Posted by Tina
The rewriting of history is nothing new but it does present a challenge to those of us wishing to understand and support effective responses to current events. The following article about Muslims and the “mythistory” of the Crusades is quite useful to that end:
“Tu Quoque – On Islam and the Crusades,” by Ibn Warraq – City Journal
Historian Jonathan Riley-Smith has pointed out that “modern Western public opinion, Arab nationalism, and Pan-Islamism all share perceptions of crusading that have more to do with nineteenth-century European imperialism than with actuality.” Muslims, in particular, have developed what Riley-Smith calls “mythistories” concerning the putative injuries that they received at the crusaders’ hands.
I hope you read the entire article as it might offer some insight into the PC behaviors of the left. The current administration is likely suffering a bit from the effects of mythistory. At least that would explain the appeasing, apologetic stance it has taken about the war that’s being waged against America by men causing disasters like the recent murderous (terror) rampage at Fort Hood.