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Good perspective of looking at the crusades, where i usually focus on seeing them as a counterattack to regain ground that previously was lost to an aggressive invader. Not that both perspective are excluding each other - they are mutually supportive.
I always thought that turning the crusades into an act of aggresison instead of seeing it as the defensive counter-attack that it initially was, compares to a women being raped and then being accused of having provoked it, and being held accountable for her fate. Which, indeed, is the way in which Muhammedanism is dealing with such an issue: turning the victim into the perpetrator.
On a slightly more general level, since this topic is featuring "God" and "Allah" in it's headline:
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