To: texson66
The Crusades were about obtaining land. The religious aspect was merely a pretense to garner support. It was political and expansionalist.
But if you would like another example, how does the Inquisition sound? Christianity at its best.
To: DeviantMind
Again....the moose-limbs invaded europe first!The europeans wanted it back! the crusades and the inqusition were not founded on Christian principles...the jihads ARE founded on their "religious" principles... Dont confuse the tenents of a faith with the actions of its "followers"; Christianity says to love your neighbor as yourself; islam says if your neighbor is not a muslim, then when the time is right, kill him.
But basically , islam is not a religion anyway: its a world -wide movement for world domination!
95 posted on
10/17/2002 12:26:01 PM PDT by
texson66
To: DeviantMind
Nowadays, you find few Christians DEFENDING the Inquisition.
The ones that do probably support Islamist terror, given the
affinity of extremists in both camp for the cult of Jew hatred.
Unfortunately, there are still plenty of prominent and privileged Muslims (by no means all but a scary number) who
defend the Holocaust (or deny it) and other lovely stuff.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson