UpAndAbout
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It amuses me how those who would like to start a new round of Crusades present evidence that Islam today is . . . very similar to the way Christianity was when the countries that were predominantly Christian were a little more barbaric.
If it were the religion that makes for the barbarism instead of vice-versa, we would still be savages.
The Islamic Caliphates were 1000 fold more imperalistic than the Crusades! Crusades pressed into Israel and to some extent across Christian Europe. The Islamic Caliphates spread across the Arabian Pennisula, up into India, Pakistan, Turkey, Persia, Eastern Europe, into Russia, west to North Africa and even into Spain.
I always makes me laugh when people try to compare Dark Ages Christianity to Modern era Islam. Dark Age Christianity didn't have electricity, modern science, phones, computers, cars, trains, airplanes, mass producing farming equipment, water treatment plants, power plants, the internet etc. Yet modern Islam has ALL of this, yet you compare the two to make a point! It's like comparing an apple to an elephant!
Absolutely! The Dark Age Crusades were in DARK AGES. The Muslims are STILL in the "dark ages" socially.