THE CRUSADES: WHAT REALLY HAPPENED AND WHY

LEFTISTS AND ISLAMISTS TREAT THE CRUSADES AS IF THEY WERE SOME UNGODLY, CRUEL ATTEMPT AT RELIGIOUS COLONIALISM BY SADISTIC WHITE EUROPEAN CHRISTIANS AGAINST POOR INNOCENT PACIFISTIC SWEET INDIGENOUS NON-WHITE MUSLIMS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. 

NOTHING COULD BE FARTHER FROM THE TRUTH.

 HERE'S THE TRUTH.

With enormous energy, the warriors of Islam struck out against the Christians shortly after Mohammed's death. They were extremely successful. Palestine, Syria, and Egypt — once the most heavily Christian areas in the world — quickly succumbed. By the eighth century, Muslim armies had conquered all of Christian North Africa and Spain. In the eleventh century, the Seljuk Turks conquered Asia Minor (modern Turkey), which had been Christian since the time of St. Paul. The old Roman Empire, known to modern historians as the Byzantine Empire, was reduced to little more than Greece. In desperation, the emperor in Constantinople sent word to the Christians of western Europe asking them to aid their brothers and sisters in the East. 

That is what gave birth to the Crusades. They were not the brainchild of an ambitious pope or rapacious knights but a response to more than four centuries of conquests in which Muslims had already captured two-thirds of the old Christian world. At some point, Christianity as a faith and a culture had to defend itself or be subsumed by Islam. The Crusades were that defense.

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