"This comes from a perfectly genuine mediaeval anecdote. In 1209, during the "Albigensian Crusade" against the Cathar heresy in Southern France, the forces of Orthodox Catholicism had been besieging the city of Beziers, defended by the Cathar heretics, for some time. Finally they breached the walls of the city and prepared to storm it. The commander of the crusade, Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, pointed out that not everybody in the city was a heretic, some of them wer good Catholics, so how should they treat the inhabitants when they captured the city? A monk who was actually present at the siege recorded the answer of the Papal Legate to the Crusaders, Arnaud-Amaury, the Abbot of Citeaux, as "Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoscet." ("Kill them all. God will know his own." ) So the Crusaders followed his advice and killed everybody they could find in Beziers.
The Abbot presumably said it in everyday French, and the account we have is in Latin, but there seems no reason to doubt that he really did give that advice."
Fist_de_Yuma posted:
Don't worry. Muslims are peaceful and would never really hurt someone; unless you insult their religion. Of course not being a Muslim insults their religion so these doctors are kind of @#$!@.
Then there are those who say, "How can we tell the Muslims from the other people?" The answer, "Kill them all and God will sort it out."
Don't worry. Muslims are peaceful and would never really hurt someone; unless you insult their religion. Of course not being a Muslim insults their religion so these doctors are kind of @#$!@.
Then there are those who say, "How can we tell the Muslims from the other people?" The answer, "Kill them all and God will sort it out."
