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To: eleni121
Actually Muslim Turks are responsible for horrors never seen in Europe for a thousand years.

Muslim Turks were reaponsible for the Albigensian Crusade? Surely you jest

9 posted on 04/25/2006 10:28:19 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain)
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To: Oztrich Boy

The genocide of the Armenians killed far more people than the Albigensian crusade. Wikipedia says 500,000 people were killed, but that comes from a very bigoted source, on that claims that the Dominicans were founded to kill off the Albigensians, although Wikipedia corrects that nonsense. Unfortunately, nearly every source I can find seems to be tracing to that same source, or is from the same brand of pagan that insists that tens of millions of witches were burned by the Catholic Church. (The Catholic church didn't burn witches.)

The two battles which seem to be bt far the most horrific saw the deaths of 10,000-20,000 each. Such figures are easier to find for the individual battles. A few of them note that some estimates of the dead are as high as 100,000. I am tempted to believe that Wikipedia's source (a Languedoc tourist site!) uses those high estmates; it's hard to see how the other battles (a few hundred dead here, a few hundred dead there) add up to more than a few tens of thousands.


12 posted on 04/25/2006 11:46:57 PM PDT by dangus
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To: Oztrich Boy
Muslim Turks were reaponsible for the Albigensian Crusade?

The Albigensian crusade didn't claim a million victims.

116 posted on 04/26/2006 5:04:39 PM PDT by curiosity
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