The Apologists like to portray the Crusades as some type of Catholic blood lust, but I think they just recognized the threat for what is was and still is.
A bunch of pig-ignorant savages doing something really stupid because a Holy Man told them to?
That describes the Crusades in a nutshell.
not exactly-----the people were ruled by kings-----it is true
that the educational level was almost as crappy as that
or their muzzie oponents