"Medieval French painting showing the massacre of Ayyubid captives by the English crusaders at Ayyadieh"So, they depicted the Muslims as the good guys here (all clad in white, and have normal faces instead of deformed faces). Therefore, Europeans knew that they were the bad guys and they were the invaders. No need to glaze the crusaders here now.
>>18252895Crusaders were always seen as like the dregs of Europe until 2010s memes. They sometimes persuaded a king or high noble to fund and/or lead a crusade like Richard I, Barbarossa or Curthose but it was more like an open invitation to yeet if you were bored or weren't too busy with other stuff.
>>18252937That's not even remotely true and many, many lords volunteered themselves.
>>18252895>Medieval French painting showing>English crusadersI think there's your answer to why they're shown as evil OP
>>18252895Very brown-coded post
>>18252895Crusades were great, purging the jews and browns from the earth is righteous.
>>18253029But Richard was FrenchThis counts as a French war crime
>>18252895Good guys vs bad guys is a jewish concept
