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Sunday, July 15, 2007
Crusaders captured Jerusalem - July 15, 1099 - Happy Anniversary!
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ReplyDeleteWow. just wow.
While many times I agree, mostly at least, with your thoughts, this leaves me very conflicted. On the one hand freeing Jerusalem and the surrounding area from the enslaving Muslims was a laudable act. OTOH, the slaughter of every single living being within the walls is much more in keeping with the current behaviour of the Muslim jihadists. Please remember that when the Crusaders breached the walls they proceeded to slaughter Muslim, Christian, Jew and animal. iN fact, if I recall correctly, chroniclers write about having waded through blood and gore. Also please note that for this wading to merit reference in a chronicler's writings it must have been bad since period warfare was quite messy.
Personally, I would much rather celebrate the taking of somewhere like Antioch, and commemerate the taking of Jerusalem. Using the sack of Jerusalem as a lessonin what happens when we become too much like our enemies.
Admittedly, I would also much prefer to celebrate teh end of the Reconquista where the Spanish finally kicked the muslim invaders out in 1492.
Though, admittedly there are theories that the excesses in 1099 led to the founding of the Knights Templar.
Dearest Renn, please do not be conflicted. I had not read of the horrors of the taking of Jerusalem. And I was busy preparing to go to a church service by a pastor we are "interviewing".
ReplyDeleteI too much prefer to celebrate 1492 for the same reasons. I would like to see the British do the same in England today - kick our the Muslim invaders who have invaded under asylum laws and "Liberal" immigration policies. I have always favored the Knights Templar in so far as what I have read is accurate.
In my recent reading on Islam, Mohammad and his political / warrior aims, I am learning that the conflict between the Jews and Muslims has been on-going since the 600's. Also that we are all born Muslim, just corrupted by our parents. Indeed.
I am at heart disgusted with the "victimhood" that some Islamist groups use in defining their situations in my country and in England. Outrageous.
I regret that my enthusiasm is construed as enthusiam for the slaughter - no so. I tend to see cultural shifts as though we are all living in a "wave pool". Right not the Islamists (I'm not sure the distinction from Islam at its core is valid) are on the crest - or think that they are. Age-old story of man's struggle for power over others.
Thank you for your clarification and historical accuracy of which I was not aware. I appreciate your willingness to point out places where my enthusiasm may have led me astray. Thanks.
Agreeing with Ren, I would like to add the remark that celebrating this day in history is akin to celebrating the Holocaust an equally momentous moment in the tragedy of our human story. I agree that giving praise to this day is playing the same card of the people whom you claim to deplore--the jihadists. The seige of Jerusalem was a very deliberate ethnic cleansing, and a particular dark and bloody moment in the history of humankind. To read it any differently is the onus of the reader, not the author. Moreover, to assume that there is a natural/ historical basis or magical inevitability to Jewish-Muslim relations is equally on par with the poorly (if not selectively, perhaps?) informed.
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