smock, do me a favor and go add this from Fulcher of Chartres:
“Indeed, if you had been there you would have seen our feet coloured to our ankles with the blood of the slain. But what more shall I relate? None of them were left alive; neither women nor children were spared.”
smock, do me a favor and go add this from Fulcher of Chartres:
“Indeed, if you had been there you would have seen our feet coloured to our ankles with the blood of the slain. But what more shall I relate? None of them were left alive; neither women nor children were spared.”
Done! What an excellent quote; I use it in my lecture on the Crusades.
smock, do me a favor and go add this from Fulcher of Chartres:
“Indeed, if you had been there you would have seen our feet coloured to our ankles with the blood of the slain. But what more shall I relate? None of them were left alive; neither women nor children were spared.”
Done! What an excellent quote; I use it in my lecture on the Crusades.
Smock, I just learned more in 10 minutes than I did in 4 years at a Catholic University. To be fair only 1 semester in a theology class. Although, I must have not been paying attention because I thought crusades were all about conversion, not regaining the Holy Land. Fascinating.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that people are rewriting history to serve their own agenda, but damn. No, that's not why the Crusades were fought.
And I'm sure she isn't aware of the irony in claiming Islam is inherently violent while defending the Crusades.
But you know, that's just, like, your opinion. Right, because that's how it works these days? We just get to say whatever the hell we please and claim that our statements are all equally valid.
I'm sure that poster has written you of as just another "liberal academic."
Post by Velar Fricative on Sept 5, 2014 10:24:15 GMT -5
I love how it's still so dead there (2+ years after the exodus, lolololol!) that Mommy Liberty has to post one thread asking what everyone thinks about the following things:
-Israel -MH17 -Hobby Lobby verdict -Something else I can't remember
Can you imagine if we did that here? I'm tempted to post one thread where I ask what we think about:
Cats is an interesting character. I originally thought she was a troll. ML is a piece of work. I hate to say that about someone, but I think the things she says are a bit dangerous.
This is also where I admit that I first found GBCN because of that board and I think a post that Cats made. It was brought over to the Bump. Some of you were responding to the post and I thought "Oh, they seem like good people."
So for funsies I googled an excerpt of her novel of a reply intended to create the illusion that she is a scholar of this particular subject matter, and it turns out that almost the entire thing was something that has been C&Pd all over numerous bigoted conservative sites, and she just did the same thing here, with no attribution. Based on her repeated references to "the reader", I'm assuming they're passages from a book that right-wing extremists look to in order to justify their pre-existing Islamophobia.
LO effing L that she calls C&Ping someone else's words from the internet in order to make herself sound academically credible "research".
So for funsies I googled an excerpt of her novel of a reply intended to create the illusion that she is a scholar of this particular subject matter, and it turns out that almost the entire thing was something that has been C&Pd all over numerous bigoted conservative sites, and she just did the same thing here, with no attribution. Based on her repeated references to "the reader", I'm assuming they're passages from a book that right-wing extremists look to in order to justify their pre-existing Islamophobia.
LO effing L that she calls C&Ping someone else's words from the internet in order to make herself sound academically credible "research".
I'm not surprised at all. I almost lost it when she implied that she's a logical thinker.
I'm lolling that Obama reading the briefs himself and not just summaries is a bad thing.
And you know that if the Fox News White House source had said that he relied on other people to summarize the briefings for him, ML would be all "He can't even be bothered to read these super important briefings himself- he just tells his staffers to give him the cliff's notes! Lazy!"
I'm lolling that Obama reading the briefs himself and not just summaries is a bad thing.
Well the fact that W had the daily briefs translated into crayon drawings set up a plausible excuse that something was just lost in translation, there.
I'm lolling that Obama reading the briefs himself and not just summaries is a bad thing.
Well the fact that W had the daily briefs translated into crayon drawings set up a plausible excuse that something was just lost in translation, there.
I have nothing to contribute other than it is fucking (yes FUCKING) terrifying that there most likely are tons of people over there that read ML's posts and thinking to themselves "OMG! I had no idea! I'm so glad The Lord saw fit to have this woman come into my life and rid me of my ignorance!"