This is not the Crusades: There’s nothing medieval about ISIS
“But one thing from the history is very clear to me. The modern use of the Crusades to justify violence by either Muslims or Christians is, in fact, modern. The claim that there’s an inexorable conflict between Islam and “The West” is not based on history, but rhetoric used by extremists to promote their causes. […]
“ISIS emerged out of the collapse of 21st-century states that were created in the 20th-century breakup of the Ottoman Empire and European colonies in West Asia and Northeast Africa. It’s a group dependent on modern techniques of communication and the movement of people across borders. It’s as contemporary a phenomenon as the Internet or self-driving cars.”
Calling ISIS and radical Christian terrorism medieval and a crusade suggests that the campaign of terror is somehow innate to Islam and Christianity, but it is not, says David M. Perry
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