To: missyme
The Western crusaders are too often dismissed as bloodthirsty and rapaciousWeren't they?
5 posted on
04/29/2005 1:08:20 PM PDT by
newgeezer
(Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary.)
To: newgeezer
I wish we could ask the thousands of Jews were burned alive in their synagogues rather then convert to Christianity.
6 posted on
04/29/2005 1:09:11 PM PDT by
Borges
To: newgeezer
Yes they were...I will see this movie.
7 posted on
04/29/2005 1:10:53 PM PDT by
missyme
(Don't let the door hit ya in the ?)
To: newgeezer
Weren't they? Yes, but they were bloodthirsty and rapacious on our side -- not at all like the bloodthirsty and rapacious Moslems.
8 posted on
04/29/2005 1:11:24 PM PDT by
Junior
(“Even if you are one-in-a-million, there are still 6,000 others just like you.”)
To: newgeezer
Weren't they?
Indeed many of them were. You don't kill the entire Muslim and Jewish population of Jerusalem after you capture it, and in a later crusade destroy, plunder, and rape your way through (Orthodox Christian) Constantinope without being bloodthirsty and rapacious.
To: newgeezer
No, those were the Muslim INVADERS! You see the MUSLIMS invaded and the crusades were all about taking them back. If they had been the original invaders then fine they're blood thirsty but that isn't the case and that's why people should be upset. Muslims came north and invaded Jerusalem, and then were about to invade what today is called Turkey, so the leader of Constantinople asked the Pope for help. Also, any Christians trying to make a religious pilgrimage to Jerusalem were being slaughtered by MUSLIMS.
52 posted on
04/29/2005 1:28:01 PM PDT by
ReeseKev27
(Boycott liberal institutions, France, and the Dixie Chicks :))
To: newgeezer
Not by contemporary standards.
107 posted on
04/29/2005 2:04:33 PM PDT by
ZULU
(Fear the government which fears your guns. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
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