Read Your History! (Score 1)

While the crusades we're not the West's best hour, it is important to remember they were a response to repeated invasions of predominantly Christian areas by Muslims and the killing and displacement of Jews and Christians throughout these regions. Most of the West has forgotten that what is now Israel, Lebanon, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, etc. were Christian areas and had been for 500-800 years by the time the Crusades started. The Roman and Byzantine empires were Christian, afterall. So it is revisionist history to see the Crusades as nothing more than the barbaric West invading the peaceful, wouldn't harm a fly, Muslims. Read some history.