[quidnunc]

Anniegetyourgun wrote: But only because those who perpetrated the crusades were "Christians" in name only.

The Crusades weren't "perpetrated", they were Europe's reaction to Islamic expansionism.

Don't forget, until it was overrun by the Muslims the Holy Land was in large part Christian.

Furthermore, Europe itself was in danger of being overrun.

When it comes to the Crusades, the West has no need to apologize.

[Chipata]

"The Crusades weren't "perpetrated", they were Europe's reaction to Islamic expansionism. Don't forget, until it was overrun by the Muslims the Holy Land was in large part Christian. Furthermore, Europe itself was in danger of being overrun. When it comes to the Crusades, the West has no need to apologize."

And you imagine that the hundreds of thousands of Jews who were murdered in cold blood in a genocide unmatched until the Holocaust was quite legitimate?

To evade the fact that Christianity was responsible for over two thousand years for the most terrible acts of barbarism against the Jewish people makes you just as guitly as the murderers themselves. You sound not very different from the apologists for 9/11.

[Polybius]

The Crusades weren't "perpetrated", they were Europe's reaction to Islamic expansionism. Don't forget, until it was overrun by the Muslims the Holy Land was in large part Christian. Furthermore, Europe itself was in danger of being overrun. When it comes to the Crusades, the West has no need to apologize.

Agreed.

In Spain, the Muslims never apologized for invading the 900 year old Hispano-Roman (with some uncouth Visogothic barbarians thrown in) civilization of my ancestors in 711 A.D.

In turn, my ancestors never apologized for waging the 781 year long Reconquista that finally expelled the Muslims from Spain in 1492.