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Andrew Bolt is giving a speech next week on media deceit and distortion. Nice of The Age to help him out:
I’ll just take the crowd through this same astonishing edition ... including Naomi Klein’s claim that our generous tsunami aid was just more wicked imperialism, the error-ridden editorial on the Solon case, the use of a Marxist book reviewer to damn Robert Manne as being too unreliable a Leftist, the genuflection in the travel pages to superior Aboriginal spirituality, the generous profile of a musician who was a communist but now feels the thrill of earth worship, the claim by a Chinese Australian that a random search of her bags at customs proves we’re racist, and much much more, even extending to the real estate pages. I wonder if the new editor, Andrew Jaspan, even realises how absurd and extreme the Age has become under him, or does this reflect his own middle-class English socialism, that has made the Guardian, for instance, an international joke?
I admire Andrew Bolts courage in accepting invitations to ABC forums where he is lambasted by moon-bats like Richard Neville and rancid Uni activists.
Love his reply to the “ I’m ashamed of the Crusades” guy who obviously has just returned form a night at the movies.
“ it’s as well to remember, however, that they occurred only after Islamic conquerors had swept through the Holy Land, taken over Christian north Africa, conquered Spain, driven deep into France, overrun half of the Eastern Roman Empire – also Christian – and seized Sicily. It’s not as if the Christians of Europe were silly to feel under siege from this new religion and its warriors. “
And he forgot - sacked and destroyed the Vatican and stolen its religious artifacts.And he forgot - sacked and destroyed the Vatican and stolen its religious artifacts.
Um...maybe because that never happened?
Posted by Quentin George on 2005 05 26 at 02:30 AM • permalinkGibbon stated that had not the crusaders fought on our behalf the Koran would now be taught in the schools of Oxford.
Rome was sacked in 846AD by Muslims who sailed up the Tiber.
St Peter’s basilica was plundered during the papacy of Sergius 11.
As a result, the Leonine walls were built to protect the city."If the Da Vinci Code is true then the entire Christian Church is built upon a LIE and Christ’s descendents walk among us.”
Promo oft repeated on ABC for The Real Da Vinci Code.
Two nights ago this was spouted again.Followed by the sympathetic spiritual indigenous warning."The following programme may contain persons who have since passed away..”
Don’t mind our feelings folks we just pay your 700million a year. Our largest religion is a joke to you.Should we put one of those salamon rushdie things out.
Oh I forgot,that wouldn’t be christian.What with the “DA Vinci code” and Scott Ridley, the Knight Templar’s are sure getting the treatment from the Christian hating atheist left.
You wonder if in a few hundred years the troops who saved us from Adolf Hitler will get the same revisionist demonetization from would be historians.
The ABC know full well that the da Vinci code is pure religious thriller fiction.
But of course since they have no value for religion (Christian that is not muslim) they see no wrong in making such insulting comments.Followed by the sympathetic spiritual indigenous warning."The following programme may contain persons who have since passed away..”
Huh?
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2005 05 26 at 11:09 AM • permalinkHang on! This 846 a.d. bit. I’ve never heard of it, and I’m a trained historian (MA & PhD in History, anyway). Now either it didn’t happen, or it’s been so supressed it’s dropped right out of popular memory, and out of the knowledge of people like me who pride ourselves on our knowledge of such things. If it really did happen, let’s make sure that memory is well and truly revived! This is important!
Posted by Susan Norton on 2005 05 26 at 05:59 PM • permalinkMy Britannica (1990 ed., vol. 26, Pre-Columbian - Sacred) says this:
After the Muslims plundered St. Peter’s and the outlying areas of Rome in 846, Pope Leo IV built a wall around the area of the Vatican, thus enclosing the suburb that came to be known as the Leonine City.
Not a lot of detail, I admit.Time-Life History of the World 800-1000 AD doesn’t mention it, but it’s focussed specifically on Vikings, Byzantium, Japan and Pre-Columbian America, and doesn’t really cover Rome or the rest of Europe.
Europe, a History doesn’t mention it directly, only in a passing comment on the Arab invasion of Italy.
The Atlas of Medieval Europe says this:
The Muslims had taken advantage of political disputes to intervene at Naples in 837; the appeared even in Venetian waters in the early years of Venetian autonomy. They sacked Rome outside the walls in 846 and John VIII paid them tribute 30 years later. They sacked Genoa as late as 934/5 and the base they established at Fraxinetum in Provence in 888 was not destroyed until 975.
That’s the best I can do with my personal library.
I’m an idiot. I still turn to books to look things up, when I have long made it my goal to collect every piece of information in the known universe here on my PC. (Which has 1.2 terabytes of disk as a result.)
Leo IV, Saint
born , Rome
died July 17, 855, Rome; feast day July 17pope from 847 to 855.
A Benedictine monk, Leo served in the Curia under Pope Gregory IV and was later made cardinal priest by Pope Sergius II, whom he was elected to succeed. Leo rebuilt Rome after it had been sacked by the Saracens (Arab enemies) in 846 and fortified the city to protect it against future attacks. In 849 he arranged an alliance among several Greek cities in Italy, and their combined forces defeated an invading Saracen fleet off Ostia, Italy. In 854 Leo fortified Civitavecchia, Italy, a popular Saracen target. Thereafter, the town was named Leopoli in his honour.
Rome
Factional struggles: papacy and nobility
The decline of Carolingian authority in Italy led to the renewal of family and factional struggles. After the Muslims plundered St. Peter’s and the outlying areas of Rome in 846, Pope Leo IV built a wall around the area of the Vatican, thus enclosing the suburb that came to be known as the Leonine City. From the late 9th through the mid-11th century, Rome and the papacy were controlled by various families from Rome’s landed nobility, with brief interludes of intervention from the German emperors.
Benedict III
born , Rome
died April 17, 858, Romepope from 855 to 858, who was chosen as successor to Leo IV in July 855. The election was not immediately confirmed by the Holy Roman emperor Louis II the Bavarian, who set up Anastasius the Librarian as antipope. Benedict was imprisoned, but the imperial government’s opposition to Benedict was dropped, and he was consecrated pope. He reprimanded the Frankish bishops, whose inaction he blamed as the source of misery in their empire. Benedict also was responsible for the repair of Roman churches damaged by the Saracens in 846.
(All from Britannica 2005)
Susan Norton
it seems that much of the history of Islamic “conquest’ has been forgotten or revised for a variety of reasons.
historical revisionism of Islamic Jihad and co quest, would make a fascinating study for a PHD historian.
I would start with the History of 1000 years of Islamic conquest in the Indian sub continent, which has been sorely revised by British historians after its colonialization of India.Thanks everyone! I am now really shocked that this event seems to have been so supressed by the guilt-ridden, self-hating Werstern intellectual establishment. I am going to find out more, and I’m going to do my bit to make sure it’s remembered. Thank you again!
Posted by Susan Norton on 2005 05 26 at 11:06 PM • permalinkFound some more details here
The Arabs attack Rome (846)
On August 10 th 846 the marquis Adalbertus of Tuscany, who watches over Corsica, writes to the pope to warn him of a near attack of the Arabs. But it is too late.
On August 28 th 846 the Arabs arrived at the mouth of the river Tiber and they sailed towards Rome.
From Civitavecchia an army started the descent by land in direction of Rome.
Another army began the march from Portus and Ostia.
They didn’t succeed in entering the enclosing walls, validly defended by the Romans, but the churches of St. Peter and St. Paul, outside the boundaries, were violated by the Arabs.
Uselessly Saxons, Longobards, Frisians and Franks defended St. Peter up to the last man. The Arabs brought away all the treasures of St. Peter, they tore the silver leaves of the doors, the gold foils of the floor of the confession, devastated the bronzy crypt of the apostle, took the gold cross that stood on the grave of Peter. They laid waste all the churches of the district Suburb.
The marquis Guy of Spoleto, arrived to help Rome, succeeded in defeating the Arabs who withdrew partly towards Civitavecchia and partly towards Fondi, following the Appian Way.The Arabs’ passage, in flight, provoked ruin and devastation in all the Roman country.
At Gaeta the Longobard army clashed again with the Arabs. Guy of Spoleto found himself in serious difficulties, but the Byzantine troops of Cesarius, son of Sergius, magister militum in Naples, arrived in time.
In November of 846 a storm provoked numerous damages to the ships of the Arabs, some of which were shipwrecked on the coast.
The pope Leo IV, in consequence of the attack against St. Peter, in 848 undertook the construction of the Civitas Leonina to protect the Vatican hill. The enclosing walls were completed in June 27 th 852.
Rob - A warning which the Puhlic broadcasters in Australia use before any indigenous Australian film images are shown.If the persons in the footage are now dead, their image is bad news to see in their culture.If someone dies, often others with the same name will change it. This is just their custom.
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