[Satadru]

I wonder where you got that history of the Crusades from. Bernard Lewis, the foremost Islamic historian, will disagree with you wholeheartedly. The Crusades were a defensive war in order to protect Christendom against incessant attacks from the Moors, Tatars, Mongols, Turks, etc. In fact, the Moslems came as close to sacking Vienna and the Moors crossed Spain only to be defeated by Charles Martel in the battle of Tours. Moslem attacks on Christian lands was going on for over three hundred years before the Christians chose to fight back to recover Constantinople. Please know your history before you comment on them.

[RLK]

In fact, the Moslems came as close to sacking Vienna and the Moors crossed Spain only to be defeated by Charles Martel in the battle of Tours. Moslem attacks on Christian lands was going on for over three hundred years before the Christians chose to fight back to recover Constantinople. Please know your history before you comment on them.

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History is not important. Being a contentious wise-ass will suffice.

[rmlew]

For the record, not all Turks converted to Islam and helped spread it.
Eastern Europe was saved from Muslim expansion by an Empire of Western Turks known as the Khazars, the ruling class of which converted to Judaism. It was only when they declined that their vassals, the Seljuk(Ghuzz) Turks and Kipchaqs could drive west.