[StoneColdGOP]

You don't kill the entire Muslim and Jewish population of Jerusalem after you capture it, and in a later crusade destroy, plunder, and rape your way through (Orthodox Christian) Constantinope without being bloodthirsty and rapacious.

Thank you. It bears repeating that it wasn't just Muslims victimized by the Crusades.

Wasn't it the Byzantine Emperor who asked for Western Europe's aid against the encroaching Muslims that got the whole mess started to begin with?

[wideawake]

Thank you. It bears repeating that it wasn't just Muslims victimized by the Crusades.

the Muslims weren't victimized by the Crusades. They bloodily overran majority Christian lands, and then they started kidnapping, murdering and harassing unarmed pilgrims to the holy places.

Only after four centuries of unending Muslim cruelty did the Christian West strike back.

And they struck back in a very measured fashion.