History Quote by Christopher Hitchens

“The Crusades were not unprovoked. They were not the first round of European colonialism. They were not conducted for land, loot, or converts. The…

— Rodney Stark

“...current Muslim memories and anger about the Crusades are a twentieth-century creation, prompted in part by 'post-World War I British and French imperialism and…

— Rodney Stark

“History shows that the devout Muslim fundamentalists are one of the most lethal threats the world has ever known.”

— Hal Lindsey

The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical,

— Rick Santorum

“It was Islam’s armies and the empire they spread across three continents that reduced Christianity, with a few scattered exceptions, to a European faith.”

— Nigel Cliff

“The anti-religious modernism which now threatens Islam and Muslims everywhere can be fully understood only by understanding the religion of the civilization in whose…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“nothing has contributed so much to the obscuring of Christian truth in the eyes of the heathen, and has hindered so much the diffusion…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Many critics of the Crusades would seem to suppose that after the Muslims had overrun a major portion of Christendom, they should have been…

— Rodney Stark

The First Crusade ... set off on its two-thousand-mile jaunt by massacring Jews, plundering and slaughtering all the way from the Rhine to the…

— Herbert J. Muller

“Saladin even paid for the ransom of some of the Franks, as his personal almsgiving. The Christians were so positively impressed by this humaneness…

— Mustafa Akyol

“While nobody can pretend that Christian religious practice is thriving in most of Europe, the situation is nothing as grim as some recent accounts…

— Philip Jenkins

“belief, expressed in such diverse and fascinating ways, in the One who had placed them there: the Christians, the Jews, the Mohammedans, and a…

— William Brinkley