Obama’s clear acceptance of a caricature of the Crusades is an excellent example of his behavior and statements that keep the belief that he is not an American alive.
The triumphalism that is often part of popular history can be quite annoying if you are not part of the group whose triumphs are being celebrated. Obama seems to go out of his way to denigrate the accomplishments of western civilization.
An odd postscript of the crusades that shows their general place in Europeon popular culture is that toward the end of the middle ages (~1500IIRC) There was a movement in Eastern Europe to start a Jewish crusade among the Jews of the pale of settlement. Fortunately for everyone, this did not seem to go much of anywhere, and aside from being a strange incident written in an old history book I am having trouble finding references. Book was written before 1940 and is likely still in my college Hillel house.
The “Pale of Settlement” started around 1800. Maybe the Chmielnicki Massacres around 1650 that killed 100,000 Jews?
It wasn’t so bad for Jews in the 16th century (comparatively).
Several centuries before the Crusades Muhammad himself decapitated and ordered to be burned alive hundreds of men, women and children.
Jesus never kill anyone, neither ordered his disciples to kill those who didn’t accept the Gospel.
Burning people alive is acceptable to Islam, says Islamic cleric. After all, Muhammad did it.
By: DrJohn
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsmax-Tv/Anjem-Choudary-Islamic-State-ISIS-pilot/2015/02/05/id/622993/
Anjem Choudary, A London-based Islamic cleric who lectures on Sharia law, says that it was acceptable to Islam to burn the Jordanian pilot alive.