William Ballard wrote: > On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 01:25:36AM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > The Christian Bible ought to be OK by most Islamic scholars - it's the > > Crusader history that has caused most of the problems - but you > > After 9/11 I saw a fellow named Tariq Ramadan on C-Span, and one of his > books was the history of Occidental peoples written from an Oriental > perspective -- in other words, what they thought of us "way back then." > > At the time the Crusades were a border skirmish of only middling > interest. Most of Islam hardly knew about them.
Yeah, I guess that's the reason why Saladin became such a legendary figure. Can we now pretty please close this completely off-topic subthread? Thiemo
