When violence strikes in any country the public has every right to demand answers. Governments have a duty to protect their people, enforce the law, and confront extremist movements, but for decades now leaders of western civilization have allowed their citizens to become victims as a mass migration of militant invaders seek to advance an ideology that has sought to exterminate our way of life for 1400 years. This is the story of two civilizations still at war.
Beginning in 711 Arab and Berber forces known as “Moors”, crossed from North Africa and conquered much of what is now Spain, Portugal, and half of France. In the early 8th century, Muslim forces crossed the Pyrenees and held territory in Septimania, around today’s Languedoc of Southern France. Campaigning farther north; they fought the Battle of Tours/Poitiers (usually dated to 732) and began conquering Sicily in 827. The island became an important Muslim-ruled center, while forces also held some mainland footholds and raided other parts of southern Italy.
The Crusades began around 1095, when Pope Urban II called for a military expedition to aid Byzantine Christians and reclaim Jerusalem. Crusader forces captured Jerusalem and established states in parts of the eastern Mediterranean, including Edessa, Antioch, and Tripoli. They also took Acre and other coastal cities later. These territories were not permanently held: Muslim rulers recaptured most Crusader-held lands over the following centuries, with Acre—the last major Crusader stronghold on the mainland—falling in 1291. As for Sicily, the Norman conquest ended Muslim political rule by 1091. Christian kingdoms took territory over several centuries. Granada, the last Muslim-ruled kingdom in Spain, fell in 1492.
The modern iteration of the Islamic conquest of the Mediterranean and European world has evolved from standing armies to subversive insertion of radical militants into these same areas through suicidal immigration policies, allowing millions of militants to occupy them without firing a shot. The danger from jihadist terrorism is real. France’s domestic intelligence service says 16 terrorist plots have been foiled since 2024, seven of them in 2025. The most recent “riots” in France, often propagandized as student upheavals, have been infiltrated by radical Islamic militants inside its boarders. The insurgency pushes into Germany and England as violent attacks against citizens and often Jewish people continues to rise and as these groups grow, they install fellow Islamists to positions of political power. England specifically has roughly two dozen Muslim MPs, three identified directly elected mayors in the February 2026 count.
They say “history doesn’t repeat, but it sure does rhyme.” While world leaders deflect and try to placate the obvious threat to our western society it is hard to not see the similarities from the past. Belated action against the enemy of our culture led to centuries of conflict and loss, and the pattern repeats today. The only question is will our way of life be permanently extinguished this time, or will we answer the call to defend our civilization in a modern day crusade?