Theos-Talk Archives (August 2004 Message tt00654)

CRUSADES
Pope Urban II , in 1095, gave a rousing speech urging all Christians to unite against the Islamic threat and save Jerusalem from "the wicked race" of Saracens (a fairly nasty term for Arabs & Muslims). On July 15 1099, the crusaders from western Europe conquered Jerusalem, falling upon its Jewish and Muslim inhabitants like avenging angels from the Apocalypse. About 40,000 Muslims were slaughtered in two days. A thriving populous city had been transformed into a stinking charnel house.
The enmity against Islam was so immense, the venom of hatred against Islam was inculcated in the minds and hearts of people that even small children's were against Islam, In the year 1212 the first children crusade was led by Stephen of France, a 12 year old shepherd boy. Stephen said that God had appeared to him in a vision on a hillside near Cloyes in France. God told him that only innocent children could drive the bad guys out of the Holy Land. His Zeal attracted thousands of kids, most of them under 12 years old. About 30,000 children went on a "Holy Mission" to drive out "bad guys" from the Holy Land. The slimy merchants finally loaded the exhausted little crusaders into old, rotten ships for "free transport of the Holy Land". Two of the ships sank, and all on board drowned. The Kids on the other ships were sold into slavery. 

Et tu, Mr. Bush?


Andrew W. Smith
Khsatriya (Ret.)

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