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Deus Vult!

The Holy Crusades against the infidels, the radical Muslims, Turkish in ancestry, who occupied Jerusalem and the Holy Land that began back in the day ... 1096 to be exact, were largely a failure. Richard the Lion-Hearted, of Robin Hood fame, was able to secure a treaty giving Catholics safe passage on trips to Jerusalem for three years, but he suffered huge losses and suffered a number of defeats and returned to England with his treaty without even reaching Jerusalem so that he could take care of his nasty brother, Prince John, who was not doing a very good job taking care of the throne while his brother was away.

In 1212, groups of French and German children marched to ports on the Mediterranean Sea with the mistaken belief that the sea would dry up and they could march into the Holy Land, God on their side, and reclaim it for righteous Roman Catholics everywhere. The radical Islamic Turks captured several boatloads of children. Many other children died, and few returned home from the Children's Crusade.

Radical Islam has reared its ugly head again, according to W. He does not wage his War on Terror anymore. It is a war against "radical Islam -- the perversion by a few of a noble faith into an ideology of terror and death," as George the Lesser described it in his Mis-State of the Union address last week.

Well, George the Lesser called the war on terror a "Crusade" at the very beginning of his quest to find Osama bin Laden. He was called on the carpet over his semantics at the time, but now it is apparent that he meant what he said. We have a war waged on Islamic radicals by Christian fundamentalists (the perversion by a few of a noble faith into an ideology of terror and death).

And We the People stand at the crossroads.

Posted by Bill at February 10, 2006 10:15 PM