Christian/Muslim ThreadsObservations on Christianityreally wanna read where i get this? Post Crusade history: ...with the change of rulers over Jerusalem in 1070, the treatment of pilgrims to the holy city became so bad that Europe reacted. Still it took a couple of decades before the reaction came - the crusades. 1009: The Egyptian Fatimid caliph, al-Hakim (who by the Druze is considered as their founder) orders the destruction of the Holy Sepulchre and all Christian establishments in Jerusalem. 1070: Jerusalem is conquered by Seljuq Turks. -- http://lexicorient.com/e.o/crusades_05.htm First Crusade The trigger for the First Crusade was Emperor Alexius I's appeal to Pope Urban II for mercenaries to help him resist Muslim advances into territory of the Byzantine Empire. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades This from a crusade historian. "For starters, 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." "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." -- http://www.crisismagazine.com/april2002/cover.htm All the eight crusades after this are merely a chain reaction of this first event, with differing instigators muslim and papal alike. These medeavel christian practised a Jihad (Islam) when Christians aren't to practise any jihad's... i am ashamed of the warriors who defiled Jesus name in the same way that i am ashamed of muslims doing the same jihad's (back then and this very day) in the name of 'supponsly' defending the judeo-christian God who you don't believe or know, by muhammedan violence noone wants. I didn't and never like the zealotry at wich the merceneries fought, or fought to begin with... but i will not neglect the instigator of this dark period in christianity... without the hostile muslims the conflicts would of never happend in the first place. you acctually admit to the conquering aggression in your own posts... foolish you. H20's your mentor as well? |
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