Greetings, I'm new to this sub Reddit and I have a very important question, I'm a Muslim artist who wanted to write a comic book about the Christian crusades, it's supposed to be a historical fantasy showing both the horrors of the crusades yet how it wasn't a war of religions, but rather a political war that used religion as an excuse and that Muslims and Christians should band together as brethren, yet when I did actual research I kept getting mixed answers on the true cause of the crusades, in history class growing up we were always told that the crusades were an unprovoked war, true the Turks were having a conquest on Byzantine territory but it wasn't a religious problem as Christians had their rights within Muslim lands, they were treated as equals and rumors of Muslim prosecution against Christians was mere propaganda, or so I thought since a bunch of people online on both articles, YouTube videos and such say that there WAS actual Christian prosecution in turkey and how islamic tolerance for Christianity was at a decline, I just wanted to fact check what ACTUALLY happened and what was the REAL thing that kicked off the crusades and most importantly, were they actually justified? Or was it a barbaric conquest and a shame for Christianity as most people know it today?