Islamic Crusades: An Introduction

NOTE: WHY DO I USE THE WORD "CRUSADE"?

In the two years since I posted this series I have received messages from many Christians stating that they are offended by the word "crusade" (a derivation of "cross") being associated with Islamic violence. I chose to use that word because The Crusades are something that most in the post-modern, politically correct West recognize as "evil." Many westerners are still not acquainted with the real meaning of words like "jihad," "shariah," "dhimmis", etc. Hopefully in 2010 more people DO understand the true meaning of those words.

In short, I chose the word "crusades" to highlight that Christians were not the only ones who fought religious wars of conquest. My intention was not to insult Christianity. Christianity is a religion of peace that is sometimes used by extremists to justify violence. Islam is a religion of war. I pray for the day when these videos are no longer needed. Until that day I will keep the name "Islamic Crusades."

BLOG:
http://occidentalsoapbox.blogspot.com/2008/09/new-series-islamic-crusades.html

Full text of Clinton's speech:
http://ecumene.org/clinton.htm


The liberal establishment highlights selected Western sins, and wraps a layer of current events around them to further their political goals. In this series, I will highlight what I believe are the far more horrific episodes in Islamic history that are neglected, marginalized or simply ignored by the media and academic establishment. I will explore the history of Islamic imperialism, Islamic colonialism, Islamic genocide and Islamic crusades; and believe me there is plenty of material to work with.

For those who already see America and the West as positive forces in our world, I hope this will provide you ammunition for arguments with liberal friends. I hope it helps you continue the conversation, when they try to blunt it by citing the wrongs of the Crusades or colonialism to excuse any and all Muslim actions in the present. My purpose here is to put the Crusades in context; as a brutal religiously-inspired conquest of land, yes, but just one among many, most of which were committed in the name of Mohammed rather than Jesus.

For those on the left who bother to hear me out, I hope you treat my testimony about the victims of the Islamic violence with the same seriousness that you treat the stories of Western exploitation that you are so quick to catalog. I believe in the course of this series you will come to understand, as I did, that your apologetics for Islam work directly against the values you claim to promote. That whatever sins the West has committed, the Islamic world has committed them more often and more severely, and that you who strive to tear the edifices of your own civilization down have been allowed to thrive in the West, while your counterparts in the Muslim world are executed, imprisoned, or intimidated into a deep silence.


First installment coming soon!

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[Justinian43]

@JerkCruel He places the word crusade to let the average viewer know he means holy wars. And after all aren't jihads just simply islamic crusades?

[JerkCruel]

It is called jihad, to glue words "islamic" and "crusade" together is... misleading and simply stupid.

[cafeturkie]

@dallas998

No, I won't fall into that trap because I'm not a leftist or Muslim like you. I've arrived at my position through education, not rhetoric. And the fact that you call me judgemental here, when it is clear for everyone to see just how pathetic your debate skills are is, unfortunately, par for the course where the rhetoreticians are concerned.

Accusing you of being superficial would make you look more deep than you are.

[dallas998]

@cafeturkie Careful that your righteousness and quick judgmentalism doesn't make you look foolish or trip you up son.

[cafeturkie]

@dallas998

So I was right about you then.

[dallas998]

@cafeturkie How you got my intent 180 degrees wrong is surprising. Go figure.

[cafeturkie]

@dallas998

Boring! What a long way of saying you're a moral relativist; which is another way of saying you wish to defend Islamo-fascism.

Defending yourself from aggression is in no way the moral equivalent from attacking someone, unless you're a moral relativist, which goes against every teaching of Judeo-Christian civilisation.

You don't just want to overthrow democracy (fascist in itself), you want to overturn the very core, the very way we think and reason in our society. Pure evil.

[dallas998]

@cafeturkie Yes, human power, and violence in the name of quelling violence. I downloaded an Audible-dot-com ebook called Jerusalem, Jerusalem - How the Ancient City Ignited the Modern World. I am halfway through it now and am amazed at the evolution of human society and its deep sociological, economic and religious motives behind our deep need to come to terms with the inherent violence that is part of life. We aren't very far removed from when we were hunter-gatherers.

[cafeturkie]

@dallas998

Not just secular, but fascist. The same fascism that, once again, threatens to engulf the world in war...

[markjoachen]

why cant we just drop relgion its sucks donkey asse