Sunday, September 13, 2015

What is a "Rabat"?

Remember the “Islamic Cultural Center” that Muslims wanted to build near the site of the World Trade Center bombing?

It was really meant to be a rabat.  But, what is a rabat and what does it mean to Muslims?

The first rabat appeared at the time of the Prophet.
The Prophet imposed his rule on parts of Arabia through a series of ghazvas, or razzias (the origin of the English word “raid”). The ghazva was designed to terrorize the infidels, convince them that their civilization was doomed and force them to submit to Islamic rule. Those who participated in the ghazva were known as the ghazis, or raiders.

After each ghazva, the Prophet ordered the creation of a rabat — or a point of contact at the heart of the infidel territory raided. The rabat consisted of an area for prayer, a section for the raiders to eat and rest and facilities to train and prepare for future razzias. Later Muslim rulers used the tactic of ghazva to conquer territory in the Persian and Byzantine empires. After each raid, they built a rabat to prepare for the next razzia.

[NB:] It is no coincidence that Islamists routinely use the term ghazva to describe the 9/11 attacks against New York and Washington. The terrorists who carried out the attack are referred to as ghazis or shahids (martyrs).

I don’t think that we are really taking stock of what is going on in the West.
“Immigrants” are pouring into Europe across the Mediterranean via Lampedusa. “Immigrants” are pouring into Europe through Turkey toward Germany.



Drink of the Day: Sobieski Espresso

Today, we celebrate The Holy Name of Mary in tribute to the Christian victory over the Muslims at the Gates of Vienna.

We want to honor the hero of the battle, Polish General Jan Sobieski, by drinking Sobieski Vodka made in Poland.
We want to honor the Capuchin monk, Marco d’Aviano, who used coffee beans left behind by the retreating Muslims to make a new drink that became popular around the world – Cappuccino – the little Capuchin.

Sobieski Espresso
1 oz. Sobieski vodka
1 oz. Kahlua
1 oz. fresh espresso

Shake with ice 40  times.
Serve garnished with raspberries, and be sure to use a cocktail spear in honor of Sobieski.

Toast by quoting General Sobieski, “I came, I saw, God conquered!”
Make a Toast to the Holy Name of Mary, “Blessed be the name of Mary, Virgin and Mother!”



From: Drinking With The Saints by Michael P. Foley

Why you should have a crescent roll with your coffee today

Feast of the Most Holy Name of Mary – Victory over the Infidel Muslim Invaders

In accordance with Jewish custom our Lady's parents named her eight days after her birth, and were inspired to call her Mary. The feast of the Holy Name of Mary therefore follows that of her Birthday, as the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus follows Christmas.

The feast originated in Spain and was approved by the Holy See in 1513; Innocent XI extended its observance to the whole Church in 1683 in thanksgiving to our Lady for the victory on September 12, 1683 by John Sobieski, king of Poland, over the Turks, who were besieging Vienna and threatening the West.


This day was commemorated in Vienna by creating a new kind of pastry and shaping it in the form of the Turkish half-moon. It was eaten along with coffee which was part of the booty from the Turks.

The Battle of Vienna, 1683: A Documentary

The Battle of Vienna, 1683: A Documentary

This short video explains the significance of September 11 to Muslims.

It also explains why the country of Hungry has suffered Muslim persecution and has no intention of allowing thousands of Muslim refugees to invade their country again.

Oh, and thanks to the Polish troops and their hussar cavalrymen who actually wore wings of feathers to frighten the enemy.  It worked!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAHSbIz8fEY

Feast of the Most Holy Name Of Mary

For an explanation of the feast, see The Liturgical Year, the great classic by the Right Reverend Dom Prosper GuĂ©ranger, Abbot of Solesmes, pages 171-195. From that:

"Two glorious triumphs, two victories won under the protection of our Lady, have rendered this present day illustrious in the annals of the Church and of history.

"Manicheism, revived under a variety of names, had established itself in the South of France, whence it hoped to spread its reign of shameless excess. But Dominic appeared with Mary's Rosary for the defence of the people. On the 12th of September 1213, Simon de Montfort and the Crusaders of the faith, one against forty, crushed the Albigensian army at Muret. This was in the pontificate of Innocent III.
"Nearly five centuries later, the Turks, who had more than once caused the West to tremble, again poured down upon Christendom. Vienna, worn out and dismantled, abandoned by its emperor, was surrounded by 300,000 infidels. But another great Pope, Innocent XI., again confided to Mary the defence of the baptized nations. Sobieski, mounting his charger on the feast of our Lady's Assumption, hastened from Poland by forced marches. On the Sunday within the Octave of the Nativity, 12th September 1683, Vienna was delivered; and then began for the Osmanlis that series of defeats which ended in the Treaties of Carlowitz and Passarowitz, and the dismemberment of the Ottoman empire. The feast of the most holy Name of Mary inscribed on the Calendar of the universal Church, was the homage of the world's gratitude to Mary, our Lady and Queen." Page 193.
Wikipedia's article on Sobieski's victory at the Battle of Vienna is excellent. From that:

"In honor of Sobieski, the Austrians erected a church atop a hill of Kahlenberg, north of Vienna. The train route from Vienna to Warsaw is also named in Sobieski's honour. The constellation Scutum Sobieski (Sobieski’s Shield) was named to memorialize the battle. Because Sobieski had entrusted his kingdom to the protection of the Blessed Virgin (Our Lady of Czestochowa) before the battle, Pope Innocent XI commemorated his victory by extending the feast of the Holy Name of Mary, which until then had been celebrated solely in Spain and the Kingdom of Naples, to the universal Church; it is celebrated on 12 September."



Hijra: The 3rd Wave - "We Will Conquer Rome"

Your mission is to destabilize Libya and use it as the staging ground for our Islamic invasion of Italy so we can turn the Vatican into a mosque!
In the meantime, we will send thousands of young Muslim men into Europe as “refugees” who can then help us conquer Italy and the rest of Europe.

The First Wave (hijra):  Muslim expansion into Middle East – conquered the Christian city of Jerusalem – 638 AD
The Second Wave (hijra):  Muslim expansion into Europe – conquered the Christian city of Constantinople (now Istanbul) – 1453 AD
The Third Wave (hijra):  Muslim expansion into all of Europe – conquer the Christian city of Rome - ?

In Islamic law and applied theology, the idea of the hijra pertains to the movement of a group of Muslims from a predominately Muslim area to a predominately non-Muslim area, with the goal of establishing Islam’s dominance in it. 

After Muhammad’s death, Muslims have counted two great hijras in the West. The first was the great Islamic expansion from 632 to 750, when Islamic armies conquered all of the territory from what is today central France to Uzbekistan. The second hijra included the Turkish migrations that resulted in the fall of Constantinople, and reached its zenith with Islamic armies besieging the gates of Vienna in 1683. It was during this last encounter that the horde was driven back by Polish Catholic forces into the Balkan Peninsula, breaking the strength of the Ottoman Empire.
The battle began on September 11th, 1683. [No, it is not a coincidence.]

After the Battle of Vienna, European regimes began to rapidly colonize the Middle East, and the remains of the Ottoman Empire diminished, eventually being formally abolished by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in 1923 – but not before purging over a million Armenian, Assyrian, Pontic Greek, and Turkish Christians from its lands between 1915 and 1917. Muslim “revivalists” beginning as early as the 18th century reminisced about a return to the practice of “orthodox” Islam, and posited that in so doing, they could bring about a revival of the same bestial force which conquered so much of the world and subjected so many countless peoples under Islam’s burdensome yoke. 

The first hijra conquered Jerusalem in 638. 
The second hijra conquered Constantinople in 1453. 
Two of the three oldest and holiest cities for Christians were conquered by Muslims.
Except for Rome.
This, now, is the third hijra. According to certain voices in the Islamic world, it will be the final hijra, the one that will conquer Rome.  [You may have seen the videos of ISIS members chanting “We will conquer Rome!”]

In Islamic circles, there has been a long-held belief that Christianity — and specifically, the Catholic Church — is the main obstacle impeding Islam’s domination of all humanity under one religious and political system. Therefore, in order to realize this vision, the Christian faithful must not only be converted to Islam, but their sacred spaces must be taken from them and given to the dar Al-Islam – “the house of Islam.”

If the Islamic conquest of Jerusalem led to the end of Christianity as the dominant religion in the Holy Land, and the same was true in the Byzantine Empire with the fall of Constantinople, the conquest of Rome and the Islamization of St. Peter’s Basilica would mean the effective destruction of the Church worldwide, and its replacement with Islam.



The Other 9/11 Attack: Battle of Vienna in 1683

The Battle of Vienna (Die Schlacht am Kahlenberg; Bitwa pod Wiedniem)—one of Europe's most epic battles—began on the early morning of Sunday, the 12th of September 1683, after a 60-day siege of the city. The city walls were crumbling and the Ottomans were preparing to take the city, when on the night of 11 September Jan III Sobieski arrived, as if by Providence, with thousands of fresh troops. A few hours later, at 4 AM, the battle began.

During the battle, 30,000 Christian hostages were executed by the Ottomans. But the combined forces of the Holy Roman Empire and Poland-Lithuania (supported by various other European states and peoples) defeated the Ottoman Empire, inflicting 40,000 Ottoman deaths.  At the end of the battle, Polish General Jan III Sobieski led a charge of 18,000 horsemen—the largest cavalry charge in history—causing the Ottomans to finally retreat.

Vienna was saved. Sobieski, paraphrasing Julius Caesar, later said: "Veni, vidi, Deus vicit" ("I came, I saw, God conquered").

The battle marked the end of Ottoman expansion in Europe. Had the Ottoman's won, it would have meant the conquest of Central Europe, from which the Ottoman's would be able to conquer the rest of Europe. The victory was followed up by Prince Eugenio di Savoia's
(Duke of Savoy) reconquest of Hungary, which had earlier been taken by the Turks.

To commemorate the victory at Vienna, 12 September was declared a universal feast in the Church – Feast of the Most Holy Name of Mary.