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<DIV>Thanks for passing this along. These look like really good books and I look forward to reading them soon.</DIV>
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<DIV>Dianne<BR><BR><B><I>Art Kelly <arthurkelly@yahoo.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><BR>Note: forwarded message attached.<BR><BR><BR>=====<BR>ART KELLY, ATM-S<BR>13524 Brightfield Lane <BR>Herndon, Virginia 20171-3360 <BR>(703) 904-3763 home <BR>(703) 396-6960 work<BR>arthurkelly@yahoo.com<BR>art.kelly@cox.net<BR>akelly@americantarget.com<BR>ArtK135@Netscape.net<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>> ATTACHMENT part 2 message/rfc822 <BR>Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:58:56 EST<BR>From: "Conservative Book Service"<CONSERVATIVEBOOKS@CONSERVATIVEBOOKCLUB.COM><BR>Subject: The "politically incorrect" guide to the Crusades<BR>To: arthurkelly@yahoo.com<BR><BR>
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<P align=left><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><A href="http://c1.xsi1.com/ct2.cgi?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5jb25zZXJ2YXRpdmVib29rc2VydmljZS5jb20vYm9va3BhZ2UuYXNwP3Byb2RfY2Q9QzY0MjQmc291cl9jZD1DRkUwMzY2MDE=&appno=5431&mrn=43949617&xqn=12622&url_no=1"><IMG height=314 hspace=10 src="http://humaneventsonline.com.edgesuite.net/ebc_images/crusades_customsize.jpg" width=200 align=left border=0></A>Misconceptions about the Crusades are all too common. Generally portrayed as a series of unprovoked holy wars against Islam, they are supposed to have been the epitome of self-righteousness and intolerance -- a black stain on the history of the Catholic Church in particular and Western, Christian civilization in general. Since September 11, variations of this theme have been used to explain -- even justify -- Muslim terror against the West. Former president Bill Clinton himself, in a speech at Georgetown University, fingered Muslim anger at the Crusades as the
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<P align=left><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>But the truth is that the Crusades had nothing to do with colonialism or unprovoked aggression -- and in <STRONG><A href="http://c1.xsi1.com/ct2.cgi?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5jb25zZXJ2YXRpdmVib29rc2VydmljZS5jb20vYm9va3BhZ2UuYXNwP3Byb2RfY2Q9QzY0MjQmc291cl9jZD1DRkUwMzY2MDE=&appno=5431&mrn=43949617&xqn=12622&url_no=1">A Concise History of the Crusades</A></STRONG>, renowned medieval historian Thomas F. Madden sets the record straight. The Crusades, he shows, were not the brainchild of an ambitious pope or rapacious knights but a response to more than four centuries of conquests in which Muslims had already captured two thirds of the old Christian world. At some point, Christianity as a faith and a culture had to defend itself or be subsumed by Islam. The Crusades were that defense. Their entire subsequent history is one of Western reaction to Muslim advances -- they were no more offensive than was the
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<P align=left><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>• Islam was born in war and grew the same way. From the time of Mohammed, the means of Muslim expansion was always the sword.</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>• With enormous energy, the warriors of Islam struck out against the Christians shortly after Mohammed's death. Palestine, Syria, and Egypt -- once the most heavily Christian areas in the world -- quickly succumbed.</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>• By the eighth century, Muslim armies had conquered all of Christian North Africa and Spain. In the eleventh century, the Seljuk Turks conquered Asia Minor (modern Turkey), which had been Christian since the time of St. Paul.</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>• The Byzantine Empire was reduced to little more than Greece. In desperation, the emperor in Constantinople sent word to the Christians of western Europe asking them to aid their brothers and sisters in the East.</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>• The end of the medieval Crusades did not bring an end to Muslim jihad -- Islamic states like Mamluk Egypt continued to expand in size and power, and the Ottoman Turks built the largest and most awesome state in Muslim history.</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>• Under Suleiman the Magnificent the Turks came within a hair's breadth of capturing Vienna, which would have left all of Germany at their mercy. At that point Crusades were no longer waged to rescue Jerusalem, but Europe itself.</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>• It is often asserted that Crusaders were merely lacklands and ne'er-do-wells who took advantage of an opportunity to rob and pillage in a faraway land. Recent scholarship has demolished that contrivance. The truth is that the Crusades were notoriously bad for plunder. A few people got rich, but the vast majority returned with nothing.</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>• The Ottoman Turks conquered not only their fellow Muslims, thus further unifying Islam, but also continued to press westward, capturing Constantinople and plunging deep into Europe itself. By the 15th century, the Crusades were no longer errands of mercy for a distant people but desperate attempts of one of the last remnants of Christendom to survive. Europeans began to ponder the real possibility that Islam would finally achieve its aim of conquering the entire Christian world.</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>• In 1529, Suleiman the Magnificent laid siege to Vienna. If not for a run of freak rainstorms that delayed his progress and forced him to leave behind much of his artillery, it is virtually certain that the Turks would have taken the city.</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>• Whether we admire the Crusaders or not, it is a fact that the world we know today would not exist without their efforts. Without the Crusades, Christianity might well have followed Zoroastrianism, another of Islam's rivals, into extinction.</FONT></P>
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