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I also note the level of hatred towards the schismatic Christians of East, and their heretic beliefs.

What on earth are you talking about?

Not for nothing do the Christians of the Western world idealise the Crusades - that was exactly the Crusaders priorities, except they had it in for the Jews as well. So many people to kill, so little time ...

You're fabricating strawmen in an effort to bash Medieval Christianity.

All the posts on this thread want to kill terrorists. If you're not a terrorist you've got nothing to worry about.

What am I talking about? Read the posts debating Nestorian beliefs, and the furious replies to Bobby777 because he doesn't believe in the canonical position of the Virgin Mary as the Mother of God (rather than the Mother of Jesus.) I tell you, that Bobby is pretty lucky that the Holy Office has lost its powers.

Post 99, completely characteristic, says: "Savages. I'll revel in their total destruction." Remember, many of these to be destroyed, will be the Christian communities of Iraq, handed over to our Turkish, Kurdish, and Islamic fundamentalist allies. The Christian community of Iraq is IDENTIFIED with Sadaam Hussein's regime, members hold high office in it. The picture in Iraq is not what you have been sold.

As for the Crusaders, you do them great wrong if you deny their anti-Semitism. They gloried in it. They also killed off the Orthodox Christians at an amazing rate. (And the Orthodox in the East have not forgotten this, not for a moment. Many of them seem to enjoy brooding over their hatred.) The Crusades were directed equally against herectics as against Muslims and Jews. I direct your attention to the Albigensian crusade in the south of France.

I'm coming late to this thread, but as a Christian, I think a Catholic nun's violent murder (however it occurred and whoever did it) is a sin that God Himself will avenge one way or another, because it is a strike at God Himself. I think anybody who murders the religious, be it a priest, nun, rabbi, Buddhist monk, imam, or lay missionary or otherwise devout person, where the person was never violent or advocated violence and was murdered clearly because of the person's religion, is in an even more unenviable position in relation to divine judgement than other murderers.