rumitoid wrote:
More Jews were killed in the Crusades than Muslims. Pogroms against the Jew have been ongoing for nealy 2 millennium. Persecution because of faith has been continual since the dawn of Civiliation. It is nothing new. Lol, Obama and the "libtards," "Progs," "buggercrats," did not originate or condone or take active participation in religious persecution. This is such a tired and overworked theme. The suggestion such things have only begun to happen "within a span of a dozen or less years," as ginnyt suggests, is off the mark. If taken globally. In the Us, The Bible has served both Satan and Christ in making policy, though it was man that made that so.
ginnyt said, "It bothers me that for a couple hundred years no one had a problem with belief systems."
America had its start because of a problem with belief systems--and that goes back to European oppression.
More Jews were killed in the Crusades than Muslims... (
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Stop reinventing history.
1,400 Years of Christian/Islamic Struggle: An Analysis
By Richard C. Csaplar, Jr.
Guest Columnist
CBN.com I was very disappointed to see that U.S. News would publish a clearly false article, adopting the world's clearly false, politically correct (PC) view of the place of the Crusades in history. What makes it even worse, the article hides its views under the additional headline falsehood, "The Truth About the Epic Clash Between Christianity and Islam."
Let me explain.
The opening heading states, "During the Crusades, East and West first met." This is just totally in error, as any person with the slightest knowledge of history well knows. East and West had been fighting for at least 1,500 years before the first Crusade.
To give just a few examples -- the Persians invaded Europe in an attempt to conquer the Greeks in the fifth century B.C. The Greek, Alexander the Great, attempted to conquer all of Asia, as far as India, in the fourth century B.C. Both the Persians of the east and the Greeks of the west set up colonial empires founded upon bloody military conquest. The Romans established by bloody military conquest colonies in Mesopotamia, northwestern Arabia, and Assyria in the second century A.D.
A different type of bloody conquest occurred through the movement of whole tribal groups between the east and the west. Again, just to name a few, the Huns, the Goths, and the Avars came from as far away as western Asia, central Asia, and China respectively in the fifth through the seventh centuries A.D. Indeed, the Avars from northern China and Mongolia were besieging Constantinople in 626 A.D., at the very moment Mohammed was a merchant in Arabia. Indeed, the Avars, by this siege, were one of the forces that weakened the Byzantines (there were many other, perhaps more important, forces) to the extent that most of the Byzantine mid-eastern empire fell relatively easily to the Muslims.
http://www.cbn.com/spirituallife/onlinediscipleship/understandingislam/IslamHistory0212.aspx