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Brilliant 5 minute summary. Of course theres more nuance than you can get in 5 minutes, but you can get scale and understand the differences. The crusades were a small effort to take some of their lands back and free the Christians oppressed under Islam. Jihad is conquest ethic that believes in destroying everything that will not submit to their beliefs, or be exterminated. And that boils down the problem. How do you compromise with a religion that believes in your elimination? Even if it is a minority of Islam that believes that (and it is), they still have more tolerance for their sides bad behavior than our reactions to it.
Posted on: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 14:58:45 +0000

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