No you didn't answer it, you retarded piece of ****. Act like you have a pair and quit dodging questions.
Sieg heil mine fuher.
Must you be so banal?
If you demand a yay or a nay then yay.
The reasons are encyclopedic.
To be fair, and if you want to carry on the conversation
in an adult, gentlemanly way (unlike your last post
indicates) man up and answer my question;
Does anti-Jewish bias play any role in what we are
talking about??
I didn't ask, it was a link. I just thought it was funny that you're acting like Islam is the Devil because "it's too violent" but the Crusades were just righteous killing.
Well you must recall that the islamic jihad had been
going on for fifteen hundred years now and the crusades
were rather brief in duration and the crusaders had
plenty of reason to fight back, perhaps much more than
the reasons we have for being in Iraq, Afghanistan and
the bombing of Libya.
The Normans liberated Sicily from the moslems in 1072.
After three years of battle in the First Crusade the
Crusaders captured Jerusalem in 1099.
In the Second Crusade the Crusaders circa 1147-49
failed to capture Damascus.
During he Third Crusade or the Kings Crusade circa
1189-92, the Crusaders failed to capture Jerusalem.
The Kings Crusade ended with a peace treaty signed
between Sultan Saladin and Richard the Lionheart that allowed the Christians pilgrimage to Jerusalem which
remained under Muslim control. (Of course we know
that the koran tells muslim leaders to make no peace
treaty that exceeds ten years and even then if a better
way of jihad is discovered then ignore the treaty and
proceed as usual. It wasn't long before moslems were
taking European slaves, castrating the men and cutting
out their tongues and never stopped taking black slaves
until today. As matter of fact the moslemsms never
honored the treaty at all except in and about Jerusalem
for a while.)
The Crusaders captured Constantinople in 1204. The
Fourth Crusade ended without even reaching the Holy
Land.
Joint forces of Christian Kingdoms of the Iberian
Peninsula - Castile, Aragon, Navarre and Portugal
severely defeated the Berber Moslems in the Battle of
Las Navas de Tolosa in 1212. The event was the
turning point in the reconquest of the Iberian peninsula
by the Christian Kingdoms.
The last Muslim stronghold in Spain, Granada, fell to
the Christians in 1492 the same year Columbus
'discovered' America.
For over 700 years muslims were tyrants to the people
of all or portions of the Iberian penensula.
The Childrens Crusade of 1212. Thousands of children
departed to the Holy Land but the vast majority were
sold into slavery and never made it neither to the Holy
Land nor back home.
The Fifth Crusade of 1217-21 resulted in Sultan Al-Kamil
agreeing to surrender Jerusalem, Bethlehem and
Nazareth to the Crusaders.
The Seventh Crusade led by Louis IX of France to Egypt
failed. Louis IX was captured and released after paying
an enormous ransom in 1250.
Louis IX of France died in 1270 during the Eighth
Crusade which ended as a failure.
Mamluks captured Acre in 1291, the last Crusader
stronghold in the Holy Land.
1324 marked the death of Marco Polo, the Venetian
merchant known for his journey to China and who
described the thriving Assyrian Christian church network
founded by St Thomas that stretched all along the silk
road and was also an important influence in China itself.
At no time did the the Crusades recover for Chrisendom
the destroyed churches of the Arabian penensula, the
Tigris Euphrates valleys, or in northern Africa and many
other areas.
Ottoman forces under Bayezid I decisively defeated
the Christian allies under the leadership of Sigismund
of Hungary and the future Holy Roman Emperor at the
Battle of Nicopolis in 1396. Bulgaria became an Ottoman
vassal state.
Ottoman Sultan Murad I decisively defeated the Serbian
forces led by Prince Lazar at the Battle of Kosovo in
1389. Prince Lazar and most of the Serbian nobility are
killed in the battle.
The Ottomans under Sultan Murad II decisively defeated
the crusader army led by Polish-Hungarian king
Wladislaw III who was killed in the battle in 1444.
The event set the stage for the Fall of Constantinople.
(Now istanbul and still controled by the moslems under
a Turkish government that seems intent on reviving the
Ottoman Empire.)
The Ottomans under Sultan Mehmed II captured
Constantinople in 1453. The Fall of Constantinople
marked the end of the Byzantine Empire. (or the head
of the eastern branch of the Orthodox Catholic Christian
Church and it's political affiliates.)
In 1683 the Ottoman muslim Turks laid siege to Vienna
in Austria, only with the reinfocement from a Polish army
was the siege broken.
We are living in a day of a war that is very very old.
Time construction next 4 miles.
Watch for falling clocks.