The Crusades were not "Christian wars"...they were race wars by the White Europeans

[Wadaad]

...after long research into this, I come to the conclusion that the Crusades were just a racial war masquarading as a holy religious war (no other Christian group participated in it except the Europeans...the Byzantines and dhimmi Christians regretted it, just like Assyrians regret the war on Iraq today).

Discuss...

[RN97]

No, it was a revenge war, but they were not always the best in combating Islam, like when they did this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Crusade

[Wadaad]

No, it was a revenge war, but they were not always the best in combating Islam, like when they did this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Crusade

That was the camouflage...Europeans NEVER had anything to do with the holy land...the Byzantines the Muslims kicked out of Palestine were Arabic speaking who used greek as a lingua franca. Yarmouk battle the two groups (Rashidun Arabs vs Byzantine auxilliaries) were basically indistinguishabe. When the crusaders captured the holy land they did not differentiate between Christian or Muslim, they were all "Saracens" to them. Just like American soldiers called Assyrian Iraqis "Hajis".

[Grenzland]

Yeah the term "white European" was very important back then.

[Wadaad]

Yeah the term "white European" was very important back then.

It existed in the East (whether muslim, christian or jew): "Frenji"

[Grenzland]

It existed in the East (whether muslim, christian or jew): "Frenji"

I hope that's not the base of your theory.

[Wadaad]

I hope that's not the base of your theory.

Refute it

ask yourself the details of the 4th Crusade and the significance of the Verangian (frenji) guard

[Sacrificed Ram]

It was an economical war, the control of commercial routes to India and China.

[hedonist]

It was designed by the illuminati (yes I'm using that term for lack of a better one) to foment the pre-planned conflict between the christian world and the islamic world. Being that these two religions were designed to eventually encompass the globe and create ever lasting conflict between the two sides

[Egyptian]

some of them used the religion as camouflage like knights templar ( they basically were into gold and fortune not for religion) they killed anyone in the Al-quds whether he was muslims or whatever , that's why Salah El din didn't spare their lives when they were captured after Hatin battle.