Aggression Quote by Rick Santorum

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

— Rick Santorum

When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Radical Islam has been the foe of Christendom for centuries.

— Tom Tancredo

The conflict with Islam has, after all, existed throughout European history.

— Walter Kasper

Now that they talk about Islam as being a violent faith, when you look at the history of Christendom, the Crusades and the many…

— Desmond Tutu

“That the essence of Islam is permanent war with non-Muslims was the standard view of Islam held by Western scholars before 9/11.”

— Peter Mcloughlin

Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and the west.…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

So, this war is against the Islam that the West does not control.

— Louis Farrakhan

“...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

Today (1950), the hatred of the Moslem countries against the West is becoming hatred against Christianity itself. Although the statesmen have not yet taken…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“Sir Steven Runciman, whose history of the Crusades is an imperishable work, because it demonstrates that medieval Christian fundamentalism not only constituted a menace…

— Christopher Hitchens

It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.

— Omar Bongo