Why was Salahuddin al-Ayyubi so fucking based?
Why was Salahuddin al-Ayyubi so fucking based?
Jayden Hughes
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Asher Smith
You mean the fucker who got kicked around the land by Richard I?
Andrew Davis
Didn't he kick Orlando Bloom's ass?
Based? Grounded? Biased? Some other autocorrect error?
He knew his army needed water, which is more than most Crusaders understood.
Cooper Butler
The Saracen that got his ass handed to him by the Lion Heart himself?
Camden Cooper
>permanently lost the holy lands
>b-but at least we won some battles right?
the crusaders is a meme
Benjamin Robinson
>Saracen
fedora-tier. worse than saying "mohammedan"
Logan Gutierrez
"Based"? Come on... Was he a shortstop? Based? Like being stationed somewhere in the army. De-based? His women weren't well, you know. BWas he a character whose author used a real person as a template (basis). Based? Grounded?
Michael Rodriguez
But it's the proper term, people just called all the muslim ethnicities "Saracen". The same way they called all the western-europeans "Franks", no matter if they were german, french, english or italian.
Nathaniel Hughes
but if you call him a K*rd people get buttmad
Cameron Allen
He had compassion, something which the Crusaders didn't. So much so that Christians respected the man, even after he ripped the Golden Cross from the Dome of the Rock.
Levi Brown
Because he knew how to treat his enemies with respect and honor.
Liam Thomas
Imagine how embarrassing it was to have been Guy de Lusignan after the Horns of Hattin.
Lincoln Brown
He was actually honouring his promises and agreements and had respect for his enemies.
Those were pretty rare traits in these times.
Angel Baker
Doesn't .matter what some historical people called west Europeans, bud
Tyler Harris
It's not the Christians who control the Holy Land now right?
Gavin Gomez
Cause the man was based
Brandon Rivera
Christians created Israel, the Muslims certainly don't control it right now
Parker Peterson
>Didn't he kick Orlando Bloom's ass?
Balian defended Jerusalem from Saladin for 10 days with just a fraction of the amount of men Saladin had
>permanently lost the holy lands
Saladin took all the Holy Land except Tripoli from a much smaller Crusader army, then Richard rolled in with reinforcements (but still few men, especially compared to Saladin) and defeated Saladin every time, humiliating him again and again, and undoing all of his Holy Land conquests except for Jerusalem, solely because Richard didn't have the men to take it.
Luke Price
>Because he knew how to treat his enemies with respect and honor.
Massacring them after they lay down their weapons with promises they will be spared (Sudan)? Selling them all off into slavery (Jerusalem)?
Luis Taylor
He wasn't. Romanticized Saladin is a Victorian Protestant meme. Stop learning history from Hollywood.
Alexander Walker
Yeah, a Victorian Protestant meme. I forgot Dante Alighieri was a Victorian Protestant.
Charles Peterson
Learning it instead from Youtube amateur hour spooks is hardly better.
Read a book OP. All of them.
Tyler Harris
The Jews control Israel, and the Americans created it. Not Christians.
Alexander Nguyen
>the Americans
the British
Aiden Stewart
What does Dante have to do with Saladin?
Logan Brown
Dante Alighieri (an obvious Catholic, not a "Protestant") wrote the Divine Comedy between 1308 and 1320 (not the "Victorian" era), less than two centuries after Salahuddin's life.
In in the Inferno (the first part of the Divine Comedy), he describes the nine circles of hell, where the first one (Limbo) is reserved for the most virtuous among the non-baptized. It includes people such as Socrates, Plato, Ovid, Julius Caesar, and surprise surprise, Salahuddin.
And Dante clearly didn't have a favourable opinion regarding Muslims, considering that Muhammad and Ali were put in the 8th ring of hell for being schismatics (Ali causing a schism within a schism).
Angel Howard
Dante includes Saladin as one of the virtuous pagans of history I believe. The user is not wrong - romanticizing Saladin was a meme as far back as the Third Crusade itself. There are dozens of European stories written before the Black Death in which Saladin appears as a wise or moral character.
Elijah Morgan
>You can defend fortified positions with less men than the enemy
well no shit
Lucas Hall
>Being this of a fucking pleb.
Dante was one of the "Virtuous Pagans" in his Divine Comedy. Who lived in heaven but cannot enter paradise because they weren't Christfags.
Hudson Martinez
Aren't muslims ok to enter heaven according to the catechism now?
Grayson Lewis
Like Nathan the Wise
Lucas Lee
he was a kurd and not a turk- oh my apologies mehmet, he was a mountain turk.
Joseph James
>scolding me for not having read a 14th century Italian book
???
Dylan Sullivan
MUH FAITH ALONE has always been a stupid Protestant presupposition.
If you've known that Sally the Din has been considered a top lad even in the 14th Century, you would not have made that "Victorian Romanticism" comment.
Julian Jenkins
This is Veeky Forums. On any other board but Veeky Forums you might have had a point.
Jaxon Jones
Whether it's Dante of Walter Scott, user is right in that Tolerant Saladin is more legend than fact. These men are fiction writers, which should speak for itself, not historians.
Carter Bell
What the fuck are you talking about you halfwit nigge?
Jayden Thomas
Tolerant Saladin was never the legend, not even in Victorian times. He was never not a Scourge of God. The legend was always that Saladin was wise and fair.
Kevin Taylor
He was wise and pretty fair.
Ryan Roberts
>then Richard rolled
Why do we have a film of when Saladin won then?
Where is the one where he lost? It must be made
Easton Phillips
>enslaved everyone who couldn't pay their way out of jerusalm
>I'm somehow to believe that he was a merciful and noble man
holy shit, stop
Jackson Edwards
>Why do we have a film of when Saladin won then?
We do?
Kingdom of Heaven was before the Third Crusade.
Hopefully you aren't talking about some cheap old movie based on The Tailsman.