To: tkathy
Do they mean the formerly Christian lands temporarily known as Mecca and Medina?
They were never Christian. THey were pagan with a large Jewish minority. They COULD have become Christian -- the Christian Ethiopian Empire which encompassed Yemen almost conquered Mecca about a century before Mo.
42 posted on
02/14/2005 3:39:05 AM PST by
Cronos
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To: Cronos
Just what did the crusaders fight against? If not to regain Christian control of the area. Islam was a late comer to the area.
70 posted on
02/14/2005 6:09:29 AM PST by
tkathy
(Tyranny breeds terrorism. Freedom breeds peace.)
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