The Parley at Jerusalem(TGA)

The Parley at Jerusalem
Participating: Crusading Kingdom: Lord Wesely Abassid: Prince Ismael Fatimid Caliph Al-Mansur Grand Road: Commander Zhang


 * The parley waits to be accepted.
 * Prince Ismael V (Abassid Caliphate): Christians of the west, you have already succeeded in uniting yourself under one religion. That I can compliment you on.  You have done so in the matter of days, though you are separated by dozens of languages and customs.  That is a great achievement as well.  The Invasion of the Holy Land (whether it be for you or I), though, is a different story.  The Caliphate has always welcomed Christian Pilgrims, should they choose to visit, into the Holy Land.  Indeed, these pilgrims are the main source of wealth in Jerusalem and all of Israel.  It has always allowed Christians and Jews to live in more or less equality in Egypt, Africa, Cordoba (Spain) and Asia Minor.  And yet, you Christians are by no means representing your god in your wars.  In Spain in the lands that you have freed, the norm is usually forced conversions or persecution as pagans.  Your entry into the Holy Land has been marked by bloodbaths.  Is this truly what the Prophet (Or, as you call him, Christ) Jesus preached when he said "Turn the Other Cheek"?  Now, you people are neither Israelites nor Jews (indeed, you persecute Jews) and yet lay claim to a nation that, if the question was "who got there first", would lay rightly in the hands of the Jews.  You have threatened the people here with Violence if they do not go with your version of Christianity--indeed, your pope is still bickering with the Byzantine Emperor about religious images and the like.  If you simply want to make pilgrimages or to live in the Holy Land, do so by all means!  But do not fill in the moats of these Holy Cities with the blood of Christians, Muslims and Jews, for that is neither what is preached in the Quran nor what is taught in the bible.