Crusades were not a persecution, not done according to the Hague Convention of course, but that did not yet exist then.
The Crusaders were a legitimate military push-back reaction, and although they lost the so-called "holy land" THEY saved Europe from the Muslim military expansion of the time. Then Merkel of course later went and let one million of them in unscreened (and I am not saying all of them are terrorists --- just that too many of them are terrorist sympathisers to make it worth the risk). Her security service must all have gone home in shock that day to their wine cellars, not to emerge for a few days.
Priceless video of someone skillfully hauling Merkel over the coals. Better to watch than just read the transcript below.
Descriptionhttp://www.ukipmeps.org | http://www.ukip.org • European Parliament, Strasbourg, 13 November 2018 • Nigel Farage MEP, UK Independence Party (UKIP), President of the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy Group (EFDD) in the European Parliament - http://www.nigelfaragemep.co.uk @Nigel_Farage • Debate: Debate with the Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, on the Future of Europe [2018/2733(RSP)]
Transcript: Well Mrs Merkel, many of my Eurosceptic colleagues have been booing you this morning but they shouldn’t be in a way because the British should be cheering you. Without you we’d never have made it over the line with Brexit and I want to thank you very much for that. And of course many of these Eurosceptic groups on the right, the center and the left will come back here after the next European Elections in huge numbers directly as a result of your immigration and asylum policy. Your ‘we can cope’ led to a huge migrant tide, indeed a stampede, that came across the Mediterranean. Young men coming from very different cultures and who were not going to integrate. Young men none of whom can qualify as being genuine refugees and I think in many ways we looked at it in the referendum and said we don’t want to be part of an increasingly German dominated European Union and we certainly don’t want to pay the price for Mrs Merkel’s errors.
And I believe having heard you today and listening to senior French politicians over the last couple of days that for us leaving the European Union is now indeed a liberation. It is a European Union that we’re now told has become an empire, a militarised European Union, an undemocratic European Union, a European Union that seeks to continually expand to the East, a European Union that launched a new Cold War against the United States, a European Union that tries to rewrite history and I think 100 years on from the Armistice we should be genuinely worried. The idea that this new militarised union is somehow a recipe for peace I suggest you all sit back and think a little bit more carefully. Maybe you should all reread history, the European project was set up to stop German domination, what you’ve seen today is a naked takeover bid. So I think Brexit becomes a necessity after this and for the rest of the countries Mrs Merkel you’ve had a long and successful career but your political decision to open up the doors unconditionally is the worst decision we’ve seen in post war politics in Europe. Is it not time for you at last to admit that you were wrong? Is it not time for you to say to German communities and many others, I’m sorry for what I’ve done to you and for the problems I’ve inflicted upon you for many decades to come? ....................
• Video: EbS (European Parliament)
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Yep - while religious language and the catholic church etc was used (or abused, depending on your perspective) to popularise the crusades and motivate soldiers etc, they were fundamentally political/military rather than religious in nature and started when the Byzantine emperor asked for aid against the invading muslim Turks (Ottoman empire IIRC).
Last edited by GravelBen; 18-01-2019 at 04:48 PM.
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