re: #105 Gus 802

Well, to be honest DF when I saw the name Martel I kind of arched back a tiny bit. OC is pretty much spot on. He really is kind of Geller type hero. Weird shit from all that anti Islam stuff.

Geller and other haters aside, Charles Martel was in fact a hero to Framce, and the force he defeated was engaged in an act of unjust aggression best thought of as an armed robbery writ large. The fact that said force was Muslim is not the point, the point is that they were unjustly aggressive (though it must be said that in 732 Islam was definitely being spread by the sword). The fact that some assholes have latched on to him does not taint Charles Martel, it only proves that bigots will try to latch onto convenient bits of history to try to disguise the fact that they are bigots.