Finally
An anti-Jihadist comic book. I have not read it, so I cannot comment on the quality, but I admit I like the idea:
http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=5D215B1A-9EB7-47F6-B01C-2ADF32029956
Some quotes from the interview. About the origin:
Last year we were having a discussion about how popular culture has ignored the war with radical Islam and our talk turned to the death of Steve Rogers, Marvel Comics’ original Captain America. Sleet was particularly annoyed at this event and said to me “You’re a comic book fan. Why don’t we write our own comic?”
About the title:
St. James, the patron saint of Spain, and how he appeared before the Spanish forces during their fight against the Umayyads at the battle of Clavijo in the ninth century. After the battle, the Spanish called the saint “Santiago Matamoros,” or “St. James the Moor-slayer,” and used his cross-the Cross of St. James-as an emblem for an order of Knights, the Order of Santiago, during the reconquista of the Iberian peninsula.
About the cover:
The cover shows a Moorish-style doorway with a crumbling painted Cross of Santiago Matamoros -the emblem worn by the Knights of the Order of Santiago during the reconquista-painted on the wall. It looks like a locale from the reconquista hundreds of years ago. But the cross is crumbling, old and forgotten-almost like the status of Western civilization in Europe . And instead of a European soldier, the cover shows an American soldier. It’s as if the Europeans have given up fighting against the jihadist imperative to “fight until all men say ‘there is no god but Allah.'” Now it’s up to the 21st century’s successor to those old Spanish knights-the American military.
I doubt many European elites know about the Order of Santiago and if they do I’m sure they would call those Knights thuggish Islamophobes who destroyed that allegedly tolerant paradise of Andalusia which was so wonderful that both Averroes and Moses Maimonides had to run for their lives from the Iberian peninsula . The Spanish knights who fought the reconquista were outnumbered, outgunned and fought the imperialistic superpower of their day. They were fighting to get their country back. Europe has nothing to be ashamed of regarding those men, but dhimmified elites are today banning images and events related to St. James and the reconquista in Spain because they’re deemed “offensive.”
When a civilization can’t even take pride in a fight related to its own survival, that civilization is in a heap of trouble.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
