Thank you Wretchard for indirectly and inadvertently providing the historical context for the Crusades. So many guilt-ridden Westerners who even go around apologizing for the Crusades have no idea that the Mediterranean Basin was largely Christian at the time of Islam’s beginnings. One of the reasons the Dark Ages were called that was because it was a perilous time for Christianity. At the same time that Christians were losing their non-European territories, they had yet to convert much of Northern Europe and Scandinavia. Many ignorant modern revisionists would have us believe that the Crusades were a typical white male “invasion pathology.”