They use it as a knee jerk justification to suite their modern analysis of Islamic encroachment on the west

Yes the Islamic conquests took all the Middle East, Anatolia, Liberia, North Africa and were close to getting into Europe

Wait those places were Christian

The west launched the crusades cause those places the Islamic conquests took where Christian

What

Yes

they were part of the byzantine empire

mostly orthodox christian

Also the west only launched the crusades after like 200 years of continued aggression by Islamic caliphates

so crusades were a reconquest

Or in other words defensive

Muslims had ivaded Spain and parts of France before the crusades started too, it was not just a push to take Jerusalem. It was mainly to push Islam back into the middle east

battle of tours

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tours

Basically, whitey didn't start it

North africa and the middle east were christian for 700 years.

We shall take back Iberia!… oh yeah don’t forget Jerusalem

they were roman, and converted pretty early iirc

then the visigoths in tunisia etc. were christian

then the islamic invasions and oh look everyone converted to islam

The islamic jihad had taken most of spain, itally and the states around greece before the crusades started, first taking back europe and then rataliating on merely jerusalam.

by their own accord of course lol

no conversion by sword here

I was told the crusades were unjustified, well that’s out the window

right what's next?

Most people don’t even remember the Berber wars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV30DDxbzH0

Berber wars

The spanish were preparing for an all out invasion to retake africa and the middle east, but were waylayed by the discovery of america where gold was aplenty. Spain decided to use this expidition to farm capital for the invasion of the middle east and north africa. But then the brittish fleet sunk them in the middle of a hurricane.

Ya know Muslim pirates attacking US merchant ships for no reason either then “we were the infidels”

and they wanted slaves

thats a good reason too

I mean when you think about it, the crusades worked out well for Christians

which country are you from @S K E L L Y Ivanthenotsoterrible ?

No, europe had its own source of slaves without trading with africa or invading america. The SLAVic people.

United kangdom

the ottomans mainly took the slavs as slaves

vee talks about it too much

Their kingdom was the origin of the european word slave

All I think is the polish are good workers lol

People also seem to forget the Ottoman Empires continued pushes to take European lands in the balkans