The Crusades - the war in which both sides were wrong.
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Why were both sides wrong??
The area of the Middle East was mainly Christian at the time the Arabic moon-whorshippers moved in. After conquering Palestine, Syria and adjacent areas, they moved on to conquer predominantly Christian Egypt and North Africa and attack and invade Christian Iberia, Sicily, Southern Italy and France. They attacked and invaded monotheistic Zoroastrian Persia.
Savage horse nomads from Central Asia invaded Arabic Islamic lands, including the Holy Land, converted to Islam and began persecuting Christian pilgrims. Tehn they moved on to attack, invade and conquer Christian Asia Minor.
The Crusades, despite this propagandistic piece were also a reaction to the spread of Medieval militant Islam. A negative point was the fact that they ulimately failed - not through Islamic persistence but more through the loss of interest of western Europe and the development of European nation states more interested in fighting each other than kicking the Muslims out of lands they had stolen.
Some of the Crusaders did slaughter innocent Jews and non-Latin Christians which was also a negative. But that was not something either the Pope or the western Christian desired and they did try to stop it whenever they could.
But on the whole the Muslims DID deserve getting their butts kicked and they still do.
Actually you are wrong. But you already knew that...