Coincidences? The Battle of Vienna on September 11, 1683 & the attack in New York on September 11, 2001.

By Natalio A. Yaria on Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 4:09pm.

There are events that become turning points in history which do not probe the theory of economic determinism or class struggle. There are two events that can serve as examples; both coincide on the month and day that took place, but not on the year: the Battle of Vienna on September 11, 1683 and the attack to the Twin Towers in New York on September 11, 2001.

First, there is a time span of three hundred and eighteen years between the first and the second event; second, both attacks were initiated by elements of Islam to the centers of Western Civilization; and third, both attacks were not spontaneous events determined by economics or class confrontations.

The response of Catholic Europe in the Battle of Vienna was a defensive act. The best defense was an implacable counterattack; for if Vienna fell, Rome would have been the next target. The evidence indicates that the Battle of Vienna was intended to impose Islam on Christendom.

If, like some people say, the Battle of Vienna was a clash between two Faiths, they are wrong on two counts: Faith is only given by God to each of us individually, not human was given that power. Second, a person or a religious institution might be a messenger of the will of God, but the message can never be imposed in the Lord’s name to any individual, or nation, or a group of nations.

After Vienna had been besieged by the Ottoman Empire for two months, the Battle of Vienna took place in the morning of September 11 and ended in the evening of 12 of September 1683. The battle marked the turning point in the Ottoman–Habsburg wars, the 300-year struggle between the forces of Christendom and the Ottoman Empire.

It was a battle between The Holy League, led by the Catholic Habsburg dynasty, versus the Ottoman Empire and fiefdoms, which were occupied territories or a sphere of activity controlled or dominated by particular persons loyal to the Ottoman Empire near the Kahlenberg Mountain in Vienna. Even though the Ottomans fought on for another 16 years, they finally gave up; and Christendom regained control of occupied Hungary and Transylvania.

The result was the major strategic military defeat of Islam by the forces of Christendom which marked the historic end of the expansion of the Ottoman Empire into Europe.

The attack to the Twin Towers seems to indicate that it was more a commemorative act of revenge by ever-present extremists than evidence of a continuation of the clash of two civilizations. I believe that there is no coincidence on the dates. Time will probe this hypotheses correct