http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2008/10/22/books-crusades-and-terror/ News, features and comment from Britain's left-wing magazine Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:32:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2008/10/22/books-crusades-and-terror/comment-page-1/#comment-5785 Blackwater: Knights of Malta in Iraq « Aftermath News Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:57:30 +0000 http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2008/10/22/books-crusades-and-terror/#comment-5785 [...] Crusades and terror Enemy bodies were brutalised for plunder, not pleasure; cannibalism was caused by starvation, not hatred; and crusaders happily had consensual sex with Muslim women in all the towns they captured Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Knights of Malta secretly elect Englishman as new grand master [...] [...] Crusades and terror Enemy bodies were brutalised for plunder, not pleasure; cannibalism was caused by starvation, not hatred; and crusaders happily had consensual sex with Muslim women in all the towns they captured Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Knights of Malta secretly elect Englishman as new grand master [...]

]]> http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2008/10/22/books-crusades-and-terror/comment-page-1/#comment-5779 Tony Orbell Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:03:31 +0000 http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2008/10/22/books-crusades-and-terror/#comment-5779 Pope Urban`s call to arms in 1095 was certainly not answered keenly by the Templars who were not formed until 1118. Their foremost mentor was Bernard of Clairvaux. Pope Urban`s call to arms in 1095 was certainly not answered keenly by the Templars who were not formed until 1118.
Their foremost mentor was Bernard of Clairvaux.

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