For those Christian's who continually apologize for the Crusades, well please don't. Stop your appeasement.
The Crusades were a DELAYED Christian reaction to the initial Muslim jihad of the 7th and 8th centuries that had overrun many Christian provinces including Palestine, Syria, Egypt, North Africa and Spain. THe loss of the Holy Land to Muslim armies in the initial Islamic jihad of the 7th century was deeply mourned across the Christian world but no action was taken by the Christians at the time.
The Crusades were also a reponse to ongoing Muslim attacks against the Christians of the Byzantine Empire (now modern Turkey) which continued after the first jihad. Two Byzantine emperors appealed to the Pope for help (1074 and 1095) and eventually, more than 300 years after the initial Muslim conquest, the European Christians came to the aid of their beleaguered fellow Christians in the Middle East. A little to late.
So fellow Christians stop apologizing. Learn history and not from an Islamic perspective.
The Crusades were a DELAYED Christian reaction to the initial Muslim jihad of the 7th and 8th centuries that had overrun many Christian provinces including Palestine, Syria, Egypt, North Africa and Spain. THe loss of the Holy Land to Muslim armies in the initial Islamic jihad of the 7th century was deeply mourned across the Christian world but no action was taken by the Christians at the time.
The Crusades were also a reponse to ongoing Muslim attacks against the Christians of the Byzantine Empire (now modern Turkey) which continued after the first jihad. Two Byzantine emperors appealed to the Pope for help (1074 and 1095) and eventually, more than 300 years after the initial Muslim conquest, the European Christians came to the aid of their beleaguered fellow Christians in the Middle East. A little to late.
So fellow Christians stop apologizing. Learn history and not from an Islamic perspective.