'We Find No [Blood] Sweeter Than That of the Byzantines [i.e. Christians]'

MEMRI ^ | 2-6-07 | Abu Omar Al-Baghdadi

[BuffaloJack]

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[BuffaloJack]

The only thing they have advanced in since the Crusades is that they use better and deadlier weapons now.

[Antoninus]

we find no [blood] sweeter than that of the Byzantines [i.e. Christians]...

News flash. Americans ain't Byzantines, genius.

[MeanWestTexan]

"They...ie Islam...seriously need a reformation."

You can't polish a turd.

[LexBaird]

Sure you can:
Ornament and method of manufacture

Document Type and Number:
United States Patent 3997686

Link to this Page:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3997686.html

Abstract:
An ornament is produced by drying an animal dropping, removing the natural outer coating to expose the interior grain and treating the dropping with a plastic or synthetic resin to form a hard transparent coating. The resulting product is an ornament that can be used to form a necklace, brooch, cuff links or other attractive jewelry piece.

[MeanWestTexan]

Ah, but that's the plastic coating on the turd that is actually polished, not the turd itself.

Bit like the gold dome of a mosque, really.

[LexBaird]

Ah, but that's the plastic coating on the turd that is actually polished, not the turd itself.

Some FReepers will argue about anything. ;^)

[xuberalles]

lol...good point!

[Nuc1]

"Don't you wish those campaigns had a different ending."

Yes. It is possible that the world would have been a better place had the Crusades been successful. Yet, my experience tells me that the absolute amount of evil in the world seems to stay the same. Thus, if we had cleaned up the middle east in the past, modern evil would just come from a different direction. Conservation of evil as it were. My previous comment wasn't intended as a joke or as derision, I was commenting that it was sad that the west didn't continue. It is possible that pushing islam back would have made the present much more peaceful.