>>18391931Crusaders were Christian for fucks sake. Why would a fucking pagan volunteer to go fight Arabs and Muslims?
Islamic conquests cut off the region of Syria-Palestina for Christians who liked to go on pilgrimages. So they sent in dudes to secure a land route. sea ports to the Holy Land.
They were ordained "monk" PMCs that were supposed to protect access to Jersusalem. But desert pagans and heretical types sought asylum and refuge in Christian protected lands.
This is how they got into gnosticism, druze stuff, zoroastrianism, They started porking desert women and hanging out with MIddle Eastern mystics. Similar stuff happened in Al Andalus.
Christian whites, warrior type started dabbling on Middle Eastern magic shit. Divination. Stuff forbidden to them by Catholics who tried to control that stuff in formerly pagan parts of Europe.
