Wow. You know I just listened to the news on this on my commute to work (basically about Macron's reaction to it, which boils down to the usual platitudes). Not once in the 2 minute radio clip were the words Islam, Islamization, Islamic Terror or Muslim uttered. It wasn't mentioned that the man had been beheaded, it wasn't mentioned that the perpetrator was a Chechen with a refugee status. Only the words "radicalized groups" and radicalization were used. This is an incredible omission of truth and facts by official channels.
And if our comrades over on SV are a representative sample of those interested in such matters he's still coming off as a raging Islamophobe.
Which is BS. I'm really rusty on this but I did some history reports on the Crusades years ago. There were essentially 8 Crusades, with the First through the Third being considered legitimate by most. The fourth is when things start getting dicy. As ever, Politics began playing a role and when you add politics plus religion, no matter what religion it is, its going to end badly. After the 4th and 5th I stopped studying them as they seemed to be Crusades in name only.
To make a very, very long story short and simple(since I never formally studied this): Christianity at its height had four, arguably five, holy cities. Jerusalem, Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, and Antioch. At the time of the First Crusade, only Rome and Constantinople remained. Beyond that Muslim conquerors had already overrun Iberia and barely been thwarted from moving into France. They were picking off Mediterranian islands, were probing Sicily and Italy, and had spent generations hammering at the Byzantines. As extra salt in the wound, they were perpetuating the slave trade. Most of the thralls the Vikings took were sold in Iberia as Christians, at least on paper, opposed slavery. And that's not counting all the slavery and piracy the various Muslim pirate groups got up to in the Mediterranian and North Africa.
The crusades were an attempt to stem the tide, take back holy lands, liberate occupied Christian populations, and relieve a beleaguered Byzantine empire. Obviously, by the time the fourth Crusade sacked Constantinople something had been lost in translation which has led to the Crusades being an embarrassing memory in Christianity's collective psyche.