and the advice of Christ’s followers to deter him, Paul found no opposition to the new doctrines, behaviors, and dealings he adopted. Rather, Paul’s apostasy from the teachings of Christ increased, attributing his deviation to Christ, who – as he claimed – appeared to him in visions. All his teachings were based on the imaginary, metaphysical aspect, and not on historical testimonies left by Christ. His argument against those who accused him of distorting the message of Christ was based on his claim that his call was derived from a direct revelation from Christ, and that his authority was therefore divine. Thus, according to this “authority” that he claimed, the blessings of the message of Christ were not limited to the Jews but were given to all who believed in it. After that, he claimed that the teachings of the Mosaic Law (relating to Moses, peace be upon him) were not only unnecessary, but also opposed to what the Lord had revealed. These teachings were a “curse” and even Christ himself was a “curse,” God forbid:
“Christ has freed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for the Scripture says: ‘Cursed is everyone who dies hanging on a tree’…” (Galatians 3:13).
Thus Paul angered both the followers of Christ and the Jews alike, for they found themselves before a man who cursed their religion and the religion of their forefathers. But the matter was simple, for Paul was defending his ideas in an environment that hated the Jews and had never heard the teachings of Christ before. He justified his actions by asserting that the end justifies the means. He also did not have a clear idea of his perceptions:
“But if I must boast, though it is useless, I will speak of the visions of the Lord and the revelations he has made to me. I know a man who believed in Christ and was caught up to the third heaven fourteen years ago. In his body? I do not know. Or without his body? I do not know. God knows. “But I know that this man was caught up into paradise: in body or out of body? I do not know; God knows. I know that he was caught up into paradise, and there he heard words which no man can utter, nor may he speak of them…” (2 Corinthians 12:1-5).
Thus we see that Paul did not know whether the man he met was in “his body” or “out of his body.” A man who spoke “words which no man can utter.” Paul asked his followers to blindly imitate him, and he was angry with those who followed the disciples as followers of Christ. He accused them of distorting his gospel:
“How strange ! Is it that you are so quick to forsake him who called you in the grace of Christ, and follow another gospel? And there is no “other gospel,” but there are some who stir up confusion among you and try to change the gospel of Christ. Even if we or an angel from heaven preached a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. We have told you before, and I say now: If anyone preaches to you a gospel other than the one you received from us, a curse is on him.” (Galatians 1-6/9)
These verses prove beyond doubt that there was “another gospel” or “another gospel.” There is no evidence that the gospel—the revelation that came to Jesus from God—was compiled and written down exactly as it was revealed to him. Paul probably meant those accounts and testimonies that described the life of Christ, such as the Gospel of Barnabas, which was destroyed three centuries later, following the Council of Nicaea. Paul may have been sincere and zealous in his actions, but his misguided zeal was a disaster for Christianity and more destructive to the Nazarenes than his persecution of them during his time as “the chief rabbi.” Paul’s posthumous teachings had an effect that he himself could not have anticipated. His book, which he called “the gospel of Christ,” led to a great distortion of the teachings of Jesus, peace be upon him, and thus paved the way for a change in people’s idea of “who Christ is.” He was transformed in people’s minds from a man into a “concept.” The image of Christ in Paul is not the image of an ordinary man who lives and then dies, but rather an image in which the attributes of God Almighty are mixed with Christ, especially - as we saw above - and that he could have copied what Christ brought. Thus this imaginary image of Christ became an object of worship and it became difficult to distinguish between the Lord and Jesus. This corrupt belief put the righteous Mary in an impossible position: Mary, peace be upon her, is the mother of the Lord.
The mission of Jesus Christ and the difficulties of the beginning.
Jesus Christ began his mission at the age of 30, a mission that lasted only 3 years. He left behind 12 apostles, 60 disciples and many followers in the rural area of Judea (Israel and Palestine today).
These villagers - called Am Ha Arez - formed the majority of the population. They were attracted by the wisdom and miracles of Jesus Christ, so they gathered around him and followed him. They recognized the light that shone to illuminate the teachings of Moses, peace be upon him, and Jesus was sent only to clarify and revive them.
“The mission of Jesus Christ was limited to proving the worship of the Creator in the way he was commanded. Jesus and his followers were prepared to fight against all who tried to prevent them from living in the way their Lord wanted” (1).
The Essenes
Many of the priests of the temple used their position as a means of gaining wealth and reputation, but their unpopularity among the people worried them because it threatened their privileges. The Romans, the rulers of Judea, considered the rise of this “new leader” a danger to them, as it might lead to another Jewish revolt, and they had already had enough trouble caused by the Essenes, the cave dwellers on the outskirts of the Dead Sea. This sect of Jews refused to accept Roman customs and laws when they conflicted with the teachings of Moses; they were determined to preserve the purity of their way of life and to liberate Judea from foreign aggression. In addition to their daily prayers and studies of the “holy” writings, many of them practiced the arts of war. Members of this “fighting force” were called Zelotes (defenders). It is likely that Jesus spent a significant part of his childhood among the Essenes, not only at the Dead Sea, but also in their other stronghold near Alexandria. Many of their sect members later followed him.
The Ascension of Christ and the Crucifixion of His Identical One
Thus, the interests of the Roman rulers and the corrupt clique of temple priests met in their hostility to Jesus and his followers. And under these circumstances the conspiracy against him took place, and another man was crucified in his place, perhaps Judas Iscariot:
“And when the soldiers with Judas approached the place where Jesus was, Jesus heard a great multitude approaching, so he withdrew to the house in fear, and the eleven were asleep. And when God saw the danger to his servant, he ordered Gabriel, Michael, Raphael, and Uriel, his ambassadors, to take Jesus out of the world. So the holy angels came and took Jesus from the window overlooking the south, and they carried him and placed him in the third heaven in the company of the angels who praise God forever. And Judas entered violently into the room from which Jesus was taken up, and all the disciples were asleep, and the wonderful God did a wonderful thing, and Judas changed in speech and in face and became like Jesus, so that we thought he was Jesus. But after he woke us up, he began to search to see where the teacher was, so we were amazed and “We answered: You are our master, he is our teacher, have you forgotten us now?” But he said, smiling: “Are you so stupid that you do not know Judas Iscariot?” While he was saying this, the soldiers entered and laid their hands on Judas, because he resembled Jesus in every way. “The Gospel of Barnabas, p. 308”
“And Judas was handed over to the scribes and Pharisees as if he were a criminal deserving of death. They condemned him to be crucified, along with two thieves with him. They led him to the Mount of the Skull, where they used to hang criminals.And there they crucified him naked, exaggerating his humiliation. ( Gospel of Barnabas, p. 314)
“That he may taste the torment for denouncing another man” (2)
The false belief that the crucified one was the Messiah – an idea that Saul of Tarsus fervently defended – was the first cause of the schism within the Church in its early days:
“Those disciples who did not fear the Lord stole the body of Judas by night and hid it, then spread the rumor that Jesus had risen, and this caused great confusion. The high priest forbade talk about Jesus of Nazareth, threatening the punishment of damnation. Thus a great campaign of persecution began; some were stoned, others were flogged, and many left the country because they could not live in peace in this situation” (3).
Saul the Jew or Paul, the racist who Christians sanctify today
The persecution of the followers of Christ, peace be upon him, was not a Roman monopoly. They were aided in this by the Jews who refused to believe in him, and this was another cause of the division that the Church experienced in its early days. One of the great persecutors was the “high priest” Saul of Tarsus, who would later become known as Paul. Paul played a decisive and effective role in the persecution, as he himself testified:
“You have heard of my former conduct in the Jewish religion, how I persecuted the church of God without mercy and tried to destroy it, and how I was more zealous than most of my own generation among my own people in the Jewish religion and in the traditions of my fathers.” (Galatians 1:13-14)
The persecution of Christians and Romans strengthened some, but weakened the resolve of others. The weaker followers adopted their beliefs and actions to avoid their brutality, which led to the emergence of contradictions and disputes among the followers of Christ, peace be upon him.
Saul the Jew claims to embrace Christianity and takes the name Paul
. Here Paul intervenes, once again, and plays an important role in reaching a settlement that tarnishes the purity of the way of life that Christ called for. Paul suddenly announces that he saw Christ in a vision and decided to become one of his followers. However, he waited 3 years in the Arabian Peninsula and in Damascus before returning to Jerusalem and telling the disciples - who were known at that time as the “Nazarenes” - about his miracle. The disciples were the closest people to Christ before he was taken up and they were not convinced of the authenticity of Paul’s conversion. Their doubts increased when Paul - who had never met or sat with Christ - began to practice a doctrine that was contrary to and even contradicted what they had heard with their own ears from Christ himself. But Paul later explained this contradiction, saying:
“You must know, brothers, that the gospel that I preached to you did not come from men. For I neither received it nor received it from man, but it was revealed to me by Jesus Christ.” (Galatians 1-11/12)
The Apostle James - Santiago - and the Apostles' Attitude Towards Paul
The Nazarenes could not believe that when Christ was on earth, He taught His twelve Apostles to defend His teachings, then withdrew this trust and changed His original teachings without telling them. What made matters worse and the melody sang was His assignment to a man they did not know. Saint JamesSantiago,Boanerges" (sons of thunder).
According toEusebioJames continued to pray for his people for a long time until his knees became swollen like those of a camel. He was known for his sincerity and righteousness as Saint James the Just, and he was the first bishop of Jerusalem, although this title was not yet in use at that time. He was one of the most respected figures in Jerusalem, and was asked on several occasions to stop Paul’s tongue and silence his new doctrine of Christ. He was, in short, the main face of the apostles in their conflict with Paul. (4)
Barnabas Interceded with the Apostles to Have Paul Accepted
It is possible that the Nazarenes still remembered the persecution they had suffered at the hands of Paul and rejected him. But thanks to Barnabas’ influence he was finally accepted into the sect. Barnabas probably thought that Paul would eventually accept their way of life if he accompanied those who had received it directly from Christ. But Paul, who knew that his acceptance into the group was due to the support of Barnabas and not due to his merit, left the group and returned to his hometown of Tarsus in discontent.
The departure of the apostles from Jerusalem.
Many of Christ's closest followers had gone to Antioch, fleeing Jewish and Roman persecution. Barnabas joined them and became the leader of this growing sect of Nazarenes outside Jerusalem. They clung to Christ's way of life and began to accept into their midst people who were not Jews. It was during this period that the word "Nazarene" ("cristiano") began to be used , and it was used more as an insult and contempt than as a description.
After a while, Barnabas decided to take Christ's message to more distant regions. Since he was in Tarsus, he took Paul with him to Antioch. Once again Paul found himself face to face with those whom he had persecuted the day before. They received him in Antioch with the same coldness with which they had received him in Jerusalem. They had a bitter argument not only about the teachings of Christ, but also about the people to whom the message was to be preached. But once again, thanks to Barnabe, Paul was accepted into the group. Eventually, Barnabe and Paul, accompanied by Barnabe's nephew Mark, set out for Greece on their first missionary journey.
Paul distorts the teachings of Christ in response to the whims of the Greeks and his disagreement with Barnabe.
Accepting the call of Christ was easy for an open-hearted Jew, for the teachings of Christ were merely a guide to a way of life to which he was accustomed. But for the non-Hebrew, who saw the Jewish tradition as alien and contemptible, the teachings of Christ were difficult. The Greeks, worshippers of a vast multitude of gods, paid no attention to increasing the number of their gods, but they often firmly opposed the doctrine of monotheism and the denial of worship of any other god. Here Paul appeared as the right man to adapt the teachings of Christ to their whims. Barnabe did not accept this. The strained relations between them led to their separation. Barnabe took Mark with him, and together they set out for Cyprus.
Paul spreads distorted Christianity to the West
Paul, however, made his way westward with Peter. In the absence of Barnabas’ integrity and the advice of Christ’s followers to deter him, Paul found no opposition to the new doctrines, behaviors, and dealings he adopted. Rather, Paul’s apostasy from the teachings of Christ increased, attributing his deviation to Christ, who – as he claimed – appeared to him in visions. All his teachings were based on the imaginary, metaphysical aspect, and not on historical testimonies left by Christ. His argument against those who accused him of distorting the message of Christ was based on his claim that his call was derived from a direct revelation from Christ, and that his authority was therefore divine. Thus, according to this “authority” that he claimed, the blessings of the message of Christ were not limited to the Jews but were given to all who believed in it. After that, he claimed that the teachings of the Mosaic Law (relating to Moses, peace be upon him) were not only unnecessary, but also opposed to what the Lord had revealed. These teachings were a “curse” and even Christ himself was a “curse,” God forbid:
“Christ has freed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for the Scripture says: ‘Cursed is everyone who dies hanging on a tree’…” (Galatians 3:13).
Thus Paul angered both the followers of Christ and the Jews alike, for they found themselves before a man who cursed their religion and the religion of their forefathers. But the matter was simple, for Paul was defending his ideas in an environment that hated the Jews and had never heard the teachings of Christ before. He justified his actions by asserting that the end justifies the means. He also did not have a clear idea of his perceptions:
“But if I must boast, though it is useless, I will speak of the visions of the Lord and the revelations he has made to me. I know a man who believed in Christ and was caught up to the third heaven fourteen years ago. In his body? I do not know. Or without his body? I do not know. God knows. “But I know that this man was caught up into paradise: in body or out of body? I do not know; God knows. I know that he was caught up into paradise, and there he heard words which no man can utter, nor may he speak of them…” (2 Corinthians 12:1-5).
Thus we see that Paul did not know whether the man he met was in “his body” or “out of his body.” A man who spoke “words which no man can utter.” Paul asked his followers to blindly imitate him, and he was angry with those who followed the disciples as followers of Christ. He accused them of distorting his gospel:
“How strange ! Is it that you are so quick to forsake him who called you in the grace of Christ, and follow another gospel? And there is no “other gospel,” but there are some who stir up confusion among you and try to change the gospel of Christ. Even if we or an angel from heaven preached a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. We have told you before, and I say now: If anyone preaches to you a gospel other than the one you received from us, a curse is on him.” (Galatians 1-6/9)
These verses prove beyond doubt that there was “another gospel” or “another gospel.” There is no evidence that the gospel—the revelation that came to Jesus from God—was compiled and written down exactly as it was revealed to him. Paul probably meant those accounts and testimonies that described the life of Christ, such as the Gospel of Barnabas, which was destroyed three centuries later, following the Council of Nicaea. Paul may have been sincere and zealous in his actions, but his misguided zeal was a disaster for Christianity and more destructive to the Nazarenes than his persecution of them during his time as “the chief rabbi.” Paul’s posthumous teachings had an effect that he himself could not have anticipated. His book, which he called “the gospel of Christ,” led to a great distortion of the teachings of Jesus, peace be upon him, and thus paved the way for a change in people’s idea of “who Christ is.” He was transformed in people’s minds from a man into a “concept.” The image of Christ in Paul is not the image of an ordinary man who lives and then dies, but rather an image in which the attributes of God Almighty are mixed with Christ, especially - as we saw above - and that he could have copied what Christ brought. Thus this imaginary image of Christ became an object of worship and it became difficult to distinguish between the Lord and Jesus. This corrupt belief put the righteous Mary in an impossible position: Mary, peace be upon her, is the mother of the Lord.
The Greek philosophers embraced distorted Christianity because it suited their whims.
This dangerous shift from Jesus the prophet to Jesus with divine characteristics, made the philosophers of Greece and Rome think about the possibility of combining their own philosophy with the call of Paul and his followers. They believed that existence was a three-dimensional composition, and they had so far combined “God the Father” and “Son of God” and all they needed was the “Holy Spirit” to obtain a trinity that suited what they were. Saint Augustine was not satisfied at all and denied the philosophers excessive freedom:
“Philosophers speak their words with complete freedom… However, we do not say whether there are two or three principles, two or three gods” (De Civitate Dei 0/23)(5)
The influence of Platonic thought on Christianity
Plato’s philosophy relied on a three-dimensional composition: the first cause, the mind or logos,andthe soul or spirit of the universe. The British scholar Gibbon (1737-1794) wrote about Platothatthe latter's poetic imagination embodied and revived these metaphysical abstractions, each of the three original principles being mysteriously united with the others in an indescribable way. The Logos - the mind - was placed under the broad concept of the eternal Son of the Father, the creator and manager of the universe.(6)
Over time, the vague and arbitrary ideas about Christ were mixed with Plato's Logos-plural oflogos- and they became one image. Thus was born the doctrine of the Trinity, which would later be considered "conservative orthodox Christianity."
The persecution of the Nazarenes in Jerusalem
The Romans and the Gentiles did not distinguish between the Nazarenes and the Jews. This coincided with a general campaign of persecution against the Jews that culminated in the destruction of the Temple of Solomon in 70 AD. Most of the Jewish population of Jerusalem was killed, and many Nazarenes shared the same fate. Those who survived settled in the town of Pella (Tabqat Fahl) in northwestern Jordan.
When Adrian became emperor, he established a new city on Mount Zion, which was called Aelia Capitolina. Extremely severe penalties were imposed and any Jew who dared to approach it was threatened with painful torment. Gibbon says:
"The Nazarenes found only one way to escape this prohibition. They chose Mark as their bishop, a bishop of the Gentile race, most likely from Italy or one of the Latin provinces. At his suggestion the greater part of the community abandoned the Law of Moses, whose teachings they had kept for more than a century. By this sacrifice of customs and privileges they were able to obtain permission to enter Adrian's settlement and firmly consolidate their union with the Catholic Church."(18)The
Nazarenes who rejected this agreement were accused of heresy and dissension. Some of them remained in Pella (Tabqat Fahl), others moved to the villages surrounding Damascus, and the majority settled in Aleppo, Syria:
“The name ‘Nazarene’ was considered too noble and honorable to be given to this group of Jewish Christians, and they were soon given the supposed narrow-mindedness and shallowness of their understanding, in addition to their condition – the contemptible and degrading name ‘Ebionites’.”(19)
The persecution of the Nazarenes in Rome
was the same method of persecution in Rome. There was a group known as the “Galileos”, composed of the Nazarenes and Zealots, whom Nero had accused of being responsible for the burning of Rome and had punished as punishment. The Nazarenes were required to pay the heavy taxes which were imposed especially on the Jews of Rome:
"When the revenue collectors went too far and made unjust demands on persons who were foreign to Jewish blood and religion, it was impossible for the Christians, who often took shelter in the shadow of the synagogue, to escape the savage and rapacious persecution. They were so anxious to avoid any suspicion of idolatry that their consciences forbade them from contributing to the honor of that demon who had assumed the person of Jupiter in the Capitolina. And since a large, though declining, group of Christians remained committed to the law of Moses, their efforts to conceal their Jewish origin were exposed by the decisive test, which was circumcision." (20).
When we read about the persecution of the Nazarenes, and those who followed them after that, we remember the following verses from the Gospel of John:
“They will put you out of the synagogues; indeed, the time is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.” (Gospel of John, Chapter 16.2)
This dangerous shift from Jesus the prophet to Jesus with divine characteristics, made the philosophers of Greece and Rome think about the possibility of combining their own philosophy with the call of Paul and his followers. They believed that existence was a three-dimensional composition, and they had so far combined “God the Father” and “Son of God” and all they needed was the “Holy Spirit” to obtain a trinity that suited what they were. Saint Augustine was not satisfied at all and denied the philosophers excessive freedom:
“Philosophers speak their words with complete freedom… However, we do not say whether there are two or three principles, two or three gods” (De Civitate Dei 0/23)(5)
The influence of Platonic thought on Christianity
Plato’s philosophy relied on a three-dimensional composition: the first cause, the mind or logos,andthe soul or spirit of the universe. The British scholar Gibbon (1737-1794) wrote about Platothatthe latter's poetic imagination embodied and revived these metaphysical abstractions, each of the three original principles being mysteriously united with the others in an indescribable way. The Logos - the mind - was placed under the broad concept of the eternal Son of the Father, the creator and manager of the universe.(6)
Over time, the vague and arbitrary ideas about Christ were mixed with Plato's Logos-plural oflogos- and they became one image. Thus was born the doctrine of the Trinity, which would later be considered "conservative orthodox Christianity."
The persecution of the Nazarenes in Jerusalem
The Romans and the Gentiles did not distinguish between the Nazarenes and the Jews. This coincided with a general campaign of persecution against the Jews that culminated in the destruction of the Temple of Solomon in 70 AD. Most of the Jewish population of Jerusalem was killed, and many Nazarenes shared the same fate. Those who survived settled in the town of Pella (Tabqat Fahl) in northwestern Jordan.
When Adrian became emperor, he established a new city on Mount Zion, which was called Aelia Capitolina. Extremely severe penalties were imposed and any Jew who dared to approach it was threatened with painful torment. Gibbon says:
"The Nazarenes found only one way to escape this prohibition. They chose Mark as their bishop, a bishop of the Gentile race, most likely from Italy or one of the Latin provinces. At his suggestion the greater part of the community abandoned the Law of Moses, whose teachings they had kept for more than a century. By this sacrifice of customs and privileges they were able to obtain permission to enter Adrian's settlement and firmly consolidate their union with the Catholic Church."(18)The
Nazarenes who rejected this agreement were accused of heresy and dissension. Some of them remained in Pella (Tabqat Fahl), others moved to the villages surrounding Damascus, and the majority settled in Aleppo, Syria:
“The name ‘Nazarene’ was considered too noble and honorable to be given to this group of Jewish Christians, and they were soon given the supposed narrow-mindedness and shallowness of their understanding, in addition to their condition – the contemptible and degrading name ‘Ebionites’.”(19)
The persecution of the Nazarenes in Rome
was the same method of persecution in Rome. There was a group known as the “Galileos”, composed of the Nazarenes and Zealots, whom Nero had accused of being responsible for the burning of Rome and had punished as punishment. The Nazarenes were required to pay the heavy taxes which were imposed especially on the Jews of Rome:
"When the revenue collectors went too far and made unjust demands on persons who were foreign to Jewish blood and religion, it was impossible for the Christians, who often took shelter in the shadow of the synagogue, to escape the savage and rapacious persecution. They were so anxious to avoid any suspicion of idolatry that their consciences forbade them from contributing to the honor of that demon who had assumed the person of Jupiter in the Capitolina. And since a large, though declining, group of Christians remained committed to the law of Moses, their efforts to conceal their Jewish origin were exposed by the decisive test, which was circumcision." (20).
When we read about the persecution of the Nazarenes, and those who followed them after that, we remember the following verses from the Gospel of John:
“They will put you out of the synagogues; indeed, the time is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.” (Gospel of John, Chapter 16.2)
Returning to the Inquisition, crucifying Muslims, criticizing treaties, forcing them to convert to Christianity , forcibly baptizing them, converting all mosques into churches, and burning all Islamic books,
the brutality of the Inquisition did not spare a child, an old man, or a woman. The goal was to exterminate Muslims. Muslims are required to work on rewriting a correct history of the Inquisition that reveals the rest of its brutal chapters to the world. The Inquisition represents one of the bloodiest chapters of Western history against Muslims, and its excessive brutality later extended to Christians as well.
The surrender agreement:
A treaty was concluded stipulating that the rulers of Granada surrender the city to the Spanish in exchange for guaranteeing the rulers’ exit with their money to Africa. The treaty also included sixty-eight articles, including securing the lives, money, and families of young and old, keeping people in their places, homes, and properties, keeping their Sharia law to litigation, keeping their mosques and endowments, not allowing Catholics to enter a Muslim’s home, not usurping anyone, not allowing anyone to rule over Muslims except a Muslim, releasing all Muslim prisoners, and not taking anyone to task for a crime. Other than that, and that those who converted to Islam from the Catholics should not be forced to return to their religion, and that no one should be punished for crimes committed against Catholicism during wartime, and that Spanish soldiers should not enter mosques, and that Muslims should not be required to wear a distinctive mark, and that the muezzin, the worshipper, or the fasting person should not be prevented from the affairs of their religion.
The Spanish king and the Pope signed the treaty in Rome, and the two signatures were sufficient for the treaty to be a guarantee for the Muslims in Spain. Based on this treaty, Abu Abdullah bin Abi al-Hasan, the King of Granada, left the Alhambra Palace on the morning of 1/2/1492 AD, crying like a woman, carrying the keys to his city and his fading kingdom, and he gave them to Queen Isabella and her husband Ferdinand.
Chapters of persecution:
What happened was that immediately after the Spaniards entered Granada, they broke the treaty they had concluded with its Muslim rulers. The first thing Cardinal Mendoza did upon entering the Alhambra was to erect the cross on top of its highest towers and chant the Catholic prayer of praise. Several days later, the Bishop of Granada sent an urgent letter to the Spanish king informing him that he had taken it upon himself to compel the Muslims in Granada and other cities in Spain to become Catholics, in fulfillment of the desire of Jesus Christ who appeared to him and ordered him to do so, as he claimed.
The King approved of him doing whatever he wanted to fulfill the desire of Jesus Christ. Then the Bishop took the initiative to occupy the mosques and confiscate their endowments, and ordered the conversion of the Great Mosque in Granada into a church. The Muslims there revolted in defense of their mosques, but their revolt was suppressed with absolute brutality, and two hundred Muslim clerics were burned to death in the main square on charges of resisting Christianity [4] .
The Inquisition appeared, searching for every Muslim to try him for not converting to Christianity. The Muslims wandered aimlessly in the mountains. The Spanish Inquisition issued instructions to Cardinal Cizus to convert the rest of the Muslims in Spain to Christianity, and to work quickly to force them to become Christians. The Qur’ans, books of interpretation, hadith, jurisprudence, and doctrine were burned . The Inquisition issued rulings to burn Muslims alive on sticks of wood in a square in the city of Granada in front of the people.This unjust campaign against Muslims continued until the year 1577 AD, and according to some Western historians, more than half a million Muslims were killed, until all the people were forcibly baptized.
Then a decree was issued to convert all mosques into churches, and on 10/12/1501 AD, another decree was issued to burn all Islamic and Arabic books. Thousands of books were burned in the Ramla Square in Granada , and then the burning of books continued in all cities and villages. Then came the next step, when the bishop began offering many temptations to wealthy Muslim families to convert to Catholicism, including giving their members high positions in power. A very limited number of wealthy Muslim families responded to him, which angered the general public among Muslims, so they attacked the families of those who converted to Catholicism and burned some of them.
Then Cardinal Jiménez announced that the treaty that was signed with the rulers of Granada was no longer valid or existing, and gave his orders to baptize all Muslims in Granada without taking their opinion into account, or even giving them a chance . To learn about the new religion to which they were being led, and whoever refused had to choose between two options: either to leave Granada for Africa without taking any of his money with him, and without a mount for him or any of his family members, women and children, and after witnessing the confiscation of his money, or to be publicly executed in the squares of Granada as a rejecter of Christianity.
It was natural for a large number of the people of Granada to choose to emigrate with their religion and beliefs. Some of them left, leaving their money on foot, not caring about the hardships of the roads, the unknown, and the dangers of traveling to Africa without money or a mount . Unfortunately, after they left Granada, Spanish mob gangs and Spanish soldiers were waiting for them. They attacked them and killed most of them. When the others in Granada heard about this, they preferred to stay after realizing that their departure from Spain meant their death. Consequently, they were taken in convoys for baptism. Whoever the Spanish discovered had evaded baptism, their money was confiscated and they were publicly executed.
A large number of Muslims who refused to be baptized fled to the mountains surrounding Granada, taking refuge in its caves and rugged valleys. They stayed there for periods and established Arab Muslim villages. However, the Spanish king himself supervised the large military campaigns that he directed to the mountains, where those villages were demolished and their people were taken to be burned or mutilated. [5] In the same vein, Catholic campaigns continued in the rest of the Spanish cities, and the converted Muslims were known as the
New Christians to distinguish them from the Old Christians, and they were also known as Moriscos, meaning young Muslims, and they were treated with contempt by the Old Christians, and new decisions and laws were issued against the Moriscos, for example, in 1507 AD an order was issued to prohibit the use of the Arabic language and to confiscate the weapons of the Andalusians, and the first time the offender was punished with imprisonment and confiscation, and the second time with execution, and in 1508 AD a royal regulation was renewed to prohibit Islamic dress, and in 1510 AD taxes called Al-Farda were applied to the Moriscos, and in 1511 AD the government renewed decisions to prohibit dress, burn the remaining Islamic books, and prohibit the slaughter of animals in the Islamic manner.
The Inquisition failed to convert Muslims after the ingenuity of torturing them and spending huge sums of money
in the heat of that unjust campaign against Muslims, as we have seen. The Inquisition was formed with the mission of verifying the Catholicism of Muslims. The courts found that all the Catholicization efforts were of no use. Muslims may have become Catholics outwardly, but in reality they practiced Islamic rituals among themselves in secret, married in the Islamic way, refused to drink alcohol and eat pork, recited the Qur’an in their private gatherings, copied it and circulated it among themselves. In fact, in the Valencia region, they converted a number of Spanish Catholics to Islam and taught them the Arabic language and Islamic rituals.
The reports of the Inquisition came as a shock to the Cardinal, the Spanish King, and the Pope. In one of the reports submitted by the Bishop of Granada, who was in charge of converting the Muslims of Granada to the Cardinal, it was stated that the Moriscos had not retreated a single step from Islam, and that no effective means had been found to stop them. If such means were not found, they would convert the Christians of Granada, Valencia, and other cities to Islam en masse.
Based on these reports, it was decided to subject all the Moriscos in Spain to the Inquisition without exception, as well as all Christians suspected of having converted to Islam or been influenced by it in a way that contradicted the beliefs of the Catholic Church. Thus began the most brutal and bloody chapters in Western ecclesiastical history, as these courts began to search obsessively for every Muslim to try.
the brutality of the Inquisition did not spare a child, an old man, or a woman. The goal was to exterminate Muslims. Muslims are required to work on rewriting a correct history of the Inquisition that reveals the rest of its brutal chapters to the world. The Inquisition represents one of the bloodiest chapters of Western history against Muslims, and its excessive brutality later extended to Christians as well.
The surrender agreement:
A treaty was concluded stipulating that the rulers of Granada surrender the city to the Spanish in exchange for guaranteeing the rulers’ exit with their money to Africa. The treaty also included sixty-eight articles, including securing the lives, money, and families of young and old, keeping people in their places, homes, and properties, keeping their Sharia law to litigation, keeping their mosques and endowments, not allowing Catholics to enter a Muslim’s home, not usurping anyone, not allowing anyone to rule over Muslims except a Muslim, releasing all Muslim prisoners, and not taking anyone to task for a crime. Other than that, and that those who converted to Islam from the Catholics should not be forced to return to their religion, and that no one should be punished for crimes committed against Catholicism during wartime, and that Spanish soldiers should not enter mosques, and that Muslims should not be required to wear a distinctive mark, and that the muezzin, the worshipper, or the fasting person should not be prevented from the affairs of their religion.
The Spanish king and the Pope signed the treaty in Rome, and the two signatures were sufficient for the treaty to be a guarantee for the Muslims in Spain. Based on this treaty, Abu Abdullah bin Abi al-Hasan, the King of Granada, left the Alhambra Palace on the morning of 1/2/1492 AD, crying like a woman, carrying the keys to his city and his fading kingdom, and he gave them to Queen Isabella and her husband Ferdinand.
Chapters of persecution:
What happened was that immediately after the Spaniards entered Granada, they broke the treaty they had concluded with its Muslim rulers. The first thing Cardinal Mendoza did upon entering the Alhambra was to erect the cross on top of its highest towers and chant the Catholic prayer of praise. Several days later, the Bishop of Granada sent an urgent letter to the Spanish king informing him that he had taken it upon himself to compel the Muslims in Granada and other cities in Spain to become Catholics, in fulfillment of the desire of Jesus Christ who appeared to him and ordered him to do so, as he claimed.
The King approved of him doing whatever he wanted to fulfill the desire of Jesus Christ. Then the Bishop took the initiative to occupy the mosques and confiscate their endowments, and ordered the conversion of the Great Mosque in Granada into a church. The Muslims there revolted in defense of their mosques, but their revolt was suppressed with absolute brutality, and two hundred Muslim clerics were burned to death in the main square on charges of resisting Christianity [4] .
The Inquisition appeared, searching for every Muslim to try him for not converting to Christianity. The Muslims wandered aimlessly in the mountains. The Spanish Inquisition issued instructions to Cardinal Cizus to convert the rest of the Muslims in Spain to Christianity, and to work quickly to force them to become Christians. The Qur’ans, books of interpretation, hadith, jurisprudence, and doctrine were burned . The Inquisition issued rulings to burn Muslims alive on sticks of wood in a square in the city of Granada in front of the people.This unjust campaign against Muslims continued until the year 1577 AD, and according to some Western historians, more than half a million Muslims were killed, until all the people were forcibly baptized.
Then a decree was issued to convert all mosques into churches, and on 10/12/1501 AD, another decree was issued to burn all Islamic and Arabic books. Thousands of books were burned in the Ramla Square in Granada , and then the burning of books continued in all cities and villages. Then came the next step, when the bishop began offering many temptations to wealthy Muslim families to convert to Catholicism, including giving their members high positions in power. A very limited number of wealthy Muslim families responded to him, which angered the general public among Muslims, so they attacked the families of those who converted to Catholicism and burned some of them.
Then Cardinal Jiménez announced that the treaty that was signed with the rulers of Granada was no longer valid or existing, and gave his orders to baptize all Muslims in Granada without taking their opinion into account, or even giving them a chance . To learn about the new religion to which they were being led, and whoever refused had to choose between two options: either to leave Granada for Africa without taking any of his money with him, and without a mount for him or any of his family members, women and children, and after witnessing the confiscation of his money, or to be publicly executed in the squares of Granada as a rejecter of Christianity.
It was natural for a large number of the people of Granada to choose to emigrate with their religion and beliefs. Some of them left, leaving their money on foot, not caring about the hardships of the roads, the unknown, and the dangers of traveling to Africa without money or a mount . Unfortunately, after they left Granada, Spanish mob gangs and Spanish soldiers were waiting for them. They attacked them and killed most of them. When the others in Granada heard about this, they preferred to stay after realizing that their departure from Spain meant their death. Consequently, they were taken in convoys for baptism. Whoever the Spanish discovered had evaded baptism, their money was confiscated and they were publicly executed.
A large number of Muslims who refused to be baptized fled to the mountains surrounding Granada, taking refuge in its caves and rugged valleys. They stayed there for periods and established Arab Muslim villages. However, the Spanish king himself supervised the large military campaigns that he directed to the mountains, where those villages were demolished and their people were taken to be burned or mutilated. [5] In the same vein, Catholic campaigns continued in the rest of the Spanish cities, and the converted Muslims were known as the
New Christians to distinguish them from the Old Christians, and they were also known as Moriscos, meaning young Muslims, and they were treated with contempt by the Old Christians, and new decisions and laws were issued against the Moriscos, for example, in 1507 AD an order was issued to prohibit the use of the Arabic language and to confiscate the weapons of the Andalusians, and the first time the offender was punished with imprisonment and confiscation, and the second time with execution, and in 1508 AD a royal regulation was renewed to prohibit Islamic dress, and in 1510 AD taxes called Al-Farda were applied to the Moriscos, and in 1511 AD the government renewed decisions to prohibit dress, burn the remaining Islamic books, and prohibit the slaughter of animals in the Islamic manner.
The Inquisition failed to convert Muslims after the ingenuity of torturing them and spending huge sums of money
in the heat of that unjust campaign against Muslims, as we have seen. The Inquisition was formed with the mission of verifying the Catholicism of Muslims. The courts found that all the Catholicization efforts were of no use. Muslims may have become Catholics outwardly, but in reality they practiced Islamic rituals among themselves in secret, married in the Islamic way, refused to drink alcohol and eat pork, recited the Qur’an in their private gatherings, copied it and circulated it among themselves. In fact, in the Valencia region, they converted a number of Spanish Catholics to Islam and taught them the Arabic language and Islamic rituals.
The reports of the Inquisition came as a shock to the Cardinal, the Spanish King, and the Pope. In one of the reports submitted by the Bishop of Granada, who was in charge of converting the Muslims of Granada to the Cardinal, it was stated that the Moriscos had not retreated a single step from Islam, and that no effective means had been found to stop them. If such means were not found, they would convert the Christians of Granada, Valencia, and other cities to Islam en masse.
Based on these reports, it was decided to subject all the Moriscos in Spain to the Inquisition without exception, as well as all Christians suspected of having converted to Islam or been influenced by it in a way that contradicted the beliefs of the Catholic Church. Thus began the most brutal and bloody chapters in Western ecclesiastical history, as these courts began to search obsessively for every Muslim to try.
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and see how the Christians excelled in torturing Muslims and converts because they doubted the truth of their conversion. The Inquisition is in fact a strange and bizarre type of court. It was granted unlimited powers and practiced methods of torture that were not known or practiced by the most brutal tyrants throughout history . These courts began their work by demolishing Arab baths, preventing bathing in the Arab way, preventing wearing Arab clothing or speaking the Arabic language or listening to Arab singing, and preventing marriage in the Arab way or Islamic law. They imposed very strict penalties on anyone who was proven to refuse to drink alcohol or eat pork. Any violation of these prohibitions and orders is considered a departure from Catholicism and its perpetrator is referred to the Inquisition. The accused who appeared before the court was subjected to a preliminary test, which was to drink glasses of wine determined by the judges for him, then he was offered pork and asked to eat it, thus ensuring that the accused was not adhering to the Islamic religion and its orders, but this test was usually only a very easy first step in the face of what awaited the accused of a very long journey of torture, as after drinking the wine and eating pork he was returned to the cell in a secret prison without knowing the charge against him. It was one of the worst places, dark, where snakes, rats and insects roamed, and epidemics spread. In this place the accused had to remain for many months without seeing sunlight or any other light, and if he died, this was what the Inquisition considered a mercy from God and a suitable punishment for him, and if he lived, he was still exposed to trial, and all he had to do was resist death for a period that no one knew when it would end, and during which he might be summoned to the court to be questioned and tortured. The investigator usually asked him the first time if he knew why he was arrested and thrown into prison, and what charges could be brought against him. Then he asked him to come back to himself and reflect on his reality, and to confess all the sins that his conscience dictated to him. He asked him about his family, friends, acquaintances, and all the places he had lived in or visited. During the accused’s answer, he was not interrupted. He was left to speak as he wished, and the scribe recorded everything he said. He was asked to perform some Christian prayers so that the investigators would know whether he had actually become a Christian or was still a Muslim, and the degree of his faith in Christianity.After these slow, routine interviews, the public prosecutor finally reads to the accused the list of charges against him. These charges were drawn up based on what the court concluded from the interrogation of the accused, and are not based on any kind of evidence. The accused’s defense of himself does not matter, since the basic law of the court is that confession is the master of evidence, and the accused has only to confess to the charges against him. The methods by which the confession is taken do not matter. If the accused confesses to avoid the torture that awaits him, the public prosecutor adds other charges to him. In the end, the investigator sees that the accused must be subjected to torture because he is only confessing to avoid telling the truth, meaning that torture is inevitable, whether the accused confesses or not [6] .
Torture includes every conceivable method and one that does not. It begins with depriving the accused of food and drink until he becomes thin and unable to move. Then comes flogging, nail removal, cauterization with hot iron, hair removal, confrontation with wild animals, castration, putting salt on wounds, and hanging by the fingers.
During all torture operations, the writer records everything the accused says in terms of screams, words, and
crying. No old man, woman, or child is exempt from this torture. After each torture session, the accused is left for one day, and then the judges explain what he said during the torture. If he cried and shouted, “Oh God,” the judge explains that the word “Allah” he said means the Lord of Muslims. The accused must deny or confirm this accusation.In both cases, he must be subjected to torture again, and so on in an endless series of tortures.
Finally, twenty-four hours before the execution of the sentence, the accused was notified of the sentence issued against him. The sentences were of three types:
Acquittal : This is a sentence rarely issued by the Inquisition, and then the accused is found innocent, but he lives the rest of his life disabled and threatened by the torture he was subjected to. When he leaves, he finds that his money has been confiscated, and he lives as an outcast because others are afraid to deal with him or talk to him for fear that he is being watched by the Inquisition, and the same charges are pinned on them that were pinned on him.
Flogging: The accused was taken to a public place completely naked and flogged, and he often died under the force of the flogging. If it was carried out and he survived, he lived like the person who was acquitted in terms of disability and ostracism by society.
Execution: This is the most common sentence issued by the Inquisition, and the execution is carried out by burning in the middle of the city square.
In some stages, the courts began to issue prison sentences, and due to overcrowding in the prisons, they began to release some and execute others without any trials . In some cases, they issued sentences requiring the accused to wear a certain dress for the rest of his life, and obligating people to curse him whenever he walked in the street or left his house. In these sentences, as we said, no one was exempted because of age. There are documents indicating that an eleven-year-old girl was flogged two hundred times, and a ninety-year-old man was flogged three hundred times. Even the dead were subject to trial, and their graves were exhumed [7].
Continued persecution and executions against Muslims:
All these courts and methods did not succeed in forcing Muslims to abandon their religion as the church wanted, which realized the depth of faith in the Islamic faith in the souls of the Moriscos, so it decided to expel them from Spain. The Council of State unanimously issued a decision on 1/30/1608 AD to expel all Moriscos from Spain. By October 1609 AD, a large movement had spread throughout the ports of the kingdom and Valencia, from Alicante in the south to Beni Arous in the north. Between 9/1606 AD and 1/1610 AD, about 120,000 Muslims left the ports of Alicante, Denia, Al-Jabiya, Rusafa, Valencia, Beni Arous, and others.
In 5/1611 AD, a criminal decision was issued to eliminate the Muslim renegades in Valencia, stipulating a reward of sixty liras for anyone who brought a living Muslim, who had the right to enslave him, and thirty liras for anyone who brought the head of a Muslim who had been killed. The number of those expelled from Spain in the period between 1609 AD and 1614 AD was about 327,000 people, 65,000 of whom died by drowning at sea, or being killed on the roads, or victims of disease, hunger, and poverty.
32,000 of the expelled people were able to return to their homes in Andalusia, while some of them remained hidden in their countries after their general expulsion. The Islamic presence continued in a secret and limited manner in Andalusia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Thus, the Inquisition in Granada in 1726 AD sentenced no less than 1800 people (360) families on charges of following the Islamic religion. A Spanish writer reported news of a trial that took place in Granada in 1727 AD. On 5/9/1728 AD, Granada celebrated a huge (Autodeve), where the Inquisition sentenced 64 Granadans on charges of belonging to Islam. On 10/10/1728 AD, the Granada court sentenced again twenty-eight people on charges of belonging to Islam. The Granada courts continued to arrest those accused of Islam until the city’s municipality asked the king in 1729 AD to expel all Moriscos so that the kingdom would remain pure of corrupt blood.
In 1769 AD, the Inquisition received information about the existence of a secret mosque in the city of Cartagena, Murcia province. More than a hundred Moriscos were arrested, tried, and most of them were publicly executed [8] .
Rumors and terrorism against Muslims, men, children, women and even Christians! No matter how much we go into detail about the Inquisition, we will only touch on a very small part of its black and brutal pages, and we will only be able to review a very small part of its crimes that affected the Muslims of Spain. The terror caused by those courts reached an indescribable level among the people of Spain. It was an easy process to drag any person to the Inquisition, and the accusation might be based on a mere rumor, or the person might go himself to confess out of fear, or as evidence of his good intentions, with a word he uttered casually and without meaning anything to him and feared that someone might have heard it, and the door was opened wide to personal grudges, the one who covets his neighbor’s wife, the owner who wants to escape from his worker’s wages, and the merchant who fears competition from a colleague, even children while playing with each other were exposed to accusation, as if a child goes and informs on another child, accusing him of saying such and such while playing, so the accused child is arrested and tried, and often dies because he cannot bear the horrors of investigation, torture and imprisonment. Thus, the road became wide and broad for anyone who wants to get rid of Any person, any charge is valid enough to send a former Muslim to the depths of prison, whether this former Muslim is a man, a child or an old man. It is fair to mention that the victims of the Inquisition were not only former Muslims, but also Christians. The Church adopted the same terrorist behavior towards Christians through the Inquisition courts, which were tasked with imposing their views on people in the name of religion and brutalizing anyone who dared to oppose or criticize. They erected more gallows and executed many Christians by burning them with fire .
The number of Christian victims who were executed by the Inquisition is estimated at (300,000), of whom (32,000) were burned alive. Among them was the well-known natural scientist Bruno, who was resented by the Church due to his extremist views, including his belief in the plurality of worlds. The same applies to the famous natural scientist Galileo, who was executed because he believed that the Earth revolves around the sun [9] .
Let the Crusaders and Zionists remember : After what we have presented about the Inquisition, the following question should be asked: Why do we return to the Inquisition and review it in this way? Is it to weep over past tragedies or to remember sorrows that have passed? The answer is what the Zionists have done and are doing because of what they claimed about the Holocaust and what they claimed about the Nazis burning thousands of Jews in the Holocaust. Zionism continues to place the West in particular and the world in general in front of those Holocausts, which were one of its justifications for the occupation of Palestine, while the world still does not know much about the Inquisition, which claimed the lives of thousands and thousands of Muslims. If the Nazi Holocausts continued for years, then the killing, burning and torture of Muslims through the Inquisition continued for hundreds of years . At a time when the Christian Western countries are opening their archives and documents to Zionism to compose what they claim are documents about the Holocausts of the Jews during the Nazi era, the Vatican and the churches still refuse to open their archives and reveal them to Muslims and non-Muslims so that new documents about the atrocities of the Inquisition do not appear!! Muslims now need to carefully study the history of the Inquisition, its atrocities and its Muslim victims, and to rely on the documents of the Vatican archives and the Catholic churches in Spain and other Christian countries to establish a true history of those courts and to present this history to the world with an objective comparison between the ecclesiastical oppression and crimes committed against Muslims in the name of Christianity, and Islamic tolerance and how Christians lived in safety and peace in the Islamic state under the protection of pure Islam, noting that most of what has been written about the Inquisition so far is based on a Christian vision by non-Muslim orientalists and historians, and what the Christian authorities allow. Source: The Inquisition website, quoted from the Islamic Awareness Magazine. - More historical articles - More articles on the history of Andalusia - The Inquisition by Dr. Ragheb Al-Sarjani - The Inquisition.. The testimony of the French Colonel Lemotski by Dr. Ragheb Al-Sarjani [1] Wall Smith - History of Europe in the Middle Ages - Dar Al-Haqaiq - Beirut - 1980 AD. [2] Al-Jamahir Newspaper: 2/2/2001 AD - Aleppo. [3] Dr. Taher Ahmed Makki - A Spanish Muslim before the Inquisition - Doha Magazine - Qatar - 1981 AD. [4] Wael Ali Hussein - The Inquisition and Western Responsibility - Al Raya Magazine - Issue 186 - Beirut - 1982 AD. [5] The same source. [6] Abdul Rahman Hammadi - Towards a New Approach to Rewriting Arab History - Rewriting Arab History Symposium - Rabat - 1991 AD - Al Wahda Magazine - Special Issue on the Symposium - Rabat - 1991 AD. [7] Taher Ahmed Makki - previously mentioned source. [8] Wael Ali Hussein - previously mentioned source.
[9] Wall Smith - It is noted that the focus of Christian historians on the number of Christians who were victims of the Inquisition comes from the desire to reduce the number of Muslim victims and to suggest that Christians were the largest victims.
Finally, what we have mentioned is only a drop in the ocean of the history of the religion of love that rejects terrorism. Our final supplication is that all praise is due to God, Lord of the Worlds.
and see how the Christians excelled in torturing Muslims and converts because they doubted the truth of their conversion. The Inquisition is in fact a strange and bizarre type of court. It was granted unlimited powers and practiced methods of torture that were not known or practiced by the most brutal tyrants throughout history . These courts began their work by demolishing Arab baths, preventing bathing in the Arab way, preventing wearing Arab clothing or speaking the Arabic language or listening to Arab singing, and preventing marriage in the Arab way or Islamic law. They imposed very strict penalties on anyone who was proven to refuse to drink alcohol or eat pork. Any violation of these prohibitions and orders is considered a departure from Catholicism and its perpetrator is referred to the Inquisition. The accused who appeared before the court was subjected to a preliminary test, which was to drink glasses of wine determined by the judges for him, then he was offered pork and asked to eat it, thus ensuring that the accused was not adhering to the Islamic religion and its orders, but this test was usually only a very easy first step in the face of what awaited the accused of a very long journey of torture, as after drinking the wine and eating pork he was returned to the cell in a secret prison without knowing the charge against him. It was one of the worst places, dark, where snakes, rats and insects roamed, and epidemics spread. In this place the accused had to remain for many months without seeing sunlight or any other light, and if he died, this was what the Inquisition considered a mercy from God and a suitable punishment for him, and if he lived, he was still exposed to trial, and all he had to do was resist death for a period that no one knew when it would end, and during which he might be summoned to the court to be questioned and tortured. The investigator usually asked him the first time if he knew why he was arrested and thrown into prison, and what charges could be brought against him. Then he asked him to come back to himself and reflect on his reality, and to confess all the sins that his conscience dictated to him. He asked him about his family, friends, acquaintances, and all the places he had lived in or visited. During the accused’s answer, he was not interrupted. He was left to speak as he wished, and the scribe recorded everything he said. He was asked to perform some Christian prayers so that the investigators would know whether he had actually become a Christian or was still a Muslim, and the degree of his faith in Christianity.After these slow, routine interviews, the public prosecutor finally reads to the accused the list of charges against him. These charges were drawn up based on what the court concluded from the interrogation of the accused, and are not based on any kind of evidence. The accused’s defense of himself does not matter, since the basic law of the court is that confession is the master of evidence, and the accused has only to confess to the charges against him. The methods by which the confession is taken do not matter. If the accused confesses to avoid the torture that awaits him, the public prosecutor adds other charges to him. In the end, the investigator sees that the accused must be subjected to torture because he is only confessing to avoid telling the truth, meaning that torture is inevitable, whether the accused confesses or not [6] .
Torture includes every conceivable method and one that does not. It begins with depriving the accused of food and drink until he becomes thin and unable to move. Then comes flogging, nail removal, cauterization with hot iron, hair removal, confrontation with wild animals, castration, putting salt on wounds, and hanging by the fingers.
During all torture operations, the writer records everything the accused says in terms of screams, words, and
crying. No old man, woman, or child is exempt from this torture. After each torture session, the accused is left for one day, and then the judges explain what he said during the torture. If he cried and shouted, “Oh God,” the judge explains that the word “Allah” he said means the Lord of Muslims. The accused must deny or confirm this accusation.In both cases, he must be subjected to torture again, and so on in an endless series of tortures.
Finally, twenty-four hours before the execution of the sentence, the accused was notified of the sentence issued against him. The sentences were of three types:
Acquittal : This is a sentence rarely issued by the Inquisition, and then the accused is found innocent, but he lives the rest of his life disabled and threatened by the torture he was subjected to. When he leaves, he finds that his money has been confiscated, and he lives as an outcast because others are afraid to deal with him or talk to him for fear that he is being watched by the Inquisition, and the same charges are pinned on them that were pinned on him.
Flogging: The accused was taken to a public place completely naked and flogged, and he often died under the force of the flogging. If it was carried out and he survived, he lived like the person who was acquitted in terms of disability and ostracism by society.
Execution: This is the most common sentence issued by the Inquisition, and the execution is carried out by burning in the middle of the city square.
In some stages, the courts began to issue prison sentences, and due to overcrowding in the prisons, they began to release some and execute others without any trials . In some cases, they issued sentences requiring the accused to wear a certain dress for the rest of his life, and obligating people to curse him whenever he walked in the street or left his house. In these sentences, as we said, no one was exempted because of age. There are documents indicating that an eleven-year-old girl was flogged two hundred times, and a ninety-year-old man was flogged three hundred times. Even the dead were subject to trial, and their graves were exhumed [7].
Continued persecution and executions against Muslims:
All these courts and methods did not succeed in forcing Muslims to abandon their religion as the church wanted, which realized the depth of faith in the Islamic faith in the souls of the Moriscos, so it decided to expel them from Spain. The Council of State unanimously issued a decision on 1/30/1608 AD to expel all Moriscos from Spain. By October 1609 AD, a large movement had spread throughout the ports of the kingdom and Valencia, from Alicante in the south to Beni Arous in the north. Between 9/1606 AD and 1/1610 AD, about 120,000 Muslims left the ports of Alicante, Denia, Al-Jabiya, Rusafa, Valencia, Beni Arous, and others.
In 5/1611 AD, a criminal decision was issued to eliminate the Muslim renegades in Valencia, stipulating a reward of sixty liras for anyone who brought a living Muslim, who had the right to enslave him, and thirty liras for anyone who brought the head of a Muslim who had been killed. The number of those expelled from Spain in the period between 1609 AD and 1614 AD was about 327,000 people, 65,000 of whom died by drowning at sea, or being killed on the roads, or victims of disease, hunger, and poverty.
32,000 of the expelled people were able to return to their homes in Andalusia, while some of them remained hidden in their countries after their general expulsion. The Islamic presence continued in a secret and limited manner in Andalusia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Thus, the Inquisition in Granada in 1726 AD sentenced no less than 1800 people (360) families on charges of following the Islamic religion. A Spanish writer reported news of a trial that took place in Granada in 1727 AD. On 5/9/1728 AD, Granada celebrated a huge (Autodeve), where the Inquisition sentenced 64 Granadans on charges of belonging to Islam. On 10/10/1728 AD, the Granada court sentenced again twenty-eight people on charges of belonging to Islam. The Granada courts continued to arrest those accused of Islam until the city’s municipality asked the king in 1729 AD to expel all Moriscos so that the kingdom would remain pure of corrupt blood.
In 1769 AD, the Inquisition received information about the existence of a secret mosque in the city of Cartagena, Murcia province. More than a hundred Moriscos were arrested, tried, and most of them were publicly executed [8] .
Rumors and terrorism against Muslims, men, children, women and even Christians! No matter how much we go into detail about the Inquisition, we will only touch on a very small part of its black and brutal pages, and we will only be able to review a very small part of its crimes that affected the Muslims of Spain. The terror caused by those courts reached an indescribable level among the people of Spain. It was an easy process to drag any person to the Inquisition, and the accusation might be based on a mere rumor, or the person might go himself to confess out of fear, or as evidence of his good intentions, with a word he uttered casually and without meaning anything to him and feared that someone might have heard it, and the door was opened wide to personal grudges, the one who covets his neighbor’s wife, the owner who wants to escape from his worker’s wages, and the merchant who fears competition from a colleague, even children while playing with each other were exposed to accusation, as if a child goes and informs on another child, accusing him of saying such and such while playing, so the accused child is arrested and tried, and often dies because he cannot bear the horrors of investigation, torture and imprisonment. Thus, the road became wide and broad for anyone who wants to get rid of Any person, any charge is valid enough to send a former Muslim to the depths of prison, whether this former Muslim is a man, a child or an old man. It is fair to mention that the victims of the Inquisition were not only former Muslims, but also Christians. The Church adopted the same terrorist behavior towards Christians through the Inquisition courts, which were tasked with imposing their views on people in the name of religion and brutalizing anyone who dared to oppose or criticize. They erected more gallows and executed many Christians by burning them with fire .
The number of Christian victims who were executed by the Inquisition is estimated at (300,000), of whom (32,000) were burned alive. Among them was the well-known natural scientist Bruno, who was resented by the Church due to his extremist views, including his belief in the plurality of worlds. The same applies to the famous natural scientist Galileo, who was executed because he believed that the Earth revolves around the sun [9] .
Let the Crusaders and Zionists remember : After what we have presented about the Inquisition, the following question should be asked: Why do we return to the Inquisition and review it in this way? Is it to weep over past tragedies or to remember sorrows that have passed? The answer is what the Zionists have done and are doing because of what they claimed about the Holocaust and what they claimed about the Nazis burning thousands of Jews in the Holocaust. Zionism continues to place the West in particular and the world in general in front of those Holocausts, which were one of its justifications for the occupation of Palestine, while the world still does not know much about the Inquisition, which claimed the lives of thousands and thousands of Muslims. If the Nazi Holocausts continued for years, then the killing, burning and torture of Muslims through the Inquisition continued for hundreds of years . At a time when the Christian Western countries are opening their archives and documents to Zionism to compose what they claim are documents about the Holocausts of the Jews during the Nazi era, the Vatican and the churches still refuse to open their archives and reveal them to Muslims and non-Muslims so that new documents about the atrocities of the Inquisition do not appear!! Muslims now need to carefully study the history of the Inquisition, its atrocities and its Muslim victims, and to rely on the documents of the Vatican archives and the Catholic churches in Spain and other Christian countries to establish a true history of those courts and to present this history to the world with an objective comparison between the ecclesiastical oppression and crimes committed against Muslims in the name of Christianity, and Islamic tolerance and how Christians lived in safety and peace in the Islamic state under the protection of pure Islam, noting that most of what has been written about the Inquisition so far is based on a Christian vision by non-Muslim orientalists and historians, and what the Christian authorities allow. Source: The Inquisition website, quoted from the Islamic Awareness Magazine. - More historical articles - More articles on the history of Andalusia - The Inquisition by Dr. Ragheb Al-Sarjani - The Inquisition.. The testimony of the French Colonel Lemotski by Dr. Ragheb Al-Sarjani [1] Wall Smith - History of Europe in the Middle Ages - Dar Al-Haqaiq - Beirut - 1980 AD. [2] Al-Jamahir Newspaper: 2/2/2001 AD - Aleppo. [3] Dr. Taher Ahmed Makki - A Spanish Muslim before the Inquisition - Doha Magazine - Qatar - 1981 AD. [4] Wael Ali Hussein - The Inquisition and Western Responsibility - Al Raya Magazine - Issue 186 - Beirut - 1982 AD. [5] The same source. [6] Abdul Rahman Hammadi - Towards a New Approach to Rewriting Arab History - Rewriting Arab History Symposium - Rabat - 1991 AD - Al Wahda Magazine - Special Issue on the Symposium - Rabat - 1991 AD. [7] Taher Ahmed Makki - previously mentioned source. [8] Wael Ali Hussein - previously mentioned source.
[9] Wall Smith - It is noted that the focus of Christian historians on the number of Christians who were victims of the Inquisition comes from the desire to reduce the number of Muslim victims and to suggest that Christians were the largest victims.
Finally, what we have mentioned is only a drop in the ocean of the history of the religion of love that rejects terrorism. Our final supplication is that all praise is due to God, Lord of the Worlds.
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