[EBH]

As I read the horrors of the day, the Crusades came to mind and how history has been rewritten...

[EBH]

ping

[jmacusa]

There isn’t anything about Islam that is peaceful, tolerant or divine. Mohammed was an evil, malevolent, sexually perverted man.

[dila813]

Nice that the truth is still out there.

[Jacquerie]

Thanks for the post. The Crusades were a series of defensive campaigns.

Now that Europe is on its knees before islam, what can be done to cleanse our beloved United States from this pestilence?

[capt. norm]

Am I the only one who remembers "Crusader Rabbit"

[Fiji Hill]

During the early days of the First Crusade in 1095, a ragtag band of Crusaders led by Count Emicho of Leningrad made its way down the Rhine, robbing and murdering all the Jews they could find.

So there were Bolsheviks among the Crusaders!

[allendale]

The initial impetus of the Crusades is when the Muslims began robbing and molesting Christian pilgrims.

[Jimmy Valentine]

It will take time and more slaughter but a time will come when stern men of good will again will take up the rosy cross and beat Islam back into the darkness it so richly deserves. Dieu Le Veut!

[Pontiac]

Great article

Thanks for posting

[Former Fetus]

Very interesting! Thank you.

[gasport]

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[aquila48]

Great summary - seems like nothing’s changed in a thousand years.

[Popman]

bump...

[P.O.E.]

Never mind “where is the likes of Charles Martel”.

I’d much rather see the likes of Vlad the Impaler.

[Biggirl]

Thank-you for the excellent report.

[PapaBear3625]

The Crusades were a counter-attack against Muslim invasions of Christian lands.

Consider how General Eisenhower characterized the Allied rollback of the Nazis in his book:

[Salvation]

Real History Of The Crusades,The

Pope Urban II and the First Crusade
Catholic Word of the Day: FOURTH CRUSADE, 05-25-12
Four Myths about the Crusades
The Real History of the Crusades
Crusade Pictures from a 1963 National Geographic Magazine (Vanity)
An Interview with Professor Thomas Madden: Dispelling Myths About the Crusades
Excerpt from Hilaire Belloc's "The Crusades"
The Crusades: The truth makes a difference
Crusades versus Jihad
The Battle over the Crusades: Myths, legends and anti-Catholic "histories"

[Luigi Vasellini]

Crusade history bump

[SunkenCiv]

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[Bratch]

BBC News' 'Ottomans: Europe's Muslim Emperors': Putting a Positive Spin on Conquest

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Tonight (Saturday, Aug. 9), cable channel BBC World News premieres the three-part series The Ottomans: Europe's Muslim Emperors, which aired last fall in the U.K.

While it's not exactly a whitewash of the invasion into Europe of Muslims from Turkey, and the subsequent centuries-long occupation, it's not a condemnation either.

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At one point, a British historian states that Europe is "richer for" the Ottoman Empire, but the documentary never really explains how, except to say there was a lot of "multiculturalism" and trade (which one supposes would have gone on anyway). It does go to great pains to talk about how "tolerant" the Ottomans were of Christians and Jews, so long as they peacefully accepted their Muslim overlords, their second-class dhimmi status, and dutifully paid their extra taxes (oh, and if they were Christians, tithed their sons and daughters).

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