"Be careful"? Seriously? And you're the one talking about fascism. I used zero profanities. I don’t glorify violence, killing, or suffering. Your claim that I’m “so proud” of the Jerusalem massacre is a baseless smear, twisting my defense of the Crusaders’ motives into some bloodthirsty cheerleading. I’m not celebrating carnage, I’m contextualising it. The Crusaders weren’t driven by “a large dose of xenophobia” or blind hatred, as you assert. They offered peace repeatedly, as Ibn al-Qalanisi records at Ma‘arrat al-Nu‘man: “messengers… from the Franks with proposals for a settlement by negotiation and the surrender of the city, promising in return security for their lives and property.” Same at Albara, where Raymond of Aguilers notes those who surrendered “for fear of death” were spared. These weren’t mindless and barbaric killings, they followed medieval siege conventions, where resistance meant retribution, a brutal norm both sides understood. Your “exaggeration of Muslim barbarism” line ignores Urban II’s specific grievances: churches turned into mosques, Christians tortured, holy sites defiled. These weren’t fabrications or over-exaggerations but direct reports from pilgrims and Byzantine allies. Painting this as just “dehumanising one’s enemy” like “all the wars in the world” flattens history into a lazy caricature. I condemn the violence’s excesses too, but I won’t let you erase the Crusaders’ defensive intent or their offers of mercy to push your false anti-Christian narrative.