Come on John, you normaly do post some comment about why you post something.

Yes, these are two large referance items, but why did YOU post them?

Here is something I found interesting.


In the 11th century A.D. two ominous events took place within Christendom. First, Pope Leo IX excommunicated Michael Cerularius, patriarch of the Orthodox church. Second, Urban II issued an appeal for European Christians to liberate Jerusalem from the Moslem authorities. The western church thus severed relations with the eastern church and waged war against Islam. Knights of the First Crusade did capture Jerusalem in 1099 A.D. after a battle killing 70,000 civilians. A Second Crusade, begun fifty years later after the fall of Edessa to the Turks, ended in dismal failure. There was a Third Crusade after Saladin recaptured Jerusalem which captured some territory but the Holy City remained in Moslem hands; and then a Fourth, which was diverted from its purpose; and then a Fifth, aimed at Egypt; and then a Sixth, in which the Pope excommunicated Emperor Frederick II because he did not attack the Moslems quickly enough; and so on, for a total of nine crusades, not counting the ill-fated "Children's Crusade, which covered the better part of three centuries. At the end, the Holy Land remained in Moslem hands.


After all those deadly "crusades"... somehow, because of Hitler and Germany's crimes against humanity, the Holy Lands were taken away from "Moslem hands."

Funny how that happened.


Conservatism is a pale horse, and the riders should be called DEATH.