gungasnake wrote:Etruscia wrote:
Despite the fact the inquisition may be "hyped" somewhat, thousands of people were tortured, and killed. Ironically, many of those were muslims in Spain.
It isn't hyped "somewhat"; it's hyped about 90% as the article notes. Something like about ten percent of what you read might be real. Crusades are the same story; they were basically a legitimate defensive reaction against muslim aggression.
Uhhh, Gunga, I happen to agree with most of what you are writing, in principal. But...
The Inquistion in Spain did indeed murder, with malice aforethought, thousands of Spanish Jews. As a matter of fact, it was considered excessive and unproductive by the Papal See and Rome initially condemned the barbaric practices of the Spanish Inquisition. A "compromise" was reached when the Christians finally rather brutally conquered all of Iberia - expel the non-believers. This resulted in the deaths of more than thousands of Jews as other countries such as Portugal cheerfully murdered, starved or otherwise eliminated new Jewish immigrants. This was not a good thing.
The Crusades were similiar.
The Crusades were only a legitimate defensive reaction against Islam by the aggrieved Byzantine Christians. Unfortunately, Alexis, the Byzantine Emperor, made a deal with the devil by getting Pope Urban to call the Crusades. The Crusaders were, for the most part, barbarian thugs, murderers, criminals, rapists, thieves, and other riff-raff of Europe who took pleasure in murdering Jews for sport and profit and carried over this pastime in dealing with Muslims and ultimately the Byzantine Christians who they were theorectically protecting...
Nonetheless, you are entirely, 100% accurate when you point out that these Christian barbarisms occurred quite some time ago, whereas Islam daily murders itself and others...
