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N8KDV wrote:

"Up Against Fanaticism" By Phil Lucas, Executive Editor, Panama City

New Herald


He don't know much history, do he? This is a crock..

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Let's recap the Crusades. Muslims invaded Europe, and when they
reached sufficient numbers, they imposed their intolerant religion
upon Westerners by force. Christian monarchs drove them back and
took the battle to their homeland. The fight lasted a couple of
centuries, and we bottled them up for 1,000 years.
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Even the Catholic Church (the group responsible for the Crusades) said ages
ago that this was not the case. (At that time) the Muslims brought
knowledge, not intolerance, to Europe. Knowledge was the last thing the
Church wanted, as it eroded their power base. Any teachings that went
counter to Church doctrine were quelled, usually violently. And they knew
how to torture, too.. by the time of the Holy Inquisition (you know it is
the Spanish Inquisition), they pretty much had it perfected. These are
different times, and the tables have turned.. but Christians were not always
so 'enlightened' as they are now.. (and hardly any are Christlike.)