So saith the Magistrate of human history, you?
The conquest of Portugal was to a large part furthered by the successor monks of the Templars - - the knights of Christ … having (for the most part) the same:
- officers;
- sergeants;
- forts;
- fleets
that were commanded by the Templars in Hispania prior to the disbanding of the Templars by the Pope.
You could even say that one of the reasons the Crusades came to a rather lackluster end is because there was a much closer and more convenient part of the Crusades, that siphoned off enthusiasm and manpower: the Cathar Crusade!
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Oh, by the way, did you ever go to Morocco to the square where in 1792, 50 Jews were burned alive because they would not convert to Islam?
“In 1792 in Ifrane, Morocco, 50 Jews preferred to be burned alive, rather than convert to Islam.”