But all the terrible crimes described above were not enough to those “Christians”. They wanted more wealth and power, and they started to organize so called “crusades”. [46-48].
As a formal cause for those new bloody campaigns they declared “liberation” of the “Holy Sepulcher” from Muslims.
Although, there was no such thing as the “Holy Sepulcher” in the first place: since the body of Jesus was placed into a cave, where it remained only for three days, after which He dematerialized it.
Moreover, Muslims held sacred everything related to the life of Jesus Christ: they regarded Him as a Messiah, which is written in the Quran (see [9]), and considered themselves continuers of His cause. They regarded Christians as their brothers and invited them to visit their common holy places together. They even built hotels for Christian pilgrims [46] in Jerusalem. Also, Muslims sent keys from Jerusalem to their Christian brothers in Rome — as a symbol of friendship [89].
So, there was no necessity to “liberate” anything from anyone. The only motive for all those crimes was craving for pillage.
To incite “Christians” to mass murders and robberies the “aggressive” promised them life-time indulgences for taking part in the “crusades”; they also allured them with “innumerable riches” of Muslim countries.
Those, who were setting out for the robberies, were giving their lands, houses, cattle, and all property in “custody” or selling for nothing… To whom? — To the Church, of course…
The detailed account of the atrocities that “Christians” were committing on their way can be found in the books by M.A.Zaborov [46-48]. All “crusades” entailed the complete sacking of villages and cities, that those troops of the devil were encountering on their way, and murdering of their populations: hundreds of thousands armed robbers heeded food (like do soldiers of all armies that set out for a long campaign), but where were people who were going on foot or on carriages for thousands of miles supposed to find it?
Some “crusades” ended just after plundering and destruction of cities in “Christian” countries (including Constantinople). Others reached their goal, although at the cost of a great number of casualties on the side of the aggressor.
Even “child crusades” were organized (based on the belief that “innocent” boys and girls would cope with the task better). They resulted in tens of thousands of 12 year-old children having died or been sold into slavery by ship-owners.
What was the overall effect of the “crusades”? — They resulted in a drastic change of attitude of Muslims towards “Christians”.
But those Muslims… saved people of Africa and Asia from the Inquisition.
