Editing Persecution of Christians (section)

===Mamluk Sultanate===
when Sultan [[Baybars]] took Antioch from the Crusaders he wrote a letter to Christians boasting of the atrocities they would have seen his soldiers commit had they been there:<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fKYxKsgVpmMC|title=The New Concise History of the Crusades|pages=181–182|isbn=9780742538221 |last1=Madden |first1=Thomas F. |date=2005 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield }}</ref>
{{blockquote|You would have seen your knights prostrate beneath the horses’ hooves, your houses stormed by pillagers and ransacked by looters, your wealth weighed by the quintal, your women sold four at a time and bought for a dinar of your own money! You would have seen the crosses in your churches smashed, the pages of the false Testaments scattered, the Patriarchs’ tombs overturned. You would have seen your Muslim enemy trampling on the place where you celebrate the Mass, cutting the throats of monks, priests and deacons upon the altars, bringing sudden death to the Patriarchs and slavery to the royal princes. You would have seen fire running through your palaces, your dead burned in this world before going down to the fires of the next, your palace lying unrecognizable, the Church of St. Paul and that of the Cathedral of St. Peter pulled down and destroyed; then you would have said, “Would that I were dust, and that no letter had ever brought me such tidings!”}}