Crusades, the truth!

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Submitted by Bill (United States), Aug 6, 2003 at 16:26

The Muslims talk about how horrible the Europeans were to perpetrate the Crusades.

But what were the Crusades?

The crusades were two things.

1. An attempt to make it safe for Christian pilgrims to travel to our holy land...

2. Trying to take back Christian land taken at sword point by Muslims. Christianity and Judaism existed long before Islam. The land belonged to them before Mohamed was born. Muslim armies took the land from the Christians and Jews...

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