The Klan show their true colours

Henry is ignorant of the fact, or has conveniently forgotten, that the modern Middle East was a creation resulting from the European takeover of the region following the demise of the Ottoman Empire.

Hey people have been finding reasons to beat each other since the dawn of time be it power, wealth, land, politics or religion. Religion has it’s good and bad points, just like everything else in life. But sometime we do need a set of “rules” to live by. To quote one of the “great philosophers” of our time:

The anger of a good man is not a problem. Good men have too many rules.
Good men don’t need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.

HenryBG said :

Spiral said :

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :

Haha never seen someone defend the crusades before.

Not trying to defend the crusades. A horrid time when one bunch of psycho nutters fought another bunch of psycho nutters and slaughtered a lot of innocent people.

It is just that so often the Crusades are blamed for being the cause for Islamic/Christian bad feeling

So many people don’t know or just ignore that they were just a symptom of a conflict that had already been running for centuries.

A conflict that really was started by Islam.

The irony being that the lefties who criticise the crusades ignore the fact that it was Islam that was invading, subjugating and colonising the middle-east at the time.

The crusades, by the standards of the day, were a very fine enterprise. Trying to save communities in the middle east from invasion and destruction at the hands of a bunch of nutters from Arabia was a good thing.

The nutters’ hero, Saladin, spent years running away from Richard Lionheart as he was too scared to meet him in battle. It was only bad luck that the French king was a pathetic little self-serving worm and the Germans not much better – if they had backed the Angevin, then we might have had all of North Africa, Egypt, and half the middle-east spared from Islamic conquest, and become part of the rich western civilisation that the rest of Europe enjoys.

The rest of Europe?

Haha, all of Europe is a utopia?

Spiral said :

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :

Haha never seen someone defend the crusades before.

Not trying to defend the crusades. A horrid time when one bunch of psycho nutters fought another bunch of psycho nutters and slaughtered a lot of innocent people.

It is just that so often the Crusades are blamed for being the cause for Islamic/Christian bad feeling

So many people don’t know or just ignore that they were just a symptom of a conflict that had already been running for centuries.

A conflict that really was started by Islam.

The irony being that the lefties who criticise the crusades ignore the fact that it was Islam that was invading, subjugating and colonising the middle-east at the time.

The crusades, by the standards of the day, were a very fine enterprise. Trying to save communities in the middle east from invasion and destruction at the hands of a bunch of nutters from Arabia was a good thing.

The nutters’ hero, Saladin, spent years running away from Richard Lionheart as he was too scared to meet him in battle. It was only bad luck that the French king was a pathetic little self-serving worm and the Germans not much better – if they had backed the Angevin, then we might have had all of North Africa, Egypt, and half the middle-east spared from Islamic conquest, and become part of the rich western civilisation that the rest of Europe enjoys.