Debunking the dog vomit

I like what Streiff at Red State has to say about the Most Equal Comrade's prayer-breakfast remarks:

Obama’s criticism of the Crusades is really bizarre. While I’d be the last to assert that the Crusades were carried out under the Hague and Geneva Conventions the fact remains that the areas of the Middle East we consider to the muslim were Christian areas. Saint Paul was from Turkey. Saint John and Mary, mother of Christ, died in Turkey. Saint Augustine was born in Algeria. The current populations are muslim because their forefathers were conquered and forcibly converted to Islam from Christianity and Judaism. To look at the Crusades as Western aggression is something only a community organizer could do. The Crusades were the West’s counter-reaction to Islamic aggression.Likewise, the Inquisition (which I hasten to point out was not a concept limited to Catholics, Elizabeth I cheerfully burned Catholics just as her sister Mary had burned Protestants) has been studied and explained.

While he is correct that Jim Crow and slavery were both justified by their supporters using religious texts he ignores the fact that Christians, using those same texts, led the fight to end the slave trade, emancipate slaves, and give civil rights to former slaves. This is something that still has not been accomplished in the Islamic world. By the same token, holding up finite events that are 500 years old as a valid comparison to what is happening in Europe and the Islamic world today is just the worst sort of demagoguery.

The MEC is ashamed to be a Westerner, and aims to see the civilization that spawned him obliterated.  I do not engage in hyperbole when I say this.