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[–] Torkimadi ago
Actually, the crusades were after the east and west split. But the Christians had been butchered in the east for so long, that the Patriarch petitioned the Pope, begging him in the name of Christian brotherhood to defend the Christian souls being massacred, raped and sold into sex slavery. There were, depending on how you structure the battles, 7-9 crusades (sometimes a couple of them are split). The crusades were a defensive war against the brutality of Islam starting in the mid 600s. The crusades stopped because they were no longer successful, it had been centuries and Islam had been beaten back out of Europe (France and Spain) and likely because of at home issues like having to farm and plague.
A reformation of Islam would be against everything Mohammed said. The pinnacle of Islam is emulating Mohammed, and if you've read the Sira, and know even a little bit of the Sunna, you know how that would be impossible.
Islam needs to be ended, as it unfortunately wasn't cut down in the 600s.
[–] therealkrispy ago
I was talking about the protestant split, not the split between the Vatican and the Orthodoxy.
Islam is a faith of hatred and bigotry, just like Liberalism. I'd argue that anything that tells a person they're better or worse, more likely to succeed or less, needs to be ended, and the best way to end Islam is to simply isolate it. Lock the people of the Middle East in, and see what happens. Either they all die, or they emerge civilized, having purged radicals. More likely than not, they'll decimate eachother and all starve to death, and that's their problem, not ours.
[–] Torkimadi ago
Neither my husband or I have ever heard of Protestant revolts being related to Crusades or Islam.