germanic reformation and nationalism

In 1454, a year after the Moslem Turks captured the eastern Christian city of Constantinople, a German, Gutenberg, invented the printing press that allowed the Dutchman, Erasmus (born 1466) to spread humanism throughout northern Europe and another German, Martin Luther, (born 1483) to lead the Protestant Reformation against the diabolically corrupt and cruel Roman Catholic Church under the power of Niccolo Machiavelli (b.1469) and the 1478 Spanish inquisition.

Western civilization, as we know it today, was emerging from the Dark Ages and fittingly it was from the Germanic people that the Protestant movement arose because it was their leaders who had almost 1,000 years earlier made a pact with the Greek-Syrian Pope in Rome to suppress all Europe under Catholicism in return for kingdoms and wealth.

In 1492 Columbus discovered America, and religious issues were put on the backburner for most of the next two hundred years as the various states of Europe asserted their nationalism and battled each other for land rights in the new world -- the little nation of Protestant England, quite unexpectedly, coming out on top.

In 1683 the Siege of Vienna by Ottoman Turks reminded Europe that Christianity was not the only religion in the world, but by then the Christians of Europe were irretrievably divided by the Reformation and Nationalism, and an industrial revolution was underway which would push the Protestant north and the Catholic south of Europe even further apart.

During the 1700s, the Protestant north of Europe powered ahead economically while the Catholic south languished. Because the Northerners were predominantly white skinned, blond haired and blue-eyed and the Southerners were predominantly olive skinned, black haired and brown-eyed, the notion of White Supremacy and the Protestant Work Ethic also emerged about this time but it was not until the 20th century that it took on sinister connotations.

The vibrant British colony of America freed itself from its motherland in 1776 and the oppressed French peasants overthrew their monarchy in 1789. By the early 1900s, people power came to the fore in the new ideology of communism -- thought up by two German Jewish intellectuals, Marx and Engels -- and spread in popularity among the terribly oppressed people of Russia and China who overthrew their ruling dynasties and started an internationalist movement that became so threatening to both the Protestant and Catholic states that they finally stopped fighting each other and joined forces, expending a whole century in an effort to defeat it.

In addition to fighting each other and communism, the western Christian nations were also fighting independence movements within their colonies and territories, all of which caused a massive movement of diverse people and religions into Europe and America.

At this stage the parallels between what is happening today and what happened 2,000 years ago -- when early western civilization had yet to be conceived -- need to be made plain.

Like the early Christians flocked to Rome from impoverished Greece and Syria, looking for work, a better life and new converts, so did the Moslems from impoverished Algeria, Egypt, Turkey and Palestine flock to Europe.

Like the early Christians were led by prominent and wealthy Jews from Judea -- such as Peter, a disciple of Jesus, who became the first Bishop of Rome -- so were the Moslems led by prominent and wealthy Middle Eastern Arabs.

Like the early Christians living in Pagan Rome were branded as trouble-makers for railing against the barbaric practices of the Pagans, so were the Moslems living in Christian Europe branded as trouble-makers for railing against the barbaric practices of the Christians.

Like the early Christians in Rome had both moderate and extremist elements, the Moslems in Europe have both moderate and extremist elements.

Like all of the early Christians were tarnished as terrorists for causing the Great Fire of Rome in 64, all of the Moslems were tarnished for 9/11 in 2001.

Like the early Christians living in Pagan Rome were then persecuted, the Moslems living in Christian countries were then persecuted.

Like the early Christians in Rome hated the Pagan Romans as much as the Jews of Judea did and supported each other in their tribulations, so the Moslems in Europe hated the Christian West as much as the Arabs did and supported each other in their tribulations.

Like the Christians in Rome supported the uprising of their Judaen brothers against Roman rule in 66 (and later in 131, which started the Diaspora), so the Moslems of Europe supported the uprising of their Moslem brothers against the American invasion of Iraq in 2003,

Like the Christians in Rome multiplied their numbers and grew stronger -- accepting the Jews of the Diaspora into their flocks after 131, repelling all attempts to make them assimilate into the Roman culture and eventually converting the Emperor Constantine in 330 -- so the Moslems of Europe will eventually achieve a similar outcome by 2267 and then the wheel would have turned full circle because the Roman Empire upon which early western civilization was based was never white but ethnically Middle Eastern.

why was judaism demonized last century?

Down the centuries, the Jews have always been treated with suspicion and sometimes downright bigotry with various pogroms -- far more so by the Christians than the Moslems -- but the real hatred of the Jews only started in the 1900s with the new ideology of communism -- thought up by two German Jewish intellectuals, Marx and Engels -- which envisaged the world as a worker's paradise devoid of opiate religions and decadent aristocrats.

Marx and Engels wanted to end what they considered to be the unholy alliance between the Church and Germanic Royalty that had formed after the death of the Eastern Roman Emperor Zeno in 491 and plunged Europe into the Dark Ages, and in doing so they were attacking what most people considered to be the two pillars of western civilization.

Communism spread in popularity among the terribly oppressed people of Russia and China who overthrew their ruling dynasties and started an internationalist movement that became so threatening to both the Protestant and Catholic states that they finally stopped fighting each other and joined forces, expending a whole century in an effort to defeat it, bringing incredible prestige to the Roman Pope and terrible retribution upon the Jews who, rightly or wrongly, were blamed for supporting communism against Christianity.

Christian churches distanced themselves from their Jewish roots; generations of western children were raised in the 20th century without knowing that Jesus himself was Jewish; Jews were portrayed as ugly, twisted, black and venal people; Jesus became a blue-eyed blond; and communism was reviled as being a Jewish plot when, in fact, it was a means by which ordinary people could unshackle themselves from their religious oppressors and slave-driving masters.

Hatred of the Jews in Hitler's Germany was particularly inflamed by the Catholic Church, and it was accompanied by blatant promotion of white supremacy. Western civilization had now become not only European and Christian, but also white and capitalist!

Because few Christian nations would accept the Jews fleeing from persecution in Germany, Poland and Italy -- even the USA turned their refugee ships away -- they were eventually given part of the British Protectorate of Palestine that they claimed as their traditional homeland, but trouble immediately erupted with the native Moslems. The Palestinian objection was not so much because the new arrivals were Jewish -- as a Jewish enclave had always lived around Jerusalem -- but because they were mostly white Europeans bringing an alien European culture into their midst and, by virtue of their close ties to Europe, the possibility of foreign rule. How right they were!

By the time communism had fizzled out in Europe, the Christians reconciled with the Jews and western civilization once again embraced its Judaic ancestry -- this time going all the way back to Abraham of Ur in Iraq where the oil fields reside -- and with this reconciliation the Moslems became the group to be demonized.

why is iraq so important to moslems and jews?

Iraq is incredibly important to both Moslems and Jews because Abraham - the ancestral father of both the Jews and Moslems through his two sons, Ishmael and Isaac - was born c. 1860 BC in Ur, southern Iraq, to a wealthy family headed by his father, Terah.

The family had lived in that area for generations but was forced to flee to Haran in Canaan when Abraham aroused the king's wrath.

Through the generations, the family of Abraham never lost touch with its homeland in present day Iraq which, for a brief period in later Jewish history, was also a place of exile.

In that the Jews, the descendants of Isaac, have already re-established themselves in Israel - the land in which they settled after Abraham's flight from Ur - they may also have an historical claim not just to the southern land of Ur in Iraq but also to Babylon, 90km south-east of Baghdad, the place of their exile in 597BC.

That Iraq was converted to Islam many years ago means that the historical claim to the southern lands of Iraq that the descendants of Ishmael share, too, is fait accompli.

The current situation in Iraq - the invasion of Iraq and the deposition and execution of Saddam Hussein by the USA, its allies and Iraqis opposed to him - and the resultant insurgence by fundamentalist Moslems offended by the presence of non-Moslems on their hallowed land, has opened a new chapter on an old theme that could be bloodier than anything yet seen in history.

The best possible outcome is that a solid democratic system is established without too much further bloodshed, and the Americans and their allies depart leaving the nation in the hands of capable liberal Iraqis who are not hostile to Israel and will strive to maintain a buffer zone to protect Israel from Iran and Saudi Arabia.

Bearing in mind that America is run by big business, especially the oil barons who want their interests in Iraq protected, it is difficult to imagine that after all the blood, guts and money that has been poured into the war that the Americans will leave without strings attached that may anger both the liberal and the fundamentalist Moslems.

The worst possible outcome is that the fundamentalist Moslems continue to prevent a western-style democracy operating in their country by upping the ante - possibly bringing Iran into the picture.

The fundamentalist Moslems know that once Iraq becomes an open society it will not only be polluted by western values that will reduce the power of the Mullahs but it may also become a 'Mecca' for Jewish settlers and tourists wanting to lay claim to Ur and Babylon.

Forget weapons of mass destruction, democratic fervor and oil - the real reason for invasion of Iraq may go right back to Abraham!