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>>>"Since God laid down the Arabian peninsula, created its desert,
>>>and surrounded it with its seas, no calamity has ever befallen
>>>it like these Crusader hosts that have spread in it like locusts,
>>>crowding its soil, eating its fruits, and destroying its verdure;
>>Lets see, blaming a group of foreigners for a locust attack - however the
>>very first line mentions deserts which are mostly barren by definition. I
>>see, so the crusaders brought the locusts in locust cages and then set
>>them lose to devour the sand of the desert, and then after that, the dry
>>barren desert was changed into ...... a dry barren dessert. Very
>>rational. 
>Real Clever. That's a truly pathetic analysis. Do you even know why
>that quotations is there? I doubt it. No, you just see it as some kind
>of literal statement to be ridiculed (and misinterpreted) as  a lame
>argument.

If its not to be taken literally, then it should be taken figuratively. 
In this context, it would imply that the Crusaders were the cause of all 
their problems. Again, I ask, is that rational? Thats like the Europeans 
blaming all the crime on the Turks, Gypsies, or Jews depending on the 
decade. There is always some group to blame for your own problems, isn't 
there?