It’s a sad commentary on our time that anyone, to say
nothing of the President of the United States of America, would so much as
think, much less publicly announce, that there is some sort of moral
equivalence between the contemporary phenomenon of Islamic barbarity and such
oft-cited examples of Western and American injustices as the Crusades, slavery,
and Jim Crow. Some comments are in order.
First, critics who make the “That Was Then, This Is
Now,” argument against Obama not only sorely miss the point; they actually
legitimize his contention that Christians are guilty of the charge that Obama
levels against them.
The truth is that while individual Crusaders, like
individual soldiers in every war, were indeed guilty of some horrible things,
the Crusades as such were just. Obama typifies the Christophobe who can’t
resist treating the Crusades as an axiomatic instance of Christian villainy
while conveniently refusing to mention that they were a response to centuries
of Islamic aggression.
That’s right: For centuries Islamic armies had been
conquering Christian lands generally and the Holy Land specifically. And the
invasion into Europe was well underway by the time Urban II issued a call for
the first holy war in 1095.......To Read More.....
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