Cursed Crusaders Fear Saladin
The story of Saladin Al-Ayyub or Saladin is often tinged with flattery. But there is another side to the cruelty of the commander in the Second Volume Crusade which made him very feared. "Joseph, pack your things! We will leave! " It was December 1168. More than twenty years before the Second Crusade broke out which would be an important event for the Islamic Kingdom to take Jerusalem. The governed figure is the nephew of a fat bodied one-eyed swordsman. The old commander is named Shirkuh. This young man who is being governed is very different from his uncle. Thin, frail and 31 years old. Good looking, fair skinned, and has a melancholy facial line. His name is Yusuf bin Najmuddin. From the Kurds. On that day he was assigned by Sultan Nuruddin to take Shirkuh to bring the Islamic Kingdom troops from Damascus to Egypt to free Egypt from attacks by Christians. At that time Joseph was so scared. "Like a man who is escorted to his death," Yusuf suggested as told by Kare...