PJ Media [Editor’s note: The following account, which originally appeared on July 4, is adapted from the author’s new book, Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West.  All quotes are cited there.] Soon after liberating the ancient Christian city of Antioch from Muslim oppression, the First Crusaders managed to realize their primary […]

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