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To: marktwain
I always found the "Children's Crusade" to the be the sadest. Thousands of kids from Central and Eastern Europe made it to somehwhere in Turkey and were captured and sold into slavery.
14 posted on 04/07/2002 8:14:16 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase
Even sadder is the fact that there was TWO "children's crusades". Both ended in disaster, with most of the children ending up betrayed by those they paid for passage to the "Holy Lands", being instead sold into slavery to the Turks.

Islam is currently in the middle of its second big push into Europe. Eventually the West will either wake up and begin fighting back, or it will end up overwhelmed by Islam.

17 posted on 04/07/2002 8:20:29 PM PDT by Billy_bob_bob
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To: Rebelbase
I always found the "Children's Crusade" to the be the sadest. Thousands of kids from Central and Eastern Europe made it to somehwhere in Turkey and were captured and sold into slavery.

The first example of that peculiarly western notion of "meaning well"; unintended consequences; and the triumph of reality over good intentions.
Sound familiar?

A pathetic current version is the "we never dreamed they would fire live bullets..."
Children I can understand; Adults acting like children...

35 posted on 04/07/2002 10:47:56 PM PDT by Publius6961
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