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https://x.com/truth_isthere/status/2096826028912226709?s=20 Reminder: The Crusades were a response to more than 400 years of Islamic aggression against Christians and Europe. 632: Death of Muhammad. 635: Muslims invaded and occupied the Christian city of Damascus. 636: Muslims invaded and occupied the Christian city of Antioch. 637: Muslims invaded and occupied the Holy Land. 639: Muslims invaded and occupied Armenia, the first Christian state. 641: Muslims invaded and occupied Egypt, the Coptic Christian state. 650: Muslim armies reached southern Italy and Cyprus, and enslaved thousands of people as captives and spoils of war. 711: Muslims invaded and occupied Spain, and by 715, they had control over most of it. 717: Muslims besieged Constantinople but were repelled. 730: Muslims invaded France, but Charles Martel stopped them at the Battle of Tours. 792: The ruler of Al-Andalus called for the invasion of France, leading to the mobilization of Islamic armies to attack it again, but they were repelled. 827: Muslims invaded and occupied Sicily and Italy, and persecuted monks. Sicily remained under Islamic occupation until 1092. 846: Muslims invaded and occupied Rome and forced the Pope to pay tribute. 848: A third invasion of France took place, and it was repelled for the third time. 909: Muslims occupied Sardinia. 937: Muslims burned the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and other churches in Jerusalem were attacked. 1009: Destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. 1012: Beginning of the repressive edicts of the ruler against Christians. 1071: Muslim Turks attacked the Byzantines and occupied a large part of Anatolia. 1094: Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos requested aid from the Western Christian world against the Islamic Turkish invasions. 1095: Pope Urban II officially announced the start of the First Crusade.