With Steel
Why waste good steel? Let the hellfire begin early!
Posted on 07/01/2005 2:27:33 PM PDT by quidnunc
"For Jews in the European Diaspora, the First Crusade was a catastrophe unprecedented since the destruction of the Temple. Three flourishing communities of the Rhineland — Worms, Mainz, and Cologne — were massacred by burghers and crusaders led by a German, Count Emicho of Leinigen, after the charismatic preacher Peter the Hermit had aroused popular hysteria. The frightful memory of these pogroms is preserved in three nearly contemporaneous Hebrew prose narratives, as well as in prayers and dirges that are recited to this day. Nor were these the only crusader persecutions of Jews. When Jerusalem fell in 1099, the Jews of the city were slaughtered along with the Muslims, and there were further assaults during the Second Crusade of 1147."
Matthew.
"Forever" is a long time. Like the soothsayer who warned Julius Caesar that "although the Ides of March have come, they have not yet passed" I should point out that we have not reached the end of forever yet.
It always amazes me that so many who have no scholarship themselves have the gall to sniffily carp that bona fide scholars are doing it all wrong.
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I guess Western Europe should have done the politically correct thing back then and allow Islam to conquer the remaining third of Christendom. That way Christianity would now be extinct, or at best a minority cult, and we wouldn't have all these cultural clashes to worry about today.
Excellent piece.
A job for CAIR, Hollywood, our politicans in their pockets and the Marxists.. The many headed beast.
Jews were also exterminated during the Crusades. There was another crusade before and during WWII, and too many people are ready for yet another one.
Many believe that!
Except for the Jews-I don't feel bad about the Crusades at all! If they had finished the Muslims off- look how much better THE WORLD would be today!
Instead of citing the Crusades as the reason for Islamic terrorism you'd THINK that they would have learned in all these years that you SHOULDN'T TRY YOUR WORLD DOMINATION INSANITY again! Wouldn't you?
If they didn't like the first Crusades- do they think they'll like the one they're gonna start with their jihad now?
I really believe that the 'we love death' assertation, and the penchant for suicide reveals a self-destructive component to Islam that goes back to the Crusades. Call it 'Survivor Syndrome'. They know their thinking and the time for their cult is past- Islam should have died in the dark ages in which it was born. It is out of place here and now- and so they revel in death and provoke the world to retaliate against them once more.
Let us learn from the Crusades,then.
If the Jews were considered enemies of Christianity and civilization then- they ARE NOT NOW.
MUSLIMS remain so.
Times have changed, methods for fighting our enemies have changed, but it seems the enemy has not changed at all.
Not all the crusades were directed at the ME, and the Mongols and Columbus had a far bigger effect on Islam than the crusades ever dreamed of. If the Moslems are that concerned about the crusades, then they are hopelessly miseducated of history and misdirected.
this jihad will make this the FINAL crusade....
With Steel
Why waste good steel? Let the hellfire begin early!
And this is a Good Thing, right, 'cause we wouldn't want to be like those eeeeevil Mooslimes with their "convert-or-die" chopping off of heads stuff, right?
/mocking_hyprocrisy
Stated chillingly but accurately, Snuff. The only reason why the Lefties are so concerned about the Muslims, are so concerned that their precious Koran might be mistreated, is that they regard the Islamofascists as allies in their cause to overthrown America.
Bump for later reading.
Pure trash.
To put the origin of the cruscades in historical perspective they are what would be termed today a "war of religious liberation". The fanatical Muslims spread rapidy
from Arabia, across northern Africa (which in the 7th century was largely Christian), into Spain and even into France. Christians saw themselves threatened by forced conversion, extinction, or the status of tributory serfs. It was in 732 that Charles Martel defeated their advance at Tours. It was later that a French pope (Urban II) proclaimed the First Cruscade in France in 1095. It was only after Spain was united under Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castille that the "reconquista" began in 1492 which finally eventuated in the liberation of the Spanish Christians from Muslim domination. Yes, as in any great historical movements there various other motives - commercial, political, etc. But it cannot be gainsaid that
without the crusades we possibly would be speaking Arabic today. It's an oversimplification but I'd say this is more bashing of Western civilization by not remembering the very real threat that existed --- and guess what? IT'S BACK!!
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