Posted on 11/07/2005 3:06:05 AM PST by ZULU
Did anybody see that vile piece on the Crusades Sunday Night?
I had to turn it off. It was a politically pile of propagandist crap attacking the Crusades, the Christian Church and heroizing Ilsamic fanatics.
I did not watch it because I had a hunch that it would be that way.
I saw it and I felt the same way. Almost nothing negative said about the Muslimes and a lot of negatives about the Christians. Typical and sickening.
I watched War Stories about the Berlin Airlife and went to bed. Consequently my blood pressure remains normal.
This is History as told by the unbiased voice of Prince Charles. Can't we all lay down our arms and return to the stone age? Can we at least capitulate to a superior religious philosphy and pay jizrah under dhimmitude?
I figured that out from the commercial.
To paraphrase Rush, I know what they're gonna say befrore they say it. I didn't bother to be offended by this one.
I actually thought the commercials for it looked very unbiased. I figured out it would be trash based on the fact that it was a primetime History Channel docudrama. That's always the tipoff.
It could have been written by Bin Laden. What a bunch of Tripe.
And you are surprised because.......??
Earlier in the evening, they did two hours on the battle of Faluja and in Afghanistan, both very well done and pro Marines in Iraq and Army in Afghanistan. I was very impressed. I didnt watch the Crusades piece as that period of history doesnt interest me as much, but you couldnt expect any network to have a full evening of pro American programs.........could you?
It started before that - when the Muslims initially overran Christian Palestine, Egypt and North Africa. When they invaded Christian Sicily and southern Italy, when they sewpt over the Iberian Peninsula and plunderd, looted and killed as far north as Tour - which is in northner France not far from Paris.
Even today these vicious killers are trying to Islamicize Ethiopia - which became one of the first Christian nations in the 300's, trying to totally Islamicize the once Christian south of the Sudan, spreading into Christian Nigeria, threatening and killing the few remaning Christian Copts in Egypt, blwoing up Islraeli civilians, trying to Islamicize the Phillipines, threatening and killing Buddhists and Hindus in southern Asia, trying to excport their evil creed into the U.S., etc. etc.
No. Just surprised at how blantanly anti-western and anti-Christian it was.
I intend to send the idiots who produced it a letter.
It was rife with omissions, errors and distortions.
For instance, the moron narrating it referred to the main Cathedral in Constantinople as St. Sophia's. Its anme is Hagia Sophia and its translates as Holy Wisdom, not Saint Sophie's.
Thanks for the review, when there was post about it the other day, I said I wouldn't watch it because I figured it would be a "Why they hate us" show. If I was wrong, I'd watch it later. Another "thing to do" crossed off my list!
I saw the first half hour.
It was awful. Pure anti-western, anti-Christian garbage.
Every scene of Christianity was shot in some dark damp room with a light beam coming in through a solitary window. Christian leaders were either hooded or ugly and somber. Every Muslim scene was shot in bright sunlight. The murderous conquests of the Muslims were shown as a wave speading across a map - but no battle scenes.
It claimed the Crusades were the result of Rome's need to "legitimize" itself.
I HAD to turn it off when one so-called "historian", from some second rate college, explained that the reason knights and nobles left their wealth, comfort and families to risk their lives with little chance of any payback was because Pope Urban was a great motivational speaker ("better than Billy Graham").
Garbage. Garbage. Garbage.
We watched ABC's Extreme Home Makeover and PBS's Kidnapped.
I saw both of those - agree, very well done - but that is for fear of allienating their viewership base (males 20 - 50).
Although most will not stand for a trashing of our military, they figure (probrably wrongly) that most aren't that concerned, or are not familiar with European history - so the PC rule, well, rules.
(Ie; they get away with what they can).
On the contrary, I had to both watch and record it to document the extent and sophistication to which the Saudi propaganda money has infiltrated our national consciousness.
How else are you going to document it?
I think Congressional probes into the financing of enemy propaganda shown on our national television is appropriate.
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