In Reply to: re: re: re: who cares??? posted by Danny on November 27, 2006 at 20:30:25:

The Crusades were a terrible and bloody affair by modern standards, but in the context of the time they were happening, it would be considered par for the course. Slaughter in the bloodiest fashion was acceptable and common,and there was no quarter asked or given. If you want an example, in the 1500's at Ardnaree there was eleven-hundred Scottish, men, women, and children butchered by Bingham's army in one day, and Bingham praised God for the great victory. This was the type of thinking abroad at the time,no Geneva Convention, so it is no surprise that the Crusaders acted as they did.