Saladin

But the Holy Quran, when he says, and speak to people kindly, when the people is defined not limited to family and friends, it includes strangers, colleagues, even your opponents.

You know, there's this film of Saladin, Salahuddin Ayyubi.

Salahuddin, okay.

When he marched into Jerusalem and when he found out that his opponent was suffering from an ailment, he offered his medics to have him treated.

Converting to Islam, which to a Templar meant eternal damnation because the enemy knew they couldn't be ransomed.

And because they were such lethal fighters, Muslim commanders like Saladin often ordered the immediate execution of any captured Templars.

And the numbers back that up, right? The sources detail the 1264 siege of Safed.

It was this massive Templar fortress that eventually fell.

Their military reputation rose and fell with the Crusader states.

In 1187, Saladin's victory at Hattin and the loss of Jerusalem gravely weakened the Christian position in the East.

Military orders, including the Templars and Hospitallers, became even more central to the defense of the remaining coastal territories.

They commanded castles, supplied disciplined fighters, and carried the burden of permanent war.

The desert wind howls across the sun-baked stone of Jerusalem, carrying the thunder of tens of thousands of marching boots.

The invincible Sultan Saladin has crossed the frontier with an overwhelming army, poised to assault the city.

Standing in the castle courtyard, surveying his badly outnumbered garrison, is 16-year-old King Baldwin IV.

Baldwin's body is a prison.

All of the enemies organize.

And they organize the Arab countries or the Arab tribes.

They organize under a guy called Saladin, who is one of the greatest military commanders who ever lived.

And he decides this is the moment.

And one such proposal, if true, was certainly intriguing.

It's said during the Third Crusade, Richard I attempted to marry off his sister, his widowed younger sister, Joan, to Al-Adil, who is the brother of Saladin.

And when his sister adamantly refused this idea, Richard then tried to substitute the child Eleanor of Brittany in her place.

But that ultimately fell through also.

So, did this actually happen? Several Arab chroniclers detail a marriage contract under which the Third Crusade would have ended, with the creation of a Palestinian kingdom ruled by Saladin's brother Al-Adil.

Joan and the military orders would have kept some of the towns and fortresses they had captured, and Christian pilgrims would have been unmolested and given access to the holy sites.

so it's possible Richard had suggested this arrangement of Joan and then Eleanor to El Adil.

After all, by the fall of 1191, Richard's troops would have been exhausted from crusading, winter was approaching, and he was likely motivated to return home, with his younger brother John scheming to steal his throne back in England, and his rival Philip II of France had already returned home.

Yeah.

So Saladin, Pinas got performance of the night.

Axel Soler got performance of the night.

And Keita got performance of the night.

Raphael Fazeev is fucking...

Oi, man, that poster looks so good, by the way.

And who are we giving Saladin Parnas? Are we launching him into the

stratosphere? 100%.

It has to do everything.

It's like that movie Kingdom of Heaven when Saladin has that speech and they ask him, what is Jerusalem? And he says, everything, nothing.

That's what Elvis has to do.

Well, like the Gnostic thing, again, it goes back to synchronicities.