[Grem] Medina - how the first Muslim refugee resettlement program ended/ W.Kilpatrick

[Emoke Greschik]

 William Kilpatrick
<http://www.crisismagazine.com/author/william-kilpatrick>
http://www.crisismagazine.com/2015/medina-the-first-muslim-refugee-resettlement-program

"Christians are regularly reminded that the Holy Family were once refugees
in Egypt. Yes, but the culture brought into the world by the Holy Family is
worlds apart from the one introduced six centuries later by Muhammad.

Let’s not forget that the Holy Family were once refugees. But in regard to
the present crisis there’s another and perhaps more appropriate analogy to
consider: Muhammad and his followers were also once refugees. He and his
group of about 100 men, women, and children had long overstayed their
welcome in Mecca. According to Muslim chroniclers, they had to flee in
order to avoid persecution. Fortunately for Muhammad, the more
“enlightened” citizens of Medina extended an invitation to the Muslims to
come and live in their city. It is not recorded whether or not they held up
large “welcome refugees” banners as is now the custom at European train
stations, but they soon enough experienced the kind of regrets that
Europeans are now having. Muhammad gradually acquired wealth and converts,
and within a half-dozen years he was the master of Medina. Those Medinans
who were not exiled or slaughtered were thoroughly subjugated. Muhammad
then used Medina as the launching pad for his conquest of all Arabia.
Within a century of his death, his followers had conquered nearly half of
the civilized world.

The relevant analogy for our society is not the flight to Egypt, but the
flight to Medina and the subsequent colonization of that city by the
Muslims. A similar process of cultural conquest by migration is now
underway in Europe.  ...."
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