[SoCal Pubbie]

The real point of course is not who started what and who ate who, but who is still fretting about 1000 year old history and who is trying to force their will on the other side? The very fact that Muslims still obsess about the Crusades today, while baning other religions and beheading the infidels shows where the problem lies.

[RobbyS]

The Crusades, in fact, made little impression on the Muslims. It was not until the 19th Century when they fell under Christian domination that they began to bring up the Crusades.

[Wuli]

"The real point of course is not who started what and who ate who, but who is still fretting about 1000 year old history.."

You are so very, very right. And, it makes one really more suspicious about the History Channel segment on the Crusades, because part of the dogma accepted by the Al Queda types is that they are fighting to restore the Islamic lands of Europe that Christianity "took" from them, in the centuries after the crusades.

The History Channel show helps that propoganda because it leaves out the three hundred year Islamic Jihad that placed Islam in Europe in the first place.