Talk:Battle of Ostia

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[edit] Edit war

I reverted Gennarous' edits because:

1. A useful link to History of Islam in southern Italy telling the reader what these "Muslim pirates" were is being removed w/o any attempt at justifying it.
2. Arab and Muslim are changed to pirate throughout, even when "pirate" is not a particularly good adjective to use. Further, the battle is not really "coalition of Christian princes versus pirates" but "coalition versus Muslims", who cares if they were or were not what we call "pirates" (who knows? privateers? naval forces?)
3. "It united the Christian states of central and southern Italy in a joint cause against the Muslims, which eventually led to their expulsion from the peninsula" is changed to "It united the Christian states of central and southern Italy in a joint cause against the threat of Muslim pirates who were attempts to terrorise it": bad English and less informative, since it doesn't tell us what happened and it uses the highly loaded and politicised term "terrorism". No doubt the pirate raids were terrifying to the Italians, but "attempts to terrorise" sounds out of place: they wanted conquest and booty, not terrified expressions on Christian faces.

Srnec (talk) 05:09, 8 April 2008 (UTC)