chinu, Lorne, and chuck, have already answered you quite well. The muslims attempted to raid into Eastern Europe, which helped to cause the reaction of the Christian factor to begin the crusades. Admittedly, both of the actions were fomented by radical, religious, leaders, but what is so new about that? Bear in mind, the the European knights of the crusades, primarily, went to battle against the armies of moslems, but as they have always done, the moslems delight in slaughtering innocent, non-combatant, citizens.
That is the difference between us. No need to bring up the slaughters of the hebrews in their drive to their "holy land". Although the Bible says that those conquests were ordered by God, I cannot believe that. The God that I believe in, would not condone such actions. The people that the troops of Moses, and Joshua, attacked, did nothing to cause such attacks, except get in the way. IMO, if such events happened as reported, they were tragedies, but they had nothing to do with the conflicts of today. Neither Isaac, nor Ishmael, had been born yet. |
