http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/crusades/ en-us Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:32:46 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059846/posts A 19-year-old man is tortured and beheaded for a bad joke interpreted as blasphemy. A father is accused of killing his son because he converted to another religion. They are not Muslims but Christians, and the place is France in the mid-1700s. There was a time when Europe often behaved in ways parallel to that of Muslim-majority countries today. Yet by the end of the 1700s, this was changing. In the first case cited above, the king and even Catholic bishops failed to save the unfortunate Chevalier de la Barre, but the outcry led to the end of such actions.... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059846/posts#comment Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:32:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1996365/posts Riyadh, 2 April (AKI) - Swiss football referee Massimo Busacca vowed he would wear a whistle with the Swiss Cross symbol on it during of the Saudi championship on Wednesday, despite anger voiced in the Kingdom at the 'crusader' item. "I have respect for all religions, including Islam, but I don't see anything offensive in this and am optimistic. I will not give up my 'crusader' whistle," he told pan-Arab daily Al-Sharq al-Awsat. Many in Saudi Arabia had called for Busacca to sport a different whistle to avoid offending Muslims. He has previously refereed several soccer matches in the Kingdom.... AKI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1996365/posts#comment Thu, 3 Apr 2008 23:14:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1996194/posts The relationship between Muslims and Christians received added attention this past Easter when Pope Benedict XVI publicly baptized Magdi Allam, the most prominent Muslim journalist in Italy.  Allam knew that publicly renouncing his Islamic faith would bring attempts on his life from angered Muslims, but expressed conviction that his newfound faith would sustain him through any difficulties. "You asked me whether I fear for my life, in the awareness that conversion to Christianity will certainly procure for me yet another and much more grave death sentence for apostasy. You are perfectly right. I know what I am headed for but... LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1996194/posts#comment Thu, 3 Apr 2008 17:51:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992859/posts Crusaders 'left genetic legacy' The genetic signature can be traced to Europe Scientists have detected the faint genetic traces left by medieval crusaders in the Middle East. The team says it found a particular DNA signature which recently appeared in Lebanon and is probably linked to the crusades. The finding comes from the Genographic Project, a major effort to track human migrations through DNA. Details of the research have been published in the American Journal of Human Genetics. The researchers found that some Christian men in Lebanon carry a DNA signature hailing from Western Europe. The scientists also found that... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992859/posts#comment Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:29:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1978166/posts At the Battle of Poitiers in 732, the Frankish king Charles Martel defeated the Saracens and pushed the forces of Islam back into the Iberian Peninsula. It was not until 1492 that the Moors were finally thrown out of Europe, but in the meantime the Islamic virus was contained in Spain and Portugal, and thus kept out of the heart of Western Europe. One of Charles Martel’s comrades-in-arms at Poitiers was a warrior of the North known as Ogier le Danois, later Holger Danske, or Holger the Dane. Although Holger was a historical figure, little is known of him, and... Gates of Vienna http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1978166/posts#comment Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:25:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1941307/posts According to the Catalan newspaper La Vanguardia, the Spanish football club Barcelona is altering its famous badge in some Arab countries in order to avoid offending Muslims. The badge is especially altered in Saudi Arabia or Algeria, where the Barcelona shirts are being sold without the red cross of Saint George, the patron saint of the Catalan region which Barca claims to represent, the La Vanguardia newspaper found in a private investigation. The badge, which was created in 1906, features a single vertical red line in Saudi Arabia and Algeria, due to the fact that there, the red cross represents... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1941307/posts#comment Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:49:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1860480/posts Robert Spencer on the Battles Still Being Waged WASHINGTON, D.C., 11 MARCH 2006 (ZENIT) The Crusades may be causing more devastation today than they ever did in the three centuries when most of them were fought, according to one expert. Robert Spencer, author of "Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)" (Regnery), claims that the damage is not in terms of lives lost and property destroyed but is a more subtle destruction. Spencer shared with ZENIT how false ideas about the Crusades are being used by extremists to foment hostility to the West today. Q: The Crusades are often... EWTN/Zenit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1860480/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jul 2007 23:41:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1834323/posts No sooner had the six Muslims been arrested for planning an attack on Fort Dix, the left wing media was pimping the concept that the six had absolutely nothing to do with al Qaeda; no connection, no alliance, no nothing (no mention of Islam) and further, that radicals anyway make up a small, misguided splinter group. Of course we Americans are so terminally ignorant that we swallow this traitorous lie as if it were written in the Bible; and we sigh in relief comforted by this “liberal cabal’s” continuing propaganda to separate our minds from reality. When pushed against the... Family Security Matters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1834323/posts#comment Wed, 16 May 2007 09:41:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1833487/posts “We are our beliefs,” it is said. Beliefs steer people in life. Some beliefs are harmless, some are the motive force for good, and yet others are delusional, misguided, and even outright dangerous. Every version of the belief called “Islam” ranges from the delusional to the dangerous. Islam is a Grand Delusion, birthed by Muhammad’s hallucination he relayed to his first wife and employer, Khadija. Greatly frightened, he told Khadija that he was visited by jinn (devil) in the Hira cave. Khadija comforted the distraught man by assuring him that the episode was Allah’s way of choosing him as his... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1833487/posts#comment Mon, 14 May 2007 21:18:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1810499/posts Schools are dropping controversial subjects from history lessons - such as the Holocaust and the Crusades - because teachers do not want to cause offence, Government research has discovered. The way the slave trade is taught can lead white children as well as black pupils to feel alienated, according to a study by the Historical Association. A lack of knowledge among teachers, particularly in primary schools, is also leading to "shallow" lessons on emotive and difficult subjects. Some teachers dropped the Holocaust completely from lessons because of fears that Muslim pupils might express anti-semitic reactions. One school avoided teaching the... Daily Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1810499/posts#comment Mon, 2 Apr 2007 08:24:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1807464/posts As the Pelosi Democrats attempt to steer the debate on Iraq and the war on terror away from President Bush's approach, it is useful to examine the premises behind the liberal Democratic understanding of the war on terror. So far the Democrats have been successful in faulting the president's admittedly-flawed approach. But there is no advantage in trading one bad model for another. Here, then, is my critique of some of the major elements of the liberal explanation for "why they hate us." They're very upset at us for the Crusades: James Carroll’s recent book Crusade, portrays the Crusades as... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1807464/posts#comment Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:18:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1799864/posts Bernard Lewis is the recipient of the 2007 Irving Kristol Award presented annually by the American Enterprise Institute at the institute's annual dinner. After receiving the award, Mr. Lewis delivered the Irving Kristol Lecture. In his lecture, Bernard Lewis outlined the historical relationship between the west and the middle east and recent trends in European attitudes towards Muslims. Book TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1799864/posts#comment Tue, 13 Mar 2007 03:03:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1743581/posts Western civilization – life as we know it – is under attack, and indeed has even reached a very dangerous point. Some may even think it is a point of no return. Not just because in recent months Muslim groups around the world insisted that the pope apologize for merely quoting someone else. No, not just because the prime minister of Denmark had to grovel to the Muslim nations for a cartoon that appeared in a Danish newspaper, over which he had no control whatsoever. No, not even just because President Bush rushed into a Muslim mosque in Washington, D.C.,... WorldNet Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1743581/posts#comment Fri, 24 Nov 2006 22:26:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1739869/posts Think carbon nanotubes are new-fangled? Think again. The Crusaders felt the might of the tube when they fought against the Muslims and their distinctive, patterned Damascus blades. Sabres from Damascus, now in Syria, date back as far as 900 AD. Strong and sharp, they are made from a type of steel called wootz. Their blades bear a banded pattern thought to have been created as the sword was annealed and forged. But the secret of the swords' manufacture was lost in the eighteenth century. Materials researcher Peter Paufler and his colleagues at Dresden University, Germany, have taken electron-microscope pictures of... Nature http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1739869/posts#comment Thu, 16 Nov 2006 21:26:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/796559/posts -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Almost from the very beginning of Islam, there were wars upon wars between Christians and Moslems. We remember the Crusade wars, seven major and several minor, which lasted for centuries. This is the story of the Battle of Lepanto, which marked the end of the Crusades and was a turning point in the history of Christianity. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Martel's victory at Poitiers definitely stopped the Moslem invasion of western Europe. In the east Christians held firm against attacks of the Moslems until 1453. In that year, Mohammed II threw huge assaults against Constantinople and by the evening of May... unknown http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/796559/posts#comment Wed, 27 Nov 2002 02:25:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1706767/posts good book on the crusades? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1706767/posts#comment Sat, 23 Sep 2006 04:08:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1705284/posts Pope Benedict XVI, the "Panzer pope," has done the unusual in modern discourse: he has jumped into the war on terror with armored facts from six centuries ago that refute a deal of the appeasement from 21st-century Europeans and their American fellow travelers. You will recall that Pope Benedict recently spoke, auf Deutsch, at Regensburg University, where he once enjoyed a professorship. The speech was dry, mechanical, unappetizing, a predictable German exercise in theology, with much attention to how reason and faith are compatible. In Calvinist seminary we used to call this a Roman disquisition on epistemology. Yet in the... NY Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1705284/posts#comment Thu, 21 Sep 2006 02:01:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1705175/posts The Calling of Our Generationhttp://magic-city-news.com/article_6655.shtml By Hans Zeiger Sep 18, 2006, 10:43 "The war against this enemy is more than a military conflict. It is the decisive ideological struggle of the 21st century, and the calling of our generation." These are the words of President Bush on September 11, five years after the attacks. If Baby Boomers doubt that this present war is the calling of their generation, the children of the Boomers-at least the rising leaders among them-have little doubt that it is theirs. On the eve of September 11, 2006, nearly 150 Hillsdale College students gathered for a... Magic City News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1705175/posts#comment Wed, 20 Sep 2006 23:02:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1703547/posts Unreasonable Response Benedict XVI hasn’t revived the Crusades. By Thomas F. Madden -------------------------------------------- In November 1095 Pope Urban II called the First Crusade. To judge from the comments issuing from some Muslim groups and politicians, Pope Benedict XVI has done the same thing. According to Salih Kapusuz, a deputy leader of the majority party in Turkey, Benedict, “has a dark mentality that comes from the darkness of the Middle Ages. He is a poor thing that has not benefited from the spirit of reform in the Christian world.” Kapusuz maintains that the pope is engaged in “an effort to revive... National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1703547/posts#comment Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:14:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1702006/posts Angry protests against Pope Benedict XVI erupted in the Islamic world today as the Vatican struggled to explain a reference by the Pontiff to the Prophet Mohammad’s “evil and inhuman” contribution to religion. The Vatican has tried to defend the Pope after comments he made about Islam and jihad prompted anger in the Muslim world.   The Pope stressed that the controversial words were not his own Muslim clerics from Cairo to Kashmir declared the Pope had revived the spirit of the medieval crusades and the official sermon for Friday prayers in Teheran condemned the Pope as “rude and weak-minded”.... Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1702006/posts#comment Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:15:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1695783/posts ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - Mikey Weinstein, who sued the Air Force over allegations that Air Force Academy cadets were subjected to Christian evangelization, now wants New Mexico's Cannon Air Force Base to end the 523rd Fighter Squadron's use of "Crusaders" as the unit's nickname. He also objects to the squadron's emblem, which features a cross, a sword and an armored helmet. Weinstein, who's Jewish, says having warplanes named after medieval Christians who fought Muslims in the Holy Land is crazy when the United States is at war with radical Islam. He believes the religious emblem also is unconstitutional. A Cannon Air... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1695783/posts#comment Tue, 5 Sep 2006 15:52:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1682546/posts Christians are Jews' best friends Toronto Sun Sat, August 12, 2006 By MICHAEL COREN One of the most difficult things about spending time in Israel is returning home, as I did two weeks ago. As dangerous as life might be in the Jewish state at the moment, daily existence is layered in significance. Then it's back to North America, where the trivial is made to seem profound. I refer to Mel Gibson's drunken stupidity when he made various repugnant comments about Jewish people. As a Roman Catholic with three Jewish grandparents, and someone who worries every day about the... Toronto Sun (Canada) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1682546/posts#comment Sat, 12 Aug 2006 20:09:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1052017/posts Accused Terrorist Wrote Public School Guidelines with ACLU [over 23 references linked below] Abdurahman Alamoudi, President of the American Muslim Council, supporter of Hamas, Hezbollah and accused of ties with Osama bin Laden, helped develop "Religious Expression in Public School" with the ACLU which holds the copyright. Launched by Clinton in 1995, these "Presidential Guidelines" greatly impact public schools today. Nadine Strossen, President of the ACLU, refers to these guidelines as the authority to support the ACLU’s lawsuits restricting Christmas celebrations and removing Nativity scenes from public schools. School districts are pressured to utilize Clinton’s guidelines which he sold to... BlessedCause http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1052017/posts#comment Mon, 5 Jan 2004 20:51:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1691879/posts All of us know that historical revisionism is a favored tool of the liar and those who like to play the blame game. Right after 9/11, this was on display for the whole world to see when Bin Laden and the Left decided to blame the Middle East’s hatred of the West on, of all things, the Crusades. The Crusades were a series of wars that were fought nearly a thousand years before anyone on this Earth was born, yet the extremists hang on to it today like it’s some kind of personal injustice. I find it inconceivable that one... Southern Pundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1691879/posts#comment Tue, 29 Aug 2006 14:16:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1681292/posts Three of the alleged ringleaders of the foiled airplane bomb plot have been identified by western intelligence agencies involved in unraveling the plot. Two of them are believed to have recently traveled to Pakistan and were later in receipt of money wired to them from Pakistan, reportedly to purchase tickets for the suicide bombers. Sources identify the three, who are now in custody, as: --Rashid Rauf --Mohammed al-Ghandra --Ahmed al Khan ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1681292/posts#comment Thu, 10 Aug 2006 18:11:47 GMT