And all crusades were not Christian crusades either.
You do a disservice to true Christian history by suggesting that they were.
You do a disservice to true Christian history by suggesting that they were.
From the Concise Oxford Dictionary
crusade
• noun 1 any of a series of medieval military expeditions made by Europeans to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims. 2 an energetic organized campaign with a political, social, or religious aim: a crusade against crime.
• verb 1 lead or take part in a crusade. 2 crusading energetically campaigning for a particular aim.
— DERIVATIVES crusader noun.
— ORIGIN French croisade, from croisée ‘the state of being marked with the cross’.
I have a hard time imagining a Muslim carrying out a Jihad but calling it by a name derived from a word meaning cross, the Christian one particularly. I'm sure you can cite numerous examples.