Just a small little question, if you don't mind?
Wasn't Saladin [Salahuddin Ayyubi] the one who features very prominently in the Crusades ... a Kurd from Northern Iraq? Isn't that a bit far away from the Byzantine Empire?
But, generally, the Muslims claiming the Crusades and the infamous auto del Fey [Inquisition of Torquemada] were Abominations is a wee bit too tough to swallow.
The Crusades were actually a very belated response to the many provocations by the Muslims.
I suppose I'd have to agree with the hypocritical part.
Seems they conveniently ignore the fact that Mohammad and his men exterminated the Jews in Arabia. Then the Christians in Yemen. And again the Christians and pagans in Egypt. Then again the Babylonian and Chaldean Christians in present day Kuwait and Iraq. Then the Parsees of Persia, now known as Iran; who were exterminated to make place for the Shi'a Arabs. Then the Buddhist Native Afghanistanis who were replaced by the Pashtu tribes there.
Had it not been for the Hindus defeating them in India and the Crusades defeating them in the West; ... well, we'd be speaking in broken Arabic and wouldn't have had computers to Question and Answer here, anyways.
