17th Century Islam ll

    Christian Europe was scared of the Islamic Empire. After Constantinople was taken by the Muslims in 1453, the major Catholic powers in the Mediterranean, Spain and Venice, were very anxious about Islam replacing Christianity in Europe by conquest. Protestants in northern Europe were anxious too. Congregations in Germany prayed for protection from the Turks, and their ministers warned the married men that the Muslims would rob them of their families whom they would mistreat and rob them of their possessions, and finally rob them of their belief in Christ and replace it by force with the Islamic devil, Mahomet. People were warned repeatedly that the Muslims and Saracens were not far from their doors. By the beginning of the 17th Century, Islam was being called "the present terror of the world."For centuries later, we could now say that Sharia Islam was the present terror of the world.
    I'd like to move to the Criminal vs Jerk national elections to say that Trump was correct in calling President Obama the founder of the Islamic State because he created the vacuum in Iraq and Syria by withdrawing the American counter-
Crusaders. He was so adamant about a light bootprint and no American fighting in the Sandbox that he refused to send troops to rescue the American Ambassador, two Seals, and a State Department communications experts at the besieged CIA station in Benghazi. He murdered these men, and Hillary went along with it in return for a pass from the FBI and the "Justice" Department on her criminal use of a private, unsecured email server. After Obama cleared out the counter-Crusaders in Iraq and Syria, a vacuum was created, and ISIS rushed into the vast, empty area and declared it a caliphate named the Islamic State. So you see how Trump is right: President Obama is the founder of the Islamic State in that he made the land available for it. I have repeatedly written that the best way for Americans to understand why Obama acts as he does is to see him as a lone-wolf, Islamic soldier. But how many sheep are tough-minded enough to see that. It didn't come easily to me.
    This week I was working on my book at The Roost (fictional name) late one night, when a little man at another table, suddenly asked, "What are you struggling with?"
    "My book," I replied.
    "Someone as brilliant as you should have no problem with that," the stranger said sarcastically.
    "F-    you very much!"
    "Someone with your brilliance should be able to say something more erudite than that," he countered as he got up and walked away.
    "Goodbye, ass-     ," I said.
     He turned toward me, started to say something and left. I waited a minute or so to see if he were returning with a gun, and then went back to work, brilliantly of course.
    Late nights in a public place, you never know what the cat will drag in.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
"The measure of a man,
 Is not what he says,
 But what he does,
 And what he allows others.
 To do in his presence."
  - Navy Seal Instructor