Here's a short introduction to the Crusades. Hopefully, this will whet your appetite to learn the REAL story of Europe's much maligned attempt to defend Christian civilization against Islam.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Remembering the Victims of Stalin
I can't believe I forgot about this, but I did. This year, 2007, marks the 70th anniversary of Stalin's Great Purges, which resulted in the deaths of millions of people. While this blog was created primarily to combat the Islamist threat to the West, Hammer Folk Woman is a forum of resistance to ALL enemies of Western Christian civilization. One of the most viscious, murderous, and insidious of those enemies is Communism.
The Godless, totalitarian scourge that is Communism first gained hold of a nation, Russia, in November* 1917, and the Soviet Union was born. After WWII the Soviets spread the disease into Eastern Europe, China, and other parts of the world. Communists murdered mercilessly everywhere they gained total power. The model for the killing was the Soviet Union, especially under Stalin. The Great Purges, also known as The Great Terror, was Stalin's masterpiece of totalitarian madness.
The Purges, or the Terror, didn't began in 1937 but reached a fever pitch in that year. It's purpose was to crush all opposition to Stalin's power and personality cult. Initially, only "traitorous" Communist Party members were targeted but the killing quickly spread to all walks of life. When it reached it's peak The Terror had consumed millions of lives and given birth to the world's most infamous prison system: the Gulag.
As horrifying as Stalin's Terror was most people today know little or nothing about it. It was a time in Hesperia's past when more people were slaughtered than in the Holocaust, yet it's all but hidden from history. The Hammer Folk will not let this crime against humanity be forgotten. We will remember it. We will remember the victims. Their blood cries out to us from their graves: Never again! Never again the Gulag! Never again The Terror! Never again. Never again. With every fiber of our being we will make it so.
*The Communists' seizure of power took place in October according to the old Julian calender then in use in Russia, that's why it's called the October Revolution.
The Godless, totalitarian scourge that is Communism first gained hold of a nation, Russia, in November* 1917, and the Soviet Union was born. After WWII the Soviets spread the disease into Eastern Europe, China, and other parts of the world. Communists murdered mercilessly everywhere they gained total power. The model for the killing was the Soviet Union, especially under Stalin. The Great Purges, also known as The Great Terror, was Stalin's masterpiece of totalitarian madness.
The Purges, or the Terror, didn't began in 1937 but reached a fever pitch in that year. It's purpose was to crush all opposition to Stalin's power and personality cult. Initially, only "traitorous" Communist Party members were targeted but the killing quickly spread to all walks of life. When it reached it's peak The Terror had consumed millions of lives and given birth to the world's most infamous prison system: the Gulag.
As horrifying as Stalin's Terror was most people today know little or nothing about it. It was a time in Hesperia's past when more people were slaughtered than in the Holocaust, yet it's all but hidden from history. The Hammer Folk will not let this crime against humanity be forgotten. We will remember it. We will remember the victims. Their blood cries out to us from their graves: Never again! Never again the Gulag! Never again The Terror! Never again. Never again. With every fiber of our being we will make it so.
*The Communists' seizure of power took place in October according to the old Julian calender then in use in Russia, that's why it's called the October Revolution.
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Charles Martel Day
October is, or should be, a very important month for Hesperians. It is important to the Hammer Folk, who understand what happened on a special day in this month over 1000 years ago.
On October 10, 732 A.D. Charles Martel, the Hammer of the Franks, defeated the Muslim horde, led by Abd-ul Rahman, at the Battle of Tours, aka the Battle of Poitiers. You read that right. Muslims were invading Europe over 300 years BEFORE the First Crusade, which began in 1091. Charles Martel, grandfather of the great emperor Charlemagne, saved Western Christian civilization from Islamic subjugation. Every achievement of the West is ultimately attributable to Martel because his victory preserved Western culture from the retrograde influence of Muhamad's religion. Yet, to my knowledge, there isn't a city, a school, a park, or even a street named for this hero anywhere in the West except, maybe, for France. The Hammer Folk are going to change this dishonorable oversight.
From this year on all Hammer Folk will mark October 10 unofficially as Charles Martel Day. We will do this until October 10 is officially recognized for the historic day it is in ALL of the Realm. We Hammer Folk will mark October 10 as both a somber day of remembrance and reflection, where we examine ourselves to see how much we embody the fighting spirit of Martel, AND as a joyous day of celebrating the West's crucial victory over the Muslims.
As this will be the first Charles Martel Day there are no celebratory traditions for us to follow as there are for other holidays such as Christmas and Thanksgiving. Instead, we get to create our own. To start off, I propose that all Hammer Folk wear red armbands on October 10. Wear the armbands to work, to school, to the store, even to church ( this year Charles Martel Day is on a Wednesday, when many churches have prayer meetings). The armbands should be red to symbolize both the shed blood of Christ and the shed blood of the Muslim invaders fighting to eliminate Christian Europe.
The armbands will inevitably attraction attention; that's what we want. The bands will be tools of "evangelization", opening the door for the Hammer Folk to educate our fellow Hesperians on Islam's historic aggression against the West. Doing that will get at least some of us in trouble. Wearing the armbands on some public school or university campuses will no doubt result in charges of racism from the pc police. When that happens, be strong; stand firm. Show the resolve, determination, and fighting spirit that Charles Martel Day is about to begin with. Just as The Hammer didn't back down in the face of a numerically superior foe so the Hammer Folk, his spiritual descendants, must not back down in the face of our numerically superior foe. For the multiculturalist, self-hating Western liberals do outnumber those of us who love our civilization. But our foes' numbers don't guarantee them victory, just the Muslims' numbers didn't prevail over Martel.
That's all I've come up with for this Charles Martel Day this year. My hope is for the armbands to become a yearly thing. Other Hammer Folk can create other activities that the larger Hammer Folk community can duplicate. Maybe those of us who have kids can take them out of school to celebrate. Or send them to school armed with the historical truth--and the armbands!
It's time we gave Charles Martel the honor he deserves. It's time we jettisoned multiculturalism and political correctness in favor of Western culture, OUR culture. Western Christian civilization is good. It's worth fighting for. It's worth dying for. That's the lesson Charles Martel has to teach us.
In the Spirit of Martel may we live!
On October 10, 732 A.D. Charles Martel, the Hammer of the Franks, defeated the Muslim horde, led by Abd-ul Rahman, at the Battle of Tours, aka the Battle of Poitiers. You read that right. Muslims were invading Europe over 300 years BEFORE the First Crusade, which began in 1091. Charles Martel, grandfather of the great emperor Charlemagne, saved Western Christian civilization from Islamic subjugation. Every achievement of the West is ultimately attributable to Martel because his victory preserved Western culture from the retrograde influence of Muhamad's religion. Yet, to my knowledge, there isn't a city, a school, a park, or even a street named for this hero anywhere in the West except, maybe, for France. The Hammer Folk are going to change this dishonorable oversight.
From this year on all Hammer Folk will mark October 10 unofficially as Charles Martel Day. We will do this until October 10 is officially recognized for the historic day it is in ALL of the Realm. We Hammer Folk will mark October 10 as both a somber day of remembrance and reflection, where we examine ourselves to see how much we embody the fighting spirit of Martel, AND as a joyous day of celebrating the West's crucial victory over the Muslims.
As this will be the first Charles Martel Day there are no celebratory traditions for us to follow as there are for other holidays such as Christmas and Thanksgiving. Instead, we get to create our own. To start off, I propose that all Hammer Folk wear red armbands on October 10. Wear the armbands to work, to school, to the store, even to church ( this year Charles Martel Day is on a Wednesday, when many churches have prayer meetings). The armbands should be red to symbolize both the shed blood of Christ and the shed blood of the Muslim invaders fighting to eliminate Christian Europe.
The armbands will inevitably attraction attention; that's what we want. The bands will be tools of "evangelization", opening the door for the Hammer Folk to educate our fellow Hesperians on Islam's historic aggression against the West. Doing that will get at least some of us in trouble. Wearing the armbands on some public school or university campuses will no doubt result in charges of racism from the pc police. When that happens, be strong; stand firm. Show the resolve, determination, and fighting spirit that Charles Martel Day is about to begin with. Just as The Hammer didn't back down in the face of a numerically superior foe so the Hammer Folk, his spiritual descendants, must not back down in the face of our numerically superior foe. For the multiculturalist, self-hating Western liberals do outnumber those of us who love our civilization. But our foes' numbers don't guarantee them victory, just the Muslims' numbers didn't prevail over Martel.
That's all I've come up with for this Charles Martel Day this year. My hope is for the armbands to become a yearly thing. Other Hammer Folk can create other activities that the larger Hammer Folk community can duplicate. Maybe those of us who have kids can take them out of school to celebrate. Or send them to school armed with the historical truth--and the armbands!
It's time we gave Charles Martel the honor he deserves. It's time we jettisoned multiculturalism and political correctness in favor of Western culture, OUR culture. Western Christian civilization is good. It's worth fighting for. It's worth dying for. That's the lesson Charles Martel has to teach us.
In the Spirit of Martel may we live!
Monday, September 10, 2007
Learning From Our Enemies
The Hammer Folk are keenly aware of the threat posed to the West's survival by resurgent Islam. We distinguish ourselves by our refusal to accept politically correct "explanations" for Islamic terrorism, preferring instead to confront the hard, cold, truth that the jihadis want to destroy us because their religion tells them to. We know who the enemy is and what motivates him. We despise the enemy. We despise his religion. We want his complete and total destruction, and we're not afraid to say so. However, despite our disdain for the jihadis and their faith, we Hammer Folk aren't so arrogant as to think that we can't learn anything from them.
In Hesperia's life-and-death struggle with the Islamists we, the Hammer Folk, understand that the West must be willing to embrace any and all ideas, tactics, practices, or strategies that will aid our victory over jihad, even if they come from the enemy. We must not assume that because the jihadis are anti-Western savages they have nothing to offer us. In fact, they have one idea that could be of great benefit to us Westerners, if we'd only copy it. The idea used to characterize Hesperia but has been repudiated by her for at least a generation. The idea? Love your own culture.
That's right. Love your own culture. A simple concept that, sadly, too many Westeners run from in horror. We have been inundated with the crippling doctrine of multiculturalism, the belief that all cultures are equal and equally good. For Godless Hesperians multiculturalism is their religion. The belief is so strong that many of them feel they must appease, or even collude with, radical Islam to prove they aren't racist. The belief has turned them into self-hating pacifists. If all cultures are the same, then Western culture isn't special, isn't worth dying for. So their committment to multiculturalism drives many Westeners to willingly aid and abet the demise of their own civilization. The jihadis don't subscribe to this insanity.
Radical Muslims have a zealous devotion to their own culture, civilization, and faith. They unapologetically pass this devotion on to their children. The jihadis don't think twice about teaching their kids to love Islam and to believe that Islam is worth dying for. Seeing little children dressed as suicide bombers or waving machine guns around is disturbing to Westeners. However, the Hammer Folk realize that behind these images is the powerful force of cultural self-love. The jihadis believe their culture and their faith are good, even superior, and worth defending. The strength of that believe is reflected in their gun-toting children.
We in the West must recapture the pride we once had in our own civilization, culture, and faith. We must deprogram ourselves from the multiculturalism cult and once again celebrate the accomplishments of our forefathers and the gifts they gave to the world. We must understand that it's ok to celebrate our victories over our enemies. Children waving machine guns around shouldn't disturb us if those children are our own--Americans, Brits, Poles, French, Austrians, Israelis--singing of smashing the Muslims the way their ancestors did at the Battle of Tours, the Gates of Vienna, and the shores of Tripoli. Cultural self-love is the absolute prerequisite to cultural self-defense. The jihadis know this instinctively. Hesperians once did; it's vital that we know, and act on, it again. The Hammer Folk will lead the way.
In Hesperia's life-and-death struggle with the Islamists we, the Hammer Folk, understand that the West must be willing to embrace any and all ideas, tactics, practices, or strategies that will aid our victory over jihad, even if they come from the enemy. We must not assume that because the jihadis are anti-Western savages they have nothing to offer us. In fact, they have one idea that could be of great benefit to us Westerners, if we'd only copy it. The idea used to characterize Hesperia but has been repudiated by her for at least a generation. The idea? Love your own culture.
That's right. Love your own culture. A simple concept that, sadly, too many Westeners run from in horror. We have been inundated with the crippling doctrine of multiculturalism, the belief that all cultures are equal and equally good. For Godless Hesperians multiculturalism is their religion. The belief is so strong that many of them feel they must appease, or even collude with, radical Islam to prove they aren't racist. The belief has turned them into self-hating pacifists. If all cultures are the same, then Western culture isn't special, isn't worth dying for. So their committment to multiculturalism drives many Westeners to willingly aid and abet the demise of their own civilization. The jihadis don't subscribe to this insanity.
Radical Muslims have a zealous devotion to their own culture, civilization, and faith. They unapologetically pass this devotion on to their children. The jihadis don't think twice about teaching their kids to love Islam and to believe that Islam is worth dying for. Seeing little children dressed as suicide bombers or waving machine guns around is disturbing to Westeners. However, the Hammer Folk realize that behind these images is the powerful force of cultural self-love. The jihadis believe their culture and their faith are good, even superior, and worth defending. The strength of that believe is reflected in their gun-toting children.
We in the West must recapture the pride we once had in our own civilization, culture, and faith. We must deprogram ourselves from the multiculturalism cult and once again celebrate the accomplishments of our forefathers and the gifts they gave to the world. We must understand that it's ok to celebrate our victories over our enemies. Children waving machine guns around shouldn't disturb us if those children are our own--Americans, Brits, Poles, French, Austrians, Israelis--singing of smashing the Muslims the way their ancestors did at the Battle of Tours, the Gates of Vienna, and the shores of Tripoli. Cultural self-love is the absolute prerequisite to cultural self-defense. The jihadis know this instinctively. Hesperians once did; it's vital that we know, and act on, it again. The Hammer Folk will lead the way.
Sunday, September 9, 2007
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Polish Army
An inspiring tribute to one of Hesperia's armies. I love the Polish Army motto: God, Honor, Homeland. Hail Poland!
Saturday, August 11, 2007
"Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat"
I'm beginning a new feature on HFW that I'm calling The Great Speeches. Periodically I'll be posting a copy of one of the great speeches of the West. Considering the dangerous times once again facing our beloved Hesperia, most of the speeches will be "fightin' words", so to speak; words meant to reinvigorate the fighting spirit of Western Man.
I'll begin this new series with one of Sir Winston Churchill's most quoted speeches. He delivered it to the House of Commons on May 13, 1940, shortly after being appointed Prime Minister. When you read this speech you'll almost cry that we don't have today men of such resolve, moral clarity, belief in the worthiness of their civilization, and unapologetic commitment to victory. God give us such men again!!!
"Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat"
On February evening last I received His Majesty's Commission to form a new Administration. It was the evident wish and will of Parliament and the nation that this should be conceived on the broadest possible basis and that it should include all parties, both those who supported the late Government and also the parties of the Opposition. I have completed the most important part of this task. A War Cabinet has been formed of five Members representing, with the Opposition Liberals, the unity of the nation. The three party Leaders have agreed to serve, either in the War Cabinet or in high executive office. The three Fighting Services have been filled. It was necessary that this should be done in one single day, on account of the extreme urgency and rigour of events. A number of other key positions were filled yesterday, and I am submitting a further list to His Majesty tonight. I hope to complete the appointment of the principal Ministers during tomorrow. The appointments of the other Ministers usually takes a little longer, but I trust that when Parliament meets again this part of my task will be completed, and that the Administration will be complete in all respects.
I considered it in the public interest to suggest that the House should be summoned to meet today. Mr. Speaker agreed, and took the necessary steps, in accordance with the powers conferred upon him by the Resolution of the House. At the end of the proceedings today, the Adjournment of the House will be proposed until Tuesday, 21 May, with, of course, provision for earlier meeting if need be. The business to be considered during that week will be notified to Members at the earliest oppportunity. I now invite the House, by the Resolution which stands in my name, to record its approval of the steps taken and to declare its confidence in the new Government.
To form an Administration of this scale and complexity is a serious undertaking in itself, but it must be remembered that we are in the preliminary stage of one of the greatest battles in history, that we are in action at many points in Norway and in Holland, that we have to be prepared in the Mediterranean, that the air battle is continuous and that many preparations have to be made here at home. In this crisis I hope I may be pardoned if I do not address the House at any length today. I hope that any of my friends and colleagues, or former colleagues, who are affected by the political reconstruction, will make all the allowance for any lack of ceremony with which it has been necessary to act. I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined the Government: 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.'
We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, What is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory--victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. Let that be realized; no survival for the British Empire; no survival for all that the British Empire has stood for; no survival for the urge and impulse of the ages, that mankind will move forward towards its goal. But I take up my task with buoyancy and hope. I feel sure that our cause will not be suffered to fail among men. At this time I feel entitled to claim the aid of all, and I say, 'Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength.'
I'll begin this new series with one of Sir Winston Churchill's most quoted speeches. He delivered it to the House of Commons on May 13, 1940, shortly after being appointed Prime Minister. When you read this speech you'll almost cry that we don't have today men of such resolve, moral clarity, belief in the worthiness of their civilization, and unapologetic commitment to victory. God give us such men again!!!
"Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat"
On February evening last I received His Majesty's Commission to form a new Administration. It was the evident wish and will of Parliament and the nation that this should be conceived on the broadest possible basis and that it should include all parties, both those who supported the late Government and also the parties of the Opposition. I have completed the most important part of this task. A War Cabinet has been formed of five Members representing, with the Opposition Liberals, the unity of the nation. The three party Leaders have agreed to serve, either in the War Cabinet or in high executive office. The three Fighting Services have been filled. It was necessary that this should be done in one single day, on account of the extreme urgency and rigour of events. A number of other key positions were filled yesterday, and I am submitting a further list to His Majesty tonight. I hope to complete the appointment of the principal Ministers during tomorrow. The appointments of the other Ministers usually takes a little longer, but I trust that when Parliament meets again this part of my task will be completed, and that the Administration will be complete in all respects.
I considered it in the public interest to suggest that the House should be summoned to meet today. Mr. Speaker agreed, and took the necessary steps, in accordance with the powers conferred upon him by the Resolution of the House. At the end of the proceedings today, the Adjournment of the House will be proposed until Tuesday, 21 May, with, of course, provision for earlier meeting if need be. The business to be considered during that week will be notified to Members at the earliest oppportunity. I now invite the House, by the Resolution which stands in my name, to record its approval of the steps taken and to declare its confidence in the new Government.
To form an Administration of this scale and complexity is a serious undertaking in itself, but it must be remembered that we are in the preliminary stage of one of the greatest battles in history, that we are in action at many points in Norway and in Holland, that we have to be prepared in the Mediterranean, that the air battle is continuous and that many preparations have to be made here at home. In this crisis I hope I may be pardoned if I do not address the House at any length today. I hope that any of my friends and colleagues, or former colleagues, who are affected by the political reconstruction, will make all the allowance for any lack of ceremony with which it has been necessary to act. I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined the Government: 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.'
We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, What is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory--victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. Let that be realized; no survival for the British Empire; no survival for all that the British Empire has stood for; no survival for the urge and impulse of the ages, that mankind will move forward towards its goal. But I take up my task with buoyancy and hope. I feel sure that our cause will not be suffered to fail among men. At this time I feel entitled to claim the aid of all, and I say, 'Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength.'
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