The Crusades were provoked

The Crusades were not, as are commonly stated, Christian aggression against the 'peaceful' Islamic states, it was a reaction to hundreds of years of Islamic aggression toward Christian peoples and nations of Christendom. The modern Middle East and North Africa were not only Christian areas, they were the most Christian areas of the world at that time.

It was only through centuries of war, conquest, murder, oppression, rape, forced conversion, massacres and the like that explains the mostly Muslim populations today! The 'jizya' or the poll tax which non Muslims had to and still have to pay was an incentive to those who had little or no faith to convert. Many lukewarm Christians would have been financially better off as Muslims and since their faith was flaky at best, going to mosque seemed little different to going to church, this was especially so of wealthy men and merchants.

Have a look bellow and see the time line of Islamic history in relation to the rest of the world, see what you think!



630 AD Two years before Muhammad's death he launches the Tabuk Jihad, this was aimed at the Roman Empire. Christians were forced to pay the jizya(poll tax)


632-634 AD Abu Bakr the first Caliph force converts non-Muslim Arabs


633 AD Khalid al-Walid, a bloodthirsty military commander leads a Jihad against the city of Ullays along the Euphrates River(modern Iraq). Khalid captures and beheads so many that a nearby canal, into which the blood flowed, was called Blood Canal


634 AD The Battle of Yarmuk in Syria the Muslim Jihadis defeat the Romans. This was to prove disastrous for the Christians of the East and a turning point in history!


635 AD Muslim Jihadis besiege and conquer Damascus


636 AD Muslim Jihadis defeat the Romans decisively at the 2nd Battle of Yarmuk.


637 AD Muslim Jihadis conquer Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) at the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah


638 AD Muslim Jihadis conquer and annex Jerusalem, stealing it from the Christian Romans.


638-650 AD Muslim Jihadis conquer Persia.


639-642 AD Muslim Jihadis conquer Egypt.


641 AD Muslim Jihadis occupy Syria and Palestine.


643-707 AD Muslim Jihadis conquer North Africa.


644-650 AD Muslim Jihadis conquer Cyprus, Tripoli in North Africa, and force Islamic rule in Persia, modern Afghanistan, and Sind.


673-678 AD Muslims besiege Constantinople, capital of the Roman Empire


691 AD Dome of the Rock is completed in Jerusalem on the site of Solomon's temple, only six decades after Muhammad's death.


710-713 AD Muslim Jihadis conquer the lower Indus Valley, massacring as they go.


711-713 AD Muslim Jihadis conquer Spain and impose the kingdom of Andalus.


732 AD The Muslim Jihadis are stopped at the Battle of Poitiers by Charles Martel, King of the Franks


807 AD Caliph Harun al-Rashid orders the destruction of non-Muslim prayer houses and of the church of Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem


809 AD Aghlabids (Muslim Jihadis) conquer Sardinia.


813 AD Christians in Palestine are attacked; many flee the country.


831 AD Muslim Jihadis capture Palermo, Sicily; raids in Southern Italy.


850 AD Caliph al-Matawakkil orders the destruction of Christian churches


855 AD Revolt of the Christians of Hims (Syria)


837-901 AD Aghlabids (Muslim Jihadis) conquer Sicily, raid Corsica, Italy, France.


869-883 AD Revolt of black slaves in Mesopotamia(Iraq)


909 AD Muslim Jihadis occupy Sicily and Sardinia.


928-969 AD Roman military revival, they retake Cyprus (964) and Tarsus (969)


937 AD The Ikhshid, a blood thirsty Muslim ruler, writes to Emperor Romanus, boasting of his control over the holy places.


937 AD The Church of the Resurrection (known as Church of Holy Sepulcher in Latin West) is burned down by Muslims; more churches in Jerusalem are attacked.


966 AD Anti-Christian riots in Jerusalem.


969 AD Fatimids (Muslim jihadis) conquer Egypt.


1003 AD First persecutions by al-Hakim; the Church of St. Mark in Fustat, Egypt, is destroyed.


1009 AD Destruction of the Church of the Resurrection by al-Hakim


1012 AD Beginning of al-Hakim's oppressive decrees against Jews and Christians.


1048 AD Reconstruction of the Church of the Resurrection completed.


1055 AD Confiscation of property of Church of the Resurrection.


1071 AD Battle of Manzikert, Seljuk Turks (Muslim Jihadis) defeat Romans and occupy much of Anatolia.


1071 AD Turks (Muslim Jihadis) invade Palestine.


1073 AD Conquest of Jerusalem by Turks (Muslim Jihadis)


1075 AD Seljuks (Muslim Jihadis) capture Nicea and make it their capital in Anatolia.


1076 AD Almoravids conquer western Ghana.


1085 AD Toledo is liberated by Christian armies.


1086 AD Almoravids send help to Andalus, Battle of Zallaca.


1090-1091 AD Almoravids occupy all of Andalus except Saragossa and Balearic Islands.


1094 AD Roman Emperor Alexius Comnenus I, asks western Christendom for help against Muslim invasions of his territory1095 AD Pope Urban II preaches first Crusade. The Crusades are ultimately unsuccessful, in fact the Crusaders betray the Romans and sack Constantinople in 1204 AD. The greatest betrayal in Christendom's history.


1453 AD Muslims Jihadis conquer and rape Constantinople ending the Roman Empire and 2000 years of history.


1492 AD The Muslims of Granada, the remnant of Al Andalus are defeated by Ferdinand and Isabella's armies. The Muslims are then expelled from Spain, liberating the last parts of that nation.


1529 AD Muslim Jihadis unsuccessfully besiege Vienna


1683 AD The second failed attempt to seize Vienna marks the beginning of 500 years of Islamic decline