[Cinnamon Girl]

It WAS more than that when you consider how many Jews they murdered along the way. Why did they have to do that?

[Torie]

Most folks along the way, were slaughtered or dispersed. It was about taking booty. And the Crusadering armies by necessity lived on the land. The lines of resupply were non-existent.

[Uncle Miltie]

Fair enough; you're historic knowledge exceeds mine. As you'll see elsewhere in this thread, I call out the Spanish Inquisition ("Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition!") as an excessive abuse of us Jews.

It was a nasty and brutish time. I just want some evenhandedness, so that the main point, "Islam attacks, Christianity counterattacks" is not transmogrified into "Christians' Murderous Crusades against the loving Muslims."