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In reply to the discussion: Outrage after Obama compares ISIS to the Crusades in comments at National Prayer Breakfast [View all]LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)But that goes over the heads of the Repubs of course.
I think using the "C" word against ISIS, putting them in the same camp was the point. It was directed towards moderate Muslims around the world.
If they need a reminder of the brutal acts during the Crusades:
http://www.truthbeknown.com/victims.htm
Jerusalem conquered 7/15/1099 more than 60,000 victims (jewish, muslim, men, women, children). [WW37-40]
(In the words of one witness: "there [in front of Solomon's temple] was such a carnage that our people were wading ankle-deep in the blood of our foes", and after that "happily and crying for joy our people marched to our Saviour's tomb, to honour it and to pay off our debt of gratitude"
The Archbishop of Tyre, eye-witness, wrote: "It was impossible to look upon the vast numbers of the slain without horror; everywhere lay fragments of human bodies, and the very ground was covered with the blood of the slain. It was not alone the spectacle of headless bodies and mutilated limbs strewn in all directions that roused the horror of all who looked upon them. Still more dreadful was it to gaze upon the victors themselves, dripping with blood from head to foot, an ominous sight which brought terror to all who met them. It is reported that within the Temple enclosure alone about ten thousand infidels perished." [TG79]