"Unless we get on our high horse and think that this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ," Obama said. "In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ."1095: Pope Urban II proclaimed the First Crusade with the stated goal of restoring Christian access to holy places in and near Jerusalem (conquered by Muslims). Last Crusade was in 15th century.
Inquisition: started in 12th-century France to combat religious sectarianism, abolished in the early 19th century.
Muslim conquests and Jihad: Conquest of Persia and Mesopotamia - 633–651. Islamic State - 2015.
Can anybody see the difference???
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