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   From: bredband.net@ojevind.lang   
      
   "William Cloud Hicklin"  skrev i meddelandet   
   news:op.tqskzrj9rwd1fl@emachine...   
      
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   > It really bugs me when people keep holding up the Crusades as some sort of   
   > unique atrocity.  The religious angle gives them a little spice: but then   
   > again, it's not like the Arabs acquired (Greek Orthodox) Palestine through   
   > a real-estate broker!   
      
   True, but the jihadis did not start every jihad with a pogrom of Jews,   
   followed by mass murdering people every time they captured a city. When the   
   crusaders conquered Jerusalem, they murdered everyone they got hold of -   
   even local Christians, because they couldn't tell them from the rest of the   
   population.   
     I think it is valid to say that the Crusades were very evil. Which is not   
   to say that the jihadis were good.   
      
   Öjevind   
      
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