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  • noun Plural form of crusader.

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Examples

  • He warns Muslims to prepare for a long fight in Sudan against what he calls crusaders and plunderers.

    CNN Transcript Apr 24, 2006 2006

  • He warns Muslims to prepare for a long fight in Sudan against what he calls crusaders and plunderers.

    CNN Transcript Apr 24, 2006 2006

  • Sunni Islamist insurgent groups such as al Qaeda have little tolerance for those who do not adhere to their severe brand of Islam, and have attacked Iraqi minorities they label crusaders, devil worshippers and infidels.

    Jihad Monitor 2010

  • Sunni Islamist insurgent groups such as al Qaeda have little tolerance for those who do not adhere to their severe brand of Islam, and have attacked Iraqi minorities they label crusaders, devil worshippers and infidels.

    FrontPage Magazine Marisol 2010

  • Sunni Islamist insurgent groups such as al Qaeda have little tolerance for those who do not adhere to their severe brand of Islam, and have attacked Iraqi minorities they label crusaders, devil worshippers and infidels.

    Reuters: Top News 2010

  • One of the caped crusaders is murdered and his five companions try to find who killed him.

    Five Truths Behind the Watchmen | myFiveBest 2009

  • So, he calls the crusaders the Franj a lot, and makes sure to play up all the rape and pillage he can, but that's not how the crusades looked through Arab eyes.

    whinge whinge whinge 2008

  • My problem with the smoking crusaders is that it’s not an either/or thing now.

    Argumentum ad Baculum 2005

  • US investigators said Bin Laden, through Fawwaz, published several threats against the US in the 1990s for keeping troops in Saudi Arabia, and also against so-called crusaders for allegedly waging war on Muslims.

    Suspected Osama bin Laden aide set for US extradition over 1998 bombings 2011

  • After all, while the crusaders were a mild annoyance to the Muslim world, the barbarian invasions from Mongolia were utterly devastating.

    2008 January 13 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008

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