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It is NOT willed that this thread die.

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I love these memes

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Image of Teutonic Knight found to be most appropriate to the meme, well done indeed.

Have one.

Pretty decent wine for the price point.

You may go way now.

Hahahaha

1. People died like flies everywhere without accomplishing what they intended. It is an incident of human life wherever antibiotics, germ theory, sanitation, and hygiene are unknown. It is aggravated when people gather together under such conditions.

2. This is a bad thing. It has also been a common feature of warfare up to the present.

3. This too is a bad thing. Extreme antisemitism was part of being Christian a thousand years ago, just as it is part of being an orthodox Muslim today.

4. A thousand years ago, pretty much every civilization we know of was theocratic. Christians, Muslims, Incas, Aztecs, and Chinese all lived under systems dominated by religion and in which no real distinction was made between civil and religious law. "Muslim tolerance" is five syllables of bleated ignorance. What you are referring to is dhimmitude. Google it. Modern day Muslims have more in common with medieval Christians than they do with modern western democracies. Interestingly, the theocratic systems of medieval Christian Europe created modern liberal democracy, while the theocratic system of the medieval Ummah created modern theocratic Islam. What democracy there is in the Muslim world sprang from the muzzles of Christian guns.

5. Love for the Crusades is probably based on a number of things.

Islam was planted in the Holy Land with the sword and watered in blood. It was likewise spread across North Africa. It was spread by the same means northward from the Levant into the Eastern Roman Empire. Muslim armies invaded the Iberian peninsula in 711 and by 732 had crossed Pyrenees only to be turned back by Martel at Tours. They held Spain for nearly 800 years. Every acre of Muslim land outside Mecca and Medina was and is Muslim only by conquest, not conversion. The Crusades, but for one, were irredentist wars, not wars of conquest. The First Crusade was called in response to a request from the Eastern Empire for aid in resisting Muslim conquest. Liberating conquered lands is a noble thing.

The Crusades resonate with modern times, as Islam continues by various means its assault on (used to be) Christendom. We face attack from the heirs of the attacking Moors.

Some people even today admire the chivalric virtues of humility, charity, and piety to which the Crusaders aspired, however short of them they may have fallen.

There is a great deal to admire about the Crusades, and a great deal to condemn. Some look to the former.

6. We do well to remember that it is rude to flaunt one's ignorance if one has not brought enough to share. "Deus Vult" does not equal "insh'allah." "Deus Vult" was the rallying cry for the First Crusade. It means "God wills [it]:" God desires that we relieve Byzantium and retake the Holy Land. "Insh'allah" means "God willing" or "if God wills it." It is a common conversational phrase even today. "Will you be at Mom's for dinner?" "Insh'allah."