There was a show on PBS last night supposedly about the truth of the Crusades. It featured supposedly Francis of Assisi and some other dude. I could not get past the huge list of muslin donors. Put the two together - PBS and huge list of muslin donors and I gotta call it quits.
Muslims pretend the Crusades were horrible examples of naked aggression when the truth is that the Crusades were a tepid at best response to centuries of Islamic aggression that destroyed a prosperous North Africa and engaged in ceaseless piracy, raiding and wars of expansion.
MEMOIRS OF EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS (and the Madness of Crowds)
VOLUME II. (By CHARLES MACKAY, LL.D. 1852)
The Crucades
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24518/24518-h/dvii.html#crusades