In most history books today, the crusades are simply told as bad christians, doing bad.
The problem with this is two fold. History needs to be told in context.
If nobody knows why someone in history did something, then we cant understand history, or learn from its mistakes. Lets take funding saddam huseein in the 1980-88 war with iran, we believed if iran won, an islamic state would settle in iran. That is not saying whether it was right or wrong mind you, but giving you the context of why.
Second, telling you what actually happened, without political correctness or revisionist history. In the crusades, the actual purpose was, to drive out muslims, (read this next part carefully) who stole christian lands. This happened after mohammed died, for 24 years, until charles de martel of france stopped them. Now, i do not know if they also killed jews, which if they did, they had no right, for they would have killed them out of hatred, not for any legitimate reason, and i also have no idea, of everything else that happened during the 5 crusades.
But the facts, grim, disturbing, but most important, honest, without revision, or political correctness must be presented, or we are ignorant or history, and condemend to be ignorant in the future.
The past ties in to the present, which determines our future.
Thank you for reading