Striving in the way of God.

"Lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ," the president said.

Well Mr. President, if you want to talk about the Crusades, why stop there?



633 - The Muslim conquest of Mesopotamia (Iraq). 

635 - The Muslim conquest of Damascus.

637 - The Muslim conquest of Syria. 

638 - The Muslim conquest of Jerusalem.

639 - The Muslim conquest of Armenia.

639 - The Muslim conquest of Egypt.  

641 - The Fall of Alexandria.

642 - The Muslim conquest of Persia.

651 - The Muslim conquest of North Africa.

654 - The Muslim conquest of Cyprus.

674 - The First Muslim siege of Constantinople.

691 - The Dome of the Rock is built.

711 - The Muslim conquest of Sindh (Pakistan).

711 - Muslim invasion of the Caucasus.

713 - The Muslim conquest of the lower Indus Valley (India).

717 - The Second Muslim siege of  Constantinople.

718 - The Muslim conquest of Hispania.  

719 - The Muslim conquest of Septimania (Coastal France).

734 - The Muslim conquest of Provence (France).

736 - The Muslim conquest of Georgia.

751 - The Muslim conquest of Transoxiana (Turkestan). 

809 - The Muslim conquest of Sardinia.

820 - The Muslim conquest of Crete.

827 - The Muslim conquest of southern Italy.

827 - The Muslim invasion of Sicily.

831 - The Muslim conquest of Palermo.

870 - The Muslim conquest of Afghanistan 

902 - The Muslim conquest of Sicily.


1060 - The Muslim conquest of Anatolia (Turkey)

1096 - THE FIRST CRUSADE

From its founding to the modern age Islam has been spread at the point of a sword.  The first crusade was the first organized pan-European response under the auspices of the Vatican to a four century old Muslim invasion. So Mr. President, as the saying goes ...and the high horse you rode in on.