Historians Weigh in on Obama s Comparison of ISIS Militants to Medieval Christian Crusaders - Yahoo
One was a war to reclaim land and access to holy sites and the other is the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians and captured personal.
ISIS activists are extremists.
Whenever I hear people say muslim this muslim that I remind them of the Christian crusaders.
Then they usually say, well they aren't true Christians.
Which I respond, well then ISIS aren't true Muslims.
Sorry...the holy book of islam condones what they are doing....the teachings of Jesus do not condone the evil done in the name of God.....
Massacre of Jerusalem by christian savages
Jews fought side-by-side with Muslim soldiers to defend
Jerusalem against the Crusaders
] Saint Louis University Professor
Thomas Madden, author of
A Concise History of the Crusades, claims the "Jewish Defenders" of the city knew the rules of warfare and retreated to their synagogue to "prepare for death" since the Crusaders had breached the outer walls.According to the Muslim chronicle of
Ibn al-Qalanisi, "The Jews assembled in their synagogue, and the Franks burned it over their heads."The Crusaders "[circled] the screaming, flame-tortured humanity singing 'Christ We Adore Thee!' with their Crusader crosses held high." However, a contemporary Jewish communication does not corroborate the report that Jews were actually inside of the Synagogue when it was set fire. This letter was discovered among the
Cairo Geniza collection in 1975 by historian
Shelomo Dov Goitein.
] Historians believe that it was written just two weeks after the siege, making it "the earliest account on the conquest in any language."
[However, all sources agree that a synagogue was indeed burned during the siege.