No, after 700 years of Islamic invasion, it took hundreds of years to free Spain. They took millions of slaves. No, it was a response to Islamic invasion.

The Crusades were a response to 700 years of attacks.

And so starting about 1200, when they've driven all the way into Western Europe and are taking over and have captured all these countries and grabbed Sicily, you know, the Italians were blonde hair, blue eye, but now, you know, they got dark hair and everything because they get captured all the way up to almost the Muslims almost take Rome. And the Pope finally gets scared and says, okay, we need all the Catholics in Scotland, Ireland, England, and in the Netherlands and in France. We need you to get together and launch a desperate counter-strike. So for 500 years, they strike back. And the media tells you that was an offense. So that was a defense.