Tammy’s Reviews > The Two Swords of Christ: Five Centuries of War between Islam and the Warrior Monks of Christendom > Status Update

“Thus, captive seized during these raids that were … deemed useless or profitable … were cruelly tortured before their mutilated bodies were dumped back on Europe’s- often with notes, mocking Christianity pinned to their corpses.“

These Muslims subsisted entirely on rating and devastating the Mediterranean coast of Spain, France, and Italy, when they enslaved hundred hundreds of thousands of Christians. Indeed, from the very year, the nights received Malta in 1530 to just 1640, “it would not be stretching the truth to say they have put 1 million[Christians] in chains.“

“Unless the kings and Lords of Europe stop squabbling among each other & turn their attention toward the east, “this fire”, continued the master ‘will spread far and wide, and will devour other provinces in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ will be brought under the approach of all.’”

“Like sheep, streams of Christian captives, bound with chains and ropes were brought through Europe, and Asia, sold into slavery, and treated so shamefully that nothing more miserable can be said.“

“Constantinople, or
New Rome, was chosen for being the symbolic head of Christianity since the time of Islam’s prophet Muhammad (who promised any Muslim, who conquered a great rewards in the year and hereafter), and Rhodes for being the last Erin representative of the old Crusader spirit.“

“It was, therefore, only when Christians themselves, led by Christian‘s greatest leaders, the pope, and the king, betrayed the order… That the temple finally fell. Christians accomplished through touchy what Muslims could not through force.”

“Whereas individuals kings, Dukes, counts, and Noble’s could be cow and blackmailed into saving their lives, the military orders-which were not about individual individuals but collective- could not.”

“Those who knew by experienced the fraud of these men (Muslims) who change w/o ceasing… made nothing of their false words, thinking that the Saracens had no other intention than, under the veil of a simulated peace, to dispense the army of Christ as soon as the pilgrims had retired.“