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Squirrelie Joe's Coffee, and finally by Premier Body Armour. Just months after the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001,

former President Bill Clinton spoke to an audience at Georgetown University.

In his talk, he said that, those of us who come from various European lineages are not

blameless because of the West's involvement in the Crusades, which he called a crime against

Islam.

He then summarized an account of all the blood that was spilled when Duke Godfrey and his forces conquered Jerusalem in 1099.

Similarly, the New York Times said in 1999 that the Crusades were comparable to Hitler's

atrocities and the ethnic cleansing that occurred in Kosovo.

That same year, a former nun Karen Armstrong shared her opinion on the

Crusades. Crusading answered a deep need in the Christians of Europe yet today

most of us would unhesitantly condemn the Crusades as uncristian.

After all, Jesus told his followers to love their enemies, not to exterminate them.

He was a pacifist and had more in common with Gandhi perhaps in Pope Urban, end quote.

She also echoed a modern liberal sediment that holy war cannot jive with the pacifism of Jesus.

One former priest, James Carroll, agreed saying that the Crusades left a trail of violence

that scars the earth and human memory even to this day.

Such claims date back to the Enlightenment, a time period in which British and French intellectuals

invented the term Dark Ages, to vilify the Catholic church and elevate

themselves in its place.

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