Fantastic book.  Yes, the Crusades were ‘glorious’, a late, latent reaction against the invasion of Christian civilisation by the cult of Muhammad.  For 400 years did the Muhammadans rape, war, jihad, slaughter and destroy.  30.000 Churches pulled down between Arabia and southern France.  Millions enslaved and converted to the moon cult (Baal or the Al Lah of Mecca).  The use of the wheel lost in Egypt, technology, water systems, agriculture, advanced cities and structures plundered, lost, destroyed.  Algebra invented 400 years before the Muhammandan cult renamed and appropriated.  All manner of civilisation erased and violated. 

Walter Scott, Runciman, the ‘Enlightenment’ ignoramuses’, the Marxist revisionists, Atheopaths and Protestants, always paint the Crusades as a monumental failure, a colossal display of barbaric savagery, an unprovoked rage against the peaceful, sedate, earnest, civilisation-creating Musulman, who desired nothing but harmony, romance, love and inventing.  This latter portrayal of the Crusades offers nothing but a solid impenetrable wall of wilful witlessness.  As divorced from what actually went on, as most modern science is from open, replicable experimentation. 

Muhammadans famously slaughtered 40.000 in 1453 at Constantinople, 10.000 at Edessa, 40.000 at Acre, 20.000 plus at Antioch; yet 3.000 Moslem and Jewish soldiers (along with some innocents), fighting and killed in Jerusalem in July 1099 meant that the city was up to the ‘knees in blood’ (a quote from revelation and blood to the bridle imagery found in the Old Testament, not reality).  The stupid hurts.

Weidenkopf sets the record straight.  He disproves the myths, some of them believed by Catholics who don’t know their own history.

1-The Crusades were wars of unprovoked aggression (an idiotic assertion given that Muhammadanism attacked the Christian Byzantine empire in 637 AD and by 732 controlled the Levant, North Africa, Spain and was poised to take over France).

2-They were motivated by greed and plunder (80% of Crusaders did not return, dying from disease or war, most were financially ruined).

3-Crusaders killed all the inhabitants on Jerusalem in July 1099 (maybe 3000 died, most of those were Muslims and Jews still fighting).

4-They were colonialists (4% stayed, the rest who survived, went home).

5-The Crusades were wars against the Jews and the first holocaust (often the Jews sided with the Muslims and were dealt with accordingly).

6-They were wars of conversion (the exact opposite happened within the Frankish-dominated Levant, Jews and Moslems were left alone, the Frankish rulers having no resources or interest in conversion).

7-Crusades are the reason for the modern West-Muhammadan tension (the Moslem Jihad against civilisation erupted in 632 AD after the founder of the Baal cult, Muhammad died, poisoned by his own men).

Moslems had invaded, slaughtered, stolen Christian lands.

“The Crusades emerged from a feudal society that stressed personal relationships founded on honour, loyalty and service to one’s vassal.  Crusading knights invoked those virtues as they fought for Christ and the Church to recover ancient Christian territory stolen by Muslim conquerors.”

“Muhammad laid the foundation for the Crusades when, at the end of his life, he instructed his followers to ‘fight all men until they say there is no God but Allah.’…..Muhammad’s militaristic teachings and actions set the example for his followers who sought to emulate the jihad undertaken by the prophet.  Jihad and imperial expansion of the umma promised not only material but also spiritual riches for the Muslim, as heaven awaited him if he died on jihad and hell awaited those who fought against him.”

Islam or Submission is rooted in and based on Jihad – the forcible conversion or killing of non-Moslems.  That is the premise of the cult.  This is why you can’t leave the moon cult once you join it (apostasy is punished by death).  This is why for 1400 years the wars, the assaults, the rapes, the polygamy, the female mutilations have never ceased.  All the pre-modern Arabian pagan customs were simply rewritten by Muhammad’s cult to be divinely inspired.  Muhammadanism did not invent anything new.  It enshrined as godly, the Meccan practices dating back to the Bronze Age, infusing them with monotheistic concepts from Judeo-Christianity, creating the most anti-Christian program outside of Nazism and Communism.

Without the Crusades and taking the war to Muhammad’s cult, it is unlikely that Europe would have survived.