{"id":26235,"date":"2012-02-09T06:39:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T13:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/09\/rick-santorum-the-pro-crusades-candidate.html"},"modified":"2012-02-10T22:53:07","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T05:53:07","slug":"rick-santorum-the-pro-crusades-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/09\/rick-santorum-the-pro-crusades-candidate.html","title":{"rendered":"Rick Santorum: The Pro-Crusades Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>&#39;\u201cThe idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical,\u201d former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) told a South Carolina audience yesterday. \u201cAnd that is what the perception is by the American left who hates Christendom.&quot;&#39;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>And, y&#39;know &#8230; <i>historians.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The Crusades (of which there were several, for different reasons and different goals and different participants) were many things, and nobody wore solely a white or black hat in the fray. But to claim that they didn&#39;t include &#8212; and were often about &#8212; aggression is laughable. <\/p>\n<p>The wars between &quot;Christendom&quot; and the Islamic world over Europe, North Africa, and the Near East, were similarly a mixture of blame and bad behavior on all sides.  I think it&#39;s possible to see that &#8212; and to see how religion, blended in with politics and jingoism, led to centuries of bloody fighting (that arguably continue today).<\/p>\n<p>Rick Santorum is a pandering dolt.  #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Ftalkingpointsmemo.com%2Fimages%2Frick-santorum-vvs1.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2011\/02\/rick-santorum-the-crusades-get-a-bad-rap.php?m=1'>Rick Santorum: The Crusades Get A Bad Rap! | TPMDC<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJillian Rayfield February 23, 2011, 3:34 PM. If you were worried there wouldn&#39;t be a 2012 candidate touting the pro-Crusades platform, then today is your lucky day! \u201cThe idea that the Crusades and&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#39;\u201cThe idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical,\u201d former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) told a South Carolina audience yesterday. \u201cAnd that is what the perception is by the American left who hates Christendom.&quot;&#39; And, y&#39;know &#8230; historians. The Crusades (of which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/09\/rick-santorum-the-pro-crusades-candidate.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rick Santorum: The Pro-Crusades Candidate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,99,108,27],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-26235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2012","category-history","category-religion","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20312,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/24\/unblogged-bits-thu-24-feb-11-1030.html","url_meta":{"origin":26235,"position":0},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Thu. 24-Feb-11 1030)","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 24-Feb-11 10:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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