The Crusades were a response to Islamic aggression and tyranny...the sacking of Christian lands, and widespread murder of “infidels.”
The number of people killed during the Inquisition was a fraction of a fraction of the total killed by Muslims since the inception of their savage doctrine. Hell, half as many were killed on September 11 alone.
But most people don’t want to hear these truths nowadays. What Obama was saying plays much more to what they want to believe. I schooled some liberal women on a womens’ forum on these very issues, and they screamed-—internet style, anyway, in all caps-—in protest and called me insane.
Western Civilization is the accepted villain now, and it’s going to be very hard to get past that.
Pres Obama tells Prayer Breakfast...
“we are summoned to push back against those who would distort ‘our’ religion for their nihilistic ends”.
So who is the “our” he’s identifying with???