The Christians lost the war during the crusades to the muslims?

Question

They keep saying the christians slaughtered during the crusades and they did. But the clear winners were the muslims.
Who killed 10 to one over the Christians.
then it was said they did take overs in Asia and Africa.
Read the population chart.
there is more muslim or Islamic takeovers in Asia and Africa.
There is only a handlful of Christians in these countries.
Someone is not getting the facts straight.
I am definitely not in defense of Christians.
But kids are reading these and getting mis information.
Muslims won the crusades and had clear victories.
As they did in the other countries.
there is only a handful of Christians in these countries.
How many people that you no know's this? Everyone keeps saying the Christians faught and won the crusades and history proves other wise. It was a total defeat for the Christians with greater lose of life than the muslims? Where is your information to prove other wise?

Everyone has a totally different answer so is there a teacher out there who knows the truth so these kids won't flunk history?

Answer 1

Yes, but the Crusades stopped the invading Muslims advance into Europe, which was the point of the Crusades. Religion united the Europeans against the common threat of Islam. Your post shows you ignorance to what actually happened, why it happened, and what resulted.

Answer 2

shall we no longer forget that it became the Muslims who first invaded Europe, and the Crusaders took lower back what were conquered by technique of the Muslims, and then attacked the middle East. That aside, Jesus Christ by no ability sanctioned a "holy conflict" He stated that His kingdom became no longer of this international, and that if it were He might want to have a protection stress. The Crusades were a twisting of Scripture, in an attempt to attain funds. compared to the Qur'an which teaches conflict on "infidels" shall we no longer confuse both. Christians admit that the Crusades were no longer Biblically sanctioned, nor were they the want of God, yet were in reality the want of the Catholic Church Papacy. Muslims on the different hand can't admit that Allah does no longer command them to strike the enemies of Islam.

Answer 3

When the Christian Crusaders captured Jerusalem in 1099, Raymond of Agiles gave an account of what happened

"Some of our men cut off the heads of their enemies; others shot them with arrows, so that they fell from the towers; others tortured them longer by casting them into the flames. Piles of heads, hands and feet were to be seen in the streets of the city. It was necessary to pick one's way over the bodies of men and horses. But these were small matters compared to what happened at the temple of Solomon, a place where religious services ware ordinarily chanted. What happened there? If I tell the truth, it will exceed your powers of belief. So let it suffice to say this much at least, that in the temple and portico of Solomon, men rode in blood up to their knees and bridle reins."

August C. Krey, The First Crusade: The Accounts of Eye-Witnesses and Participants, Pinceton & London, 1921, p. 261

This account describes the violent and barbaric action of the Crusaders. However we see a stark contrast between these Crusaders and the actions of the Muslims when they recaptured Jerusalem in 1187. There was no massacre, looting or revenge.
Led by Sallahuddin Ayyubi the Muslims captured many of the Crusaders. The Crusaders families appealed to Sallahuddin to release them, he decided to ransom them. However he paid the ransom for many of them.

The Christians were pardoned and allowed to leave if they paid a small tribute. Again Sallahuddin paid this for about ten thousand of the people there and his brother paid for seven thousand.
Those too poor to pay were allocated a special gate where they could leave. In addition they were provided with transport and safe passage. (You can watch the film, Kingdom of Heaven which gives a similar account.)

When the Muslims captured Jerusalam before the crusades it was done with out a drop of blood or any fighting. This is not to say that Muslims never killed but if we are talking numbers far less than Christians.

Answer 4

In the history books we had in school it was clear that the crusades were not a wining proposition but useless savage rampages where cross bearing soldiers were killing, raping and looting saying that it was "Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam". Successful at first, they were progressively kicked out of the cities and castles were they settled in the middle east. The few that survived finally went back home. I have not heard people pretending otherwise.

Answer 5

I know this too. I have even been to the last city of fighting in Pakistan. According to my father in law when he was taking me around that country, he was stopped by the water by the people of the village. Some of the same buildings are still there but crumbling. Alexander the Great is who I am talking about, seeing as how I didn't put that up there. He told me that they injured him and forced him to turn away. That's all I remember, though.

Answer 6

The Christians lost the war during the crusades to the muslims?

Too many battles, too many wars to make a definite statement.

Catholics and muslims have killed many.

Answer 7

Excellent point. People also don't realize that the first Crusade didn't even begin until 450 years after the Muslims had captured Jerusalem and conquered TWO-THIRDS of the old Christian world, and began because Muslims were harming Christians who were just trying to make pilgrimages to the Holy Land.

Answer 8

Christians did a good job of stopping the spread of Islam to Europe during the Crusades. Unfortunately no one is stopping it now.

May God Bless you.

Answer 9

Christians did not sanction this. Romanism and Mohammedanism were involved in the Crusades.

Answer 10

There is no war in Christ "is" our "peace" already;
Who hath(past tense) "abolished" the enmity(law).
abolished = done away = taken away = removed.

The law (and lie) was given by Moses,
but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
(obviously for comparison of lie and truth)

He taketh away the first,
that he may establish the second.
(since both is an oxyMORON with a BAD end)

So even "ye(do err) are not under law, but under grace".
Now no condemnation(law) to either "them" of 2 thems.

Stop the Hatfields(muslims) vs McCoys(christians) BS,
For even McCoys of $uch feud amongst them-selves,
which is to "allegory" say they "opppose them-selves".

It's notably "allegory" about LAW vs GRACE.
http://www.godshew.org/Allegory.htm
http://www.godshew.org/TwoGods.htm

The end of the God Shew is already written,
and the CLEAR winner take all is NOTED:

The GRACE of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.