Hey, Obama: About Those Crusades
If theres one thing which irritates me about the left in general it is their rank ignorance of history. It is hard to get someone on the left to properly understand what happened even a few years ago when they were alive and presumptively noticing things happening let alone anything which happened more than a few decades ago. Now, to be sure, there are a few historical events that the left has latched on to in order to justify their world viewone of them is the Crusades.
To the left, the Crusades were just wanton cruelty hordes of Christian bigots went into Muslim lands to kill, steal and destroy everything in their path. This was done in the name of religion and, so, religion is bad. This isnt even a childish view of history this is a view of history entirely divorced from historical fact. Bring up to a liberal the fact that, for instance, Egypt was once entirely Christian and only became Muslim after the Muslims conquered Egypt in an imperialist war and then forced, over time, the population to become Muslim, or suffer and youll get a blank stare, or immediate reference to one of the other things liberals heard about: the Inquisition (well deal with that issue some other time). There is just no knowledge on the left of what happened nor any desire to know what happened because the facts just get in the way of the Narrative.
But, still, I just want to enter into the record, as it were, that the Crusades were a defensive war against a rapacious, cruel enemy who attacked Christian civilization without reason.
That was in 1683, quite a long time after the Crusades but conquering Muslim armies were like that from the start. Just read up a bit on the captures of Constantinople or Famagusta. At Famagusta, after enduring a siege of 13 months, the Christians were offered terms surrender and be allowed to leave. And so, in good faith, they surrendered. Nothing doing. Marco Antonio Bragadin, the commander, was flayed alive and his skin stuffed with straw and then sent on to the Turkish Sultan as a trophy; the rest of the Christian population was massacred. It is small wonder that when faced with enemies like this, Christian armies were often ungentle with Muslims when they defeated them.
The Crusades, themselves, were a counter-attack. For four hundred years the Christians had been attacked and forced ever back. One Muslim army made it to central France before being turned back. Muslims were continually boasting of their desire to conquer all of the Christian west and often making good on their boast as one Christian nation after another fell to Muslim arms. The immediate spur to the Crusades was the Muslim victory over the Christian Greek Byzantines at Manzikert in 1071with that defeat, the Byzantine Empire was rocked on its heels and no one could say that the Greeks, who had barred the door to Muslim conquest in Europe for 400 years, would be able to stem the tide. An army was needed to redress the balance and an army was provided: the Crusaders. http://blogsforvictory.com/2015/02/06/hey-obama-about-those-crusades/
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