2016-03-23, 11:56 AM
xparasite9 Wrote:Because the Crusades were in response to muslim conquest. The Crusaders weren't ISIS, they were fighting ISIS. By the time the Crusades even started, muslim armies had conquered two-thirds of "christian" territories.
The Byzantine Empire had been failing for decades. You can hardly equate it's collapse to the rise of ISIS. The sacking of Constantinople shows that the war wasn't about Christianity vs Islam. It was about loot. I'm not trying to equate the Crusades with ISIS, just point out that this is hardly the first instance of a religion being used to encourage violence in a way that isn't representative of the religion itself.