[weikel]

Good post I think bot religions had a lot of intolerant fanatics at that time but intolerant fanaticism is more intrinsic to Islam so the Crusaders should be viewed as heroes even if there conduct was not always noble( the 4th crusade was a particular example the Crusaders sacked Constantinople).

[Pistias]

That wedge of tolerance is stuck pretty deep in your thoughts. Equality and freedom in democracies gives it birth and nurture, but it does well to examine it from a distance.