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Originally posted by prb
When the crusaders marched on the MiddleEast killing Moslems, they did so in the name of Christ, felt that the Spirit of Christ protected them, and believed that if they died in battle that they would go straight to heaven as martyrs for their faith. When they took the city of Jerusalem, they killed 40,000 Moslems in two days - - men, women and children - - by hand.
The Koran instructs that Moslems should never initiate warfare against any other tribe/nation, but may only take up arms in self-defense.
Even after the slaughter in Jerusalem, it took another 70 years or so, numerous similar slaughters, and an attack on Mecca by an army of Crusaders before the Moslems began fighting in earnest to win back their land.
Nearly 1,000 years later: Karma.
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I wish people would stop bitching about the Crusades and comparing them to the politcal arena of now, they have ZERO bearing, apples and oranges. The World was a different place and you act has if the Muslims had no blood on their hands, not to mention your post is completely skewed to one side. Muslims were just as bad as the Christians, and it was warfare. Also the church was the focal point of the known world politcally, religiously, militarily, and culturally/socially... we figured out long ago that that doesn't work, the Muslims haven't.