What effects positive and negative did the crusades have on the Muslims?
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Well the dancing improved especially after the release of Street Life - the bad part was probably the flred trousers and  diamonte tops .
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Crusades, Holocaust, Inquisition, War in Iraq, Witchtrials, converting starving Africans and giving them AIDS, throwing your children on the streets, hatred, rape, slavery in the Civil War era, the Knights Templar, animal abuse and neglect, most of the worlds problems are attributed to christianity
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De Jaucourt, Denis Diderot... loads of others -- they wrote the world's first Encyclopedia during the Englightenment period (rather than having exactly the same philosophy).  They were supported by Catherine The Great and Frederick the Great among others.\n\nAround the year 1000 there was the Third crusade and the Schism.  Eastern Orthodox Christianity broke with Rome and the Pope, leaving two super religions -- Islam and Roman Christianity.... and so it remained until the 1500s, when there was a second schism -- the Protestant Reformation.\n\nThere was throughout, a feeling of confidence that the Eastern Orthodox Church was a temporary schism, and there was no particular ill-feeling or bad-blood.  The easterners were a small minor group in comparison.  Despite the Crusades and wars between Moslems and Roman Christians, they were united in hatred and suppression of the Jews, and most of the time the two co-existed.\n\nThe biggest event was the Protestant Reformation, this was earth-shattering, and caused a lot of bloodshed and ill-feeling that remains to this day.  The Puritan Pilgrim Fathers that sailed to North America is a perfect example of religious intolerance and persecution that resulted in the catacombs, priest holdes, Huguenots and ripped through mainland European Politics like nothing before or since.\n\nSome believe that THE PROTESTANT V CATHOLIC situation WAS SO BAD that the RESULT WAS to avoid it all and get involved in the SCIENCES and new Philosophies - "The Best of All Possible Worlds" in the age of Reason/ the Enlightenment/ the beginnings of the Scientific Age and The Industrial Revolution/ British Empire of the 1700s.\n\nThis is also the period in which you seem to have an interest -- the Constitution of the United States of America.  \n\nI can assert with some confidence that there would be no Eastern Orthodox Christianity nor Islam involved in this, despite it being based on the Declaration of Arbroath -- a letter to the Pope -- the United States' Constitution is firmly a PROTESTANT form of Christianity, affected to a certain extent (but not as big as you might have thought) by the modern ideas of the Philosophes from France -- religious tolerance, morality over all, reason over all and so forth!\n\nHope this help!
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I have to disagree in that Robin of Loxley was a returning Crusade Knight who as you know probably slaughtered many Muslims in his travels. His robbing from the rich and giving to the poor is Myth. He was mostly interested in getting his own expropriated property back from the usurper to the Crown while King Richard the Lion Hearted was being held hostage. Mohammed ( Peace be Upon him ) was a prophet, which is vastly different from the what so-called Robinhood was about.
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The crusades got back to their lands the Greek treasures of the East! They learn to read and write. They started, though, the everlasting Christian - Muslim conflict. Also, they tried to destroy what took them from the caves and forests into cities: the Greek civilization! Further, they permanently weaken the Eastern Roman Empire (the so called Byzantine Empire) resulting in the sovereignty of Ottomans and other nations from middle Asia, the Russian steps, etc., who change the biological map of Europe!
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It is good to know that Mohammed had slaves. The american muslims think only jews or whites were slavemasters.\nIt is better to look in Christianity for your faith. Islam is a violent religion. The run by what psychologists call the\n"pack mentality". The attack kill, rape, and convert to their religion by force. It is not the 7th century as when they founded their religion. But they continue doing war to everyone not thinking like them to this day.\n\nWell said Rickanne5!!
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Excerpt from Wikipedia article:\n\nThe Crusades were a series of several military campaigns—usually sanctioned by the Papacy—that took place during the 11th through 13th centuries. Originally, they were Roman Catholic Holy Wars to recapture Jerusalem and the Holy Land from the Muslims, but some were directed against other Europeans, such as the Fourth Crusade against Constantinople, the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathars of southern France and the Northern Crusades.
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The Crusades made the people of Europe at war with the people living in the Middle East. Therefore they pushed to find other ways to get spices and silks from China and India. This led to Columbus sailing west and the Europeans controlling the Americas.
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Certainly not, Muslims had been at war with others and conquered lands at certain periods, and there were times when Muslims lived in peace with non Muslims. However, whenever Muslims were ruled by non Muslims they became aggressive. they could not tolerate situations that Muslims are the subjects of non Muslims, since Islam claims it's the dominant faith, and Muslims should be seen as dominant
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To the Muslim Jihadists the crusades never ended, the Christians (west) just retreated.  The Jihadists believe they came back when the UK and France split up the Ottoman Empire during WWI and they think of the state of Israel as a nation of the west.  To the Jihadists the crusades never ended.
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nice question, i would tell you to email your question to \naskislam@aol.com\n\nthe person that will answer your question is a former christian preacher and now reverted to islam he will answer your question with refrences, u will get the maximam benefit
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Good question, it could be.  What they riots definitely don't do is improve the image of muslims in the eyes of the world.  Hopefully these riots will serve as a wake up call to the leaders of islam that there are problems in their ranks.  I don't think the radicals will back down, even if mainstream muslims condemn them.  I read that in the middle east some muslim clerics tried to stop the protests, but were unsuccessful.  I think maybe those who view this behavior as embarrassing were already to some degree sympathetic to the west.  While those who engage in it probably already had negative feelings toward the west.  Those in between, i'm afraid, are probably going to be more likely to see this situation as an attack on islam. It may end up helping the radicals if they are seen by ordinary muslims as protecting the religion while the liberals sided with outsiders.  Typically in past events, muslims have sided with other muslims against outsiders, especially the west who they see as oppressing them, I don't think this will be different.
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To tell you the truth, I think that it is full of violence. \n\nThe way Islams, Muslims react to a controversy is through violence. While Buddhists and Christians are peaceful.\n\nTake the Da Vinci Code Controversy for an instance. Did the Christians start to bomb cars and blow buildings? No.
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Christianity as a whole has more blood on its hands than Islam does.
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Islam preaches morals. Which is good. Islam also scares their own lot (and others) with the fire of hell, which is bad. But so do many other religions. \n\nI feel that people should not be good out of the fear of hell fire, but out of love.\n\nI think good about the muslims and dont see any problems with the major population. \n\nMaybe i do not like the few who use people for power and to spread fear.
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There was a time in European history where the Church held absolute sway in the appointment and endorsement of political rulers, as well as their own "police force" of inquisitors where free-thinkers and political opponents were burned, tortured, and murdered.  Wars were repeatedely fought against the Muslim in Muslim lands to distract and divide the folks at home and to keep the people militarized and the money flowing into the coffers of the tyrannical kings.  This period was affectionately known as "The Dark Ages" and "Medievel Age" appropriately.  Woe betide the man who willfully repeats disastrous history.
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Your observation is correct and you have a point of logic there. However, the Ottoman Empire was, as you point out correctly, on the rise and not yet as powerful as it was two centuries later.\nSo it lacked the necessary logistics structure to support another Islamic state at the opposite end of the Mediterranean (which was controlled by the fllets of Christian countries). \nIt is also questionable if the Ottoman Turks had much sympathy for the Moros in Spain. Islam might look today like a unified and strong religion, but it is split into numerous groups and factions who don't like each other and see each other as rivals. (Much the same as it is within Judaism and Christianity.)