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Wikipedia has a section specifically on Jews and the Crusades. Many of those committing the atrocities against European Jews were doing so against the word of the local bishops, the only specific cases come to mind in Germany.
I was only "focusing" on Jews because I don't think Muslims had anything to complain about. And the Christians shot themselves in the foot so many times, I can't believe they actually came out alive, let alone on top. And of the world's three major religions involved in the conflict...well, those are it.
And I never said the majority (well I did, then I corrected myself). I just said "a lot." I don't have specific numbers off the top of my head, but it happened. Besides, lots of Crusades were smaller, and less well recognized, like the Albigensian Crusade, or the reconquista, but that doesn't make them less important. Everyone knows of the Children's Crusade, even though it had zero effect on the Crusading effort, except as a boon to the slave trade.
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