The official reason for banning Muslim practices—hijab, ban on construction or expansion of mosques in France—goes against the very principle of liberty that French officials are allegedly trying to protect.
The Crusades are traditionally defined as the series of western expeditions against the Muslim lands of Palestine and the Levant which begun with Pope Urban’s call to arms at Clermont in 1095AD, and all but ended with the Muslim liberation of Acre in 1291.