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To: tejek who wrote (301523)	8/28/2006 2:01:05 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573092

Have the Muslims ever had a peace march??? Long, long ago.......before you were born. Was reading some stuff about the Da Vinci Code on Wikepedia yesterday, and one of the links eventually brought me to this guy, the Muslim leader that recaptured Jerusalem from the Crusaders (topic of Ridley Scott's recent movie, Kingdom of Heaven). en.wikipedia.org Some excerpts (that illustrate just how much those guys appear to have declined in the past 1,000 years...) Soon Saladin had taken back almost every Crusader city. He recaptured Jerusalem on October 2, 1187, after 88 years of Crusader rule (see Siege of Jerusalem). Only Tyre held out: Saladin out of mercy had allowed the remnants of the Christian armies and people to escape there, and the city was now commanded by the formidable Conrad of Montferrat. He strengthened Tyre's defences and withstood two sieges by Saladin. In 1188, Saladin released Guy of Lusignan and returned him to his wife Queen regnant Sibylla of Jerusalem. --------------- Despite his fierce struggle to the Christian incursion, Saladin achieved a great reputation in Europe as a chivalrous knight, so much so that there existed by the 14th century an epic poem about his exploits, and Dante included him among the virtuous pagan souls in Limbo. -------------- Despite the Crusaders' slaughter and mass murders of men, women, and children when they originally conquered Jerusalem in 1099, Saladin granted amnesty and free passage to all common Catholics and even to the defeated Christian army -------------- Saladin died on March 4, 1193 at Damascus, not long after Richard's departure. When they opened Saladin's treasury they found there was not enough money to pay for his funeral; he had given most of his money away in charity. ------------- The guy sounds like the 2nd greatest Muslim that ever lived (after Mohamed Ali, of course)!