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The Crusades Reconsidered
American Thinker ^ | August 11, 2013 | Mike Konrad

Posted on 08/11/2013 6:48:56 AM PDT by NCjim

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1 posted on 08/11/2013 6:48:56 AM PDT by NCjim
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"Part of this idiocy stems from a hyper-liberal view of history which views European Christianity as inherently evil. It permeates the culture of academia; and refuses to see the real evil of Islam.

"Sadly, a second cause is an ancillary residue of historiography which has a tradition of exaggerating the real crimes of Catholicism out of all proportion. The Spanish call this exaggeration the Black Legend of the Inquisition; and it results in a pseudo-acquittal of Islam, by blaming the Crusades on Catholicism."

2 posted on 08/11/2013 6:52:11 AM PDT by La Lydia
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-——Black Legend of the Inquisition———

The truth exceeded in villany only by the coverup of the infiltration of queers and pedos in the modern church


3 posted on 08/11/2013 6:55:46 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
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I am no historian by any means , but Muslims appear to be a fairly peaceful people as long as there are not too many of them.

A new Crusade to lower their numbers would lead to a more peaceful world.


4 posted on 08/11/2013 6:57:48 AM PDT by Venturer ( cowardice posturing as tolerance =political correctness)
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Muslims appear to be a fairly peaceful people as long as there are not too many of them

Well, somewhat...when they're not beating their wives or genitally mutilating, raping, or honor-killing their daughters.

Or looking up in the Koran good justifiable reasons to kill their fellow man.

5 posted on 08/11/2013 7:06:14 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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Crusades II.

Were Not Done Yet


I think youre on to something!
6 posted on 08/11/2013 7:06:38 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey (Chicago Murder Updates..http://homicides.redeyechicago.com/)
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Mohammed's successor, Abu Bakr

Abe Baker, I'll have to remember that name.

7 posted on 08/11/2013 7:07:45 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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Thank you for this article.

It’s become more pronounced since 9-11-2001. In order to justify the attack, IMO.


8 posted on 08/11/2013 7:11:44 AM PDT by Bratch
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The sad part...?

“One may condemn the atrocities of the Crusaders, but what infuriates the objective student of history is that the far greater crimes of Islam are ignored.”

...nothing has changed.

Thank you, NCjim, for the article.


9 posted on 08/11/2013 7:13:29 AM PDT by moovova
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My wife and I were out yesterday visiting various rug stores. As is very often the case, a number of these retailers were run by folks of ME “descent”. It actually made my skin crawl...made me nervous to be there.

Irrational feelings? Maybe.

Rational and prudent feelings? Probably.


10 posted on 08/11/2013 7:22:01 AM PDT by moovova
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Too bad Mohammed wasn’t buried with a silver spike driven through his heart.

Vampires and their followers are hard to kill.


11 posted on 08/11/2013 7:30:08 AM PDT by IbJensen (Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Vol. 2)

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/713/713-h/713-h.htm

From that volume:

“The Crusades”

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/713/713-h/713-h.htm#chap01

published in 1852


12 posted on 08/11/2013 7:31:41 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one)
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Crusades II. Were Not Done Yet

I presume that you mean "We're" as in "We are", right?

Contraction cop mode /off

13 posted on 08/11/2013 7:36:29 AM PDT by SES1066 (Government governs best when it governs least!)
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As long as we’re correcting the lies told about the crusades.
Let’s also correct the lies told about Genghis Khan. Genghis Khan did not destroy and pillage like I was always told. The Khan wanted a large empire for commerce. His armies conquered cities and changed governments. He allowed the citizens to keep their businesses, religion and freedoms, he just wanted trade. The only exceptions were Islamic cities. These gave him so many problems that his only course of action was to raze them to the ground. He could not negotiate with them and could not allow them to exist as they were a danger to everyone around them. The Khan did not destroy Christian, Hindu or even Pagan cities, just Islamic.


14 posted on 08/11/2013 7:37:42 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Gun Control is the Key to totalitarianism and genocide.)
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Yes We Are Not Done Yet


15 posted on 08/11/2013 7:42:29 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey (Chicago Murder Updates..http://homicides.redeyechicago.com/)
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I see the crusades as a kind of peremptory action by the west. The Saracens were causing a lot of trouble in the Mediterranean basin and beyond in those days. The west decided the best thing to do was to take the fight to them.


16 posted on 08/11/2013 7:44:10 AM PDT by virgil
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Why do we let the word "Crusades" be defined as "mean" and "hurtful", when the word "jihad" is not? It's not like the mooselimbs were ever ever downtrodden (Ottoman Empire, anyone?). Besides, the Crusades were only responses to the mooselimbs attacks on Europe.

Doesn't anyone study or know history anymore, or do they just listen to and believe everything they hear and read from the agenda-driven "news" media?

I say we should announce a new Crusade to rid the earth of the filthy radical mooselimb bent on destroying and subjugating the West. And really do it.

17 posted on 08/11/2013 7:47:05 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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"Muslims appear to be a fairly peaceful people as long as there are not too many of them."

Somewhere on the Interwebs, there is an interesting analysis that correlates Muslim actions in a country with the percentage penetration of Islam in that country. It can be summed up as "the more there are, the more belligerent they become."

18 posted on 08/11/2013 7:51:10 AM PDT by I am Richard Brandon
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Islam always was, is now and always will be, a vicious evil predatory plague on civilization. Offering nothing of value, it takes or destroys everything. It needs to be extirpated and its adherents converted or confined to the de4sert wastes which spawned them.


19 posted on 08/11/2013 7:53:28 AM PDT by ZULU ((See: http://gatesofvienna.net/) Obama, do you hear me?)
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We need to start with arming the Copts so they can defend themselves. Then add western countries special forces to the mix to help train.

Finally we need American missionaries who were former American military to travel through African continent and assist Christian nations with rebuilding the Church and the faith.

Raise pigs for food. That in and of itself will keep the religious fanatics away, hence they are killed and their rotting corpses encased in pig entrails.

If we don’t strike back, pretty soon it will be the commies on one side, the Muzzies on the other side and America and Israel caught in the middle. Put a traitor in the oval office with fanatical ties to both and we are doomed.

Oh wait......


20 posted on 08/11/2013 7:54:06 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (The reason we own guns is to protect ourselves from those wanting to take our guns from us.)
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