The Crusades
http://thelightinadarkworld.wordpress.com/2007/04/06/games-muslims-play/
April 18th, 2007
The Muslim Game:
Muslims love talking about the Crusades. and Christians love apologizing for
them. To hear both parties tell the story, one would believe that Muslims
were just peacefully minding their own business in lands that were
legitimately Muslim, when Christian armies decided to wage holy war and kill
"millions."
The Truth:
Every part of this myth is a lie. Even by the rules that Muslims claim for
themselves, the Crusades were perfectly justified, and the excesses (though
beneath Christian standards) pale in comparison with the historic treatment
of conquered populations at the hands of Muslims.
Here are some quick facts.
The first Crusade began in 1095. 460 years after the first Christian city
was overrun by Muslim armies, 457 years after Jerusalem was conquered by
Muslim armies, 453 years after Egypt was taken by Muslim armies, 443 after
Muslims first plundered Italy, 427 years after Muslim armies first laid
siege to the Christian capital of Constantinople, 380 years after Spain was
conquered by Muslim armies, 363 years after France was first attacked by
Muslim armies, 249 years after Rome itself was sacked by a Muslim army, and
only after centuries of church burnings, killings, enslavement and forced
conversions of Christians.
By the time the Crusades finally began, Muslim armies had conquered
two-thirds of the Christian world.
Europe had been harassed by Muslims since the first few years following
Muhammad's death. As early as 652, Muhammad's followers launched raids on
the island of Sicily, waging a full-scale occupation 200 years later that
lasted well over two centuries and was punctuated by massacres, such as that
at the town of Castrogiovanni, in which 8,000 Christians were put to death.
In 1084, ten years before the first crusade, Muslims staged another
devastating Sicilian raid, burning churches in Reggio, enslaving monks and
raping an abbey of nuns before carrying them into captivity.
In theory, the Crusades were provoked by the harassment of Christian
pilgrims from Europe to the Holy Land, in which many were kidnapped,
molested, forcibly converted to Islam or even killed. (Compare this to
Islam's justification for slaughter on the basis of Muslims being denied
access to the Meccan pilgrimage in Muhammad's time).
The Crusaders only invaded lands that were Christian. They never attacked
Saudi Arabia or sacked Mecca as the Muslims had done (and continued doing)
to Italy and Constantinople.
The period of Crusader "occupation" (of its own former land) was stretched
over less than two centuries. The Muslim occupation is in its 1,372 nd year.
The period of Crusader "aggression" compresses to about 20 years of actual
military campaign, much of which was spent on organization and travel. (They
were from 1098-1099, 1146-1148, 1188-1192, 1201-1204, 1218-1221, 1228-1229,
and 1248-1250). By comparison, the Muslim Jihad against the island of Sicily
alone lasted 75 grinding years.
Unlike Jihad, the Crusades were never justified on the basis of New
Testament teachings. This is why they are an anomaly, the punctuation of
fourteen centuries of relentless Jihad that began long before the Crusades
and continued well after they were over.
The greatest crime of the Crusaders was the sacking of Jerusalem, in which
30,000 people were alleged to have been massacred. This number is dwarfed by
the number of Jihad victims, from India to Constantinople and Narbonne, but
Muslims have never apologized for their crimes and never will.
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