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

[Sacrificed Ram]

Never existed more than 400 templar knights in "holy land", but even in this low number they are feared by their enemies. it only shows the how powerful were these warriors.

[Peterski]

What about the Northern Crusades then? White Christians vs. White Pagans.

[Ülev]

^^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teutonic_Order

[Sacrificed Ram]

^^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teutonic_Order

Teutonic Knights VS Poles:

[Mortimer]

...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...

that was my theory too a long time ago even.

[MINARDOWICZ]

Are you crazy? I'm sure there was an element of race in the crusades but mainly it was because of Islamic expansion. I know you will not admit this because of your background, but Muslim or not, how could you support the nature of Islamic expansion that happened before the crusades but demonize crusades when both were filled with atrocities?? Makes no sense to me. If you are a Muslim but consider yourself level-headed you should admit the truth and not praise what happened in Islamic expansion, including the rape and murder of many people. These are facts that have been recorded. Islamic expansion/The crusades, what's the difference? Except, the crusades had a less significant genetic impact. Maybe because it was a mini version of what the Muslims did?

[brennus dux gallorum]

...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...

First of all Byzantines were not more or less European than the Crusaders, also, not only some participated and there is a thread about it in TA, but also they were the reason to start the crusades

[Pulsa Dinura]

...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...

Maronites participated since the First Crusade in 1096.

[Pulsa Dinura]

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.

Before the fall of Jerusalem, nobody spoke Arabic in the Holy Land. The last Patriarch of Jerusalem was Sophronios, who certainly, was not an Arab and did not speak Arabic.

Heraclius’ Byzantine army fighting the Muslims in the Battle of Yarmouk did not consist of solely Arab Christians (Ghassanids), but also of Slavs, Franks, Georgians and Armenians.

[crazyladybutterfly]

armenians were allied with them and they weren't exactly white..