Today in the "Religion of Peace™"
On this day, July 22, in the year 1456, the two-week Siege of Belgrade ended with a rout of the Islamic invaders. After the Ottomans were unsuccessful in their full-scale assault on Belgrade the previous day, some of the Hungarian peasants left the fortifications against the orders of the Hungarian military leaders, Cardinal Giovanni da Capistrano and General János Hunyadi, to harass the Turks. Christian soldiers, seeing that the Turkish cavalry were unable to repel the peasants, also disobeyed orders and began streaming from the fort to join the fray. In the chaos, Capistrano and Hunyadi instinctively took advantage of the situation and ordered an all-out attack on the Turkish position.
The sudden, improvised attack caught the Turks completely off-guard, and they were quickly overrun. Sultan Mehmed II was injured and knocked unconscious; he was carried away by the rapidly retreating Ottoman army. When he regained consciousness, in his despair at the enormity of the loss, he tried to commit suicide. The repelling of Mehmed and the Ottomans on this day kept Christian Europe safe from Muslim attack for 70 years.
In this rare case of the besieged turning the tables and going on the counter-attack, they were victorious, and Muslim dreams of conquest were dashed. As we saw on Sept. 11, 2001 on Flight 93, a swift counter-attack by determined civilians can be quite effective when circumstances permit. Complying with Muslim demands and hoping for the best can have disastrous consequences.
Posted on 6:09 AM by Artemis Gordon Glidden
