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megadoc1 wrote:murdering jihadis identified as a former rapper...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2733228/The-descent-Jihadi-John-Shocking-Facebook-photos-transformation-rapper-streets-Maida-Vale-prime-suspect-brutal-beheading-journalist.html
it is also said that his father is in jail in the us for bombing us embassies
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2733558/Father-Jihadi-John-one-Bin-Ladens-closest-lieutenants-currently-trial-US-embassy-bombings-killed-224-people.html
bluefete wrote:I always knew this rap thing was bad!
shogun wrote:Wouldn't it be funny if ISIS turned out to be a catalyst for unifying the region?.
shogun wrote:Wow. Just seeing they beheaded Sotoloff. An English prisoner seems to be next in line.
What should be really done about these cowards boy?.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/26/u-s-and-iran-hit-isis-ignore-each-other.htmlRASC wrote:shogun wrote:Wouldn't it be funny if ISIS turned out to be a catalyst for unifying the region?.
Was thinking the same thing.
who were the terrorists during the Crusades?megadoc1 wrote:where is blackwater when you need them?
as a christian I am always asked about the crusades and stuff
now for once in my life I can see how an event like the crusades was triggered
no people will stand for this kind of behavior too long
konartis wrote:these Muslims are the plague of the world, right here in trinidad they feel as tho the country owes them somthing, they act as tho they can do what ever they want and get away with it, Griffit was right in his statement when he said that they will do all to stop the fools of a Muslim race to try the foolish tactics as in the middle east. because we all knw that trini like to be in everything, kill them all......
megadoc1 wrote:
Dizzy28 wrote:
Duane 3NE 2NR wrote:who were the terrorists during the Crusades?megadoc1 wrote:where is blackwater when you need them?
as a christian I am always asked about the crusades and stuff
now for once in my life I can see how an event like the crusades was triggered
no people will stand for this kind of behavior too long
Arcmanov wrote:Dizzy28 wrote:
Ask Foley and Solotoff how dey lookin nah...?
Good nature wrote:Duane 3NE 2NR wrote:who were the terrorists during the Crusades?megadoc1 wrote:where is blackwater when you need them?
as a christian I am always asked about the crusades and stuff
now for once in my life I can see how an event like the crusades was triggered
no people will stand for this kind of behavior too long
Much deeper than terrorism
In the early years of the eleventh century the Christian Church had already split into two distinct bodies. The Eastern Church was fighting against the enemy they called "infidel Muslim Turks," who had conquered Jerusalem in 638 and were now knocking on the door of Constantinople, home of Byzantine (Eastern) Christianity.
With this as a background, Pope Urban II gave a speech on November 27, 1095, in Clermont, France. He called for the nobility of Western Europe to form armies, head east, assist the Byzantine brothers, and liberate the Holy City.
The response exceeded his wildest expectations. Waves of people decided to "go crusading." It must have seemed like a great deal. Serfs, trying in vain to support their families with the income from their few small acres, were promised indulgences, free food and board, and a chance to see the world.
Waves of inspired people headed east in the centuries to come. Fighting men, yes, but also women (many of whom apparently had visions of a steady income through prostitution) and children got caught up in religious fervor. Some armies, financed and led by wealthy, educated lords, did very well. Against all expectations they even captured Jerusalem on July 15, 1099, establishing Crusader states that would last for a few hundred years. Others, however, were a disgrace. Hopping off the boat in Constantinople, they killed anybody that didn't look like a European Christian, including turbaned Byzantine Christians, Jews, and innocent Arab merchants.
Although we can mark the beginning of the crusades, the end is subject to debate. The Spanish defeated the Muslim kingdom of Granada in 1492, recovering the peninsula the Muslims had seized back in 711. One of the reasons "Columbus sailed the ocean blue" was to find a new route to Jerusalem. Another was to acquire wealth to help the Spanish kings carry on the fight.
As late as 1798, Napoleon was "crusading" on Malta. Perhaps even 1945 might be considered the end of the Crusades. That was the year the Crusade tax, imposed on local dioceses during the eleventh century to help fund the first Crusade, was officially abolished in the Roman Catholic diocese of Pueblo, Colorado.
It is easy to criticize the Crusades. It is perhaps more difficult to explain why they came about. The Islamic jihad expanded rapidly following the death of the prophet Muhammad. In 635 Islam had conquered Damascus. Persia followed in 636, Jerusalem in 638, all of Egypt by 640. Spain, North Africa, the Middle East, India, Pakistan, and even parts of China quickly followed. Some historians have speculated that, if Charles Martel had not stemmed the tide at the battle of Tours in 732, all of Western Europe might have fallen to the Islamic offensive. There were undoubtedly some Crusaders who sincerely believed their violence toward the Muslims was justified by God's will; many Crusaders, however, were expressing hatred and bigotry toward an unfamiliar religion and culture, using religious doctrine as an excuse to seize territory and riches.