content: The entire Mediterranean was besieged by Saracen slavers and pirates, spain was invaded, itally was invaded and so was greece and macedonia, prior to this all of the christian nations in north africa and along the non european portion of the Mediterranean suffered an immense genocide that wasn't communicable in it's severity for decades; the point of the crusades was to attempt to retake formerly christian port cities to prevent the muslim horded from continuing to rape and pillage europe and potentially take back the formerly christian lands where a small number of Christians had managed to survive.  Taking back those key locations slowed down eastern and northern muslim conquest and genocide and gave europe the ability to protect average people from barbarian muslims. Islam is guilty of 1400 years of jihad; watch the video you cunt, you know ISLAM DESERVES DEATH.