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“MEMOIRS OF EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS AND THE Madness of Crowds”
by Charles Mackay (1852)
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24518/24518-h/24518-h.htm
Volume II from the index “The Crusades”
Indeed, but when God allowed that to happen, something good came out of it. Rather than getting the Churches of the East suffer the bruise of the Reformation along with the Latin Church, the Greek Orthodox East was on the path of isolation and conservation. Today, the Church Catholic, East and West, while lacking in formal unity, has an anchor in the Early Church thanks to the Orthodox Tradition.
Another aspect is the different way of engaging the Islam that developed in the East. The Latins only fought the Islam, but they really never lived alongside of it. The Orthodox, -- the Medieval Greeks but especially the Russians, -- developed empires that incorporated Muslim parts as loyal imperial subjects. As late as the 1st World War, Muslim regiments prayed and fought for His Majesty the Christian White Czar. These are historical lessons the US would do well to visit as we try to assert ourselves in the Muslim World. We do it as a secular power and flirt with failure all the time. The Russian Empire was definitively, assertively Christian and earned Muslim respect that lasted centuries.
**For starters, the Crusades to the East were in every way defensive wars. They were a direct response to Muslim aggression — an attempt to turn back or defend against Muslim conquests of Christian lands.**
**For starters, the Crusades to the East were in every way defensive wars. They were a direct response to Muslim aggression — an attempt to turn back or defend against Muslim conquests of Christian lands.**
Will this happen again?
........................... I hear crickets chirping. What I just cannot understand is how the left and their propaganda machine (the "media") are so tolerant of a group of people, muslims, who are so diametrically opposed to everything the left believes in.
In hoc signe vincit.
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I'd like to see those stats.
Really?
So if the other guy comes with his sword and says, "Convert or die," we should just surrender?
ML/NJ
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The Crusaders’ best chance for breaking the Moslem hold on the Holy Land came around 1258-1260, when the Mongols under Hulegu Quan, brother of the Qa Quan Mongke, rode south, destroyed the Assassins, sacked Baghdad [ending the Abbasid Caliphate], and overrran Syria. The Mongols proposed an alliance with the Crusader States against the Mamelukes and the Turks.
The offer was not only rejected by the Crusaders [the Mongols had no state religion, and many were pagan], but they fell for Baybar’s BS about fellow monotheists, and gave the Moslems free passage, food, water, etc.
After the victory at Ain Julut [1260], Hulegu’s retrenchment and war with the Golden Horde over Azerbaijan [the Golden horde had converted to Islam], Baybars was able to turn his attention back to driving the Christians out of the Holy Land.
Interestingly, while Hulegu was a Buddhist, his wife was a Nestorian Christian, as was the Mongol General defeated and killed at Ain Julat, Kedboga.
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Thank you for posting. A topic I’ve always been curious about.
Crusader, and proud of it! And yes, I'm old enough that I never missed the ORIGINAL airings of each episode.
Only the ignorant find "crusader" a dirty word/concept.