Brian Hill wrote:

Its not stupid to call it a crusade. It just means to make a determined
attempt to achieve something which you believe in strongly.

The Arabs used to threaten misbehaving children with a visit by King
Richard. The crusaders were known to wipe out whole villages, killing
every living thing in them. Men, women, children, animals. Then they
stole whatever could be moved.

Most Arabs consider the Crusades as genocide.

It was a very unfortunate choice of words for Mr. Bush to use and I
believe he actually apologized for it's use.


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The Crusades were a series of wars by Western European Christians to
recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims. The Crusades began in 1095 and
ended in the mid- or late 13th century. The term Crusade was originally
applied solely to European efforts to retake from the Muslims the city
of Jerusalem, which was sacred to Christians as the site of the
crucifixion of Jesus Christ. It was later used to designate any military
effort by Europeans against non-Christians.

http://ragz-international.com/crusades.htm
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