POPE IRVIN sold to the Barbarian whites the idea that the crusades which were wars against black Muslims and black people in general, was a religious act which would bring salvation to the perpetrators.
War became a devotion to Christian whites in the same way as prayer and fasting.
The Barbarians were notorious for vandalism and wasted no time to unleash their barbarous skills in the name of Christ and God.
The Pope began promoting what they called a pilgrimage, with the motto; ‘Take the cross to Jerusalem’.
The call went all across Europe.
The Pope also recruited legendary fighters from all over Europe so as to bring confidence to the Barbarians and to make them fanatics.
Sentiments such as ‘Get your place in heaven by sending infidels to hell’ were rampant in this period among the Europeans.
Ironically most of the Barbarian whites from the north of Europe had never seen black people as black Turks had only attacked the eastern part of Byzantine which was originally Turkish territory.
The black Moors had settled mainly in southern Europe up to southern France.
Beyond these points, the Barbarian whites had never seen blacks and their perception of black people was based on the myths and rumours that Pope Irvin was quick to manipulate in his favour.
Prior to the Crusades, the Romans had invaded Jerusalem in 68 BCE and ejected the black Judeans from their land.
In the 700s CE, the black Moors attacked Jerusalem and conquered the Romans and chased them away. It was more for this reason that black people were targeted during the crusades.
The irony is that the Romans killed Jesus on whose name Christianity was built.
During the Crusades, the Romans found it convenient to use Christianity to rally the support of history-ignorant Barbarians to avenge defeat and to recover lost territory.
The Barbarians depended on the Catholic Church because they lived on lands which Catholic Priests were the lords over the lands.
It is also important to highlight the fact that the crusades were the first unifying issue in Europe and it was the Pope who led the murderous campaign.
The Barbarians pledged their allegiance to the Catholic Church and also vowed to complete the pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
To show their commitment, the Barbarians donned a red cross on their war apparel and if they turned back from their vow, they would be ex-communicated.
The Catholics preached that Judgment Day was at hand and that hell was for those who were not fighting on the side of the Catholic Church.
They said that those who would join the crusades would be forgiven their sins in this life and in heaven.
The Barbarians who were mostly simple peasants bought into the lie and joined the crusader troops in large numbers.
By 1096 CE the first Crusades had begun.
Barbarian armies were marching in tens of thousands.
A group under a man named Peter ‘the Hermit’ set out for Jerusalem via Turkey and another group of Germanic tribes went straight towards Jerusalem.
The Germanic Crusaders that first made it into Jerusalem did not find Muslims as they had expected. Rather they found black Israelites who they massacred.
The Moorish civilisation comprised of black Muslims and Israelites.
The white Jews had been chased away from Jerusalem and Babylon along with the rest of the whites in the 700s CE and settled in Russia and also southern Europe.
Almost the whole community of the black Israelites in Jerusalem of that time was slain and they had not seen it coming.
This was the first crusade and many more would follow.
The Crusaders were ill prepared on their journeys and their warfare was fuelled by their barbaric nature.
While marching, they would fight for miniscule things like shoes and these fights would lead to the deaths of thousands.
They killed any villagers trying to block them from passing through their land and they set the villages on fire.
The group under Peter ‘the Hermit’ had 60 000 people and they arrived in Turkey in October of 1096 CE.
The journey had taken them four months and they were weary.
The Crusaders that went to Turkey were in transit to Jerusalem which was around 1 600 kilometres away.
Emperor Alexius of Byzantine had no idea that it was his letter to the Catholic Church that had been used as an excuse to raise such an army to undertake such an expedition.
The crusaders comprised of men, women and children and were going to be a burden on the Byzantine Empire.
Alexius initially shut the gates of his Empire on the Barbarians and they succumbed to hunger.
Eventually he let them in and then Turkey became a haven for Barbarian hoards.
Barbarian whites began flocking to Turkey from Germany, France and other places in Europe.
They had never seen such sophistication and urbanization as they did in cities like Constantinople.
Before long, fuelled with greed and hate for the black Turks, the Barbarian whites began to torture and massacre the Turks.
The French Barbarians were the first to strike.
Ironically, most of the Turks that these whites killed were in fact Christians and not Muslims.
However, the Barbarians had been programmed by the Pope and Catholic priests to consider every non-white and non-Catholic an infidel (non-believer).
Nicaea was the Capital of Turkey and it had been reclaimed by the Turks since the attack on Byzantium about two decades prior to this.
The Barbarians attacked the Turks, but they could not enter Nicaea because it was fortified with high and stout walls.
The whites looted the villages, killing men, women and children, looting livestock and property, burning houses and impaling the Turks.
The babies were cut to pieces and corpses were roasted and eaten.
The Frankish Barbarians returned feeling victorious and this made the Germanic Barbarians eager to strike too.
The Germanic Barbarians went beyond Nicaea and captured the fortified castle.
The Turks trapped them inside the castle for they knew there were no wells inside the fortified walls.
The Turks then surrounded the barbarians and forced them to succumb to hunger, thirst and great heat.
The whites got so thirsty they began drinking horse’s blood, their own urine and also sewage water.
The Turks offered them to surrender and become Muslims.
This entailed pledging that there is no God, but Allah and also getting circumcised.
After converting these whites would become slaves to the Turks.
Most of the whites refused to convert and were killed, not because they were not Muslims, but because they had invaded the Turks in their own land and massacred a great deal of them.
Meanwhile, rumours had spread among the rest of the Barbarians that the crusaders had won over Nicaea.
The Turks capitalised on this misinformation and invited more Barbarians to come and assist the Germanic crusaders.
About 2 500 Frankish Barbarians marched into the trap and were defeated.
This was the second crusade.
After this more and more crusaders came into Turkey and Alexius began to fear that they would become a force strong enough to take over the Byzantine Empire.
Among the influential Barbarian warlords were Hugh, Tankrit, Merman, Baldwin and Andrew.
Alexius asked each leader of the crusader armies to pledge their allegiance to him, but they initially refused.
These Barbarians began planning on taking over Constantinople, the stronghold of the Byzantine Empire.
Alexius put together a formidable army to route them and after succeeding to do so, Alexius closed the gates on the Barbarians and caused them to succumb to hunger.
Eventually the crusaders all yielded to Alexius and he became their leader.
One of the agreements was that they would hand over any land they would conquer to Alexius.
Alexius instructed them to reclaim Nicaea from the Turks and they ravaged it.
The Barbarians were planning another wave of attacks to completely take over Nicaea when Alexius realised that they could turn against him if they were to take the city.
Alexius then offered the Turks to surrender or he would unleash the Barbarians to eliminate them.
By the time the crusaders arrived in Nicaea, Alexius was already in power and the crusaders felt betrayed.