"m II" wrote in message
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Mark S. Holden wrote:

This is a hoax.

See

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_spielberg_crusades.htm

A movie like that would be REALLY detrimental to a certain GW Bush and
gang. Bush already called his invasion a Crusade. What a maroon.




mike

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


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73 Brian
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There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant
never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare
to die.

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

I'm not in the business of defending any politician, but usage of the word
'crusade', or 'inquisition', or even 'holocaust' is not a socially
inappropriate thing to do. Those words were around long before their
'capitalized' versions became the names of those particular events, and have
been in safe, common and calm usage ever since.
But the MAIN point of any addition from me to this thread is as has already
been stated. It's a hoax.
Linus