A few years ago, popular conservative commentator Steven Crowder made a video 'debunking' a lot of common talking points on the Crusades. The video is actually the most popular video covering the Crusades on the internet, however, to my knowledge much of the information he presented to his audience was either highly manipulated or downright wrong. Some of his claims are so ridiculous or easy to refute, like him claiming that Ottoman Turks attacked the Byzantine Empire before the First Crusade, instead of the Seljuk Turks. A lot of the video doesn't even cover the Crusades, rather Islam as a whole (and I personally believe that the video was created as a trojan horse for Crowder to preach his blatant islamophobia rather than educate his audience about the truth about the Crusades). He has an article and a list of sources corresponding with his video, which I've looked through and some of those sources are also extremely unreliable, such as Bill Warner's "Destruction of Classical Civilization" map. The YouTuber Three Arrows made a great response video to Crowder, but I'm wondering if anything that Crowder mentions within his Crusades video is true, specifically his points about mass muslim invasions and abuse toward members of other religions. I'd appreciate it if anyone could help deduce if Crowder is entirely full of shit or if he makes some accurate claims.
This guy comes up a lot here, so there are some previous answers that will help you (which I always appreciate, since it means I don't have to watch these videos myself, ugh)
How accurate was three arrows video on the crusades by u/Superplaner (with links to even more similar questions and answers)
It's referenced in /u/shlin28's answer, but I cannot stress enough how completely ridiculous Bill Warner's "crusades vs. jihads" dataset is. It includes a large number of entirely internecine Muslim battles as anti-Christian Jihad battles for reasons only discernible to Bill Warner. You can see those data points in the video in the map. They aren't labeled but it's pretty clear those are the battles in Arabia, among others (e.g. a lot of the ones in Iraq.)
It also characterizes the Lebanese Civil War as one anti-Christian battle per year for his purposes and summarizes the war as follows:
The refugees included armed PLO guerrillas with veto power on Lebanese politics, as well as influence over foreign policy of other Middle eastern states. Nearly 100% of Christians were expelled, and comprised many among the 1,000,000 people expelled from Lebanon.After the war, Lebanon was occupied by Syria, further driving most Lebanese Christians into exile, while others were assassinated or jailed
This is uhhhh, not even close to being accurate!
This is, obviously, utter nonsense. You can go to Lebanon today and find that there are still millions of Christians living there. I've even met a few of them! (Personal sources I know are generally not allowed on /r/askhistorians but I think the mods may allow me this one :)
edit: I forgot the link to the dataset, it's profoundly silly: http://cspipublishing.com/statistical/charts/Islam-BattlesDate.pdf