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No, I am not saying that we deserved 9/11 because of the Crusades. I was merely pointing out that during the Middle Ages Christianity was skewed by its followers and today Islam has been skewed by many of its followers.
I was also trying to show an historical perspective for the anti-European feelings held by most Moslems; feelings that have been reinforced by later European colonization of Moslem countries and, even more modernly, by support for brutal dictators and for Israel.
Nothing we do ever goes away. The South can't forget the Civil War after nearly 150 years. And that wasn't a war between different cultures and religions. The combatants were as close alike as could be, even blood relatives.
If Islam is your enemy, know your enemy. Or as Pogo says, "We have met our enemy and it is us."
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