Discussion on Historical Crusades Context

So you're saying that it's possible that the Crusades were a

reaction to the Islamic Crusades?

Yes, it was a retali- it was a much needed, and as I told you,

Bernard Law,

Lewis famously called it belated response, uh, to

nonstop aggression from Muslims.

And if you look again at the sources at what, uh, Pope Urban is the one who called

for it, that's what he talks about.

He says, "Your brothers in the East are being butchered, the women are being

raped, the m- men are being sodomized." It's really graphic.

They used to...

The, the Muslims and the Turks would enter

churches and cut open, you know,

the, and pull the entrails and tie them to a, a, a, a pole and

whip someone until he would run around it and it would, he would die.

Like, you know, the most horrific things you can imagine

they were doing.

That's what provoked the First Crusade. And you...

But see, again, it's presented in a vacuum intentionally

so you think, "Oh, look at these aggressor Europeans." Even

the colonial era was,

was seen as a response. Remember we were talking about the Afr- the Barbary

pirates-

Yeah

... and Thomas Jefferson-

Yeah

... who were, they were enslaving American.

They were, of course, enslaving Europeans even more because

that's, that's who's

right there, the Mediterranean Europeans.

So when France invaded Algiers, it was in response to

this naval holy war that they were waging, this jihad

of enslaving Europeans. So even the colonial era, uh, which is so

horrible the way it's presented , was a response to the violent

aggression. But we're, we're never told that part.

We're just, again, it's presented in a vacuum intentionally