Nietzsche the FOOL...when he decried the Crusades it was because it deprived us of the great great culture of...?

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Islam !!! well, being a fool he didn't judge by firsthand knowledge so let's look at that, shall we

Writing in The River War, his account of the British retaking of Sudan, published in 1899, Churchill noted the threat to Western Civilization radical Islam poses:

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytising faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science—the science against which it had vainly struggled—the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.

(emphasis added)

Islam, Churchill wrote, “is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog.”

imacatholic2 · Answer

Muslim armies had conquered Syria, Persia, Palestine, Egypt, North Africa, Spain, Sicily, Southern Italy, Cyprus, Rhodes, Sardinia, Majorca, Crete, and Malta which had been some of the most heavily Christian areas in the world. They attacked Rome and came within 100 miles of Paris before being pushed back.

Thousands, and possibly millions, of Christians died during this drive to eventually bring the entire world under Islam.

In addition, thousands of Christian travelers to the Holy Land were being killed, robbed, or kidnapped for ransom.

Then, the final straw, the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos urgently requested that the Pope send western volunteers come to his aid and help to repel the Muslim armies who were invading Constantinople.

The First Crusade was launched in 1095 by Pope Urban II to check the advance olf the Muslims and regain control of the city of Jerusalem and the Holy Land.

If this defensive war was not fought then we would probably all be Muslim today.

I am sure that some atrocities were committed by individuals of both sides during this war but by most people's judgment this was a just war.

For more information, see:
+ The Crusaders by Régine Pernoud 
+ God’s Battalions: The Case for the Crusades (2009) by Rodney Stark 
+ Islam at the Gates (2008) by Diane Moczar 
+ Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Crusade
+ Crash Course on the Crusades by Steve Weidenkopf http://www.crisismagazine.com/2012/crash-course-on-the-crusades

With love in Christ.

Brother Jonathan · Answer

I agree with Sir Winston Churchill. He had more experience dealing with that issue than most others did.

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