Before uttering that famous battle-cry:
Deus vult! (God wills it!)
here's how Blessed Pope Urban II (Felicis Memoriae i.e. Of Happy Memory), at Clermont in 1095, described the outrages suffered by fellow Christians at the hands of the militant Mohammedans:
"The [the Mohammedan Turks] have invaded the lands of those Christians and have depopulated them by the sword, pillage, and fire; they have led away a part of the captives into their own country, and a part they have destroyed by cruel tortures.... The circumcise the Christians, and the blood of the circumcision they either spread upon the altars or pour into the vases of the baptismal font.
"When they wish to torture people by a base death, they perforate their navels, and dragging forth the extremity of the intestines, bind it to a stake; then with flogging they lead the victim around until the viscera
having gushed forth, the victim falls prostrate upon the ground. Others they bind to a post and pierce with arrows. Others they compel to extend their necks and then, attacking them with naked swords, attempt to cut through the neck with a single blow. What shall I say of the abominable rape of the women? To speak of it is worse than to be silent.... On whom therefore is the labor of avenging these wrongs and of recovering the this territory
incumbent, if not upon you?"
1. Islam is a religion of peace
2. Christians living under muslim rule were happy and carefree.
3. The Christians are always wrong
4. Ignorant Christians slaughtered millions of innocent muslims in the crusades.
I know these things, because I read about them in the newspaper.
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