On 4/26/2013 7:41 AM, Kurt Ullman wrote:
In article ,
The Daring Dufas wrote:


I've been watching a series about The Crusades and most people don't
know what happened in that period of history. No wonder The Arabs have
been so angry all this time. o_O

TDD

But the interesting thing is that they are now trying to do basically
the same thing using many of the same tactics. And they don't see the
irony of blowing people in a religious war whilst complaining about the
Crusades as being the least bit ironic.


I was never taught the whole story of The Crusades back in school and
that's why I love The Interweb because I can learn all those things I
never studied in school. I've learned that the Crusaders from Germany
went after the Jews in Europe first before they even headed for battle
in Jerusalem. Hitler wasn't the first German ruler to initiate a pogrom
against Jews and slaughter them. Crusaders committed acts of cannibalism
when they arrived in The Middle East. They had no food so they ate the
villagers, adults, children and infants. It makes me wonder if that's
the source of the belief by modern day Muslims that Jews eat children.
I'm glad Europeans outgrew their brutish ways in the later centuries but
many of the Middle Easterners descended into the same type behavior
leading to the assertion that Muslims haven't left The Tenth Century
yet. I do wish to learn much more history because I only received tiny
bits and pieces of it back in school, edited for content of course. o_O

TDD