Buy:Gojira69
08-11-05, 07:03 PM
Try this one... when the Jihadists claim the foreign US troops are "crusaders" they are accurately describing the role being played out by our troops!
Here's what I mean.
We've been so perverted in our OWN understanding of the history of Western civilization that we are screwy in our understanding of what the Crusades were about. For the most part, the Crusades were a response to the Jihad of Islam.
Since the 7th century when the founder and messenger of Islam started cutting off heads to expand Islam over more and more territory, Muslim hegemony had continued fairly unabated. The Crusaders, expressing their purposes in the religious verbiage of their time and culture, were essentially proposing to prevent the Muslim expansion. The Crusade was a response to Jihad. The crusade was purposed to stop the Muslim Jihad. One could state it in this way, the Crusades were in fact counter-Crusades whose purpose was an answer to the Muslim one.
Today Muslim extremists have renewed their Crusade, er Jihad against the world, in their eyes those who resist their expansion are fulfilling the same purpose as the original Crusaders and that's why they can accurately call us by that moniker.
In the West, unlike the Muslims, We don't have an appreciation of what the Crusades were mainly about; their main purpose was to stop Muslim expansion, and in that they were successful. As for me, I appreciate this aspect of Western history. Because of the Crusades I do not pray toward Mecca.
1,000 years of Jihad and 600 years of Crusade came to an end on September 11, 1697:
http://www.schismata.com/html/zenta.html
Here's what I mean.
We've been so perverted in our OWN understanding of the history of Western civilization that we are screwy in our understanding of what the Crusades were about. For the most part, the Crusades were a response to the Jihad of Islam.
Since the 7th century when the founder and messenger of Islam started cutting off heads to expand Islam over more and more territory, Muslim hegemony had continued fairly unabated. The Crusaders, expressing their purposes in the religious verbiage of their time and culture, were essentially proposing to prevent the Muslim expansion. The Crusade was a response to Jihad. The crusade was purposed to stop the Muslim Jihad. One could state it in this way, the Crusades were in fact counter-Crusades whose purpose was an answer to the Muslim one.
Today Muslim extremists have renewed their Crusade, er Jihad against the world, in their eyes those who resist their expansion are fulfilling the same purpose as the original Crusaders and that's why they can accurately call us by that moniker.
In the West, unlike the Muslims, We don't have an appreciation of what the Crusades were mainly about; their main purpose was to stop Muslim expansion, and in that they were successful. As for me, I appreciate this aspect of Western history. Because of the Crusades I do not pray toward Mecca.
1,000 years of Jihad and 600 years of Crusade came to an end on September 11, 1697:
http://www.schismata.com/html/zenta.html