Medieval Christians branded Islam as violent yet embraced crusading violence themselves

Evidence

The use of force was almost universally considered to be a major and characteristic constituent of the Islamic religion, and an evident sign of error. It was a part of the Christian approach to take this view while embracing the necessity for Crusading. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 624

Categorization

• XREF: Corroborates the vault’s existing point from the Frankfurt School thread and Razack/Aziz type analysis that the West constitutes its own violence as legitimate while reading the other’s identical violence as essence/barbarism.
• ADDENDUM: Directly relevant to the Grafting/Complaints/Sacrifice cluster framing about how the West justifies its own force while condemning the constructed other — echoes the register of the sacrifice thread’s claim about hierarchized violence.