There's a tremendous amount of confusion about Islam in the United States, particularly among Christians,

who often tend to think that they need to unite with people of faith of all traditions against secularism.

Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch talking about his presentation at the 26 issues, et cetera, making the case conference.

And while there's some truth to that at the same time, Christians should know what Muslims think of them and what Islam teaches about Christianity. I'll be illuminating all that. It's quite shocking, as well as discussing the political aspects of Islam that every American needs to know about.

You can meet and hear Robert Spencer making the case against Islam

at this year's Making the Case Conference Friday, June 12th and Saturday, June 13th at Concordia

University Chicago. Find out more and register at issue ZTC.org or by calling 618-223-8385, making the case June 12th and 13th in River

Forest, Illinois.

As we are learning, the history of the Crusades is somewhat complicated, complicated by both

religious ideas and political ideas and things that happen, well, not randomly, of course,

because God is providential, but things that happen that are completely unexpected,

and the fourth and fifth, Crusades are no exception.

Welcome back to Issues, Et cetera. I'm Todd Wilkin, joining us for part two of our series on the Crusades,

Dr. Thomas Madden, Professor of History at St. Louis University, an author of the book,

The Concise History of the Crusades,

and a forthcoming publication, The Fall of Republics. Dr. Madden, welcome back.

Thank you very much.

Before we get into the details of the Third Crusade, we need to talk a bit about the rise of Saladin

and then that pivotal event, the Battle of Hatin.

Okay, yeah. Saladin had unified the Muslim world over the years leading up to the Battle of Hatin.

He was the Sultan in Egypt, but he had waged war in Syria against his

main rivals there. And he did very much under the banner of jihad. The idea was that

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