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| Re: The Dark Side Of The Crusades: Massacres, Cannibalism, And The Fall Of Jerusalem by Lukuluku69(m): 2:41pm On Jun 28 |
HeatSeeker:O ye black slave of Paul's Babbles! Simple posers to check on the lamba you are about to drop and you are already bailing out 😆 Glad that you agreed that atrocities were from both sides HeatSeeker: |
| Re: The Dark Side Of The Crusades: Massacres, Cannibalism, And The Fall Of Jerusalem by CodexiveZee: 2:41pm On Jun 28 |
Ishilove:The first sentence was wrong, saying the Christians invaded a Muslim world is just a way for you to hide some atrocities. Before a child is born both parents need to have sex, so before the crusaders came to be ask your what really happened? Why? Don't feed people BS |
| Re: The Dark Side Of The Crusades: Massacres, Cannibalism, And The Fall Of Jerusalem by donleo92(m): 2:42pm On Jun 28 |
An interesting reqd ![]() |
| Re: The Dark Side Of The Crusades: Massacres, Cannibalism, And The Fall Of Jerusalem by DeepSight(m): 2:43pm On Jun 28 |
sweetjohn:Its always intetesting to watch someone barge in guns blazing with insults only to spew ignorance. The primary period of the Crusades (typically cited as 1095–1291) largely predates the founding of the Ottoman state. The Ottoman Empire was founded circa 1299 by Osman I, a Turkoman chieftain who led a small principality (beylik) in northwestern Anatolia. This was after the time of the crusades. |
| Re: The Dark Side Of The Crusades: Massacres, Cannibalism, And The Fall Of Jerusalem by TenQ: 2:46pm On Jun 28 |
~ Source: Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes by Tamim AnsarySo, the Story is Biased against the crusaders! |
| Re: The Dark Side Of The Crusades: Massacres, Cannibalism, And The Fall Of Jerusalem by sweetjohn(m): 2:46pm On Jun 28 |
Ishilove:My dear, if the Muslims think only them have monopolies of violent, then the Christian’s will teach them another worst bitter lessons. Muslims are always associated with violent from the inception of this their religion. They (the Ottoman Empire) were warned by the Pope and European leaders for decades to stop invading Christian lands and killing Christians instead they see it as expansion through jihad and conquest. So in that situation you expects Christian to just surrender themselves for slaughtering just as you expect Israel to surrender themselves for Hamas and Hezebollah to keep killing them. That’s why I said your post is a nonesense post. What kind of a father will you be if someone you know you are 10x stronger than is killing your wife and children in your presence? |
| Re: The Dark Side Of The Crusades: Massacres, Cannibalism, And The Fall Of Jerusalem by DeepSight(m): 2:48pm On Jun 28 |
Iyobaba:GBAM! |
| Re: The Dark Side Of The Crusades: Massacres, Cannibalism, And The Fall Of Jerusalem by Brendaniel: 2:49pm On Jun 28 |
Ishilove:So what exactly is your point and what are you driving at? Is it to justify the killings of Christians going on by the Muslims? Ok, the 2 committed crimes against each other in the past, one is still committing crimes till date against one, so what are you trying to justify? I've know you to be someone who reasons irrationally(I'm very sorry to say) but that's my sincere observation and Seun said something about you which made me believe my observation more... |
| Re: The Dark Side Of The Crusades: Massacres, Cannibalism, And The Fall Of Jerusalem by Kevineleven(m): 2:50pm On Jun 28 |
BioData45:Every system you see today, the law , religion and government was created to end violence, human cannot coexist in peace. Except they are controlled, to wake up is to fight for freedom, back to violence.. |
| Re: The Dark Side Of The Crusades: Massacres, Cannibalism, And The Fall Of Jerusalem by DeepSight(m): 2:50pm On Jun 28 |
sweetjohn:Stop this nonsense. The Ottoman Empire did not exist when the crusades started. |
| Re: The Dark Side Of The Crusades: Massacres, Cannibalism, And The Fall Of Jerusalem by Lukuluku69(m): 2:52pm On Jun 28 |
sweetjohn:Muslims kill Jews in Europe and around the world in 1080s? Are you seriously serious about that? Why not just read comments and learn? |
| Re: The Dark Side Of The Crusades: Massacres, Cannibalism, And The Fall Of Jerusalem by seunayantokun(m): 2:52pm On Jun 28 |
The world doesn't know peace because some turn themselves to Satan, the father of lies and falsehood. Why do you just enjoy lying? Don't you have any conscience? If you must post anything about the crusades, please narrate all the truth from the beginning. It's so terrible that many babblers in Africa have forgotten that slave trade and colonisation of Africa were largely the primary business of Islamic expansionists grabbing lands, peoples and cultures. Today, many of the countries leading in asking the West to pay reparations for 300+ years of slavery are Islamic and Muslims -controlled countries, whereas they should be the first to pay reparations. Western countries have outlawed slavery and slave trade, but it's not yet so in many of the Islamic or forcefully islamised countries. When you talk about colonisation, how many educated people in Africa can remember Islamic expansionists were the first to bring the bitter experience to Africa in the last 2,000 years? Today, they keep whitewashing history everywhere. Don't you have a conscience at all? Crusades, Holocaust, slavery and slave trade, etc. There's nothing they don't attempt to change. |
| Re: The Dark Side Of The Crusades: Massacres, Cannibalism, And The Fall Of Jerusalem by mastermaestro(m): 2:56pm On Jun 28 |
omojeesu:There will arise another Christian crusade on a scale so large that Israel's current campaigns in Gaza and Lebanon will appear insignificant. |
| Re: The Dark Side Of The Crusades: Massacres, Cannibalism, And The Fall Of Jerusalem by Ubanz: 2:57pm On Jun 28 |
When they got to Jerusalem they massacred the jews. The Massacre of Jerusalem (1099)When the Crusaders successfully captured Jerusalem, they carried out a mass slaughter of thousands of both Muslims and Jewish inhabitants. Many of the city's Jews sought refuge in the central synagogue, which the crusaders then set on fire, burning those inside to death The Rhineland Massacres (1096)At the start of the First Crusade, bands of Christian crusaders—particularly those in the "People's Crusade"—swept through the Rhineland in Germany. Believing that eliminating non-believers at home was a necessary precursor to fighting in the Holy Land, they targeted Jewish communities in towns like Speyer, Worms, Mainz, and Cologne. Thousands of Jews were slaughtered, forcibly baptized, or driven to commit mass suicide to avoid capture. |
| Re: The Dark Side Of The Crusades: Massacres, Cannibalism, And The Fall Of Jerusalem by CodexiveZee: 2:58pm On Jun 28 |
Ishilove:Bro you just shot yourself on the food. Nobody should give the crusaders glorious or heroic campaign but we can give the Muslim armies who conquer Jerusalem in 638 CE a glorious and heroics campaign, right? My goodness. Your write-up literally made the crusaders look like the bad guys or they were the ones who started it when you know fully well that those stupid military expansion of the early Rashidun Caliphate brought it all. Imagine another country came to conquest us by force, killed those who refuse to convert, displace and change everything about us that exactly what your religion of peace did so technically Crusaders came to be because of those blood sucking dushbags invading christian and Jewish territories. |
| Re: The Dark Side Of The Crusades: Massacres, Cannibalism, And The Fall Of Jerusalem by FSBoperator: 3:04pm On Jun 28 |
The crusaders was a covet war between Western Rome Vs the Byzantine Fundamental Christian Empire to the East located in today's Turkey. The crusaders went to war on the blessings of the Pope to rid Palestine of ancient Eastern Orthodox churches and it's people. The Muslims were never a factor . It was a war instigated by the Pope to wrest control of what was then a critical choke point in global land trade between Europe and Asia minor and North Africa. The earliest churches in Palestine were all built by the Byzantine empire and were of the Eastern Orthodox sect who did not subscribe to the veneration of the virgin Mary and the authority of the Pope in Rome. The first church is always falsely ascribed to the Roman Catholic church. This is not true . The first church is the Eastern Orthodox church that does not subscribe to the Pauline doctrine of celibacy and the heretic teachings of venerating the Madonna aka Virgin Mary which is actually a Roman pagan goddess of fertility. Hence , the woman and a child idol which Catholics bow and worship. Most don't know that Western Rome headed by the Pope waved a war against the Eastern Byzantium empire for centuries over dominance. The crusades were ordained by the Pope to deny the Eastern Orthodox church any claims to Palestine. The first crusaders severely dealt with the majority Orthodox Christians and did not allow them to worship in their churches. This was the outcome of the first crusade and it was framed as a holy war to rid Palestine of Muslims despite the overwhelming population being Christians who were never under any subjugation or domination by the Muslim minorities. It was all down to the Catholic church getting complete control of Palestine and evicting all orthodox Christians from the land in other to deny legitimacy of the Orthodox church and to ensure all future pilgrimages (big business back then) was for only Catholics . It was only after the Muslim conquest that all orthodox churches were restored to the rightful owners. This was what then led to the so-called second crusade which was now down to ridding Palestine of the Muslims. |
| Re: The Dark Side Of The Crusades: Massacres, Cannibalism, And The Fall Of Jerusalem by franvincoop: 3:05pm On Jun 28 |
These were the main actors of the Crusades:- Salahdin Raynald de Châtillon Guy of Lusignan Balian of Ibelin Ishilove: |
| Re: The Dark Side Of The Crusades: Massacres, Cannibalism, And The Fall Of Jerusalem by BioData45: 3:17pm On Jun 28 |
Kevineleven:Lol. Religion is not the best tool for control, it's made by oppressors to make their sheep stay gullible. |
| Re: The Dark Side Of The Crusades: Massacres, Cannibalism, And The Fall Of Jerusalem by Omotaday(m): 3:19pm On Jun 28*. Modified: 3:42pm On Jun 28 |
CodexiveZee:You made it look like the crusaders were defenders of the jewish people. Do you know about the Rhineland massacre and other massacres of jewish people by the bloodthirsty crusaders? |
| Re: The Dark Side Of The Crusades: Massacres, Cannibalism, And The Fall Of Jerusalem by GloriousGbola: 3:24pm On Jun 28 |
Ishilove:this post is spambot compliant |
| Re: The Dark Side Of The Crusades: Massacres, Cannibalism, And The Fall Of Jerusalem by JuanDeDios: 3:26pm On Jun 28 |
BioData45:I doubt that. It's very difficult to prove that certain aspects of religion are fake or not fake. |
| Re: The Dark Side Of The Crusades: Massacres, Cannibalism, And The Fall Of Jerusalem by Ishilove(op): 3:26pm On Jun 28 |
The post has a source which I posted there, and I also made the observation that history in many forms can not be fully objective. Most students of history know the remote and immediate causes of the Crusades. There are several sides and each side will narrate events coloured with their own bias. This is the Islamic side. Anyone is free to disagree. It is your prerogative. |
| Re: The Dark Side Of The Crusades: Massacres, Cannibalism, And The Fall Of Jerusalem by Ishilove(op): 3:27pm On Jun 28 |
GloriousGbola:I chose my words carefully 😂😂😂 |
| Re: The Dark Side Of The Crusades: Massacres, Cannibalism, And The Fall Of Jerusalem by Kevineleven(m): 3:33pm On Jun 28 |
BioData45:There by making some extremely violent people peaceful because of fear of divine judgement, promoting peace and love which is necessary , if you are not gullible to religion, you are gullible to the government or some other philosophy. |
| Re: The Dark Side Of The Crusades: Massacres, Cannibalism, And The Fall Of Jerusalem by Brendaniel: 3:35pm On Jun 28 |
Ishilove:What ever you say here does not erase the truth and doesn't change it either, at least I am not the only person who has made the observation, even the owner of nairaland did... |
| Re: The Dark Side Of The Crusades: Massacres, Cannibalism, And The Fall Of Jerusalem by UncleAyo: 3:40pm On Jun 28 |
Both religions have histories that include violence committed by some of their followers. What I do care about is historical accuracy and context. The Crusades were indeed brutal. The massacres at Ma'arra and Jerusalem are well documented by Christian, Muslim, and Jewish sources alike. Many crusaders committed atrocities that cannot be morally justified. That is simply a historical fact. However, presenting the Crusades as an unprovoked Christian invasion is also a distortion of history. Before the First Crusade (1096), Islamic armies had spent over four centuries expanding through military conquest. They conquered Christian-majority regions such as Syria, Palestine, Egypt, North Africa, much of Anatolia, and later Spain and Sicily. Jerusalem itself had been taken from the Byzantine Empire in the 7th century. By the late 11th century, the Byzantine Empire had lost most of Anatolia after the Battle of Manzikert (1071), and Emperor Alexios I appealed to Western Europe for military assistance. The First Crusade was therefore triggered by multiple factors: - The Byzantine request for military aid. - The expansion of the Seljuk Turks into Byzantine territory. - Attacks on Christian pilgrims and increasing instability around Jerusalem. - Pope Urban II's desire to unite Western Christendom while strengthening papal influence. - European nobles seeking land, wealth, prestige, or religious merit. In other words, the Crusades were not launched in a historical vacuum. Likewise, Muslim rulers were not innocent victims throughout history. Islamic empires also carried out massacres, forced conversions in some periods, slavery, religious persecution, and military conquests from Spain to India. Christians, Jews, Hindus, Zoroastrians, pagans, and others all experienced persecution under various Islamic rulers at different times. The uncomfortable truth is that medieval warfare was extraordinarily brutal regardless of religion. Christians committed atrocities. Muslims committed atrocities. Mongols committed atrocities. The Byzantines committed atrocities. No civilization had a monopoly on cruelty. Tamim Ansary's Destiny Disrupted is an excellent book for understanding history from an Islamic perspective, but it is exactly that—a history told through Islamic eyes. Reading it alongside historians such as Christopher Tyerman, Thomas Asbridge, Jonathan Riley-Smith, Steven Runciman, and Carole Hillenbrand provides a much fuller picture. History is most useful when it helps us understand complexity, not when it is selectively used as ammunition in modern religious debates. |
| Re: The Dark Side Of The Crusades: Massacres, Cannibalism, And The Fall Of Jerusalem by RealityKings1: 3:42pm On Jun 28 |
I will always maintain if God created all things, he will most definitely not be within the system he created. He is outside the system. He will put laws and rules as his guide. God will not send anyone on a war on his behalf These are just humans acting on their own caprice and whims. It's a world free for all and no one is coming to save you. The winner shapes history to fit his glorification Either it's Jihadists or Crusaders, just humans doing what they do best. |
| Re: The Dark Side Of The Crusades: Massacres, Cannibalism, And The Fall Of Jerusalem by Yezzy(m): 3:45pm On Jun 28 |
Nice thread |
| Re: The Dark Side Of The Crusades: Massacres, Cannibalism, And The Fall Of Jerusalem by RealityKings1: 3:47pm On Jun 28 |
Kobojunkie:Absolutely true |
| Re: The Dark Side Of The Crusades: Massacres, Cannibalism, And The Fall Of Jerusalem by Expanse2020(m): 3:49pm On Jun 28 |
Kobojunkie:Have you read about those who colonized those countries you mentioned before snd that those countries were actually liberated by Islam ... Study history before you brought jargons here |
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