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By Spencer, Robert
Publication: Human Events
Date: Monday, March 28 2005

As part of its effort to portray the West as the guilty party in today's global jihad, AlAzhar (the most respected Sunni Muslim authority in the world), has asked the Vatican for an apology for the Crusades. Sheikh Fawzi Zafzaf, president of the Interfaith Dialogue Committee of Al-Azhar, explained

that "AlAzhar is only asking for a similar treatment" following Vatican apologies to other groups. According to the Vatican ambassador to Egypt, the Holy see is thinking it over.

This is just the latest indication that the Crusades have grown into a myth that little resembles reality, and remain politically charged over three years after President Bush was roundly criticized for labeling the War on Terror a "crusade." Former President Bill Clinton even explained 9/11 as fallout from the Crusades: "Indeed, in the first Crusade, when the Christian soldiers took Jerusalem, they first burned a synagogue with 300 Jews in it, and proceeded to kill every woman and child who was Muslim on the Temple mound. . . . I can tell you that that story is still being told to today in the Middle East and we are still paying for it."

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