...the Crusades were not perfect, but this brief survey should establish that they were in no sense a gratuitous proto-colonial attack by the Christian West against a hitherto peaceful and benign Islamic world. On the contrary, they were a response to centuries of violence by Muslims against Christians...
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4 posted on 09/21/2006 9:08:15 PM PDT by GOPJ
(Muslim outrage would be taken more seriously if Muslims weren't such arrogant hypocrites.)