Op/Ed: New Crusade In Europe

New Crusade In Europe

 By Allan Topol*

The massive financial crisis engulfing Europe has obscured a fundamental change occurring in many Western European nations.  Muslims, with their rapidly increasing population, now have a substantial presence and are likely to become a majority in some of the larger cities in Western Europe.

Many Muslims are prepared to live peacefully within the dominant Christian culture.  However, some radicals are intent on creating parallel societies with Shariah being the law for the Muslim community.  Others are demanding virtual autonomy, political as well as religious, in Muslim enclaves.

The current situation must be viewed against the backdrop of the last twelve hundred years.  In the Eighth Century when Abd Al-Rahman had a falling out with the ruling family in Baghdad, then the center of the Muslim world, he moved with an entourage of his followers to Cordoba in Southern Spain with the objective of creating an Arab Islamic empire that wouldn’t merely rival that of Iraq and the Middle East.  It would eclipse them.

From this humble beginning, Muslims created a society in which science, arts, and learning prospered.  It lasted until the Fifteenth Century when internal dissention and invading Christian armies from the north methodically liberated Muslim dominated towns one by one.[i]

Finally, on January 2, 1492, Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand forced the Muslims to surrender in the Alhambra in Granada, their glorious palace, their last redoubt.  A cross was planted on Alhambra Hill.  Queen Isabella issued an edict:  Convert to Christianity or die.  Many Muslims fled to North Africa.  Their control of Spain had ended.[ii]

During this same period, battles were raging in the Holy Land as Christians from Europe launched repeated crusades to retake Jerusalem from Muslim control.  In the most famous, the Third Crusade at the end of the Twelfth Century, Richard the Lion Heart came close, but ultimately failed in his attempt to seize Jerusalem from the Muslims led by their famous General Saladin.[iii]

For the 500 years after the fall of Granada, there were no battles between Christians and Muslims in Western Europe, primarily because there were no Muslims.  All of that has changed in the last 20-30 years with the influx of Muslims into Western Europe.

There are four primary causes for this large scale immigration.  First, is the residue of colonization.  Britain colonized in what is now Pakistan, Egypt, and Iraq, among other places.  The French in Algeria, Syria, and Morocco.  The Dutch in Indonesia.  All of these are Muslim countries.  Colonialism is over, but many residents of those countries used their nation’s former status to gain admission to the European colonial power under various laws.

Second, during the economic boom prior to the ’08 recession, some European countries like Germany and Spain, facing labor shortages, welcomed workers from Islamic countries such as Turkey.  Third, the liberal democracies gave sanctuary to Muslims from war torn countries in North Africa and the Middle East.

Finally, there are the illegals for whom Western Europe, with its welfare state and promise of high paying jobs, seems to be paradise.  They will risk their lives in boats on the Mediterranean or Atlantic; others over land crossing from Turkey into Greece, where the border is fortified with barbed wire and armed guards.  Once into an EU country, the immigrants may freely move to all others.

The Western European governments naively expected these new immigrants to assimilate into their place of residence.  That has not occurred.  Instead, mosques have sprung up.  The old language is being spoken, and old customs are being practiced.  Not merely veils for woman, but polygamy, wife beating, and ritual circumcision of young girls on the kitchen table.[iv]

Demographics and economics are exacerbating the problem.  White Christians aren’t having many babies as young yuppie couples are more concerned with their upward mobility.  Muslims, in contrast, are propagating at a prodigious rate.   For example, in Brussels, where a fourth of the residents are foreigners, 60% of the children born last year were born to Muslims.  In Amsterdam and Rotterdam, Muslims will be a majority by 2020. [v]

At the same time, since the ’08 recession, jobs have dried up for young people.  For poorly educated Muslim youth, there is no point even in looking for employment.

These conditions make the Western European cities a virtual time bomb.  Already, the violence has started.  In France, in October 2005, Muslim suburbs of Paris and other French cities erupted into full scale riots with young people battling with the police, looting and setting fires.  Over a two week period, 8,000 cars were burned and 2,900 people arrested.[vi]

In London, trains and buses were bombed by Muslims.  In Amsterdam, Muslim violence took an ugly form with the brutal murder of Theo Van Gogh, who made a film about Islam.[vii]

Unfortunately, European leaders have not been able to pinpoint the grievances which led to this violence.  Radicalized Muslim groups do not have clearly stated goals.  Nor are there spokesmen around whom they have coalesced.

In an effort to deal with this problem, authorities in some Western European cities are de facto ceding control of certain zones to their Muslim inhabitants.  Examples are Berlin, Manchester, and some of the Paris suburbs.  But with demographics, these zones will grow like a cancer.

It is inevitable that the Muslim groups will demand autonomy in some or all of the country.  When it is refused, armed conflict is likely to occur.  All of this points toward a bloody period for Europe in the second half of the century.  This is the premise for my novel, The Spanish Revenge, which will be published in September 2012.

Just as Christians and Muslims clashed in Spain in the fifteenth century and in the Holy Land throughout the Middle Ages, they are likely to clash again in Western Europe.  We are still in the embryonic stage of a new crusade.  This time it will be Muslims trying to wrest control of land in Western Europe from Christians.



* Allan Topol’s newest thriller novel, The China Gambit, will be published in January 2012.  Visit his website at www.AllanTopol.com.

[i] For a discussion of the Islamic society in Spain see, The Ornament of the World, by Maria Rosa Menocal, Little Brown & Co. (2002).

[ii] For the victory of Isabella and Ferdinand in 1492, see Dogs of God, by James Reston Jr., Anchor Books (2006).

[iii] For an excellent account of the Third Crusade, see, Warriors of God, James Reston Jr., Anchor Books (2006).

[iv] For a discussion of the assimilation issue in the Netherlands, see, Infidel, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Free Press (2008).

[v] See, Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, by Christopher Caldwell, p. 119, Doubleday (2009).

[vi]Id. at pp. 136-37, Doubleday (2009).

[vii] For a discussion of Theo Van Gogh’s murder, and other attacks by Islamic terrorists, see, The West’s Last Chance, by Tony Blankley, Regenery Publishing (2005).

Is Mayor Bass HIDING the real reason behind LA’s riots?

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Protesters wore Che shirts, waved foreign flags, and chanted Marxist slogans — but corporate media still peddles the ‘spontaneous outrage’ narrative.

I sat in front of the television this weekend, watching the glittering spectacle of corporate media do what it does best: tell me not to believe my lying eyes.

According to the polished news anchors, what I was witnessing in Los Angeles was “mostly peaceful protests.” They said it with all the earnest gravitas of someone reading a bedtime story, while behind them the streets looked like a deleted scene from “Mad Max.” Federal agents dodged concrete slabs as if it were an Olympic sport. A man in a Che Guevara crop top tried to set a police car on fire. Dumpster fires lit the night sky like some sort of postapocalyptic luau.

If you suggest that violent criminals should be deported or imprisoned, you’re painted as the extremist.

But sure, it was peaceful. Tear gas clouds and Molotov cocktails are apparently the incense and candles of this new civic religion.

The media expects us to play along — to nod solemnly while cities burn and to call it “activism.”

Let’s call this what it is: delusion.

Another ‘peaceful’ riot

If the Titanic “mostly floated” and the Hindenburg “mostly flew,” then yes, the latest L.A. riots are “mostly peaceful.” But history tends to care about those tiny details at the end — like icebergs and explosions.

The coverage was full of phrases like “spontaneous,” “grassroots,” and “organic,” as if these protests materialized from thin air. But many of the signs and banners looked like they’d been run off at ComradesKinkos.com — crisp print jobs with slogans promoting socialism, communism, and various anti-American regimes. Palestinian flags waved beside banners from Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba, and El Salvador. It was like someone looted a United Nations souvenir shop and turned it into a revolution starter pack.

And guess who funded it? You did.

According to at least one report, much of this so-called spontaneous rage fest was paid for with your tax dollars. Tens of millions of dollars from the Biden administration ensured your paycheck funded Trotsky cosplayers chucking firebombs at local coffee shops.

The same aging radicals from the 1970s — now armed with tenure, pensions, and book deals — are cheering from the sidelines, waxing poetic about how burning a squad car is “liberation.” These are the same folks who once wore tie-dye and flew to help guerrilla fighters and now applaud chaos under the banner of “progress.”

This is not progress. It is not protest. It’s certainly not justice or peace.

It’s an attempt to dismantle the American system — and if you dare say that out loud, you’re labeled a bigot, a fascist, or, worst of all, someone who notices reality.

And what sparked this taxpayer-funded riot? Enforcement against illegal immigrants — many of whom, according to official arrest records, are repeat violent offenders. These are not the “dreamers” or the huddled masses yearning to breathe free. These are criminals with long, violent rap sheets — allowed to remain free by a broken system that prioritizes ideology over public safety.

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This is what people are rioting over — not the mistreatment of the innocent, but the arrest of the guilty. And in California, that’s apparently a cause for outrage.

The average American, according to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, is supposed to worry they’ll be next. But unless you’re in the habit of assaulting people, smuggling, or firing guns into people’s homes, you probably don’t have much to fear.

Still, if you suggest that violent criminals should be deported or imprisoned, you’re painted as the extremist.

The left has lost it

This is what happens when a culture loses its grip on reality. We begin to call arson “art,” lawlessness “liberation,” and criminals “community members.” We burn the good and excuse the evil — all while the media insists it’s just “vibes.”

But it’s not just vibes. It’s violence, paid for by you, endorsed by your elected officials, and whitewashed by newsrooms with more concern for hair and lighting than for truth.

This isn’t activism. This is anarchism. And Democratic politicians are fueling the flame.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

On Saturday, June 14, 2025 (President Trump's 79th birthday), the "No Kings" protest—a noisy spectacle orchestrated by progressive heavyweights like Randi Weingarten and her union cronies—will take place in Washington, D.C.

Thousands will chant "no thrones, no crowns, no king," claiming to fend off authoritarianism and corruption.

But let’s cut through the noise. The protesters' grievances—rigged courts, deported citizens, slashed services—are a house of cards. Zero Americans have been deported, Federal services are still bloated, and if anyone is rigging the courts, it's the Left. So why rally now, especially with riots already flaring in L.A.?

Chaos isn’t a side effect here—it’s the plan.

This is not about liberty; it's a power grab dressed up as resistance. The "No Kings" crowd wants you to buy their script: government’s the enemy—unless they’re the ones running it. It's the identical script from 2020: same groups, same tactics, same goal, different name.

But Glenn is flipping the script. He's dropping a new "No Kings but Christ" merch line, just in time for the protest. Merch that proclaims one truth: no earthly ruler owns us; only Christ does. It’s a bold, faith-rooted rejection of this secular circus.

Why should you care? Because this won’t just be a rally—it’ll be a symptom. Distrust in institutions is sky-high, and rightly so, but the "No Kings" answer is a hollow shout into the void. Glenn’s merch begs the question: if you’re ditching kings, who’s really in charge? Get yours and wear the answer proudly.

Truth unleashed: 95% say media’s excuses for anti-Semitism are a LIE

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Glenn asked for YOUR take on the rising tide of anti-Semitism, and you delivered. After the Boulder attack, you made it clear: this isn’t just a news story—it’s a crisis the elites are dodging.

Your verdict is unmistakable: 96% of you see anti-Semitism as a growing threat in the U.S., brushing aside the establishment’s weak excuses. The spin does not fool you—95% say the media is deliberately downplaying the issue, hiding a cultural rot that’s all too real. And the government’s response? A whopping 95% of you call it a disgraceful failure, leaving communities exposed.

Your voices shatter the silence. Why should we trust narratives that dismiss your concerns? With 97% of you warning that anti-Semitism will surge in the years ahead, you’re demanding action and accountability. This is your stand for truth.

You spoke, and Glenn listened. Your bold response sends a message to those who’d rather ignore the problem. Keep raising your voice at Glennbeck.com—your input drives the fight for justice. Take part in the next poll and continue shaping the conversation.

Want to make your voice heard? Check out more polls HERE.

JPMorgan Chase CEO issues dire warning about America's prosperity

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Jamie Dimon has a grim forecast for America — and it’s not a recession. He sees a fragile nation drifting into crisis while its leaders fight over TikTok.

Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase — one of the most powerful financial institutions on earth — issued a warning the other day. But it wasn’t about interest rates, crypto, or monetary policy.

Speaking at the Reagan National Defense Forum in California, Dimon pivoted from economic talking points to something far more urgent: the fragile state of America’s physical preparedness.

We are living in a moment of stunning fragility — culturally, economically, and militarily. It means we can no longer afford to confuse digital distractions with real resilience.

“We shouldn’t be stockpiling Bitcoin,” Dimon said. “We should be stockpiling guns, tanks, planes, drones, and rare earths. We know we need to do it. It’s not a mystery.”

He cited internal Pentagon assessments showing that if war were to break out in the South China Sea, the United States has only enough precision-guided missiles for seven days of sustained conflict.

Seven days — that’s the gap between deterrence and desperation.

This wasn’t a forecast about inflation or a hedge against market volatility. It was a blunt assessment from a man whose words typically move markets.

“America is the global hegemon,” Dimon continued, “and the free world wants us to be strong.” But he warned that Americans have been lulled into “a false sense of security,” made complacent by years of peacetime prosperity, outsourcing, and digital convenience:

We need to build a permanent, long-term, realistic strategy for the future of America — economic growth, fiscal policy, industrial policy, foreign policy. We need to educate our citizens. We need to take control of our economic destiny.

This isn’t a partisan appeal — it’s a sobering wake-up call. Because our economy and military readiness are not separate issues. They are deeply intertwined.

Dimon isn’t alone in raising concerns. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has warned that China has already overtaken the U.S. in key defense technologies — hypersonic missiles, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence to mention a few. Retired military leaders continue to highlight our shrinking shipyards and dwindling defense manufacturing base.

Even the dollar, once assumed untouchable, is under pressure as BRICS nations work to undermine its global dominance. Dimon, notably, has said this effort could succeed if the U.S. continues down its current path.

So what does this all mean?

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It means we are living in a moment of stunning fragility — culturally, economically, and militarily. It means we can no longer afford to confuse digital distractions with real resilience.

It means the future belongs to nations that understand something we’ve forgotten: Strength isn’t built on slogans or algorithms. It’s built on steel, energy, sovereignty, and trust.

And at the core of that trust is you, the citizen. Not the influencer. Not the bureaucrat. Not the lobbyist. At the core is the ordinary man or woman who understands that freedom, safety, and prosperity require more than passive consumption. They require courage, clarity, and conviction.

We need to stop assuming someone else will fix it. The next crisis — whether military, economic, or cyber — will not politely pause for our political dysfunction to sort itself out. It will demand leadership, unity, and grit.

And that begins with looking reality in the eye. We need to stop talking about things that don’t matter and cut to the chase: The U.S. is in a dangerously fragile position, and it’s time to rebuild and refortify — from the inside out.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.