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The Crusades were a series of military campaigns against radical Islam, which had swept through formerly Christian lands in the Mideast, up through Spain to France, and in the eastern lands of Christendom. Know what Dar al-Salaam and Dar al-Harb mean? Didn't think so. Go learn some facts, read a book.

Once you've learned a thing or two about what really motivated the Crusades, you might want to move on to the Inquisition. Try Googling "the Black Legend."

So many ill informed people slandering the great Catholic Church, so little time.

[Servant of the Cross]

So many ill informed people slandering the great Catholic Church, so little time.

Exactly. And I believe the extreme recent increase in these media-led attacks against the Pope and the Church is primarily payback to the strong stand of the US Catholic Bishops against 0bamacare: Catholic bishops send message to faithful: We oppose ObamaCare.