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In 850, a Christian priest named Perfectus was living in Córdoba, the capital of Muslim-ruled Spain. One day, several Muslims asked him what he thought of Muhammad. According to St. Eulogius of Córdoba, Perfectus initially refused to answer because he knew that criticizing Islam could cost him his life. But after the men promised that he could speak freely, he openly criticized Muhammad. They reported him to the authorities, and Perfectus was arrested. He was executed in Córdoba that same year. His death was one of the first in a series of Christian martyrdoms under the emirate. In his account, Perfectus declared: “I have cursed and I curse your prophet.”
ISLAM is the most peaceful religion on earth.
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This is easily the best account to follow.
One of the hidden benefits of reading old books is that they rescue you from the arrogance of the present.
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No society has ever improved by becoming more secular.
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Yesterday, the Spanish authorities flew another 2 passenger jets full of illegal migrants from the Canary Islands to mainland Spain. This video shows the flight which left Tenerife Via @CanarioToday
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You are such a cuck, Piers. Everything he said is true, but you couldn't care less. As long as you get your curry, you are perfectly happy to sell out your own people.
"Islam is not compatible with Poland... France has fallen - it's done, it's too late!" Dominik Tarczyński MEP tells Piers Morgan he would 'ban all Muslims' from entering Poland, if elected. 📺 youtu.be/ttVTPu0bS4M @piersmorgan | @D_Tarczynski
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I've been laughing at this for five minutes hahah we are ruled by psychopaths Museums will be empty buildings with apology letters on the walls
🚨NEWS: THIS MIGHT BE THE WOKEST THING I’VE EVER HEARD Glasgow Life has REMOVED the Egyptian Mummies on display at Kelvingrove Art Gallery because the deceased mummies DID NOT CONSENT to be on display I wish I was joking Absolutely true
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NEW ARTICLE: thewesternspirit.blog/p/two-… On October 22, 851, two young Christian sisters named Nunilo and Alodia were beheaded in Muslim-ruled Spain for refusing to abandon Christianity and embrace Islam. They lived near Huesca and were the daughters of a Muslim father and a Christian mother. After their father’s death their mother remarried another Muslim. Under the rules applied by the authorities the sisters were counted as Muslims because of their father’s religion. Their continued practice of Christianity was therefore treated as apostasy. Brought before the local governor, they were offered wealth and marriage if they would accept Islam, and death if they refused. For obvious reasons, they refused. St. Eulogius of Córdoba, a priest, recorded their reply: “O Governor, in the same way, we order you to turn to God’s piety! Which holy piety, in viewing things by His Light, made us aware that nobody can be wealthier than Christ, nobody can be happier than a faithful Christian woman. Through whom do the just live? Through whom has the power of the saints conquered? Without Him, life is nothing; without Him, death thrives forever. To abide in Him and live in Him is true comfort. To back away from Him is eternal ruin.“By no means will we abandon partnership with Him while we are in this life, because believing our integrity is from Him, we look forward to someday being admitted into marriage with Him. For you bestow things that perish, of which you speak to entice us. We scorn them, considering them as nothing when one thinks about it; because we were aware that everything under the sun is vanity. Nor are we disturbed by the threat of punishment, which we recognize to be powerful in the short term. Indeed, death itself, which you put forward as the ultimate terror, we long for with the most welcoming love; for through it, we trust to ascend into heaven without delay, to approach Christ, and to be held fast in his embraces, never to be torn apart.” They were then confined with Muslim women charged with breaking their resolve. The women failed. The sisters were brought before the authorities again and once more confessed Christ. They were beheaded on October 22, 851. Their deaths were part of a larger wave of Christian martyrdom in ninth-century Muslim Spain. During those years dozens of Christians were executed for publicly condemning Muhammad or refusing to abandon Christianity. St. Eulogius of Córdoba, who documented the stories of Christians who confessed Christ and denounced the claims of Muhammad, was himself beheaded by the Muslim authorities on March 11, 859. Among the best-known were Perfectus and Isaac, whose executions took place shortly before the sisters’ martyrdom. The story of these executions begins in 850 with a Christian priest named Perfectus. Perfectus served at the Church of Saint Acisclus in Córdoba when he was stopped by several Muslims who asked him what he thought of Muhammad. According to St. Eulogius, Perfectus initially refused to answer because he knew that criticizing Islam could cost him his life. But after the men promised that he could speak freely, he openly criticized Muhammad.
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I don’t consent to the government replacing me with foreigners.
NEW - Irish government runs an advert discouraging grandparents from hugging their grandchildren without consent.
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We all know what the patient looks like
🇫🇷 France has recorded the world’s first human case of Shamonda virus The patient died. Health authorities said the virus, which normally infects farm animals, was detected in a person for the first time. It was previously believed not to infect humans. The patient is thought to have been infected in eastern France, where the virus circulated among animals in spring and summer 2026. Spread by midge bites and mainly affecting cattle, it was first identified in Nigeria in the mid-1960s and is now spreading in several European countries. Authorities called the case “exceptional,” noting the patient had a severe immunodeficiency and was being treated in a Lyon hospital for a serious illness.
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Yeah, Christians took back what was once theirs. You really want to go down that road? Because by that same logic, what about Morocco, Tunisia, Iraq, and much of the Middle East, where Christianity existed long before Islam? Read history.
Spain was once a muslim country. The Christians took it via the sword. Read history
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The Iberian Peninsula was ruled by the Christian Visigothic Kingdom until its conquest by Muslim forces in 711, establishing Al-Andalus. Christian kingdoms reconquered the territory during the Reconquista, ending in 1492. britannica.com/event/Reconqui… britannica.com/place/Spain/Mu… britannica.com/place/Spain/Th…
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In The Republic, Plato argues that every form of government eventually decays, with democracy ultimately giving way to tyranny.
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Bukele launched a military operation to free their hostages in Haiti This is so freaking cool
Pou chèf gang yo ak manm gang yo k ap kenbe kat konpatriyòt nou yo an otaj ann Ayiti: Mesye nou kidnape yo pa konbatan. Yo se teknisyen nan domèn avyasyon ki fè pati misyon nou ann Ayiti, nan kad yon misyon entènasyonal. Misyon nou an gen sèlman pilòt ak pèsonèl teknik, ki gen kòm travay prensipal fè evakyasyon medikal epi sove lavi moun, pa fè lagè. Men, nou te kidnape yo yon fason lach pandan yo t ap retounen apre yo te fin achte manje nan yon makèt nan zòn nan. Se poutèt sa, jodi a nou te lanse yon operasyon militè pou pote yo sekou. Nou gen yon sèl objektif: fè kat konpatriyòt nou yo retounen lakay yo vivan, san okenn mal. Men, mwen vle pou nou menm, chèf gang yo, konprann yon bagay byen klè: atak jodi a pa anyen devan sa k ap vini si nou pa remèt toule kat otaj yo vivan. Epi pa pran pawòl nou yo pou menas san fondman. Nou deja fini ak gang yo nan El Salvador, e nou kapab fini ak nou tou. Nou toujou gen tan pou evite sa. Remèt nou kat konpatriyòt nou yo vivan, san okenn mal, epi tout bagay ap retounen jan sa te ye anvan kidnaping lan. Desizyon an nan men nou.
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I want you to take a good look at these pictures. This beautiful architecture won’t survive if we keep babysitting the Third World.
Instagram labeled a bunch of my photos as AI so now is a good time to remind everyone that none of my photos are AI, nor are they edited with it. This is an AI-free zone
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I think about this quote from Hunyadi a lot: "We have had enough of our men enslaved, our women raped, wagons loaded with severed heads of our people, the sale of chained captives, the mockery of our religion... [W]e shall not stop until we succeed in expelling the enemy from Europe."
🚨OMG - Schoolgirl in Bangor, Northern Ireland BEATEN MERCILESSLY by an African Migrant THIS NEEDS TO STOP!! Our girls should not have to grow up being targeted by these thugs! 😡
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We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, but they are still lying.
BREAKING: Macron says that foreign leaders who are running electoral campaigns on France’s expense by sharing false information about the riots in France. Macron says that some are spreading the false image of France being overrun by immigrants and Islamists.
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If she did that in Afghanistan they would stone her to death
Islamist woman armed with a stick attacks riot police. The woman launched the attack during the ongoing protests in Albania
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In 1911 Belloc warned what happens when a people stop reading real books: “It is an interesting speculation by what means the Book lost its old position in this country. This is not only an interesting speculation, but one which nearly concerns a vital matter. For if men fall into the habit of neglecting true books in an old and traditional civilization, the inaccuracy of their judgments and the illusions to which they will be subject must increase. … The excellence of a book and its value as a book depend upon two factors, which are usually, though not always, united in varied proportions: first, that it should put something of value to the reader, whether of value as a discovery and an enlargement of wisdom or of value as a new emphasis laid upon old and sound morals; secondly, that this thing added or renewed in human life should be presented in such a manner as to give permanent aesthetic pleasure.” — Hilaire Belloc, First and Last (1911)
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The only proper response is this: “Charles Martel deployed his troops against them and, warrior that he is, fell upon them. With Christ’s help, he pulled down their tents and rushed into battle to grind them to pieces.”
New video shows the moment the rioters broke into Limoges town hall and set it on fire. A lot of unmasked faces in this video. Long prison sentences are needed
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No, the Turks did not rebuild Germany. They arrived in 1961, 16 years after the war. By then, White German men and women had already rebuilt our country and revived our economy.
Vor 65 Jahren kamen Arbeiter aus der Türkei nach Deutschland. Sie haben dieses Land mit aufgebaut, geprägt und die Infrastruktur des Wohlstands geschaffen, in der wir heute leben. Aus Gastarbeitern wurden Mitbürger – Freunde, Familie, Kollegen und Nachbarn. Dafür danken wir.
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Elon fired a Muslim who worked at Tesla after he attacked a woman for accidentally stepping on his prayer rug. A few months later, the guy shot three students at a bar in Texas.
Elon Musk in his new interview on immigration: “What I’m saying is simply logically consistent, which is that if there’s a culture that has diametrically opposed views to our culture, and that’s, you could take Islam, it’s not that, of course, there are many people who’ve, you know, Muslims who are quite reasonable. But there are some who are not. And unless you’re filtering for jihadis, you’re going to get jihadis, and they’re going to do jihad and kill people. Now, in Israel, they understand this quite well. Obviously, this lesson has been reinforced with a lot of attacks. And so in Israel, they realize if you let in the people that want to kill Israelis, they will do so. So they’re quite pragmatic about this, and they try to make sure that doesn’t happen. You know, you can’t put yourself in the mind of a serial killer unless you’re a serial killer. Like, unless you enjoy murdering people, you can’t imagine why someone would do such a thing. And if someone is a religious extremist, where they view anyone who is not in their religion as the enemy, it’s difficult for you to understand that mindset because you don’t have that mindset. But you can obviously recognize there are people who do have that mindset, and that if you let them into the country, they will kill people. Let me give you an example. There’s many. We had someone who was working at the Tesla factory in Austin until December of last year. He was fired because he assaulted a woman who stepped on his prayer rug in the factory. Okay, so she wasn’t expecting anyone to be praying in the factory, and he was praying in the factory. She accidentally stepped on his prayer rug and he assaulted her, violently assaulted her. So he was fired for that. And then a few months later, he went and killed three students in the bar in downtown Austin.”
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