Converting a Mosque to a Church During the Spanish Crusades

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During the his Crusade to take Murcia, James I of Aragon converted a Muslim mosque to a Christian church in honor of the Mother of God. However, he did not treat his Muslim subjects unfairly...

This video cites:

The Book of Deeds of James of Aragon, Libre dels Fets, trans. Damian J Smith and Helena Buffery (Ashgate, 2010)

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Crusades
• Reconquista
• James I of Aragon
• Murcia
• mosque
• church
• Islam
• Christianity
• medieval history
• Spain

[onemoreturn]

I'm glad to see you continue with the videos. Great work.

[eraser695]

I love the Truth which your video has given. God Bless you and Yours always.

[alanheath]

@RealCrusadeHistory The Crusades were not the only act of warfare in history but part of a traditional of brutalisation that European 'civilisation' brought across the world. The Nazis were not atheists as you claim, I spent a great deal of time going through the personnel files in concentration camps and I have yet to find one atheist. They were in the main Catholics - as was Hitler who continued the Catholic tradition of intolerance.

I see the crusades as being evil as do most historians.

[RealCrusadeHistory]

@alanheath Dude, you need to chill here. You demonize the Crusades as if they were the only act of warfare that took place in history. The Muslims engaged in plenty of violent conquests, not only against non-Muslims, but against each other! Saladin spent most of his life brutally attacking other Muslims. The Holocaust was perpetrated by atheist Nazis, and no historian views the Crusades as some kind of example of pure evil. Please, just be smarter here, ok?

[alanheath]

@RealCrusadeHistory I am a hate monger???? It is YOU who is a bigot, hater and intolerant of people who do not follow your form of Christianity. It is also your intolerant superstition which is responsible for so much evil not just the Crusades, but also through the Inquisition to the Holocaust which much more evil in between.

[RealCrusadeHistory]

@alanheath You are an anti-Christian bigot and a hate monger. Your intolerance is disgusting.

[alanheath]

@Cocteau120 I fail to see what is the truth about Christianity with its bloody history. The only truth you mention is atheism which does not foster celestial nonentities onto people nor butcher them for not believing.

I can however tell by your anger that you are a true Christian.

BTW truth is written with a small t in English. If you want to write it with a big T, then write in German!

[alanheath]

@OxAO Converting all houses of superstition into night clubs, flats, libraries, cafes etc sounds an excellent idea to me. It may not solve the problem of homelessness for example but it would be a start.

[alanheath]

The theft of houses of worship for one superstition by another was very common and at least it preserved them such as the magnificent cathedral in Cordova. Sometimes it worked the other way such as the Haj Sofia in Istanbul or Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem.

[bbootteerroo]

@RealCrusadeHistory Tortosa this is my town,where i group,South of Catalonia,very nice videos.

[JonOccamBluecollar]

@zrah1092 You answered your own question with your statement. They both have a bloody history, where as christianity is not still running around chopping heads of for adultry, or fashioning our women as property that is the superiority of modern christiandom. Feel free to cite any current anomolies of cultish behavior from the varying sects, but they do not represent modern christians.