"Islam looks at people like you as court jesters."
Says the guy who's entertained me in this very thread!
History looks at people like you as ostriches, for keeping one's head in the sand, rather than face fact. Facing historical fact does NOT invalidate what's going on today.
Fact: I hate Islime. Christianity may have its problems but, with the exception of N. Ireland and a few nutcases like Eric Rudolph, Christianity doesn't preach killing of others. Islime is still 1000 years behind Fred Flintstone, much less the West. It's not coincidental that the greatest Mooslime contribution to the West is the number 0. It's very fitting.
STILL, none of this erases the atrocities both sides were guilty of in the Crusades, which were resounding military failures for Christianity (except for the 1st one). Why are you in denial over something that happened 1000 years ago?
I think it is fairly clear historically that Crusade borrowed from Jihad almost exactly as a religeous doctrine. It is a historical fact that Jihad predated Crusade and that it was the teacher to the Christians.
Having said that, Christianity learnt from its mistakes and outlawed Crusade. If Christians are guilty of atrocity, then they have long paid for their sins. Islam, on the other hand, has yet to remove Jihad from its ideology and does not look to be doing so any time in the near future.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=4467 Try this one on for size. This fellow is scholarly enough
Just a point of fact, the so-called "Arabic numbers" and the number zero are imports from India.