This man has been indoctrinated with liberalism and untruths. He should try to learn some facts before regurgitating all the junk material that anti-Christian secularists are spewing forth in the past 2000 years.
I am sick of all this angst and false claims about the crusades. They were a logical response to the Moslem mobs who were decapitating everyone in sight who failed to yield to Islam. The writer of this piece would not be alive today if the Christian forces of Europe had not fought back and forced the Moslems out of Spain and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Just because of past mistakes over 2000 years, it does not give validity to his senseless, hateful, characterization of Christianity.
The Christian forces that pushed the Muslims out of Spain, then proceeded to give the Jews the choice of death, conversion, or exile. It was the Muslim Ottoman Empire that rescued the bulk of the Jews.
I seriously disagree with the author's dislike of Christianity. I'd say it's closer to 1800 that Christian nations became generally as safe as Muslim ones for Jews. And he'd be surprised at the possibility that part of Columbus's motivation to find the New World was to find safe haven for Jews (Columbus was friendly to Jews, may have been descended from a Jewish family, and sailed on the day after the expulsion). On the whole though, he has his history correct.