Denk je nu echt dat enkel de middeleeuwse moslim hoofden afhakten en op spiezen staken? LOL, heb je enig idee wat de kruisvaarders zelf allemaal uitspookten? Tijdens het beleg van Antioch werden de hoofden van gevangen Turken als munitie gebruikt en werden driehonderd afgehakte hoofden op spiezen geplaatst in het zicht van de verdedigers om ze te demoraliseren. En dan hebben we het nog niet over de verovering van Jerusalem door Godfried van Bouillon, waarbij 40 duizend moslims maar ook de joodse inwoners werden uitgemoord in een dagenlang bloedbad. Een (christelijke) ooggetuige in de Gesta Francorum:
The defenders fled along the walls and through the city, and our men pursued them killing and cutting them down as far as Solomon's Temple, where there was such a massacre that our men were wading ankle deep in blood ... Then the crusaders rushed around the whole city, seizing gold and silver, horses and mules, and looting the housing that were full of costly things. Then, rejoicing and weeping from excess of happiness, they all came to worship and give thanks at the sepulchre of our saviour Jesus. Next morning, they went cautiously up the temple roof and attacked the Saracens, both men and women [who had taken refuge there], cutting off their heads with drawn swords ... Our leaders then gave orders that all the Saracen corpses should be thrown outside the city because of the stench, for almost the whole city was full of dead bodies ... such a slaughter of pagans had never been seen or heard of, for they were burned in pyres like pyramids, and none save God alone knows how many they were.
Een andere ooggetuige was kruisvaarder Raymond van Aguille. Hij raakt duidelijk in extase van zoveel bloedvergieten:
Wonderful sights were to be seen. Some of our men (and this was more merciful) cut off the heads of their enemies; others shoot them with arrows, so that they fell from the towers; others tortured them longer by casting them into flames. Piles of heads, hands and feet were to be seen in the streets of the city. It was necessary to pick one's way over the bodies of men and horses. But these were small matters compared to what happened at the Temple of Solomon, a place where religious services are normally chanted ... in the temple and the porch of Solomon, men rode in blood up to their knees and bridle reins. Indeed it was a just and splendid judgement of God that this place should be filled with the blood of unbelievers since it had suffered so long from their blasphemies.