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Whether he was justified is a different question.

However, the reason he felt justified was that Europe had witnessed 400 years of Islamic conquests. Muslim armies had invaded all the traditionally Christian areas of the Middle East and North Africa (as well as the Hindu/Buddhist areas further East); they had imposed their way of life; and they seemed to have a plan to take over the whole world.

The situation became worse when the Turks defeated the Arabs (an intra-Muslim conflict) and were oppressive rulers to their Christian subjects in Palestine. The ordinary people there begged their friends in Europe to help them.

The European leaders did not want Islam to take over Europe too (the Muslims had already conquered Spain, and they tried at regular intervals for Byzantium). There was no one secular leader who was powerful enough to organise a Europe-wide resistance, so the Pope coordinated the relief army.

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