RE: Raging Rudy Giuliani Destroys Obama's Policies on Islam
February 25, 2015 at 2:17 pm
(This post was last modified: February 25, 2015 at 2:46 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(February 25, 2015 at 2:06 pm)abaris Wrote:(February 25, 2015 at 12:48 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Rest of Crusades in less detail: until the fall of Akkon 1291 probably 20 million victims (in the Holy land and Arab/Turkish areas alone).
You were saying...
It's also a bit ironic that the crusaders were exactly like ISIS in another field too. The muslim world back then was educated and cultured for it's largest part. The Christian world on the other hand was so primitive that they even let the Roman structures like aqueducts fall to ruins.
If it hadn't been for mingling with muslims, we wouldn't even have the freaking number zero to calculate with. Emperor Frederick II saw this and being very interested in science, opened his realm for all religions and ethnicities. The result was a ban by the pope in 1245.
I think the 20 million casualty figure of the crusades must have been based on the same census which told of 4 million Persians under Xerxes I invading Greece.
But the basic point is valid. crusades certainly did kill many times more muslims than ISIS could ever aspire to kill of all kinds of people.
(February 25, 2015 at 7:33 am)Gawdzilla Wrote: "President Obama didn't live through September 11 -- I did."
— Rudy Giuliani
If President Obama didn't live through September 11, then he must be truly precocious to have won a presidential election at the age of less than 8.
