[TBarnett34]

Pretty good article, but I have to remind that my religion, Christianity, had it's own religious sponsored murder spree during the Crusades...

Yeah, you can argue that pretty easily if you conveniently forget that the Crusades were a response to the spread of militant Islam.

[TitansAFC]

---"Yeah, you can argue that pretty easily if you conveniently forget that the Crusades were a response to the spread of militant Islam."---

Ah yes, the history professor's popular means by which to impugn Christianity (specifically: Catholicism): the Crusades.

Islam conquered. Still tries to. They got all the way to Europe CONQUERING nations. They CONQUERED Jerusalem, and saw fit to destroy the holiest sites and relics of the Catholic Church with full knowledge of its sacredness to the faithful. This includes the site of the tomb of Jesus.

Exactly what response would we expect from the Islamic world if the Catholic Church burned Mecca to the ground?

So let me get this straight: if tomorrow Muslims conquered the Vatican, and started destroying all of the relics of the church, then the Pope declared a "just war" compelling Catholics to retake the Vatican by force (if needed) and reclaim the Shroud of Turin, et al....................well, the history books will impugn the Catholic Church again?!?!