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→Christianity never attacked the Islamic world."
:Not a defense against an Islamic invasion? Do you know how much of Christian Europe was conquered by Islamic hordes before we pushed them back? I suggest you read about the Reconquista and more generally about the period from the collapse of the Western Empire to the high middle ages. It's a period little taught but most rewarding of study. [[User:Jcw|Jcw]] 15:49, 22 August 2011 (EDT)
:Not a defense against an Islamic invasion? Do you know how much of Christian Europe was conquered by Islamic hordes before we pushed them back? I suggest you read about the Reconquista and more generally about the period from the collapse of the Western Empire to the high middle ages. It's a period little taught but most rewarding of study. [[User:Jcw|Jcw]] 15:49, 22 August 2011 (EDT)
::I'd by lying if I said I was super well-read in medieval history(my strongest area of history is the late 19th to the mid 20th centuries), and I'll take your advice and read up on it, and continue my involvement with this article when I have more knowledge. I was basing my opinion on a minimal amount of knowledge, and I suppose you may have a point. [[NSmyth|NSmyth]] 15:57, 22 August 2011 (EDT)
::I'd by lying if I said I was super well-read in medieval history(my strongest area of history is the late 19th to the mid 20th centuries), and I'll take your advice and read up on it, and continue my involvement with this article when I have more knowledge. I was basing my opinion on a minimal amount of knowledge, and I suppose you may have a point. [[NSmyth|NSmyth]] 15:57, 22 August 2011 (EDT)
:::@Jcw: The Reconquista refers to the conquest of Spain by Christian kingdoms between the 11th and 15th centuries. It has nothing to do with events in West Asia which took place 2,000 miles away during the same period. Palestine, including Jerusalem, was conquered by the Moslem, Arab forces in the 7th century. The Byzantine emperor appealed to the Pope for help in repelling Moslem forces from the Byzantine land in what is now Turkey; he was surprised and greatly displeased when the crusaders attacked Jerusalem instead of defending Byzantium. So you've got the whole thing back-to-front - the crusades were indeed an attack on the Islamic world. [[User:KhalidM|KhalidM]] 17:46, 2 October 2011 (EDT)
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