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Over 400 years of Jihad had preceeded the First Crusade. Ancient Christian communities were destroyed/dhmiized in Mesopotamia, the ME, North Africa, Spain, etc. The rampaging Seljuk Islamics were threatening Constantinople so the Eastern Emperor called upon the Western Church (the Pope) for help. Hence, whenever I see the lying propaganda about the poor Islamic souls I'm always thankful to see articles trying to disabuse us from the false and revisionist history about the "religion of peace". It was Christendom which was continually on the defensive. The fact that most of Eastern Christianity in just a shell of what it once was is owed the agression and Jihad of Islam.