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| The Knights Templars... Ride Again? | |
| 2003-11-04 | |
| Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch points to a letter in the Pakistan Christian Post in which somebody claims to be "Chevalier James R. Johnson, Grand Prior of the United States"... of the Knights Templar. The letter in question challenges Osama Bin Laden to a duel, excerpt: We have noted that you like to refer to America and Great Britain as "Crusader states," and you have referred to just about everybody you don’t like as Crusaders. We doubt that you really believe there are any Crusaders left, as we doubt that you really believe in God. You would not taunt Crusaders if you really believed in them, because you are a craven coward who cherishes his own flesh while admonishing your followers to blow themselves up. You are an infidel, because no one who truly believes in God would sanction the killing of innocent men, women, and children. Your actions show you to be both a coward and an infidel, because you ask your followers to do what you are afraid to do, and you don’t believe there is a God who will condemn you for your vile actions against Islam and humanity.[...] This Knight Templar calls you a craven coward and an infidel. He calls you a murderer of the innocent, and a defiler of holy places. He calls you the favorite son of Satan, for you above all men on the earth have done your best to do Satan’s bidding. Not only that, but to prove to the entire world that you are a coward and an infidel, this Knight Templar challenges you to single combat in the sands of Pakistan. I challenge you to meet me with scimitar or sword, to be pitted against myself and a holy sword consecrated to our Order—a sword that was forged to destroy evil. Here’s the deal: if I win, Al Qaeda is disbanded-forever. If you win, then you can set the head of a Knight Templar on a pike outside your tent, and you can claim that you slew the chief of all Crusaders in the United States. My first reaction was, like Robert Spencer’s, to make fun of this nonsense, then I saw this advertisement in said Pakistan Christian Post: Join Grand Priory of Pakistan of Knights Templar of Scotland by filling the Forms at the end of this page. Still silly, I know. But I believe that behind all this nonsense, there is a genuine chance Christian military organizations will be created as the ’War on Terror’ drags on. Christians are being oppressed in Muslims lands, and young men in such situations usually fight back. Heck, perhaps they will receive some support from the Vatican, as soon as John Paul the Meek, I mean, the Second, kicks the bucket. Perhaps the Knights Templar, or something like it, will really ride again.
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| Posted by:Sorge |
| #17 Knights Templar supposedly were destroyed in 1307 by Philip II, but legend proclaims that several of them escaped the pogrom with the Templars wealth an sailed to Scotland, where they formed the Scottist Rite Order of Free Masons. Did they? I have no idea, but this man obviously believes they did, and that as Grand Prior he has a right and duty to confront evil as he finds it. Is he nuts? Maybe, but we could use a few more like him. The original Templars fought the saracens and gained respect for their religion, courage and honor. They would have had nothing but contempt for the modern day islamic cowards |
| Posted by: Slumming 2003-11-4 8:54:24 PM |
| #16 I am reminded that the Brits took a crack at the BHOTR back in 9.2001... it was touching and a little scary. Most battle hymn of that variety have a direct link to the NEW MODEL ARMY. Get down! |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-11-4 8:33:32 PM |
| #15 Thanks Steve. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-11-4 8:29:28 PM |
| #14 Should post this on AL Q's web site,I can't dial- up connection giving me fits. |
| Posted by: Raptor 2003-11-4 6:42:14 PM |
| #13 As much as I respect him being a Knight Templar and the ideals he represent............. This guy is insane. Everyone knows the place for a duel is outside the walls of Jerusalem. |
| Posted by: Charles 2003-11-4 4:01:49 PM |
| #12 Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored, He has loosed the fateful lightening of His terrible swift sword His truth is marching on. Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on. I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps l can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps His day is marching on. Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on. I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnish`d rows of steel, "As ye deal with my contemners, So with you my grace shall deal;" Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel Since God is marching on. Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on. He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet! Our God is marching on. Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on. In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me: As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on. Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on. It's not called "The Battle Hymn of The Republic" for nothing. |
| Posted by: Steve 2003-11-4 2:12:26 PM |
| #11 oy vey, just what we need !?!? |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2003-11-4 2:00:03 PM |
| #10 Onward Christian Soldiers Marching off to war... someone wrote a song already. |
| Posted by: john 2003-11-4 1:44:50 PM |
| #9 Sit back and take a deep breath. Think this thing through. This has IMMENSE possibilities. Can you imagine the apoplexy the Iranian mullahs would experience if someone made a few Knight Templar statements about them? Can you imaging how high Mullah Omar's blood pressure would rise if 'someone' began "organizing a crusade" to "free Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan from the clutches of the mullahs"? Why, some of them might get so excited, so enraged, they'd suffer massive heart attacks from the high blood pressure. Maybe they'd suffer an anurism or two. Certainly there would be a record run on blood pressure medications and such other medications as valium and other mood drugs. Hmmmm. Maybe I need to drop a few bucks on some drug industry stock after all... |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-11-4 1:30:52 PM |
| #8 This is great stuff - I hope it sends the turbans into a frothing fit. Go get em Nazir...we're rootin' for ya! |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2003-11-4 12:21:49 PM |
| #7 Look at it this way: It's a more helpful proposal for fighting the WOT than any of the democratic candidates have come up with. |
| Posted by: Matt 2003-11-4 12:13:06 PM |
| #6 Talk about getting medieval on Osama's ass... ***makes fresh bowl of popcorn, curls up on couch in happy anticipation*** |
| Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2003-11-4 10:59:22 AM |
| #5 "Jacques DeMolay, thou art an ass!" |
| Posted by: mojo 2003-11-4 10:48:51 AM |
| #4 I disagree Zhang Fei. The best thing Pakistani Christian can do is to infiltrate Islamist organizations and tell American intelligence. |
| Posted by: Sorge 2003-11-4 10:30:50 AM |
| #3 That's so completely quixotic, and yet, sad. The truth is that the best thing Pakistani Christians can do to combat Islamism is to migrate to America and assimilate into the general population. This way, instead of having to fight jihadis with edged weapons, their children will be able to fight them with JDAM's. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2003-11-4 10:12:57 AM |
| #2 probably spurred by Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" an entertaining fictional account of a conspiracy to find the Holy Grail, hidden by the Knights Templar, and guarded by the Grand Priory. Good book, popular right now, and fiction, just like Michael Moore's documentaries |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-11-4 9:56:49 AM |
| #1 Opening stories of the future: "Today, the Knights Templar carried out another anti-slavery raid in the Sudan. An estimated 50 slavers were left dead, and 500 captives were freed. When asked, the Pope said, 'We're sick of the crap, and we're not going to take it anymore.' When pressed on the Templar's use of animist auxillaries, the Pope responded "Hey, it's not like they're Muslim. We can trust animists.'" |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2003-11-4 9:29:57 AM |