A long time ago, on a continent far, far away, there roamed a cruel and murderous horde. Invaders, marauders and plunderers, they were the enemies of civilization.
They worshipped an irrational, and tyrannical creature named Allah, and venerated a degenerage sexual predator and serial killer, Mohammed, who wrote a "holy" book justifying his own licentiousness, bloodlust, greed and megalomania. They were called Turks by the people they slaughtered and enslaved. They were the curse and scourge of Western civilization. We know them as Muslims.
There arose in that time, a hero who fought these barbarians. He was reviled by enemies as brutal, cruel and ruthless. But these very qualities enabled him to turn back the tide of the destroyers of civilization that was attempting to swallow Europe in its cold, black maw. Legend holds that he died in the last battle of his solitary campaign to arrest the advance of the enemy, a punishing campaign that gave the dithering West the time to wake to the danger, and raise an army which ultimately forced the marauding horde back to their behighted homeland.
As a beneficiary of his courage, victory and sacrifice, I claim this hero as my patron spirit in the fight against his age-old, and our common, enemy. I believe as he did, that to win against a hate-filled, murderous, honor-less enemy, one must be more cruel, more merciless, more barbaric, more ruthless, and more terrifying.
Few would argue that Vlad the Impaler qualified on all counts.
This hero, Vlad Tepes, has been reviled by his enemies, misunderstood by history and underappreciated by his beneficiaries. He understood Muslims...how to fight them, indimidate them, terrify them, and vanquish them.
I declare him the Patron Saint of the West in the Islamic War.
All Hail, Vlad the Impaler! Champion of the West! Vanquisher of Islamic hordes! May we embody his spirit and prevail!
The Gunslinger
Stand and Be True
PLEASE NOTE: I'm not interested in the "facts" of Vlad's life...I'm interested in his legendary defense against the expansion of Islam into Europe. If Moslems can claim Mohammed is a prophet, I can claim Vlad is a hero.
Addendum: I do not know who created the image I used in this post. I found it on the web. I would like to credit the artist. If you know who painted this, please let me know. TG
Heh, maybe there should be an Order of the Dragon to carry on his work in whatever way possible. Ideological, practical, financial, all that good stuff.
ReplyDeleteBut I'm amazed. Apparently the West is, and always has been, as bad as the moslems. Read all about it here. (Please)
One story I remember particularly well was when he was having such trouble holding a particular village/town that he couldn't hold it any longer, he ordered all the prisoners impaled and withdrew his own forces, burning the crops and poisoning the wells on the way out. The leader of the incoming forces, who had earned the name of Someone the Brave, had to turn back at the sight of all the thousands (literally) of impaled prisoners, his own former comrades-in-arms.
ReplyDeleteAs Mr Punch used to say, 'that's the way to do it!'
Very hard to find out the painter of Vlad, if you go here,http://www.mwctoys.com/REVIEW_040704a.htm
ReplyDeleteI read this 15th century painting is the one that inspired all the rest, no mention of the artist.
Or herehttp://www.dunwich.org/draculea/draculea.html
ReplyDeletethanks harbinger
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure I could stomach some of ole Vlad's purported deeds, but I sure admire his commitment to victory! And his clarity of vision!
ReplyDeleteAnd, frankly, old sons, we'd do well to take a page out of his book.
Well, that's ok, GS, you master-mind the plan and get the big hefty blokes around you to do it. Men's work vs women's work and all that, eh? ;-)
ReplyDeleteHahaha!
ReplyDeleteI'll get right on it!