It was necessary to pick one's way over the bodies of men and horses.

It was necessary to pick one's way over the bodies of men and horses. But these were small matters compared to what happened at the Temple of Solomon, a place where religious services are normally chanted ...

in the Temple and the porch of Solomon, men rode in blood up to their knees and bridle reins.3 In two days, the Crusader army killed some 40,000 Muslims in the most barbaric manner.4 The crusaders then made Jerusalem their capital, and founded a Latin Kingdom stretching from the borders of Palestine to Antioch. Later, the crusaders initiated a…