Posted on 07/26/2016 7:19:17 AM PDT by AC Beach Patrol
Good video
there is no moral equivalency between freeing Christians from evil and enslaving Christians by evil
Neither do Christians, else they wouldn't be taking all that government money to bring the Islamists here.
The First Crusade was pretty successful.
Very good - thanks...
bkmk
Its well explained in the history books.
But you shouldn't rely on Bill Warner for history.
Bill French was a physics professor at Tennessee State and got involved in the anti-islam movement as it revolved around the Islamic Center being built in Murfreesboro way back when. He figured out quickly there was money to be made in the movement but he had to change his name because French was foreign sounding, so he changed his name to Bill Warner became a historian, or historical revisionist. This would lead to problems later because the Muslims there in Tenn were Iraqi Kurds who were seen as allies against Jihad.
Islam was born and quickly took over large areas which had been under control of Christians at Constantinople. Islam then entered their golden age and were very tolerant of Jews and Christians and their seat of power was in Egypt. It was a very stable area for hundreds of years.
The schism between eastern and western Christians was 1050.
Then the Seljuk Turks who were on the steppes converted to Islam and were fundamentalists and would conquer Persia, Asia Minor and Jerusalem, but not Egypt or Constantinople.
But they were definite threat to Constantinople so Alex asked Pope Urban in Rome for military aid. Instead, and because of the schism, Urban organized the crusades. So the crusades were to defeat the Seljuk Turks and it should have been easy because the Turks had begun fighting among them selves.
The first crusade swore loyalty to Alec and promised to turn over all captured land to Alec and the first city to be conquered to become the first Crusader State was a Christian city. Of all the lands they captured they kept for themselves ignored their promise to Alec.
By the time the Crusades got to Jerusalem, the Egyptians had retaken the city from the Turks so the crusaders would take it from them, and slaughtered everyone including the Jews.
The crusaders held the area for a about a 100 years, but they began fighting among them selves at the same time Saladin was creating the muslim alliance to defeat the crusaders. The second crusade was a re-enforcement of the first crusade.
The third crusade was an attempt to recapture Jerusalem from Saladin but it failed.
The 4th crusade had good intentions but all they did was take Constantinople away from the eastern Christians for a short while.
The Saladin dynasty ruled for a while until the Mongols captured the whole area..
After the mongols receded the Turks regained control and Osman started the Ottoman empire, captured Constantinople and made a run on eastern Europe.
The Ottomans didn't impose religion and were tolerant of jews and Christians. All they wanted was to collect taxes.
When the Zionist movement began in the 19th century and the first conflicts between Jews and Palestinians began the Ottomans were not concerned as long as the European Jews in Palestine were paying their taxes
Leftists, including Obama, bring up the Crusades whenever militant jihad expansionism throughout the world and especially into countries with Western historical roots is mentioned.
They claim a moral and civil equivalence between Jihad and the Crusades. This interactive website puts the lie to that.
Urban viewed the Crusade as a pilgrimage, the aim of which was not to conquer but to visit the place of pilgrimage and then return home. Later popes maintained the understanding of the Crusades as just, defensive wars with the central goal of the recovery of ancient Christian territory. Heroic men and women of faith, rooted in love of Christ and neighbor, undertook the Crusades as acts of self-defense and recovery of stolen property. This is the proper understanding of these important events in Church history."
http://www.catholic.com/blog/steve-weidenkopf/were-the-crusades-just-wars
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