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Offline wilber

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Re: The Islamic World
« Reply #15 on: February 27, 2017, 12:42:00 pm »
It is said that during the Crusades Salidin's men started out as perfect gentlemen, even in battle.  That changed as the Crusades went on.  It's never changed since, apparently.

The Crusaders were never gentlemen, they massacred thousands when Jerusalem fell during the First Crusade.

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The massacre was not insanity but policy, as stated by Fulcher of Chartres: They desired that this place, so long contaminated by the superstition of the pagan inhabitants, should be cleansed from their contagion. The Crusaders intended Jerusalem to be a Christian city–and strictly a Latin Christian city. This is a day the Lord made, wrote Raymond of Aguilers. We shall rejoice and be glad in it.


Saladin's gentleman gloves came off when during the Third Crusade, Richard III executed 2700 prisoners after the Siege of Acre and Saladin responded in kind.
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