AFTER being betrayed by Alexius, the Emperor of Byzantium, the Crusaders left Turkey in great disappointment and they set forth for Jerusalem on foot.
They wore heavy amour and soft slippers made of pig leather.
The heat was consuming them and they were constantly attacked by the Turks en route to Jerusalem which was 1 600 kilometres away from their starting point.
Most of the lives were taken by the rains that caught up with them as they were crossing the Turkish border which was a wide river.
The Crusaders also lost their amour and property which they had carried from Europe and acquired on the way.
Their loads were now being carried by goats and dogs.
The Crusaders died in their thousands and out of the 60 000 who began the march, only about 20 000 eventually made it to their destination of Jerusalem.
It is evident that God and the forces of nature were against the Barbarian Crusaders, which was ironic for a people claiming to be fighting a holy war.
The Crusaders made it to Edessa, to a place called Antioch which was named after a ruthless Greek ruler called Antiochus Epiphanes IV.
Today he is remembered as one of the most evil men to have ever lived.
This city in Edessa which was named after Antiochus eventually became the place where Christianity began.
The first Christians who were known as Coptic Christians were mostly black Arameans and Judeans.
Coptic Christians were persecuted by the Romans until the advent of Constantine, when the Romans infiltrated their pageantry into the religion and set themselves as the head.
A Crusader leader called Baldwin eventually gained influence in Edessa by cunningly entering the royal family.
The ruler of Edessa was an aged and childless man called Thowas.
The people of Edessa wanted the military help of the likes of Baldwin and the Crusaders to fight off the Turks who had invaded Antioch.
Baldwin then forced Thowas to adopt him as his son and heir of his kingdom. Shortly after this, Baldwin plotted the assassination of Thowas by way of a mob attack in his castle.
Shortly after this, the Crusaders surrounded Antioch which was fortified with high and thick walls and the Turks were inside this enclosure.
When Alexius of Byzantium heard of the progress the Crusaders had made in Antioch, he supplied the siege mounds made of wood so as to destruct the wall manners by slinging rocks.
Eventually the Crusaders made it into the enclosure and started slaughtering the black Turks.
They would cut the heads of their victims off.
The Crusaders were not at all selective as they killed both Muslims and Christians as long as they were black.
The Turks of Antioch were Muslims and they were connected to the vast Empire of Islam which had taken over the known world.
When the reports of the siege of Antioch reached the other Turkish Emirs (Muslim rulers), they mobilised a formidable army which quickly vanquished the Crusaders.
The Crusaders were now confined in the same walls they had tried to besiege.
Now they had become the besieged.
The Barbarians began to starve and die of disease as their access to the market had been cut off.
The Crusaders then fled away from Antioch en route to Jerusalem after yet another failed crusade.
At this point the crusaders were out of control and their numbers dwindling.
They committed the most horrendous acts of cannibalism so as to curb their hunger. Their warring had disrupted trade and the markets of the city and so they could not find food.
They raided villages and ate their enemies.
This is historical truth which is known by the whites of Britain, France and Germany.
Their ancestors impaled children, devoured them grilled and ate their buttocks.
What sort of Christians would commit such inhumane acts?
When the Barbarian whites finally reached Jerusalem in June of 1099 CE, they found that the Turks that had reportedly occupied Jerusalem had long been expelled by the Egyptians.
The Egyptians were black and also Muslim, but they were tolerant of Coptic Christianity as they had previously been Christians.
Thus there was no war against Christians in Jerusalem as was falsely told to the crusaders by Pope Irvin of the Catholic Church.
There was harmony in Jerusalem and the Muslims had considered it a holy site, the second most holy after Mecca (the homeland of Prophet Muhammad and their place of pilgrimage).
The only form of persecution that had taken place against any religious group in Jerusalem was brought about by the other Germanic branch of Crusaders that had slaughtered the black Israelites they found in that land.
Regardless of this awakening to the true condition of Jerusalem, which was peaceful, the Barbarians decided to attack the Egyptian Muslims, all without provocation.
The remaining 20 000 Crusaders surrounded the walls of Jerusalem and began to kill the Egyptians.
The slaughter of these blacks saw the Crusaders killing every black man, woman and child they could find.
A Crusader leader named Tankrit sealed some Muslims in a mosque and killed them all.
Such cruelty had never been done by Muslims against any religious group or nation.
Throughout the trip to Central Asia, the Crusaders had been astonished by the sophistication of the cities and livelihood of the blacks and they wished to replace them so as to experience such lavishness themselves.
Reports of the invasion of Jerusalem by the Crusaders and the consequent slaughter of the Muslims stunned the Muslim community and the world in general.
The whites, who were known as heathens had now occupied the holy land of Jerusalem, in the most ungodly manner of violence and destruction, and all in the name of Christ.
This form of colonisation under the guise of religious obligation would continue to be used by whites and eventually victimise the lands and people of the Americas, East Asia and Africa in like manner.
It took time for the Muslims to react for they had no idea what had provoked the whites to engage them in such warfare at a time of relative peace and harmony between Christians and Muslims.
This issue was discussed in the Great Mosque of Damascus in Syria, which was the Moorish headquarters.
A petition to mobilise Muslims to fight the crusaders was drawn up, but it took as long as 40 years for the Muslims to finally counter the Crusaders and engage them in battle.
The Muslims by law could only undertake a ‘jihad’ (literally meaning a struggle) under the guidance of a leader who would be raised by Allah (God) for that purpose.
Besides this, the Muslims of Damascus of this period were not accustomed to warfare.
They were described as pacifists who were mostly concerned with grooming and studying.
They were forming institutions of higher learning along with the Moors of southern Europe, North and West Africa and Babylon (Iraq).