ACCORDING TO FULCHER OF CHARTRES, DURING THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM (1099) BY THE CRUSADERS: "IN THIS TEMPLE 10,000 WERE KILLED. INDEED, IF YOU HAD BEEN THERE YOU WOULD HAVE SEEN OUR FEET COLOURED TO OUR ANKLES WITH THE BLOOD OF THE SLAIN. BUT WHAT MORE SHALL I RELATE? NONE OF THEM WERE LEFT ALIVE; NEITHER WOMEN NOR CHILDREN WERE SPARED."; AND ACCORDING TO IBN AL-QALANISI: "THE JEWS ASSEMBLED IN THEIR SYNAGOGUE, AND THE FRANKS BURNED IT OVER THEIR HEADS."; STILL THINK THE CRUSADES WERE "SELF-DEFENSE"?
