DON'T COMPARE THE CRUSADERS WITH ISIS , they weren't into raping little girls

[Peterski]

What is this supposed to mean? If the Southern Crusade was a failure then obviously there was still job to do for the Crusaders in Jerusalem and about. Logically when Jerusalem is captured then the Crusaders are unemployed.

This seems just the typical hypocritic crap the Christian apologists spew from their dirty mouths.

The Teutonic Order was originally created in Palestine. After the fall of crusader states, they had to retreat to Europe. At first they were invited by Hungarian king, who gave them Burzenland (a region near the Carpathian Mountains in present-day Romania) to fight against the Cumans. But they started disobeying him, so he expelled them. Only after that they came to North-Eastern Europe, to fight against Pagan Balts and Baltic Finns. So they started to look for other enemies only after they lost "employment" in the Holy Land - as I wrote.

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Teutonic Order's presence in Burzenland (1211-1225) is an often overlooked part of their history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumans

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burzenland





Cumans were Pagan.

[Peterski]

Some strongholds established by the Teutonic Order in Burzenland (of course later they were expanded or reconstructed, so their modern look is usually not the same as their original look from 1211-1225):

Rosenauer Burg (Râşnov):





Marienburg (Feldioara):





Schwarzburg (Codlea):



Kronstadt (Braşov):



Tartlau (Prejmer):











Map "Teutonic Knights in Burzenland":

[Peterski]

And here some of Teutonic Order's strongholds in the Levant / Palestine:

Starkenberg (Montfort):





Judin (Qa’lat Jiddin / Kala'at Judin):



Mi'ilya (Mhalia / Miiliya):



Chastel Neuf (Chateau Neuf / Hunin):



Acre (Akko):



Toron (Tebnine):





Maron:



Map of Teutonic Order's territory in the Holy Land:

[crazyladybutterfly]

it needs to be bumped

[Egyptian]

it needs to be bumped

sure it does.

[crazyladybutterfly]

sure it does.

still obvious that i say murder > raping a little girl

[Al-Meksiki]

The better Christian equivalent of Isis are probably the Taipings in 19th century China and more recently the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda and Central Africa.

Both Militant Christian organizations (the Taipings even established a state of their own) with a cult of personality around a self-proclaimed figure of religious importance that are known for their brutality, and practiced slavery and wartime rape of adults and children as a tactic.

[Fantomas]

Too bad that Crusader Kingdoms did not survive.

From another side Crusade (many Crusades is a modern historians inventions) was a positive phenomenon for European civilization, becuase promoted development of science, building, medicine, art of war, shipbuilding , fortification etc. And helped absorbe some achievements that were better developed in the East