[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.

[bnelson44]

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

cite?

[GulliverSwift]

People remember what they want to remember. Muslims invaded and occupied Christian Spain for 700 years. After taking over Spain, they tried to take over the rest of Christian Europe but were stopped by Charles Martell "The Hammer" in France.

Finally after 700 years the Muslims were expelled to North Africa by Ferdinand and Isabella, the same ones who sponsored Columbus's explorations.

[RobbyS]

Saladin wasn't, but the Mamluks were. One of their leaders Baybars was ruthless and unlike Saladin did not cloak his policy in the language of Jihad. In 163 he destroyed the cathedral at Nazareth. He took the Templar fortress at Safad and massacred the garrison after agreeing to spare its defenders. He sacked Jaffa in 1268 and took the city of Antioch and killed its inhabitants. It was probably the single greatest massacre of the crusading period.(Madden, page 181).