Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

 

PERVERSE FASCINATING CRUSADE

https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/perverse-fascinating-crusade-3cf286d3108b

 

This comic book is not a revolution in art, nor a revelation in history. If the facts are true, and not licensed by the freedom or artistic expression, then the top leadership of the Catholic Church is targeted as vicious, lying, perverse and hypocritical. The Peace of God becomes the Crusade of God and the Commerce of Spices and Silk. An enormous proportion of Crusaders do not come back and they kill at least as many as they are, one dead body for one Crusader if it is not more, and probably ten dead Arabs for hardly one dead Crusader.

We are better now. The end of the comic book exposes George W. Bush and his Secretary of State, Dick Cheney, as liars but, once again, they do not tell us how many people were killed on the middle-eastern side and how many bodies were buried of such victims of the US invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan as compared to the total number of GIs and other military personnel sent to the Middle East by the US and some other countries.

 

There definitely is another way of reading these events, provided we change points of view and shift from today’s readership to the consciousness of ordinary people in the 13^th century. The full contradiction between bigotry and educated critical mind has to be explored, and I am sure it could lead to very interesting pages.

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Cette bande dessinée n'est pas une révolution dans l'art, ni une révélation dans l'histoire. […]

PERVERSE FASCINATING CRUSADE

by Jacques Coulardeau

2024, Édition La Dondaine, Medium.com

History,  *  Colonialism,  *  Crusades and the Latin East,  *  Imperialism,  *  Manipulation