The Crusades were a defensive action to stop the Muslim hordes that were laying waste to a large part of the world.
“Everything he does is to minimize what’s happening, to hold us back and to essentially deny the gravity of what’s happening.”
Charles Krauthammer, pointing to the president’s “astonishing” comments at today’s National Prayer Breakfast.
“That’s why today he had to compare it to the Crusades and to the Inquisition, which is simply astonishing. Mr. President, the Crusades were 800 years ago, and the Inquisition 500 years ago. What’s happening right now is not Christians on the march. It is radical Islam.”
[Also see – Obama: You know, Christians were just as bad as ISIS a few centuries ago – Noah Rothman, Hot Air]
It is unclear, said Krauthammer, whether the president makes these comparisons “because he thinks we will overreact, or because he genuinely believes this is not the threat that Jordan thinks it is, that Americans think it is…(read more)
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