Did the Crusades Spoil ‘Five Centuries of Peaceful Coexistence’ With Islam?

Well-known intellectual and go-to resource for U. S. intelligence and military agencies, Professor John Esposito of Georgetown University, insists that nothing terrible was happening during the “five centuries of quiet coexistence” between Muslims and Christians prior to the First Crusade, which was launched by jaded and terrible Europeans, always turning Islam against the West. &nbsp,

Is that real? My response follows:

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