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Originally Posted by JurisDictum
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The Pretext of the Crusades were to
1) Gain back Christian territory
2) Defend Christians
3) Purify Christian lands
A lot of: "Oh no! Christians are under attack!" medieval arguments were used to justify war. Then the knights would come in and take over large swaths of land to "protect Christians."
These days -- the argument goes -- Western Democracy ideals have replaced Christian theology. But the same general practice is taking place in the Muslim and Eastern Orthodox world.
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Typical liberal leftist canned response adopted. Had nutin, nitin! to do with the imperial expansion of Islam including into the 'West. Islam dun did nutin!
But even so, you say "Christian" when that is not correct. These were European Catholics, which in fact don't nor ever did represent the whole of Christianity. In fact more Christians have probably been killed by Catholicism than any other peoples. In fact, the crusades were led by a Viking nation formed in the north of france. Though now embraced Catholicism, but still doing as Vikings do ... since Catholicism had always merged beliefs to a degree. You think you have history down, but that's just too much MTV for ya.
And even since then, Islam has never had a reformation, never an enlightening or any such movement, it just can't. It's not even a real religion at it's core, but purely an ideology. In Catholocism, it came from simply reading the bible again, because they had abandoned it for stuff they just made up. The bible, the NT specifically for the Church, never teaches conquest by the sword, in fact teaches against it. Islam does. So allah axbur mofo!