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To: RON BL who wrote (239395)3/18/2002 1:43:53 PM
From: bwanadon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
His silence speaks volumes. Your barrage of facts and logic is sure to have him slobbering on his bib for the rest of the afternoon.



To: RON BL who wrote (239395)3/18/2002 2:18:41 PM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
Your passages pretty much agree with my original statement. At a time when the Christian world was being pushed they struck vicsously. You article does not mention that it was not the Arabic Islamic population that was threatening Europe but instead Central Asians who threatened the Arabic and Bizantine lands. The Europeans appeared to try and obtain advantage of the conflict between Bizantium and a desire to recreate the empire of Rome.

history-magazine.com.
newadvent.org



To: RON BL who wrote (239395)3/18/2002 3:21:27 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
Ron,

Re: "They (i.e. the Crusades) were the West's belated response to the Muslim conquest of fully two-thirds of the Christian world."

Do you recall the Sack of Constantinople in 1204? When the Roman Catholics of Venice and their allies looted the art and treasure of the seat of the Orthodox Christian Church, with an untempered rape of the women and slaughter of other Christians?

The Crusades were not merely an effort to re-conquer a few sacred sites in Palestine for some dubiously annointed outside usurpers.

-Ray

Sources:

ic.net

fordham.edu



To: RON BL who wrote (239395)3/18/2002 3:56:24 PM
From: ThirdEye  Respond to of 769670
 
They were the West's belated response to the Muslim conquest of fully two-thirds of the Christian world.

Umm, so how would that explain the relentless persecution of Jews that accompanied the crusades throughout Europe, leading to and including their complete expulsion from Spain?


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