[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Before getting caught up with Holy views that transcend the ordinary man, one ought to understand the Crusades are a reaction to the onslaught of militant Islam. That the ordinary man can understand.

[Dazedcat]

There you go........nice post. There seems to be this misguided notion that the Crusades were begun to force Christianity among the non-believers. It was started to only stop the radical Muslims as you said.

With the barbarians at the gates......there was no choice. Remarkable how history keeps repeating itself, isn't it?