The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades

Chapter 12

WHAT THE CRUSADES

A C C O M P L I S H E D - A N D

WHAT THEY DIDN'T

ther e were many crus ades , but when hist oria ns refe r to "th e

Crusades" they generally mean a series of seven campaigns by troops

fro m Wes ter n Eur ope aga in st Mus lim s in theHol y Lan d.The Fi rs tCrusa de

wascalle d in 1095 and began in 1099; the Sevent h Crusad eendedin 1250. The
last Crusader cities fell to the Muslims in 1291.

1. The Fir st Crus ade (10 98- 109 9) was the mos t suc ces sfu l; The
   Crus aders capt ured Jeru salem and esta blish ed seve ral stat es inthe
   Middle East.
   2_ Th e Se co nd Cr us ad e (1 14 6- 11 48 ) wa s an un su cc es sf ul—
   in de ed. dis ast ro us— at tem pt to re cap tu re a Cr usa de r st ate ,
   Edema , which had been conqu ered by the Musli ms in 1144. Atfirs t,
   it was dive rted to a succe ssfu l operatio n to reca ptur e Lisbon from
   the Musl ims in 1147; then, when it fina lly arriv ed inthe East , mos t
   of thi s army of Crus ader s was crus hed in Asia Minor in December
   1147 —before it ever reached the Holy Land.


2. The Thi rd Cru sad e (11 88-119 2) was cal led by Pope Gre gor yVIII
   in the wakeofSalad in’scapt ure of Jeru sale m and dest ruction of the
   Crusader forces at Hattin in 1187, This Crusade wasdomin ated by
   stron g perso nalit ies who were often at odds with one another,
   Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, King Richardthe
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Guess what?

After the Crusades,the

Muslims resumed

their attempts to

conquer Europe by

jihad.

* Christians were as

responsible as Mus-

lims for the Islamic

conquest of Eastern

Europe; They made

short-sighted and

ultimately disastrous

alliances with jihad

forces.

• Western leaders who
  think non-Muslims
  ca n "w in he ar ts
  and minds" among
  Islamic jihadists are
  similarly naive and
  shortsighted,