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To: A Navy Vet
The Crusades were a series of wars undertaken to defend Christianity and Western Civilization. The Muslims had all but conquered Europe.
55 posted on 02/27/2012 7:52:19 PM PST by Lauren BaRecall (I declare for Santorum)
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To: Lauren BaRecall
The Crusades were a series of wars undertaken to defend Christianity and Western Civilization. The Muslims had all but conquered Europe.

No, the Seljuk Turks, after the Battle of Manzikert in, um, about 1071 or 1074 (Byzantine Greeks vs. Turks eastern Turkey [then the eastern frontier of the Greek Empire]), cut off all Christian access to Jerusalem. This provoked a papal call for Crusaders to take the city and restore communication of Christianity with its roots.

And fwiw, I have never seen a Moslem criticism of the Seljuks for their intolerant initiative (which departed from the Moslem policies of the previous 450 years), even considering the damage that was done to the Caliphate by the Crusades. It is never the Moslem's fault, always the unbeliever's.

66 posted on 02/28/2012 9:59:31 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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