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The Crusades: The Crescent & The Cross, History Channel 11/6 & 11/7, 9PM
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Posted on 11/06/2005 4:06:10 PM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: Dr. Scarpetta
Turning it off. I just remembered why I don't watch much TV.
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posted on
11/06/2005 7:45:50 PM PST
by
satchmodog9
( Seventy million spent on the lefts Christmas present and all they got was a Scooter)
To: satchmodog9
Y'all should've watched what I'm watching on Discovery. It's really quite good.
To: marsh_of_mists
The Christians are vicious and wild barbarians just running around committing atrocities against Muslims and other Christians. The Muslims meanwhile are all valient and worthy opponents. They even had Christians eating Muslims!
To: Publius6961
History Channel just blew it when they had the professor take the children in and then Marat was referred to as "shock and awe." Marat was horrible, but HC just showed their bias. This type of tactic was not used up to this point in this production.
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posted on
11/06/2005 7:55:27 PM PST
by
sageb1
(This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
To: SW6906
I don't know. I've got it on now but it's kind of boring and I've lost interest.
To: sageb1
And then they end with Bush's comment about a crusade and how disturbed the Muslims were? Give me a break.
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posted on
11/06/2005 8:00:09 PM PST
by
sageb1
(This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
To: Coleus
Articles indexed to crusades (in order of time indexed.) Post #76 Thank you!
To: Dr. Scarpetta
When is someone going to make a documentary about the Islamic Conquest of the 7th and 8th centuries? Notice that they never bother to elaborate on that bit of history, as if the Muslim caliphates just grew out of the ground of Iberia and Palestine. At least the Christians had a reason for launching the Crusades--to take back formerly Christian lands. What excuse did Abu Bakr & friends have for marching out of the desert and waging unproved war against everyone around them, other then a religious fanaticism which drove them to attempt to conquer and convert the entire world?
To: marsh_of_mists
I don't think I'll bother watching this tomorrow.
***
Same here. It was so anti-Christian.
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posted on
11/06/2005 8:18:00 PM PST
by
Bigg Red
(Do not trust Democrats with national security!)
To: redgolum
I liked the creepy back-lit images of the pope and the scary chanting that made up the entire soundtrack. (Couldn't they get the Emperor's Theme from Star Wars?) The charming field trip with the little Arab kids being taught about Crusader War Crimes was cute, too. The Crusader cannabilism was a wee bit over the top for my taste, but I have to admit it fit in well.
I can't wait until tomorrow when we learn what happens when the Arabs liberate Jerusalem in the next episode. (Tonight it was left in the hands of the evil Christians.) The promos showed a smiling Moslem riding into a city with children throwing rose petals at his feet (and flying kites in the park... wait a second, that's another movie).
To: sageb1
And then they end with Bush's comment about a crusade and how disturbed the Muslims were?
&&
That's when I really started snarling at the TV.
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posted on
11/06/2005 8:20:25 PM PST
by
Bigg Red
(Do not trust Democrats with national security!)
To: TheCrusader
I LOVE Hillary Belloc. Did you see his Five Heresies? One of which is Islam? He totally skewers Islam as a heresy of Christianity, which it is. of Catholicism. I bet his book on the Crusades is good. I think I will not watch the History Channel tonight. I just bet it is LIES.
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posted on
11/06/2005 8:20:57 PM PST
by
bboop
(Stealth Tutor)
To: Dr. Scarpetta
They even had Christians eating Muslims!
Was there any truth to that in real history?
To: marsh_of_mists
This documentary is really quite biased. The Christians are vicious and wild barbarians just running around committing atrocities against Muslims and other Christians. The Muslims meanwhile are all valient and worthy opponents. I don't think I'll bother watching this tomorrow.Who financed this lavish production? I'm serious. Where did the money come from? That certainly will explain the unabashed bias.
I need to compile how many times duplicity and atrocities by Christians are mentioned, yet not a single mention of muslim "wrongdoing" of any sort. They were freakin' saints! Regular Boy Scouts...
94
posted on
11/06/2005 8:25:21 PM PST
by
Publius6961
(Liberal level playing field: If the Islamics win we are their slaves..if we win they are our equals.)
To: Bigg Red
I don't think I'll bother watching this tomorrow. *** Same here. It was so anti-Christian.
I've got to watch. How else can I document their lies and distortions other than quoting the very words they scripted? and, of course, the ones they conveniently "forgot", or pretend never happened.
95
posted on
11/06/2005 8:29:42 PM PST
by
Publius6961
(Liberal level playing field: If the Islamics win we are their slaves..if we win they are our equals.)
To: bboop
Millions of modern people of the white civilization - that is, the civilization of Europe and America - have forgotten all about Islam. They have never come in contact with it, they take for granted that it is decaying, and that, anyway, it is just a foreign religion which will not concern them. It is, as a fact, the most formidable and persistent enemy which our civilization has had, and may at any moment become as large a menace in the future as it has been in the past....
Hillaire Belloc - in 1938
To: All
One more Belloc quote:
"It has always seemed to me possible, and even probable, that there would be
a resurrection of Islam and that our sons or our grandsons would see the
renewal of that tremendous struggle between the Christian culture and what
has been for more than a thousand years its greatest opponent....
To: texasbluebell
Thanks for the Belloc. Any good Chesterton quotes about Islam? :-)
To: Publius6961
The second half of 'Kidnapped' is on Masterpiece Theater. Last week was good.
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posted on
11/06/2005 8:41:05 PM PST
by
pbear8
(France is guilty of regicide)
To: Renderofveils
get real. That was not the case.
100
posted on
11/06/2005 8:43:46 PM PST
by
Cronos
(Never forget 9/11. Restore Hagia Sophia!)
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