@Azmr,
Reagaknight, before i cut and paste regarding the Crusades, How the **** am i a hypocrite you idiot, that just contradicts the whole argument that im making.
Roman and Byzantine rule (6 CE - 638 CE)
After a brief period of Roman rule, the city was ruined when a civil war, accompanied by the Great Jewish Revolt against Rome in Judea, led to the city's sack yet again, at the hands of Titus in 70 CE. The Second Temple was burnt and all that remained was a portion of an external (retaining) wall that became known as the Western Wall; also known as the Wailing Wall.
After the end of this first revolt, Jews continued to live in Jerusalem in significant numbers, and were allowed to practice their religion. In the second century, the Roman Emperor Hadrian began to rebuild Jerusalem as a pagan city while
restricting some Jewish practices. Angry at this affront, the Judeans again revolted, led by Simon Bar Kokhba. Hadrian responded with overwhelming force, putting down the revolution,
killing as many as a half million Jews, and resettling the city as a pagan polis under the name Aelia Capitolina. Jews were forbidden to enter the city but for a single day of the year, Tisha B'Av, (the Ninth of Av, see Hebrew calendar), when they could weep for the destruction of their city at the Temple's only remaining wall.
For the next 150 years, the city remained a relatively unimportant Roman town. The Byzantine Emperor Constantine, however, rebuilt Jerusalem as a Christian center of worship, building the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in 335. Jews were still banned from the city, except during a brief period of Persian rule from 614-629 AD.
Arab Caliphates and Christian Crusaders (638-1300s)
Christian soldiers took Jerusalem after a difficult one month siege.
The Jews were among the most vigorous defenders of Jerusalem against the Crusaders. When the city fell, the
Crusaders gathered the Jews in a synagogue and burned them. The crusaders slaughtered most of the city's Muslim and Jewish inhabitants.
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre was ambitiously rebuilt as a great Romanesque church, and
Muslim shrines on the Temple Mount (the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa Mosque) were converted for Christian purposes.
Mamluks and early Ottoman rule (1300s-1800s)
The rule of Suleiman and the following Ottoman Sultans brought an age of
"religious peace"; Jew, Christian and Muslim enjoyed the freedom of religion. the Ottomans granted them and it was possible to find a synagogue, a church and a mosque in the same street. The city remained open to all religions....
In 1482, the visiting Dominican priest Felix Fabri described Jerusalem as
"a dwelling place of diverse nations of the world, and is, as it were, a collection of all manner of abominations". As "abominations" he listed Saracens, Greeks, Syrians, Jacobites, Abyssianians, Nestorians, Armenians, Gregorians, Maronites, Turcomans, Bedouins, Assassins, a possibly Druze sect, Mamluks, and "the most accursed of all", Jews.
When Jeruselam was recaptured by Salahideen and hes Muslim army ransom was to be paid for each Frank in the city whether man, woman, or child. Saladin allowed many to leave without having the required amount for ransom for others. According to Imad al-Din, approximately 7,000 men and 8,000 women could not make their ransom and were taken into slavery.