[GulliverSwift]

Christians clearly bear the brunt of Mr. Scott and Mr. Monahan's anti-clericalism. Christian priests are depicted as doltish dogmatists, while the Kurdish warrior Saladin (played by Ghassan Massoud) is written as a sort of pluralist ahead of his time.

[Borges]

Saladin wasn't an extremist and isn't remembered by History as such. The Crusaders, many of whom burned Jews alive in Synagogues, were.