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"Cecil Moore" wrote Jack Painter wrote: "Cecil Moore" wrote in message How do you feel about the sacking of Constantinople? "the sacking"? 1204 or 1453? The 1204 sacking of the Christian city by Christian Crusaders during the Fourth Crusade. "Eventually, the crusaders were victorious, and the citizens of the city, strangely, at least to western eyes, welcomed them into the city as usurpers, not as conquerors. The crusaders did not see it this way, and they inflicted a horrible and savage sacking on Constantinople for three days, during which many ancient works of art were stolen or destroyed." How does one defend those Christian acts? -- 73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp Sympathizers of islam? (greek v latin *). Selected dates: 626: Siege of Constantinople by Persians and Avars 674-78: Siege of Constantinople by Arabs 717-18: Second siege of Constantinople by Arabs 1054: Schism between Eastern (Greek) and Western (Latin) Churches * 1097: First crusade 1147: Second Crusade. Normans capture Corfu, Corinth and Thebes 1182: Massacre of Latins in Constantinople * 1204: Capture of Constantinople by Fourth Crusade and establishment of Latin Empire * 1261: Recapture of Constantinople by Nicaean force and end of Latin Empire 1397-1402: Siege of Constantinople by Sultan Bajezid 1422: Murad besieges Constantinople 1453: Turks take Constantinople on May 29. How do the battles to contain muslims then differ from now? Islam and the Theology of Power A Muslim scholar looks at Islamism http://www.islamfortoday.com/elfadl01.htm El Fadl says that Islamism is at its core a, .... supremacist puritanism that compensates for feelings of defeat, disempowerment and alienation with a distinct sense of self-righteous arrogance vis-à-vis the nondescript "other" -- whether the other is the West, non-believers in general or even Muslims of a different sect and Muslim women. In this sense, it is accurate to describe this widespread modern trend as supremacist, for it sees the world from the perspective of stations of merit and extreme polarization. Read the whole thing. It's eye opening. 73, Jack Painter Virginia Beach, Virginia |
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