The Crusades: Crescent And The Cross Ep. 1 (part 4 Of 10)
This is an excellent documentary on the Crusades, the religious wars that pitted Christians and Muslims against each other for control of the Holy Land. Includes acted out sequences, battle scenes,. . .
July 09 2009 12:09 pm | Catholics
Tags: Crescent, Cross, Crusades, Part
sanzone7 on 09 Jul 2009 at 12:38 pm #
seems funny considering how europeans are always squabling with eachother but during this age they all teamed up to go on the crusades
mayst2008 on 09 Jul 2009 at 1:00 pm #
Oh really,do you want me to read the Quran and Hadith for you in English or Arabic because you either never read it or you skipped some parts. It says clearly fight those who are not believers in Islam.
theredrasta123 on 09 Jul 2009 at 1:58 pm #
it also says, if you kill one innocent person it’s as if you killed the whole humanity, and if you saved one person it’s as if you saved the whole humanity, does it not?
mayst2008 on 09 Jul 2009 at 2:56 pm #
The christian-muslim conflict started from the moment Muhmmad said the jews and christians are infidels, kill them…..(the reason he hated them is because they didn’t believe in him)The muslims took over the whole arab land to turkey and india by force where it was all christians and almost took over spain and france but they were stopped. What the crusaders did centuries after was actually very minimal and in the end they came out empty handed.
gulmakai on 09 Jul 2009 at 3:31 pm #
what u said is not true
gulmakai on 09 Jul 2009 at 3:36 pm #
Muhammad never order the killing of incent jew or chirstains. Mulim do not hate non belivers.
moiphx2 on 09 Jul 2009 at 4:07 pm #
Some do, though.As some Christians also hate the ‘infidel’ or the ‘outsider.’
Vexille1983 on 09 Jul 2009 at 5:01 pm #
I’m not sure quite why the Crusaders didn’t just go to Venice, and get ferried to the Levant region, insted of spending up to three years marching across the Balkans, and through hostile Seljuk Turkis territory in Anatolia? Could they not have just island-hopped to Crete and Cyprus before helping the Byzantines against the Turks. And then sail in force to Syria, thus working their way down to Jerusalem and eastward to Edessa?!Maybe they could have enlisted the help of the Kingdom of Armenia.
Vexille1983 on 09 Jul 2009 at 5:02 pm #
I actually meat the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia. My bad.
TumasMuscat on 09 Jul 2009 at 5:19 pm #
Actually, the Crusadres were manipulated by the Venetians when they waged war against Orthodox Christians, for commercial interests.Not much has changed nowadays, wars still are waged for finance unfortunately …