crusades

Crusades and Jihad

By Erik Loomis

In General

On December 19, 2011

My friend Jay Rubenstein has been promoting his new book about the first Crusade with a series of pieces at HuffPo. His latest asks whether the Crusades or early Jihad was more violent. Not surprisingly, the answer is the Crusades by a long shot: What...

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