Crusaders Against Nazis meme compilation #6.
You're right, they belong to the fanatical Christians who think Muslim people are heretical demons that must be purged from The Holy Land... Like???????? Crusaders weren't any kind or flavor of Good
Seeing that you reblogged this from wearepaladin, Iâm guessing you know who we-are-knight is right? If you do, that means youâve seen his content, which if you have seen any of his Crusader history posts, you would know thatâs not true.
I have not, got links?
@we-are-knight
Everytime I see either an uninformed random person talking about the crusaders being objectively evil, or some ultra-right-wing person adopting the crusaders iconography and images to perpetuate the exact attitude of Islamophobic sentiment described by @thecalmissar, I am between a deep sigh, and a drink.
Short answer is: the super Islamophobic image cultivated by the Right-wing that they attach in a Revisionist mentality to the Crusaders within a historical context, is a fiction created by that group. While the Crusaders did have some Islamophobic attitudes, it would not be in the context we recognise today, and was often downplayed between rhetoric (propaganda they put out and preached) and reality (wherein Crusader Lords and factions tried to ally with the various Saracen forces, rented property to them, etc).
The Crusaders were... varied. The bottom rung of them, the armed pilgrims and peasants were notorious for extreme fanaticism and what we would consider racism today, whereas the middling and upper classes were far more practical and friendly outside of a warring context. Like all conflicts, the Gold Guys and Bad Guys are a bit more nuanced than we like to think.
