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"Why the fuss about the Crusades?"

*** الله لا الا خنزير و محمد لا الا رسول ***

From an interview with the historian Efraim Karsh under http://www.weltwoche.ch/artikel/?AssetID=15866&CategoryID=62 :

" The Islamists like to lead the Crusades to the field, when they talk about the threat to their faith by the U.S. and its allies. This is an invention of the 20th Century, a political tool of the Islamists . ...

Although it came at the beginning of the Crusades, when the Crusaders occupied Jerusalem and Palestine to agree Massacres and battles, but then settled down, the Crusaders, founded kingdoms in the Levant and has lived there. They collaborated with the Muslims, and there are countless episodes of Muslim rulers who stretched along with Christian rulers against other Muslim rulers, and by Christian rulers, who were joined by Muslim rulers against Christian rulers. ...

In the 20th Century, Islamists - and pan-Arabists in front of them - invented a myth that the Crusades a united invasion of Europe to the United House of Islam represented - which is not the view that the Contemporaries had . It is true that the Crusaders took away Jerusalem to Muslims. So what? Jerusalem was not a major city, it was not for the former Islamic regime important. Baghdad was the capital of the empire, Mecca and Medina, the holy places - Jerusalem in the Islamic world was a second-order marginal city. Before Jerusalem was Muslim, it was Jewish and then Roman. So why the fuss? "