Hard to remember that muslims had fought their way into France within a few years of Mohammed’s death.
That North Africa and the entire Middle East was Christian territory until muslims invaded and seized it.
That they fought their way all the way to Vienna and large swaths of Europe were under muslim rule right up until the First World War.
What we call the Crusades was a failed rear guard action that fell before the onslaught of muslim armies. The middle east was not historically muslim, it was historically Christian until the muslim invasion.
Agreed.
Christianity was originally spread through the
Middle East by word of mouth and it caught on long
before Mohammed was born. Islam was spread throughout
the Middle East and beyond by the sword. So the
original crusaders were Muslim, not Christian.