Crusades Were Terrorism

In the wee hours of today, I thought I had discovered a new simple truth. After more rumination, I recognize it as an old familar truth taken from a new angle. Salon’s weekly world press round-up features an article in the Arab News (from Saudi Arabia) with these impactful insights:

… some blamed those who spread religious intolerance in Saudi society. “Society will bear responsibility for this,” said Hussein Nasser, a 28-year-old bank employee. “We put the men of religion above fault, and made them unaccountable. We gave them special privilege — and this is the result.” …

Catholocism put the men of the cloth as seperate and greater than the common man. In so doing, they fueled an incestuous power grab of the Western world’s sociteal views leading to The Crusades. The parallels continue in the war of extremist Muslims to kill anyone who doesn’t follow their strict code.

Hopefully the religious power grab of the U.S.’s political seats won’t return us to a cycle of literaly (or even figuratively) killing opposing religious views.

Posted by etrigan at November 11, 2003 9:26 AM