8000 Muslims massacred by White, racist European non-Muslims. All Euro vs Euro

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Fulcher of Chartres report of what pope urban II said at Clermont is generally regarded as the earliest and most accurate.  Written around 1100, shortly after the Crusaders finished murdering anyone who did not look like them, he recounts how anyone going east to recover the holy lands from the muslims would receive a free pass to heaven.


https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/urban2-5vers.asp




Unusually, we have an actual letter from the then pope fuckface in which he still fails to mention that his precious 'holy land' had been overrun centuries earlier instead of being some sort of recent atrocity.  So rare that we get an actual document written in the hand of the criminal himself!

Urban II: Letter of Instruction to the Crusaders, December 1095
Urban, bishop, servant of the servants of God, to all the faithful, both princes and subjects, waiting in Flanders; greeting, apostolic grace, and blessing.
Your brotherhood, we believe, has long since learned from many accounts that a barbaric fury has deplorably afflicted an laid waste the churches of God in the regions of the Orient. More than this, blasphemous to say, it has even grasped in intolerabe servitude its churches and the Holy City of Christ, glorified b His passion and resurrection. Grieving with pious concern at this calamity, we visited the regions of Gaul and devoted ourselves largely to urging the princes of the land and their subjects to free the churches of the East. We solemnly enjoined upon them at the council of Auvergne (the accomplishment of) such an undertaking, as a preparation for the remission of all their sins. And we have constituted our most beloved son, Adhemar, Bishop of Puy, leader of this expedition and undertaking in our stead, so that those who, perchance, may wish to undertake this journey should comply With his commands, as if they were our own, and submit fully to his loosings or bindings, as far as shall seem to belong to such an office. If, moreover, there are any of your people whom God has inspired to this vow, let them know that he (Adhemar) will set out with the aid of God on the day of the Assumption of the Blessed Mary, and that they can then attach themselves to his following.

The church obviously sold "salvation contracts" to any knight contributing in the crusade.
If we replaced "Christ" with "the Prophet of Allah"; this will be an identical copy of what we hear from Jihadists today: the crusades were the Christian version of the Jihadi operations of today.

Also; it's the best way to enlist free soldiers who cost the pope nothing; knights across Europe had already finished their training without costing the Church a penny. All they need is the "cause"; and that was tailored by the Church: "avenge Christ who got desecrated by Muslims".

I wonder seriously about the amount of revenue the Church have made.