"metonymy" wrote in message
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The Crusades, like the Inquistion, were among the darkest, most evil
times
in all of Christendom, and were directly responsible for the Dark Ages.
It
seems strange to me that before the Crusades, nearly all human knowledge
was
concentrated in libraries built and maintained by Islam.. and Islam was
the
far more civilised and forward-thinking... gotta wonder what happened..
maybe they are still REALLY ****ed about it??

You flunk history.


Don't think so.. history was my best subject in HS.. with a B+ average. And
that was 30 years ago, before Columbus became a conquistador (note the small
'c') rather than an explorer. They also taught us in-depth about the rise
of Hitler, which at the time was still fresh in the minds of many adults,
including my own father, who had come to the US to get away from the Nazi's,
and is very dismayed at what is happening in our country now being very
closely parallel to what was happening there in the 30's...