[Steel Wolf]

By contrast, the Crusades have never been important to the Muslim world.... Even if liberals detest the Crusades, however, there is no good reason for many of today's Muslims to care about them, and there is no evidence that they think about the subject at all.

Apparently Dinesh doesn't know any Muslims. At all. Because this is hands down the dumbest, most inaccurate statement I've read all month.

[lonestar67]

Feel free to offer some evidence for your claim.

Your ellipses are well placed.

[ReignOfError]

OBL consistently refers to Westerners as "Crusaders." He has many deficiencies, but his ability to speak to fellow Muslims in terms that resonate is not one of them. I'm not saying that most, or even many, Muslims sit around and mull over the Crusades all day; Americans don't spend all day every day contemplating 9/11. After all, folks of any faith spend most of their day with jobs to do, families to raise, other things to deal with. But if Osama uses that language, it must have some currency, because while he might be evil, he ain't stupid.