The New Crusades?

[DeepIron]

Absolutely senseless...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7332339.stm

I wonder how long it'll be before this becomes, truly, a "Christian vs Muslim" conflict? :nope:

[Trex]

Another view of the Crusades.

http://www.canada.com/components/print.aspx?id=27cb8511-2947-4540-a085-4cd4322b20ca

[DeepIron]

Islam unquestionably won the Crusades, even though Europe was ultimately able to reassert itself and dominate the world. The reasons for this success are much debated, but it's reasonable to conclude that the West won the war of ideas. Notions of individualism and freedom, capitalism and technology, and, most of all, the West's turn from theology to science, carried the day. Religion became in the West an essentially private concern. It is on this "modern" turn that the anti-Crusade attitude developed.

Interesting statement. I wonder if it hasn't come back to haunt us in the West...

[Skybird]

Why the surprise? The persecution of christians in post-war Iraq is no new news, but old one. Half of the former Iraqi christians already fled the country.

You missed this article I linke 2 or 3 days ago:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...545125,00.html

Christian tradition in Iraq is close to the point of being completely wiped out.

[Stealth Hunter]

Dirka dirka. Muhammad Jihad. Happa-jerpsa-jerpsa, Allahu Akbar.:rotfl:


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