Great commentary. Includes a historic and ideological comparison of Islam and Christianity and the re-emergence of a European identity:
Tag Archives: Hidden History
Europe 1423 – Venetian Estimates of Power
Two good articles about Mutual aid societies
MLK was not a Marxist
King had many Marxists in his circles, perhaps inevitably so — appealing ideology for people who perceive themselves to be repressed — but he also said this:
—“This deprecation of individual freedom was objectionable to me. I am convinced now, as I was then, that man is an end because he is a child of God. Man is not made for the state; the state is made for man. To deprive man of freedom is to relegate him to the status of a thing, rather than elevate him to the status of a person. Man must never be treated as means to the end of the state; but always as an end within himself.”—
The Islamic Genocide of Hindus
Molyneux on Christian vs Muslim conquests — Crusades
French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon 1922
Jesse Owens: “Hitler Didn’t Snub Me — It Was Our President”
Genetic Pacification Theory
The theory has some problems — questionable early data, Italy as a counter example, and the timing of the decrease in violence. Follow the link below for a good discussion below the article.
In this newly published paper, two anthropologists, Peter Frost and Henry Harpending, argue that the last thousand years have seen a radical change in the legitimacy of personal violence. Previously, every man had the right to settle personal disputes as he saw fit, even to the point of killing, and it was only the threat of retaliation from the victim’s kinsmen that kept violence in check. This situation began to change in the 11th century throughout Western Europe with a growing consensus that the wicked should be punished so that the good may live in peace. Courts imposed the death penalty more and more often and, by the late Middle Ages, were condemning to death between 0.5 and 1.0% of all men of each generation, with perhaps just as many offenders dying at the scene of the crime or in prison while awaiting trial. Meanwhile, the homicide rate plummeted from the 14th century to the 20th, decreasing forty-fold. The pool of violent men dried up until most murders occurred under conditions of jealousy, intoxication, or extreme stress.
The immediate causes were legal and cultural: harsher punishment and a shift in popular attitudes toward the violent male—who went from hero to zero. This new social environment, however, also tended to favor the survival and reproduction of individuals who would less easily resort to violence on their own initiative.
The Holocaust and the number 6
The Crusades began only after centuries of Islamic conquest
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The Historical Significance of November 13th in Islam
On November 13, 1918 the Allied troops occupied Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire was the Caliphate, the Islamic State of its day.
The Kharijites
In the earliest days of Islam, a sect called the Kharijites would go to busy markets and stab to death passers by in broad daylight.
Hitler was an anti-capitalist socialist
1890. Population and Debt.
