Reply #13: The Islamic conquests also were brutal. I think it quite fair to point out.... [View All]

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That was a short quote, but I think it is quite fair to point out that the Christian crusades and the spread of Islam were <i>both</i> brutal wars of conquest, and that those who try to condemn one but not the other are not making much sense. The Crusaders did commit atrocities. I don't read that short quote as saying that Christians were "good," but as saying that in the dark centuries when these religions battled one another, the Crusades weren't distinctly different than that which preceded them. And they weren't.