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arrows to fighters on the walls of Jerusalem, fighting for our lives and watching Crusader arrows fly back at us.
    “We had heard the stories of what they did in Europe. At first this was considered purely a war against the Muslims. But in Europe, greed and bloodlust perverted their cause. They reasoned, ‘Why wait until we get to Muslim territory, when there are Jews,
Christ-killers
, all throughout Europe?’ I overheard horrific tales coming from my parents—stories of rape and slaughter, stories of Jews being offered protection for money and then being killed by the very ones they’d paid!
    “Inside the synagogue, I huddle together with my sisters, younger brothers, and my parents. My older brother is dead. We were told he was killed yesterday, shortly after the Crusaders broke through. He was sixteen. Will I be next? I’m too young to die. What have we ever done to these people?
    “I will never grow up, never marry or be a parent. Today the Crusaders will kill me.
    “Smoke suddenly makes its presence felt. Both the smell and sight of sinister tendrils of grey smoke curling their way under the heavy locked doors relay the dire extremity of our situation.
    “HaShem! God!
    “Flames begin licking their way in through the barred windows. It is getting hotter. The godforsaken savages are going to burn us alive. Even over the screaming inside the synagogue, I can hear the Crusaders singing hymns to this Jesus Christ. What kind of religion is this? They are burning us to death and they sing of love? They have slaughtered nearly every human being in the city and they rejoice to the smell of burning flesh?
    “The people who are praying, now increase their supplication in fervency and volume. Others collapse in shock. All are in a state of panic. Some are screaming and beating on the door. Others seek to shelter their children from the smoke as most back away from the walls, which are becoming scorching hot. The flames are now clearly visible on every side. The realization that their families and little ones really are burning to death finally becomes an inescapable reality against a backdrop of voices singing
Christ, We Adore Thee!
    “Incredibly, as the flames wrap themselves around rafters, which are beginning to collapse, and the intensifying heat causes some, mercifully, to succumb to smoke suffocation, the sound of these murderous Crusaders singing hymns to their Jesus Christ escalates.
    “Yet, they say this Jesus was a Jew.
    “It’s inconceivable! They are singing to a Jew while they burn us alive for being Jews!
    “HaShem! Where are You?”
    I was angry! “Ariel, how could this happen? This is so different from the first story. What changed? What happened to healing the sick and raising the dead to life? Now they are putting the living to death! Clearly Jesus is not telling them to murder in His name, for His cause! I don’t understand.”
    “David, it gets worse,” he put a comforting hand on my shoulder. “You will have to bear with not understanding for a bit longer. In time, all will be explained.” Once more the lights went out.
    Note
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    1 .   Religion hasn’t changed much in the past thousand years. Al Qaeda, Hamas, and other Islamic fundamentalist groups have sweetened the pot by throwing in seventy-two virgins for suicide bombers who die in the “line of duty.” Yet, they have only copied the manipulative tricks of the Roman Catholic Church. How easy it is to motivate a poor peasant to fight for you when you promise him Heaven. We know from history that many of the Crusaders raped, pillaged, and killed without mercy. And yet, Church leaders went outside of scriptural authority, guaranteeing these men a place with Yeshua.

Chapter Four

I MMERSION OR E XPULSION
    1496 CE , Tangier, Morocco
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    A young man is sitting in a chair.
    “My name is Christophe. At least that is my
baptized
name. I am a twenty-three-year-old Jewish man. Several years ago we had to make an extremely difficult