Raymond Ibrahim
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6 recordings
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 9 Apr
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He said the First Crusade was a belated response to centuries of Islamic aggression.
Now, the military orders come into being after right after the First Crusade.
What happened is they've now, the Crusaders have liberated Jerusalem and a few other Christian cities along the coast of what was called then Greater Syria, but today in modern day Israel and also Lebanon and regions like that in Jordan, they had various cities under control.
But the problem was now that pilgrims were coming in droves, these were still islands surrounded by an Islamic sea because they were just literally outposts in the Islamic world right now.
And so whenever pilgrims would come, they would get savaged, killed, raped, mauled.
And so a small group of knights decided they're going to commit their lives to just defending these pilgrims.
And they were nine for the longest time, for almost nine years, according to William of Tyre.
And they were so appreciated by the king, King Baldwin II, that he actually gave them residence in what was believed to be Solomon's Temple, which is Al-Aqsa Mosque.
And so they became known as the Knights of the Temple or the Templars.
And their entire life was about just protecting pilgrims from Muslims who would raid and attack them.
And again, what's interesting about them is you read the theological justification.
for what they were doing.
And it comes out in so many biblical verses that are cited that make perfect sense.
Verses such as, you know, no greater love does a man have than to lay down his life for his fellow man, which of course is often understood in Christ's sacrifice.
But that's sort of what they were doing too, right?
They were following in his footsteps and they were actually putting their life on the line to protect their fellow brethren, fellow Christians who are coming to pilgrimage.
which was a very important thing.
And then the second group, the Knights of the Hospital, were actually older, but they weren't militarized.
The first military organization or military order are the Templars, but the Knights of the Hospital were actually, or the Hospitallers at the time, these were just hospice workers, okay?
And they actually had a small hospice in Jerusalem, so when pilgrims would come,
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