Calanen wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2009 at 1:26pm:


No one said it occurred during the third crusades, so I'm not sure what you are on about.

As for you pathetic attempt to justify this barbaric canabalism, once again this is nonsense. This event is well documented, the crusaders entered a village (which you'd think would have food...given that there were people living there), they killed all the inhabitants, and then proceeded to eath them.

This had nothing to do with starvation, you just made this up to somehow make this gruesome act somehow justifiable.

Calanen: The poor crusaders were starving, they had no choice but to eat the remains of the people they killed.

Fact is they did it to strike fear into the muslim people...there was no other reason. Even William of Tyre, the European Chronicler who recorded the crusades (from the European POV) described it as such.

As I said, don't compare the muslim armies to the crusaders...muslims never ate the remains of people.

And I love the way you compare the eating of 'horses, dogs and humans'...as if they are somehow comparable.

What a joke.

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Oh dear...  sorry but that isn't historically accurate at all...  but it does make a good story to tell little Muslims to instill fear into them.  

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Very late indeed, about 300 years.

Then again, when you believe in people taking land back 2000 years later... what's 300 years?

Besides the Christians of Bilad ash-Sham (The Levant) stayed there, they weren't turfed out, only the Byzantine garrisons were. And the leader of the Christians actually gave terms to the Caliph of the Muslims, on what he wanted to hand the keys of the city over to the Muslims.

You can't even compare the Muslim taking of the holy land to that of the Christians, it's like chalk and cheese, one was barbaric monsters, worse than animals, killing anything in their path, committing the most despicable acts of savagery, and the other was just a people who brought enlightenment and prosperity to a neighbouring land, liberating them from their oppressive overlords. Remember, the Crusaders even pillaged their own cities on the way, don't remember the sacking of Constantinople? Described as one of the darkest days in the history of Christianity. As Lestat mentioned the massacre at the Church of the Nativity would have to come close second, absolutely despicable.

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Actually many Palestinian Muslim families were originally Christians or Jews, who over a 200 year period (very long time to force people) slowly converted to Islam. After witnessing the justice and the mercy of it's rules and laws.

Also note that most of Southern Palestine, and also "East Palestine" as you call Transjordan  were already Arab inhabited anyway prior to the arrival of Islam. They were inhabited by the Ghassanid Arabs, who were Christians, 12,000 of whom embraced Islam in one day, Allahu akbar.