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Bartholomew is the carnage of sixty thousand Protestants living in
Paris and in its neighborhood, on account of their creed, with the
orders of King Charles IX and Queen Catherina on the twentyfourth
day of August, which was St. Bartholomew’s Day, in 980
(A.D. 1572).] Nor has history recorded such a bloody and horrible
event as the crusading expeditions on the part of any Islamic
nation. In each crusading expedition, hundreds of thousands of
innocent people were slaughtered in such wild manners as cannot
be conceived or imagined; among those people were Muslims,
Protestants, Jews, and even relations of the Catholic murderers,
who killed them because of some past enmity. During the
crusades, which continued for some two hundred and fifty years,
Europe went to rack and ruin. It is impossible to detail the
savageries and inquisitions which the bigoted crusaders dared to
do in the name of Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’, who had given the advice, “If
you get slapped on one cheek, offer your other cheek, too,” and in
the very country where he had lived. It is written in history books
how millions of Europeans and Asians were slain unjustly and how
so many countries were barbarously devastated throughout the
continuance of the crusades. Everybody knows about the
distresses still suffered by the helpless Jews in Walacia, Moldavia
and Odyssey and the persecutions, oppressions and torments
Muslims living in countries under the domination of British and
Russian Christians are being subjected to.
Now, turn your attention to those Christians living in comfort,
welfare, luxury, freedom and peace in Islamic countries, and then
decide for Allah’s sake whether it is Christianity or Islam that will
justfully observe the rights and peace of those under its protection
and will render service to humanity and civilization.
Another deed causing consternation and derision is their
attempt to prove Christian superiority over Islam by indicating
the fact that “Europe is more advanced in knowledge, industry,
wealth, prosperity, and in the multitude of its public institutions
such as schools and hospitals.” Until the Middle Ages, Europe
had full adherence to Christianity and obeyed the existing
Gospels; therefore they were in a miserable and abject state.
There existed none of the signs of civilization such as scientific
and industrial progress, building hospitals and schools, which they
point out as proofs; and the relics of Roman civilization had
already perished. Europeans, acting upon the Gospels, especially
the twelfth chapter of the Gospel of Luke, disignored art, trade
and agriculture, ate whatever they happened to find and sat
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