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The general war-portion of the Crusades does not qualify as a genocide. While it was a waste of life and led to death of numerous Arabs and Europeans who need not have died, wars to expand influence were common in the medieval period. Similarly, the Muslims fought numerous expansionary wars in Spain (700-1200 CE) and in the Balkans (1300-1600 CE).
If you wish to narrow the scope and discuss, for example, the mass-murder of the Jews and Muslims living in Jerusalem when the Crusaders conquered the city in the First Crusade, then it does qualify. It was a genocide as it involved numerous massacres of Jews and Muslims who were butchered because of their faith. When the Muslims retook the city in the Second Crusade, they let the defeated Christians leave the city peacefully, showing that a peaceful way of dealing with a possibly resistant population was available.
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