The New Crusaders

The Crusades started almost a thousand years ago, in 1096 CE and concluded nearly 200 years later in 1272. Crusades consisted of European Christians going to Palestine to attack without provocation the resident Muslims with the goal of taking over what Christians called the Holy Land, making it a Christian place. Those European expeditionary forces were called Crusaders.

Fast forward nearly 800 years and we find Muslims attacking without provocation the nations whose cultural heritage is obviously European. Their goal is the reestablishment of the Caliphate, and the conversion of everyone to Islam. These Muslim expeditionary forces are called jihadis, but should be called Crusaders, for they are engaged in exactly the same sort of cultural and religious imperialism as the former Crusades.

I am willing to agree with today's Muslims that the Crusades a millennium ago were wrong, and shouldn't have happened. Are today's Muslims willing to agree with me that today's crusading jihadis are likewise wrong, and shouldn't exist?

During the Crusades I believe most Europeans passively acquiesced in the expeditions to Jerusalem, but stayed home. My sense is that today most Muslims passively acquiesce in what the jihadis are doing, while not participating themselves.

I'd like to be proven wrong in this view.