Ok, I am sorry to ruin a Friday afternoon with this, BUT... I am sick and damn tired of people who believe that Islam is a Religion of Peace and they try to equate Christians to these extremists by referrencing The Crusades. These idiots abviously have no idea what they are talking about or any clues about history. So here are some references: The First Crusade (1096–1099) started as a widespread pilgrimage (France and Germany) and ended as a military expedition by Roman Catholic Europe to regain the Holy Lands taken in the Muslim conquests of the Levant (632–661), ultimately resulting in the recapture of Jerusalem in 1099. It was launched on 27 November 1095 by Pope Urban II with the primary goal of responding to an appeal from Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, who requested that western volunteers come to his aid and help to repel the invading Seljuq Turks from Anatolia. An additional goal soon became the principal objective—the Christian reconquest of the sacred city of Jerusalem and the Holy Land and the freeing of the Eastern Christians from Muslim rule.
Posted on: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 20:03:21 +0000
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