Christians against Christians John Adamson on the Fourth Crusade, when the Crusaders turned on their co-religionists as Constantinople burned

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: April 18, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople

by Jonathan Phillips

Jonathan Cape, pounds 20, 374 pp

pounds 18 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222

IT HAS recently become fashionable - particularly among the purveyors of Western guilt - to "contextualise" the current conflict between the West and radical Islam as a continuation of animosities that go back to the Crusades. Muslims, so the argument runs, have always been the victims of Western expansionism in the Near East. And it was those Crusades - the medieval campaigns waged on the pretext of wresting the holy city of Jerusalem from Infidel ...

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