SALADIN

(Al-Nasir Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub)


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Saladin

Jerusalem is ours as much as yours; indeed, it is even more sacred to us than to you.... Do not imagine that we can to you or compromise on this. The land belongs to us from the beginning, while you have only just arrived and have taken it over only because of the weakness of the Moslems living there at the time. God will not allow a single stone to be rebuilt as long as the war lasts. As for the cross, its ownership is a high card in our hands and it cannot be surrendered except in exchange for something of priceless benefit to all Islam.
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King Richard was the leader of all the Christian forces in the Holy Land for the Crusade. See related quote for King Richard's initial peace proposal message.

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I warn you against shedding blood, indulging in it and making a habit of it, for blood never sleeps.
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Saladin

So many of the high ranking about me have discarded mercy as a weakness.
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I have always resented the way the other sultans and emirs of my time have become too caught up in glory, pride and wealth
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I have become so great as I am because I have won men's hearts by gentleness and kindliness.
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just because a king is a king that does not mean he is not as human as you
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European merchants supply the best weaponry, contributing to their own defeat
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The issue of arms and provisions sales to enemies has been a problem for centuries. Capitalist counties and cultures have had more of a problem than more monolithic societies like the Muslim world, but even recently while the West was complaining about Iraq developing weapons of mass destruction, it was Western democracies that were selling the technology to those who would destroy them.

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It is not the custom of kings to kill kings.
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Saladin
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Al-Nasir Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub, better known simply as Salah ad-Din or Saladin (/ˈsælədɪn/;), was a Sunni Muslim Kurd and the first sultan of Egypt and Syria and founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. Saladin led the Muslim military campaign against the Crusader states in the Levant. At the height of his power, his sultanate spanned Egypt, Syria, the Jazira (Upper Mesopotamia), the Hejaz (western Arabia), Yemen, parts of western North Africa, and Nubia.