Now:
Infibulation
Crucifixion of children
Beheadings
Burning alive caged men
Death by stoning
Honor killings
Murder of gays
Slavery
Public floggings
Ethnic cleansing of Jews and Christians
700 years ago:
Crusades.
M’kay . . .
Jonah Goldberg and Victor Davis Hanson are eloquent; Ace is direct.