Christian/Muslim ThreadsObservations on ChristianityYou wrote this in another topic. I take this here, because you make many unfounded claims out of ignorance about Islam, or even your history. And disucssing with you becomes a torture because one has to correct all these material mistakes and twisted views. I'm quoting the first two paragraphs of an article. Although I do not agree with it in full, as it not an Islamic source, at least gives some histocial ideas. Read and be ashamed! http://historymedren.about.com/library/ ... 101397.htm Dark Legacy How centuries of war began with one man's ambition by Melissa Snell The Byzantine Empire was in trouble. For decades the Turks, fierce nomadic warriors recently converted to Islam, had been conquering outer areas of the empire and subjecting these lands to their own rule. While they treated the Christian residents fairly, they were not so decent to Arab inhabitants. Furthermore, they established their capital a mere 100 miles from Constantinople, the capital of Byzantium. If Byzantine civilization was to survive, the Turks must be stopped. Emperor Alexius Comnenus knew he did not have the means to stop these invaders on his own. Because Byzantium had been a center of Christian freedom and learning, he felt confident in asking the Pope for assistance. In 1095 AD he sent a letter to Pope Urban II, asking him to send armed forces to Eastern Rome to help drive out the Turks. The forces Alexius more than likely had in mind were mercenaries, paid professional soldiers whose skill and experience would be more efficient in defending Byzantine lands than that of peasant armies. The emperor did not realize that Urban had an altogether different agenda. |
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