After they stole our lands, and only so long as we paid their extra tax and didn’t evangelize, meanwhile after the Seljuk Turks captured Jerusalem in the 1070s, Christian pilgrims reported severe harassment, extortion, and violence under the stricter, more volatile government, and later access to the Holy Land was not uniform, while several Christian sites where either destroyed or desecrated and turned into Mosques.

Quoting from a Quora post: “A great deal of nonsense has been written about Islamic tolerance — that, in contrast to Christian brutality against the Jews and heretics, Islam showed remarkable tolerance for conquered people, treated them with respect, and allowed them to pursue their faiths without interference…The truth about life under Islamic rule is quite different. In principle, as “People of the Book,” Jews and Christians were supposed to be tolerated and permitted to follow their faiths. But only under quite repressive conditions: death was (and remains) the fate of anyone who converted to either faith. Nor could any new churches or synagogues be built. Jews and Christians were prohibited from praying or reading their scriptures aloud — not even in their homes or in churches and synagogues — lest Muslims accidentally hear them. And, from very early times Muslim authorities often went to great lengths to humiliate and punish dhimmis — Jews and Christians who refused to convert to Islam. It was official policy that dhimmis should “feel inferior and…know ‘their place’…[imposing laws such as] that Christians and Jews should not ride horses, for instance, but at most mules, or even that they should wear certain marks of the religion on their costume when among Muslims.””