Islam Quote by 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

“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

Policies are judged by their consequences but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel.

— Thomas Sowell

The awful atrocities of religion happened when people assume that God shares your likes and dislikes. The Crusaders when into battle to kill Muslims…

— Karen Armstrong

“Mackay had a low opinion of all Crusades. The Children’s Crusade struck him as only slightly more sordid than the ten Crusades for grown-ups.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“.. The slaughter lasted the best part of two days. When it was over, the crusade leaders went in solemn procession to the church…

— Geoffrey Hindley

“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

“We are both people of faith," he said quietly. "Our enemies should be the people who have no faith, neither in their God, nor…

— Philippa Gregory

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

“I do not wish to give the impression by what I have said that, behind all the intemperance and extravagance of these men, there…

— Booker T. Washington

“TO BE “THE SEWER OF CHRISTENDOM and drain all the discords out of it” was the primary function of the Crusades,”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

If Europe had known as much of Islam, as Muslims knew of Christendom, in those days, those mad, adventurous, occasionally chivalrous and heroic, but…

— Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall