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Originally posted by k5blazer:
Who do I complain to about Muslims killing Crusaders?

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Originally posted by Gustofer:

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Originally posted by k5blazer:
Who do I complain to about Muslims killing Crusaders?

Or all of the Christians they killed necessitating the Crusades.

Apparently they don't have a History department at that institution.

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Originally posted by k5blazer:
Who do I complain to about Muslims killing Crusaders?

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Originally posted by chellim1:
Every 500 years or so the Muslims need to be driven back into the Stone Age.
We are about due for another round of crusades.

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I would say it’s a done deal. They’ll be the “Artifacts” or some damn thing by next fall.

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Various popes ordered the Crusades. They thought they were doing the right thing in seeking to retake sacred places to Christianity (like Jerusalem) from the Muslims.

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Originally posted by chellim1:
Also, since you bring up the Crusades...

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Various popes ordered the Crusades. They thought they were doing the right thing in seeking to retake sacred places to Christianity (like Jerusalem) from the Muslims.

There's a reason why "They thought they were doing the right thing in seeking to retake sacred places to Christianity (like Jerusalem) from the Muslims."

It's not that Christians are intolerant of other religions. It's that when Muslims take over they destroy everything else, including every artifact of every other religion.

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On 29 September 1009, Al-Hakim ordered a governor or Ramla called Yarukh to demolish the area around Constantine's original Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Yarukh, along with his son Yusuf, Al-Husayn ibn Zahir al-Wazzan and Abu'l-Farawis Al-Dayf were among those who started destroying various buildings. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre was said to be built on the site of the Calvary or Golgotha where Jesus was alleged to have been crucified, over a rock-cut room that Helena and Macarius identified as the location of the resurrection. The destruction was chronicled by Yahya ibn Sa'id of Antioch who noted it "cast down as far as the foundations" and the rock cut tomb was demolished in the attempt to "cause all trace of it to disappear". All sacred remains and holy relics were "completely annihilated". Iron hammers were ineffectual against the bedrock foundations of the tomb, so they resorted to burning it with fire.

The desecration was not only carried out on Christian sites in and around Jerusalem. In campaigns of 1011 and 1013–14, Al-Hakim continued his campaign of destruction against Jewish synagogues and Torah scrolls along with churches all over Syria. Unlike other Fatimids, Al-Hakim launched persecutions against dhimmis that lasted throughout his reign. Christians were made to wear crosses and Jews forced to wear wooden blocks around their necks. He only stopped for fear of retaliatory attacks on Mosques in Christian lands.

When the news reached Europe, Christians were horrified and Pope Sergius IV sent a circular letter to all churches calling for a holy fight in the Middle East and expulsion of Muslims from the Holy land. The events would later be recalled by Pope Urban II in his preaching for the Crusade at Clermont. Although the crusades happened almost a century after the desecration and caused by various other complex political intrigues, it was still very much in the public mind as a cause. It was considered so by William of Tyre. [cite: Wiki]

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Originally posted by k5blazer:
Who do I complain to about Muslims killing Crusaders?