Byzantine sugar, how come you taste so good?
Ahh, Byzantine sugar, just like unibrow women should.

Drums beating, cold Muslim blood runs hot,
Penchant for Bosporus beauty wonder where its gonna stop?
Slave boy knows that he’s doin’ alright,
Now he won’t get a porked surprise right around midnight…

Ahhhh, Byzantine sugar, how come you taste so good?
By Allah!!!!, Byzantine sugar, better than my camel could.

The island on whose top my girlfriend and I got engaged.

The main mosque (still there today).

The castle walls in front of my house.

Our patron saint George of Joannina, the only saint with a fez. (The Turks didn’t leave the Epirus until 1913!)

And don’t knock Byzantine women!

Robert Spencer on December 16, 2007 at 9:44 AM

Byzantine women are great (when they’re not plucking their sons eyes out to control the throne). I think I may be (to use a Huckabeean phrasing) the only one here with a degree in Byzantine Studies. I also live in beautiful Joannina, capital of the Despotate of the Epirus, where every other girl looks like a model. (The only place in the world with a higher average prettiness is Israel.)

Reading the history of Byzantium, while exhilerating, can be frustrating. Everything goes great until Mohammed. He and his followers ruin everything, first taking Egypt (the breadbasket of the empire) and the Levant (a very important, very Christian area). Then the Turks, first Seljuk and later Ottoman, a fierce people by nature but inspired with holy fire by Islam, take more and more of Asia Minor, finally taking the City on the aforementioned Tuesday (still the black day of the week in Greece today). And of course it gave an excuse to Crusaders like Guiscard (”the Fox”) and his son Bohemund to invade the empire. (Eventually Doge Dandolo & Co. of the Fourth Crusade sacked their “fellow” Christians in Constantinople in 1204!)

It’s an old and obscure history to the West, peripheral to all but some mediaevalists. But it’s still important to the East, both Greece and the Arab World, and many jihadis still refer to us as Byzantines or Romans. They have a long memory.

But yeah, Byzantine women. They are hot.

So Muhammad had a pension for the unibrow look?

He died before he could collect it.

(The word you’re looking for is “penchant”.)

It’s the By-y-y-y-y-y-y-zantine women
Gimme, gimme, gimme the Byzantine blues.

*May 29, 1453.

I believe these verses, 30-49 in sura 9, encapsulates very nicely all the hatred, condemnation, and calls to exterminate non-believers who don’t submit to this cult of mohammed.

“…jihad for the sake of Allah (jihad fi sabil Allah, which denotes in Islamic theology armed struggle to establish the hegemony of the Islamic social order) is the best deed a Muslim can perform (v. 41).”

Culture is based on cult, and the applied philosophy of this cult works itself out in the news almost everyday with the barbarism of perpetual outrage.

John 3:16 vs sura 9:5. Does the West have the stones to defend it?

And don’t knock Byzantine women!

I attended a lecture on Byzantine culture, where it was mentioned that unibrows were considered a thing of beauty at one point in Byzantine history. There were some slides of Byzantine mosaics showing ladies sporting them. I’m sure those ladies were very tempting next to the poor women of Islam.

Do mulsim have *proof* that Mo flew to Paradise on the back of a pegasus with a woman’s face?

Tony737 on December 16, 2007 at 10:50 AM

Heh…the story of “The Night Journey” as I think it’s called is one of my favorites. Allah wanted Mohammed to have the faithful pray 50 times a day, and Moses told Mohammed that they’d never go for it, and he should try to bargain down. Moses had Mohammed keep going back until he got Allah down to five times a day.

Anyhoo…there’s much in this chapter of the Koran that shows how in those days one needed to hold the predominant religion in order to wield political power. If your religion was the minority, you were marginalized politically.

Fabricating a new religion and convincing the masses to join it was the quickest way to political-military power for Mohammed.

Zawahiri Christmas Greeting

Well we DID have proof until the muslims did who knows what with the Cross … *THE* Cross … after defeating the Crusaders at Jerusalem.

Do mulsim have *proof* that Mo flew to Paradise on the back of a pegasus with a woman’s face?

Many other western Christians had similar experiences. The Quran so overreaches in painting Christians as depraved lunatics (and the local imams do not seem to shrink back from adding to the hyperbole) that simple kindness on our part generated genuine shock among the populace there.

My hope, of course, is that upon realizing that they have been lied to about one issue, they would begin to question where else they might have been deceived.

Great post Robert, and thanks for sharing your expertise so freely with all of us.

Thanks. I hope to put it in print eventually, if any publisher wants it.

Muhammad didn’t say the statement in question. It comes from an unnamed Muslim.

And don’t knock Byzantine women!

“Brown Sugar” might have been inspired by an ancient Islamic pop tunes titled “Byzantine Women”.

I hope to see this series available in print. Really a wonderful collection of important and telling attributes that serve to represent the wacky-world of Islam.