Rusty has a very small post on this, but within the links are a wealth of information on the crusades…
An excellent roundup of the truth that counters the utter nonsense the MSM is spreading like literal fertilizer about the crusades.
These links go on and on and the message is totally counter to what the MSM and CAIR would have you believe. Excellent reads, but you have to be willing to wade through the material, like at this link…there are two very long posts about it.
The First Crusade was launched in 1096, but Muslims conquered Christian Syria & Palestine in the 7th Century, invaded Spain in 712, & would have put the sword to Europe had they not been defeated at Tours (732).
Whitewash: The CAIR Seal of Approval
The First Crusade was launched in 1096. Prior to that, Muslims conquered Syria (635), Palestine (638), Persia (642), Eqypt (642), North Africa (642-698), Kabul (711), the Indus region (712), Samarkand (712), Spain (712), Toulouse (721), Kyrgyzstan (751, Chinese army defeated), & Armenia (1071).
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Today’s dose of NIF – News, Interesting & Funny … Ugh, Somebody’s got a case of the Mondays
The Truth About the Crusades
Cao’s Blog has a very nice wrap up of links discussing the true story behind the crusades.
Go read, learn. You’re not likely to see the truth in the MSM.
This mustard has pass expiration,..
narrow minded and hater of Muslims
awaits his king at the gate of zion- a bad king conditioned to return on the establishmednt of a state survives burglary and blood.
any way, the film is bad for Muslims,
unfair to Salahaddin , “No Mercy” or threating to kill children and women “within these walls” were never narrated about him. The film blasphemes the great man and the Muslims as blood thursty. Ignorant enough not to dig their wells when the fact is they shigned the christians life with knowledge.
The movie showed the ethnic and cultural diversity in the christian side, while it was actually in the Arabs side whom wrongly portraied as all dark skinned. It showed Muslims and jews living with the europeans, while they killed them all along with the Arab christians when they took over Jerusalem the first time..the jews were most hated by the christians that they massacered them inside the christian lands before they even reach the Arab lands. The jews by witness of history knew no better tolerance from other than the muslims and refujed to them. The Orthodux church was very delighted to regain its properties from the catholic church after Salahadeen opened Jerusalem. Some haters mentioned blathered about the great Arab conquests from Arabia into the christian lands- Short concultation for history sources would tell you that they
1-never forced no one on conversion- unlike the christians(untill only60 years ago)- and they were met as liberators
2-NEVER killed civilians – or prisoner of war.
3- they were met as liberators from the corrupt (church abiding) bezuntium empire. (ofcourse I can’t claim that the met with flowers as the Americans claim in Iraq) a habit was not known back then.
Oh c’mon. Mohammed was a sick murdering child molester–he married a 9 year old girl.
The Crusades to the East were in every way defensive wars. They were a direct response to Muslim aggression—an attempt to turn back or defend against Muslim conquests of Christian lands.
Christians in the eleventh century were not paranoid fanatics. Muslims really were gunning for them (how is that any different than now?). While Muslims can be peaceful, Islam was born in war and grew the same way. From the time of Mohammed, the means of Muslim expansion was always the sword. Muslim thought divides the world into two spheres, the House of Islam and the House of War. Christianity—and for that matter any other non-Muslim religion—has no abode (they fall into the House of War). Christians and Jews can be tolerated within a Muslim state under Muslim rule. But, in traditional Islam, Christian and Jewish states must be destroyed and their lands conquered. When Mohammed was waging war against Mecca in the seventh century, Christianity was the dominant religion of power and wealth. As the faith of the Roman Empire, it spanned the entire Mediterranean, including the Middle East, where it was born. The Christian world, therefore, was a prime target for the earliest caliphs, and it would remain so for Muslim leaders for the next thousand years.
With enormous energy, the warriors of Islam struck out against the Christians shortly after Mohammed’s death. They were extremely successful. Palestine, Syria, and Egypt—once the most heavily Christian areas in the world—quickly succumbed. By the eighth century, Muslim armies had conquered all of Christian North Africa and Spain. In the eleventh century, the Seljuk Turks conquered Asia Minor (modern Turkey), which had been Christian since the time of St. Paul. The old Roman Empire, known to modern historians as the Byzantine Empire, was reduced to little more than Greece. In desperation, the emperor in Constantinople sent word to the Christians of western Europe asking them to aid their brothers and sisters in the East.
That is what gave birth to the Crusades. They were not the brainchild of an ambitious pope or rapacious knights but a response to more than four centuries of conquests in which Muslims had already captured two-thirds of the old Christian world. At some point, Christianity as a faith and a culture had to defend itself or be subsumed by Islam. The Crusades were that defense.
Um excuse me Duraid but you left that same exact comment at Rusty’s. Copying and pasting all over the blogosphere, I take it?