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Telcontar

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28. Mm, no not really. Certainly no more so than equating the Crusades

Reply to el_bryanto (Reply #26)

Sat Jan 17, 2015, 04:03 PM

Jan 2015

to events today and trying to portray some kind of moral equivilancy between Christians and Muslim extremists.

Islamic armies overran the Christian states in the Levant. Pope called upon Christian Europe to retake the Holy Lands. Called the whole thing the Crusades. Exactly what was distorted?

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That's simplistic to the point of distortion. nt el_bryanto Jan 2015 #26

Mm, no not really. Certainly no more so than equating the Crusades Telcontar Jan 2015 #28

It's simplistic to the point of distortion - because the Crusades lasted for a long time and el_bryanto Jan 2015 #29

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