and those Christians originated in the middle east?
Um, actually, Christianity DID originate in the middle east.
There was this guy in Israel named Jesus, you see, and....
we're talking about the christian armies of the crusades. it's getting a little sad, g-man. you're just taking a sentence and then making a whole point around it. a point which is demolished when put in context.
"Those Christians" were in the Middle East and North Africa long before Muslims came into those areas and conquered them.
And unlike the Muslims who conquered them, pre-Muslim Christian cultures in the Middle East and North Africa and Spain were built by peacefully sharing the gospels. Unlike the Muslim conquerors who seized those lands, burned their churches, and imposed their religion on Christians.
The Crusades were largely an act of self-defense by Europe, in response to four centuries of Muslim encroachment on their territory, taking back lands seized from them by the Muslims.
You spin it falsely as self-initiated Christian aggression, when in fact, it was Christian retaliation and defense. And as much politically secular as it was religious.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_crusadeshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Crusade
