Merry Christmas 2024 and Happy New Year 2025!

Here's wishing everyone the very Merriest Christmas since the last one, along of course with a Happy New Year!

Christmas is not just a commercial event or an occasion for family togetherness, but a Christian holiday. Thus, although it may seem out of the holiday spirit, at least some of our attention should be on history and current events as they impact Christianity. Please bear in mind that I fully acknowledge the distinction between peaceful, non-radicalized Muslims and the militant Islamic radicals discussed below.

In the early 8th century, from approximately 711 to the 720s, Muslims invaded and conquered the Iberian Peninsula of Europe in the Umayyad Conquest. Under the Arab-Moorish Umayyad dynasty, Southwestern Europe was annexed by the Arab-Islamic Empire, and Muslim rule displaced Christian rule in the Visigothic Kingdom of Hispania, renamed "al-Andalus".

Yesterday, my wife and I were discussing a grave and far-reaching problem: the erosion of moral fiber throughout the Western World. Later, having indulged one of her hobbies and reviewed some family genealogy, she remarked that we're both descended from the lines of King Alfonso I of Portugal, who was my great grandfather and her great uncle (not to be confused with another CL relative, King Alfonso I of Asturias, who had previously waged war against the Moors).

Alfonso was the first king of Portugal and instrumental in opposing the Muslim invasion of Iberia. In 1143, he swore to drive the Moors off the Iberian Peninsula. He and his men fought bravely and tenaciously, reclaiming Santarém and Lisbon in 1147 and establishing control of key territory bordering the Tagus River. Unfortunately there were subsequent reversals, but these too were later reversed. Over the next millennium, Muslim invaders - not just those of the Umayyad Caliphate, but those of the Ottoman Empire - would go on to commit countless atrocities, murdering and enslaving Europeans by the millions.

Fortunately for all of us, Europe was eventually saved. Achievements similar to those of Alfonso I are attributed to European great grandfathers including Charles Martel, Charlemagne, El Cid, the Kings of Jerusalem, and other Crusaders. Our forebears fought all the way to victory in order to redeem Europe from Islamic invasion, free Europeans persecuted by Islamic slavers, avenge the murder and enslavement of countless Christians, guide Europe to the very pinnacle of civilization, and win back the rightful destiny of European races and cultures.

But there has been another turnaround. For decades now, highly unpopular, non-democratically mandated mass migration from Africa and the Middle East has been tearing Europe apart. Crime and terrorism have skyrocketed, and many beautiful and historically significant European churches and cathedrals, including the iconic Cathedral of Notre Dame in 2019, have been severely damaged or destroyed by arson and vandalism. Meanwhile, a sizable percentage of Muslim migrants, some religiously indoctrinated toward resentment and violence against non-Muslims, grow increasingly disgruntled over the "unfair treatment" they imagine themselves to have received from the hereditary Europeans who have generously accepted them as guests.

A recent example will suffice. Several days ago, a homicidal maniac used his vehicle to slash a trail of injury and death through a bustling market in Magdeburg, Germany, injuring 200 people (41 of them critically) and immediately killing a nine-year-old child and four adults. For over a quarter of a mile, the murderer - Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, a Saudi Arabian criminal masquerading as a responsible psychiatrist - gleefully pretended that he was a contestant in a one-car demolition derby, targeting every human being in his path.

Taleb, who looks like a typical Saudi Muslim, claims to be apostate (and thus a target for grave harm by the faithful were he still in Saudi Arabia), but nevertheless does his bit for Islam by helping Saudis apply for refugee status in Europe, teaching them how to work the system and max out their benefits. One might therefore expect gratitude from him, but hatred is all he could muster. “Revenge will come soon,” he had promised several days before the slaughter. "Even if it costs me my life, I will make the German nation pay the price of the crimes committed by its government against Saudi refugees (a mere 70% of whom are admitted).” Meanwhile, he recommended Europe's legal prostitution industry to his fellow "victims", members of an invasive slave-culture that had preyed on Europeans for centuries.

Religious leaders and heads of state reacted by issuing a warning: they warned Germans against “hate.” Yet the Saudi government had issued an earlier warning: they had explicitly warned Germany that Taleb was dangerous. Instead of acting on this warning, a German police agency justified its politically correct inaction by saying that although Taleb had interacted with authorities, insulted them, and made explicit threats, he was “not known for violent acts”.

Meanwhile, German legislators, blaming the victims as always, set out to ban the AfD (Alternative for Deutschland) party, the second most popular in the country, as Germany's paramount "threat to democracy". In short, they identified the real problem as politically conservative White Germans of Christian heritage.

Naturally, an international “pity party” was convened. But in a nation that has had its neck continuously stepped on since the end of WWII (as it did after WWI), there was little consolation for the victims and their families. Lest official commiseration give people the wrong idea, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz hastened to remind the public that sympathy has its limits, admonishing citizens that “We should not allow those who wish to sow hate to do so!”

The pity party suffered no lack of high-placed attendees. “The inhumane attack in Magdeburg leaves us stunned,” lamented a German conference of bishops. Pope Francis concurred, compassionately expressing his sympathies. Not to be outdone, EU yes-man Emmanuel Macron expressed his “profound shock”. The official outpouring of faux sympathy quickly became suggestive of a network news broadcast in which talking heads parrot each other as though reading from a single script.

German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser: “Our thoughts are with the victims and their families!”

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson: "My thoughts are with the victims and their families!”

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer: “My thoughts are with the victims, their families, and all those affected!”

Et cetera. But in reality, political expedience was the word of the day. In fact, the thoughts of hypocritical Western leaders were where they always are: on grabbing sound bites and photo opportunities and telling the people what the oligarchy wants them to hear, namely, that they must passively accept even the worst carnage at the hands, knives, machetes, bombs, and motorized vehicles of invasive foreigners.

Obviously, the real message is that the leaders of historically Christian nations are shameless sellouts and atrocious hypocrites who are not really on the side of Christianity or their native citizens at all. As long as they can collect their blood money and count on “reelection” (re-installation), they care not a whit for the safety or sanctity of Christianity, Christians, or Christmas.

It is time to remember Alfonso I, El Cid, Charles Martel, Charlemagne, and other heroes who spilled their blood, our blood, on European soil for the sake of Western Civilization. We live on ground bought, paid for, and sanctified by the lifeblood of our Christian ancestors, and owe our descendants the same debt that we owe our ancestors. Only by rekindling their indomitable spirit can we survive.

May we choose our New Year's resolutions accordingly, and remember to make the proper distinctions between radicalized and non-radicalized Muslims and other religionists. Again, best wishes to all!

© 2024 Christopher Michael Langan. All rights reserved.