History Channel's Propagandist Piece on the Crusades

History Channel | November 8, 2005 | History Channel

[ZULU]

Did anybody see that vile piece on the Crusades Sunday Night?

I had to turn it off. It was a politically pile of propagandist crap attacking the Crusades, the Christian Church and heroizing Ilsamic fanatics.

[RoadTest]

The Crusades - the war in which both sides were wrong.

[SW6906]

"Every scene of Christianity was shot in some dark damp room with a light beam coming in through a solitary window. Christian leaders were either hooded or ugly and somber. Every Muslim scene was shot in bright sunlight.

I HAD to turn it off when one so-called "historian", from some second rate college, explained that the reason knights and nobles left their wealth, comfort and families to risk their lives with little chance of any payback was because Pope Urban was a great motivational speaker ("better than Billy Graham")."

I channel surfed to this right about this same time. And it was right about this same time ("better than Billy Graham") that I turned it off.

[OldYank1]

Everyone knows that Pope Urban misused intelligence and lied to the kings of Europe about the weapons of MASS destruction.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

The Crusades - the war in which both sides were wrong.

Wrong

[kidd]

The Crusades - the war in which both sides were wrong.

I like the FreeRepublic because the posters are either intelligent or are on their way to becoming intelligent. Please take 5 minutes and educate yourself: http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/661560/posts

[ZULU]

You have a much stronger stomach and lower blood pressure than me and are to be congratulated for your fortitude.

[ZULU]

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Why were both sides wrong??

The area of the Middle East was mainly Christian at the time the Arabic moon-whorshippers moved in. After conquering Palestine, Syria and adjacent areas, they moved on to conquer predominantly Christian Egypt and North Africa and attack and invade Christian Iberia, Sicily, Southern Italy and France. They attacked and invaded monotheistic Zoroastrian Persia.

Savage horse nomads from Central Asia invaded Arabic Islamic lands, including the Holy Land, converted to Islam and began persecuting Christian pilgrims. Tehn they moved on to attack, invade and conquer Christian Asia Minor.

The Crusades, despite this propagandistic piece were also a reaction to the spread of Medieval militant Islam. A negative point was the fact that they ulimately failed - not through Islamic persistence but more through the loss of interest of western Europe and the development of European nation states more interested in fighting each other than kicking the Muslims out of lands they had stolen.

Some of the Crusaders did slaughter innocent Jews and non-Latin Christians which was also a negative. But that was not something either the Pope or the western Christian desired and they did try to stop it whenever they could.
But on the whole the Muslims DID deserve getting their butts kicked and they still do.

[markman46]

nope but I did DVR it, and will watch it later.

[Matchett-PI]

Thanks for the link. I added some comments to the thread, here:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/661560/posts?page=105#105

[eleni121]

Actually you are wrong. But you already knew that...