![]() ![]() ![]() The cultural wounds inflicted by these multiple wars between Christians and Muslims continue to cast long shadows over today's international politics. This entrenched mindset perpetuates itself in every new generation even though the Crusades began nearly a thousand years ago and those involved in the military campaigns have long ago been reduced to skeletons. The listing of atrocities perpetrated by Our Enemies that justified the actions by Our Heroes. However, the mere mention of that period of history can evoke emotional responses by people today: One of the most notorious examples of this kind of faith-based zealotry was during the Crusades. It does not matter the faith of the zealot, because it is the fear and the fervor that overpowers the mind and allows atrocities to occur in the name of God. Terror was its own kind of madness and no reason, no faith, could shine a light into that darkest region of the human soul.” – Kamran Pasha, Shadow of the Swords, p. They were like men possessed, driven by their own fears of death to kill…It was not about right or wrong, or the well-considered arguments of religious scholars. ![]() “(T)he rabbi knew that the marauders had ceased to think in terms of God or religion. ![]()
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