According to the official history of Islam written by Catholic and Muslim fanatics, the Sarazens were those who were cited as the conquerors who spread the Islamic faith in the 700 hundreds. A faith whose sacred book would only exist a century later.
It seems that the Europeans took ingredients they had at home and made a great story for Islam. Let’s see whom the sarazins were in the middle ages.
In his book “The Sarazins were from the area” (Les Sarazins étaient du coin), the French historian Joseph Henriet demonstrates that those whom history has named Sarazens were not Arabs. They would be, more generally, pagans, peoples who had not converted to Christianity, and assimilated to Muslims by a confusion due to the idea, formerly believed, that Islam adapted certain traits estimated prior to Christianity. Heresy was generally regarded as a superficial garment given to old beliefs; this was also the case of Arianism, which had been adopted by the Burgundians. In the heart of the Alps, according to Henriet, different heretics and pagans could live side by side, but at the end of the day, they were no stranger to the area: it was a native people, settled in places since the beginning. They are those whom we today call Ligures, whose language was no doubt close to Basque. In opposite from the Allobroges, they remained at the top of the mountains or in the depths of the valleys.
According to Henriet, the description of “Sarazins” by medieval authors refers to indigenous peoples, not Eastern invaders.
These natives would have preserved for a long time, in the Middle Ages, their pagan cults, their way of mountainlife, and also their habits of plundering the convoys of travelers when their productions were insufficient. Christian writers, living in the cities, would therefore have claimed them to be “Sarazins”, referring both to the terror they inspired, and to their ignorance of the Christian religion.
One day, perhaps soon, thanks to the rapid progress of genetic sience, honorable scientists should be able to determine with certainty whom the Sarazins of the Alps were. In the meantime, Joseph Henriet’s hypothesis seems to be particularly convincing …
]]>As thought the Kabyles have not lived through pain and suffering for a long time…So I am asking myself how and why so many do not seem to see problems, either because they cannot or are unaware of what is happening… unless they lost touch with the native land.
Has anyone have heard of Catharism ?
Cathars were a group of peaceful Christian peasants who lived a quiet life in the middle ages in what is now Limousin in France.
Although these people respected all the Catholic dogmas, it was that they remained a free people and it bothered the Monarchy (French) … and as the Epochof the Crusades were in full swing, the Cathars wanted to know nothing of this new phenomenon.
Although those folk were of a catholic faith they happened to disturb the Monarchy, through their free ways of thinking and living.
That freedom attracted the inquisition that struck them fiercely… and the Catholic Church pushed the outrage to encourage informers to spy upon them.
How many betray a neighbor by greed so as to acquire his property we will never know!
The fact remains that so many good (Christian) cathars fell victims of the witch hunt that sent them to the stake!
Today, in the 21st Century I feel I have to ask whether the History will repeat itself … in our land, Kabylia.
Moslem peoples wherever they happen to be never quit setting bringing with them they disastrous ways: Be it in Algeria, Afghanistan, Irak, Somalia, Syria, Lybia or Sudan , they wreak havoc and do not spare any innocent creature.
For the last fifteen years we have witness what those barbarians moslems have done in Algeria. Today adepts of authentic Islam and you name it seem to target our own region, Algeria, Afghanistan, Irak, Somalia, Syria, Lybia. This brings about a new situation that may get out hand as worse as ever.
Is it normal that a tiny group imposes its rule with impunity on our people while the local authorities stand by … or pretend nothing is happening , willfully ??
I fear this new phenomenon get out hand and we may see one day a slaughter across our land …. And this is why I am appealing to everybody’s awareness
First the local authorities seem wholly absent from the landscape
The people is at the mercy of those hooligans
The fear is pervasive everywhere and does not know where to turn to
And among the kabyle… for once I have notice that solidarity started to slacken!
In our local paper…. Not much is said!
On the other side of the border, through the press it appears their government has sided squarely with the former criminals … who are singing cheerfully their return…
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The poor people remains expectant … and what scare the most… is that those terrorists seem to have targeted our Kabylia !
The most macabre of it all according to me, and I see it in retrospect, is that in 1991… people saw those beards march past in Algiers streets freely…with the press blessing
And to my knowledge never a politician came in the open to condemn these rebellious acts and the people never came out to shout its revolt on the streets either
WHY ?
Because it appears that the Algiers government appears to be the instigator of those reprehensible acts behind the scenes.
As for us kabyle the disturbing fact, it’s precisely the silent and expectant people:
We must not let us lead to the slaughtering grounds
We are no sheep
It is time and opportune at that for our kabyle politicians and businessmen , in common inspiration, that they call upon our people to shout out its hatred for the extremists today not tomorrow… as tomorrow it may be too late!
For once in my life I am scared, I am scared for what the future hold for my (our) Kabylia.
Only a united and bold people can stop the Algerian Islamic terrorists on our land as the time is still on our side.
By Anzar
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