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In the words of one historian, "They killed all the Saracens and
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the Turks they found... whether male of female." One of the Cru-
saders, Raymond of Aguiles, in his own eyes boasted of this violence:

Wonderful sights were to be seen. Some of our men (and this
was more merciful) cut off the heads of their enemies; others
shot them with arrows, so that they fell from the towers; others
tortured them longer by casting them into the flames. Piles of
heads, hands and feet were to be seen in the streets of the city.
It was necessary to pick one's way over the bodies of men and
horses. But these were small matters compared to what hap-

pened at the Temple of Solomon, a place where religious ser-
vices are normally chanted ... in the Temple and porch of
Solomon, men rode in blood up to their knees and bridle
reins. 15

In two days, the Crusader army killed some 40,000 Muslims in
the barbaric ways just described. 16

The Crusaders' barbarism was so excessive that, during the Fourth
Crusade, they plundered Constantinople (present-day Istanbul), a
Christian city, and stole the golden objects from the churches.

Of course, all this barbarism was utterly against the essence of
Christianity. Christianity, in the words of the Gospel, is a "message of
love". In the Gospel according to Matthew, it is said that the Prophet
Jesus (pbuh) said to his followers, "Love your enemies and pray for
those who persecute you" (Matthew, 5:44). In the Gospel according to
Luke, it is said that the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) said, "To him who strikes

you on the cheek, offer the other also." (Luke, 6:29) In no part of the
Gospels is there any reference to the legitimacy of violence; thus mur-
dering innocent people is unimaginable. You can find the concept of
"murdering the innocent" in the Bible; but only in the cruel King
Herod's attempt to kill the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) while he was a baby.