[cicero's_son]

The Crusades were nothing more than an attempt by the Church--and her allies in Europe--to reclaim Christian lands that had been conquered and oppressed by the Arab hordes.

Christians in the holy land were being slaughtered, forcibly converted, and sold into slavery.

The great tragedy of the crusades was the sack of Constantinople, which weakened the citadel of Eastern Christendom and ultimately led to its conquest by the Turks.

[Lurking Libertarian]

The Crusades were nothing more than an attempt by the Church--and her allies in Europe--to reclaim Christian lands that had been conquered and oppressed by the Arab hordes. Christians in the holy land were being slaughtered, forcibly converted, and sold into slavery.

Read sometime about what the Crusaders did to the Jews of the Rhineland.