I teach in university. I’ve had several Muslim students and, tbh, have more in common with them than my white liberal colleagues. I’m a white Christian.
My only experience has been that they are good, family-focused, and spiritual people.
Years ago i did research on the Armenian Genocide by the Turks. One man recounted his grandmother's experiences of it. She said when the Trumpets sounded at daybreak their communities were attacked by blood thirsty bands of Muslims with rape, plunder, pillage, and mass murder.
When the trumpets sounded again at sundown, the Muslims returned with bandages, food, and blankets to care for the injured which they had been slaughtering all that day.
The following morning was always a repeat performance of the previous day.
From that account i would suppose your experience was certainly half right.
Reportedly more than 2 million Armenian Christians lost their lives for their Christianity in the genocide.
However, I would say the Christian crusaders were probably guilty of similar.
Ultimately identity politics (or using group identity) is a poor way of judging a person. That’s what was so revolutionary about Christ’s teaching - individual freedom, individual responsibility. Everyone’s suffering is unique to them, so you have to fractionate group identity (and power, freedom, and responsibility) down to the level of the individual.
You need to delve more into the REAL reasons for the crusades then that revisionist bullshit taught to everyone, movies included.
In short, it was because the Muslims had invaded Europe and were killing Christians for some 300 years under thier rule. When they began another push, it was Rome who called out to all Christians from lord to peasant to fight the invaders out of Europe.
Europeans didn't just get a hair up thier asses one day and decide to go kick Muslim butt's for fun "in the name of God"...it was because of centuries of abuse, slavery, and slaughter that enough was finally enough.
There are much longer lectures filling in tons of extra info, but that vid gives a real and concise historical lesson. All of them are in synch with the real facts, however.
However, I would say the Christian crusaders were probably guilty of similar.
Please note that the "Christian," crusaders first sacked and slaughtered Christian Constantinople before ever stepping foot inside the Holy Land, which set the stage for the Moslems to shortly conquer the citadel of Eastern Christianity.
But that's another story. It's a deep and tangled tale of political intrigue, and takes much effort to get to the crux of it all.
I teach in university. I’ve had several Muslim students and, tbh, have more in common with them than my white liberal colleagues. I’m a white Christian.
My only experience has been that they are good, family-focused, and spiritual people.
Years ago i did research on the Armenian Genocide by the Turks. One man recounted his grandmother's experiences of it. She said when the Trumpets sounded at daybreak their communities were attacked by blood thirsty bands of Muslims with rape, plunder, pillage, and mass murder.
When the trumpets sounded again at sundown, the Muslims returned with bandages, food, and blankets to care for the injured which they had been slaughtering all that day.
The following morning was always a repeat performance of the previous day.
From that account i would suppose your experience was certainly half right.
Reportedly more than 2 million Armenian Christians lost their lives for their Christianity in the genocide.
I need to learn more about that history.
However, I would say the Christian crusaders were probably guilty of similar.
Ultimately identity politics (or using group identity) is a poor way of judging a person. That’s what was so revolutionary about Christ’s teaching - individual freedom, individual responsibility. Everyone’s suffering is unique to them, so you have to fractionate group identity (and power, freedom, and responsibility) down to the level of the individual.
Wrong.
You need to delve more into the REAL reasons for the crusades then that revisionist bullshit taught to everyone, movies included.
In short, it was because the Muslims had invaded Europe and were killing Christians for some 300 years under thier rule. When they began another push, it was Rome who called out to all Christians from lord to peasant to fight the invaders out of Europe.
Europeans didn't just get a hair up thier asses one day and decide to go kick Muslim butt's for fun "in the name of God"...it was because of centuries of abuse, slavery, and slaughter that enough was finally enough.
Here's a very good 14 minute synopsis of how and why it all happened : https://youtu.be/6aFkoX6g1fE
There are much longer lectures filling in tons of extra info, but that vid gives a real and concise historical lesson. All of them are in synch with the real facts, however.
Please note that the "Christian," crusaders first sacked and slaughtered Christian Constantinople before ever stepping foot inside the Holy Land, which set the stage for the Moslems to shortly conquer the citadel of Eastern Christianity.
But that's another story. It's a deep and tangled tale of political intrigue, and takes much effort to get to the crux of it all.
https://johnnycirucci.com/ex-jesuit-priest-alberto-rivera-reveals-how-the-vatican-created-islam/
https://johnnycirucci.com/ex-jesuit-priest-alberto-rivera-reveals-how-the-vatican-created-islam/
Yes, thanks, and I am well aware of that part of history. Volumes could be written about that segment of the story.