The Crusades: A Response to Islamic Aggression
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A pop-culture understanding of history is generally an ignorant and dangerous understanding of history. Much as our Founding Fathers are now being maligned and slandered by leftist "historians", and their exploits are being called "myths", the reality is far more amazing and compelling than even the pop culture stories from 50 years ago that they are attempting to destroy.
So too are the Crusades presented as something that they were certainly not, "Christian Aggression". While "The Golden Age of Islam" is venerated and their enslavement of every people and culture they touched, and their war and predation on every single one of their borders is ignored.
History happened whether you like it or not, and any "modern interpretation" of historic events is entirely suspect. Unless you understand the zeitgeist of THAT TIME, and the morals and values of THAT TIME, you don't understand a Godammed thing. In fact, you are willfully ignorant and perpetuating half truths and lies, for the benefit of political ideologies that you probably don't agree with in the first place.
If we consider the arc of "The Golden Age of Islam", the Crusades were a half hearted, and largely ineffectual effort compared to the massive conquest of the previous six or seven hundred years and the millions of people enslaved or made dhimis by that brutal conquest. Islam has only expanded by the sword, and only when they have been militarily powerful. During peace there are no Muslim revivals. People only choose it en mass when the alternative is death.
Fake history is now as big a problem as biased propaganda in the news. We ought not accept it, but call it out when leftists try to rewrite history to justify modern totalitarianism.