Posted on 11/06/2005 4:06:10 PM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
It was the collision of two great faiths…a clash between two of the world’s most enduring and powerful religions.
A thousand years ago, they battled each other for two centuries during three Crusades, each seeking control of what they claimed as the rightful holy lands of their people.
Heroes and villains emerged, and acts of barbarism cut wounds that are still felt to this day.
This November, The History Channel travels back in time for a historical, vivid and clear-eyed look at the first three Crusades, the battle between the Crescent and the Cross, which still shapes the Middle East and relations between the two great religions in our present-day world.
Turning it off. I just remembered why I don't watch much TV.
Y'all should've watched what I'm watching on Discovery. It's really quite good.
They even had Christians eating Muslims!
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.
I don't know. I've got it on now but it's kind of boring and I've lost interest.
And then they end with Bush's comment about a crusade and how disturbed the Muslims were? Give me a break.
Thank you!
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?
I don't think I'll bother watching this tomorrow.
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Same here. It was so anti-Christian.
And then they end with Bush's comment about a crusade and how disturbed the Muslims were?
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That's when I really started snarling at the TV.
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.
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...
*** 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.
Hillaire Belloc - in 1938
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....
Thanks for the Belloc. Any good Chesterton quotes about Islam? :-)
The second half of 'Kidnapped' is on Masterpiece Theater. Last week was good.
get real. That was not the case.
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