{"id":28308,"date":"2015-02-26T11:05:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T18:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/?p=28308"},"modified":"2015-02-26T11:06:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T18:06:25","slug":"history-of-the-crusades-the-battle-of-tours-732-islam-halted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2015\/02\/history-of-the-crusades-the-battle-of-tours-732-islam-halted\/","title":{"rendered":"History of the Crusades: The Battle of Tours, 732. Islam Halted"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><figure id=\"attachment_27967\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27967\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/254\/2015\/02\/map-of-crusades.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27967\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/254\/2015\/02\/map-of-crusades.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Source: Flickr Creative Commons by http:\/\/maps.bpl.org\" width=\"640\" height=\"333\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27967\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Source: Flickr Creative Commons by http:\/\/maps.bpl.org<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p style=\"color: #000000;\">I hope that you are following this series. Popular media and the anti-history that we are being taught gives an inaccurate view of the Crusades designed to be used in Christian bashing. This has reached the point that the President of the United States can allude to this propaganda as history in a speech about the genocide of Christians in a large part of the world today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">We need to know the truth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">I am aware that there are Islamic teachings which lead to a more peaceful application of that faith. I think that the interpretation referenced here is an accurate depiction of of the application of Islamic teachings in 633-638 AD. It also seems that it is still relevant to Islamic extremists today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">I want to emphasize that this video discusses events which happened almost 1400 years ago. The reason I am posting it here is to correct the inaccurate \u00a0history of the Crusades which is being used in the popular media to attack and degrade Christians and Christianity.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #003399;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2015\/02\/history-of-the-crusades-the-rise-of-charles-martel-and-byzantine-iconoclasm-718-731\/#ixzz3SsKgzub2\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2015\/02\/history-of-the-crusades-the-rise-of-charles-martel-and-byzantine-iconoclasm-718-731\/#ixzz3SsKgzub2<\/a><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/482T6U_G8Yo\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/482T6U_G8Yo<\/a>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope that you are following this series. Popular media and the anti-history that we are being taught gives an inaccurate view of the Crusades designed to be used in Christian bashing. 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