The Crusades: Jihad Must be Stopped (Part 7)
BY DAVID AGEMA
Pope Urban II called for the first crusades in 1095 to stop the Muslim atrocities and advances. He asked that Christians to the East send foot soldiers “to destroy that vile race.”
By 1096, the “People’s Crusades” consisted of 30,000; however, they were not military men, and the Turks completely destroyed them without mercy.
Peter the Hermit also gathered impostor Christians who sought booty over protecting Christians. They wanted to exterminate the Jews in Germany and line their pockets with booty. Their rationale for wealth was that the Jews killed Jesus. Therefore, their actions were warranted. Had these so called “crusaders” traversed Europe with the help of the Jews, they might have changed history and have been much stronger. Yet, their disunity only strengthened the Muslims’ military abilities.
While Muslim historians claimed as many as 100,000 Muslims were killed in Antioch at the hands of the “barbaric” crusaders, the actual population was lower than that at the time. However, these exaggerations of atrocities were useful tools in their recruitment efforts. As a result, Muslims saw the crusaders as animals and beasts—just as is stated in the Quran 8:5.
Although the crusaders also committed atrocities, the Muslims saw theirs as justified. The jihadis in Spain, France, Italy, and Asia Minor were a testament to what to expect anytime that Islam waged war against the west. There was never peaceful coexistence but only brief periods of time between invasions. So it is today as well: different tactics, but the same goals. The twisting of history continues to this day, and sadly many fall for it because we aren’t taught true history.
On July 15, 1099, the crusaders entered Jerusalem. The Saracen Muslims fought hard all the way to the Temple of Solomon, where they were killed or taken as prisoners. They then went throughout the city and seized all manners of gold, silver, horses, etc., that the Muslims had. It was estimated that the crusaders killed 20,000 to 30,000 people throughout the city in that battle. Once again, however, Muslim historians embellished this event, claiming that 100,000 people were killed, which of course the city did not even hold.
The crusaders’ history is not without blemish, but war never is, especially after hundreds of years of it with the same people—Muslims.
In the 1180s, a Muslim from al-Andalusia visited the Crusaders’ domain on his way to Mecca. He reported that Muslims were living better in the Crusaders’ lands than in Islamic lands, which is still true today. To dissuade Muslims from the temptation of living in peace with infidels and of establishing better lives for themselves—and to completely destroy the Christian lands—jihad erupted again. (Living better in peace with infidels was a sin!) As a result, many wars were fought, and Antioch fell by jihad warriors once again in 1268; Tripoli fell in 1289; and Jerusalem fell in 1291. There were several crusades prior to this, and some were defeated outright, but some were defeated by the sedition of fellow crusaders.
Prior to this time, Saladin arose as a jihad commander. He took Egypt, made the Christians Dhimmis, and forbade them from riding a horse or mule. Saladin, who envisioned a global jihad and conquered many lands, became a folk hero to Muslims. He died in 1193, but his goal of worldwide jihad continues in others even to this day. As a result, Pope Innocent III called for a fifth (5th) crusade, because in his words,
[A] son of perdition has arisen, the false prophet Muhammad, who seduced many men from the truth by worldly enticements and pleasures of the flesh.”
His crusade was defeated.
There were others who fought the Muslims as well. Hulagu Khan, the grandson of Genghis Khan, sacked Baghdad and toppled the caliphate in 1258. Hulagu’s mother was a Christian. Two years later, the Christian Mongol leader Kitbuka seized Damascus and Aleppo for the Mongols. Arghun the Mongol attempted to unite the Christian kings and leaders to fight against the Muslims, but once again distrust and lack of unity among the Christian Europeans impeded their chance to change history and defeat Islam. By the 14th century, Islam controlled the Middle East.
What the crusades did accomplish from the time Pope Urban II called for the first crusade in 1095 until 1291 was to halt the onslaught of jihad from entering Europe. Yet, slavery, persecution, and murder persisted for those in the lands that Islam controlled. The crusades allowed for the reformation and Enlightenment period to occur and laid the foundation of modern society. As Islamic historian and author Dr. Robert Spencer has said,
It would not be until the twenty-first century that the free societies created out of this intellectual ferment would again be seriously imperiled by the forces of jihad”.
So today, many believe the lie—that is, Islam is peaceful.
TO BE CONTINUED . . .
Source:
Spencer, Robert. The History of Jihad: From Mohammad to ISIS. Post Hill Press, 2018.
David Agema, a former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot and the past president of Top Gun Republican political action committee, is a U.S. politician from the state of Michigan. David represented District 74 as a Republican member of the Michigan House of Representatives (from 2007 to 2013) and served as a member of the Republican National Committee from 2012 to 2016. He earned a rating of 100% by the Conservative Union and was also a Senior Captain at American Airlines.
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