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> Subject: The true face of Christianity.
> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 00:36:21 +0800
>
> Assalamu 'alaikum
>
>
> and to say that Muslims are Fanatics and
> Extremists. Here I uncover the real EXTREMISTS
> of Religion. For your info, Alfonso D'
> Alberquque was the man that attacked Malacca.
> Alhamdulillah, Islamic Mujahiddin managed to
> recapture the state 500 years ago.
>
> Vasco da Gama - christian fundamentalist /
> killer of muslims
>
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> (source http://www.ummah.net/sos/vasco.htm)
>
> Is democracy really the `natural' political
> system of Europeans
> The Observer 7th June 1998, page 28.
>
> Who says democracy is the only way forward ?
> The seeds of rabid Christian
> terrorism still lie dominant in the fields of
> Europe. 'Dark Continent':
> that is the title of Mark Mazower's history of
> modern Europe, published
> later this month. In his book, already much
> discussed, Mazower poses a
> shocking question which should have been put
> years ago. He asks whether
> democracy really is the `natural' political
> systems of Europeans. Or can
> it be that totalitarian politics and
> dictatorship have also at times been
> genuinely popular, appealing to deep-rooted
> European traditions ? It is
> Mazower's title which specially appeals to me.
> Pious Eurocrap apart, the
> truth is that our continent is dark and
> barbarous as well as brilliant.
> Europe and the United States together invented
> representative democracy
> and human rights.
>
> But Europe invented fascism and communism all
> by itself. Our democratic
> credentials are not ancient, but new and shaky.
> I thought again about
> Mazower's book when I read the press reports
> about the huge `Expo `98'
> trade fair in Lisbon. The theme is the fate of
> the oceans. But there are
> always national sub-texts in shows like this.
> Portugal, a country with an
> attractive deficit of self-esteem, wants Expo
> `98' to shows that things
> actually do work in Portugal and that the new
> technologies are at home
> there. Another sub-text, however, is to remind
> foreigners that Portugal
> once ruled those oceans. The emphasis today is
> on Europeans as
> `discoverers' rather than colonialists (the
> liberation wars in Portuguese
> Africa are still a relatively recent trauma).
> And this, inevitably, has
> led the Portuguese to promote the memory of
> Vasco da Gama.
>
> The Expo is his anniversary. After the longest
> recorded sea voyage in
> history, he landed at Calicut in India in May
> 1498 - just 500 years ago.
> Columbus had already made his first American
> voyage; in 1498, the Pope had
> partitioned the world's oceans between Spain
> and Portugal, allotting
> Portugal the eastern Atlantic, Africa and the
> Indian Ocean. Vasco da Gama
> and his little fleet headed for India. There is
> his shabby little ships
> and his tacky gifts (baubles suitable for the
> West African trade) were
> regarded with amused contempt by the great
> Rajah Zamorin of Calicut.
>
> For some, Vasco da Gama remains the mighty
> Christian voyager who
> discovered India and opened up its pagan shores
> to trade and the Church.
> Others have come to see him as a franzied
> destroyer, a wrecker of higher
> cultures to be compared to Genghis Khan or
> Attila. The late Richard Hall,
> for many years on The Observer, described the
> world of the Indian Ocean in
> his 1996 masterpiece `Empires of the Monsoon'.
> For the coast of Natal
> round to the tip of India and Sri Lanka, this
> sea had for many centuries
> been surrounded by prosperous cities and
> states, traversed by Roman, Arab,
> Indian and Chinese merchants ships. Its
> standards of living and lilteracy
> were more advanced those of western Europe. Its
> war were minor, and the
> different faiths of those who lived and traded
> on the shores of this vast
> region were tolerated. Into this world burst,
> in 1498, a gang of
> fundamentalist terrorists.
>
> Vasco da Gama belonged to the Order of Christ,
> established in Portugal in
> 1319 as a religious-military society for
> attacking Islam in its own
> territories. He went to India not for geography
> or comerce or
> philanthropy, but to conquer the enemies of
> Jesus Christ. His only
> strength was his bronze cannon, unknown in the
> Indian Ocean, and his
> suicidal courage. Later voyages, by da Gama and
> his succesors, showed
> their true nature. `The Moors and the Gentiles
> are outside the law of
> Jesus Christ,' wrote one of their ideologists.
> This justified a policy of
> sustained atrocity and plunder. Da Gama
> bombarded the defenceless city of
> Calicut for three days, cutting off ears, noses
> and hands of prisoners
> before burning them alive. Off Arabia, he
> intercepted a large ship
> carrying cargo and pilgrims: it was fired and
> sunk, with its 700
> passengers, and da Gama sent our his crew in
> longboats to spear survivors
> in the water.
>
> One of his specialities was hanging Muslims
> from his masts and using them
> for crossbrow practice. But these horrors were
> not done on perverted
> impulse. They were deliberate, even political.
> Vasco da Gama wanted local
> inhabitants and their rulers to watch the
> flames and hear the shrieks. He
> relied on terror to compel surrender. The
> commanders who followed da Gama
> were no different. `The Great Afonso de
> Albuquerque' carried out massacre
> after massacre with the same carefully
> spectacular sadism used by Vasco da
> Gama. Reporting to the King after the sack of
> Goa, he wrote: `I burnt the
> city and put everyone to the sword and for four
> days your men shed blood
> continuously. No matter where we found them, we
> did not spare the life of
> a single Muslim; we filled the mosques with
> them and set them on fire...'.
> The peoples of the Indian Ocean had never
> encountered calculated savagry
> of this order, and were broken by it.
>
> To recall these things is not to criticise
> contemporary Portugal, child of
> the most beautiful and merciful of modern
> revolutions. Neither do I want
> to deny Expo's claim that Vasco da Gama
> enlarged Europe's awareness of the
> world, a sort of ancestor of globalisation. But
> Europe's awareness of its
> own nature also matters, and that means
> confronting Vasco da Gama for what
> he was. He, like the other Portuguese and
> Spanish conquerors, stood at the
> end of five centuries of Christian
> fundamentalist terrorism which began
> with the Crusades.
>
> The fanatical onslaught against rival cultures,
> the orgy of cruely and
> destruction that the barbarian 'Franks' of
> western Europe brought to the
> Holy Land and even Byzantium (centre of
> Orthodox Christianity and rival to
> the Trinitarian Church in Rome), reached its
> culmination in
> sixteenth-century India and Mexico. But its
> consequences live on, even in
> the post-imperial world. Saddam Hussein aiming
> missiles at the `New
> Crusaders' is one such consequence. Israeli
> civilians mutilated by Hamas
> bombs are another. (ININ's comment - this is a
> lie and I do not know why
> the author said it. Actually it is the other
> way around) And the seeds
> left in Europe itself by those centuries are
> not dead yet. Given a hidden
> place to lie, they can still germinate every so
> often. And this Dark
> Continent is full of crevices.
>
>
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