The real history s found in both the winning and losing annuals; trouble between Islam and Christians goes back along way,we have alot to answer for when you read the home teams stories. No wonder they never forget an enemy. This last paragraph shocked me after reading through the Knights Templar history what the west gained from being in the east in regards all knowledge architecture and other secrets pertaining to geomerty in religion etc;then came this shocker .


In contrast, interaction with the foreign invaders produced little
positive effects for the Middle
-
Eastern Muslims.
•
The Crusaders had proved themselves to be a terrible enemy.
•
The
much vaunted ideal of chivalry rarely carried through to
the actual battles fought for the Holy Land. Many European
victories were followed by extensive massacres of men,
women and children. After a bloody battle at
Ma'arra
in which
thousands were probably killed a European chronicler writes,
"our troops boiled pagan adults in cooking
-
pots; they impaled
children on spits and devoured them
grilled“.
It was hard for
Muslims to identify with such cruel adversaries. These horrors
served to
demonize the Westerners and their Christianity
.