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    heresy, a significant number of fathers of the Roman Catholic faith and

    the Eastern Orthodox creed.

    The knights of the cross did not retain their reconquered

    kingdoms long.  They took Jerusalem in 1099 and were expelled by

    1187.  Nonetheless, according to historian Amin Maalouf, the author of

    The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, modern Arabs tend to see today's

    world events as a continuation of the Crusades.

    For 600 years after the fall of the Crusader states, Islamic forces

    returned to the attack, capturing Greece and chunks of Eastern Europe,

    raiding towns in Sicily and the Italian coasts for goods and slaves,

    preying on Mediterranean shipping, chaining Europeans like Miguel

    Cervantes to the oars of their galleys, and until 1826 forcing the

    Christian citizens of Yugoslavia and Albania to give up their children

    to Moslem overlords (who brought up the males on the Koran, then

    turned them into soldiers known as Janissaries).

    It wasn't until 1798 that Napoleon began to shift the balance

    between East and West again when he briefly invaded Egypt, from

    which he was ignominiously expelled by the British and the Turks.

    But the heavy-handed fertile crescent "imperialism" so resented by the

    Arabs didn't begin until after the First World War, and it lasted less

    than 40 years.  Southern Spain remained under the Moslem yoke for 781

    years, Greece for 381, and pieces of longtime Christian terrain like St.

    Augustine's North African homeland and the religious and secular

    capital that eventually eclipsed Rome in power and splendor--

    Byzantium--are still in Moslem hands today.  Syria, on the other hand,

    was only under western control for 21 years, Egypt for 67, and Iraq a

    mere 15.  If one accepts Esposito's reasoning, Westerners--who were

    bludgeoned by "an expansive imperial" Islam for well over a

    millennium--have more right to fear an Islamic revival than Moslems

    have to hate the West.

    More to the point, Phebe Marr, of the National Defense

    University's Institute for Strategic Studies, contends that militant

      shop Eusebius of Caesarea, Origen, Saint Athanasius, the Aryan

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