I posted this website on another thread, but it seems like it would go well here, too.
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/And, here is another website that deserves some exposure.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/Anytime your loving nature compels you to have kind thoughts about mooslums and their wharped ideology, just crack open one of these websites and review some of the loving and peaceful things these spawns of Satan have been up to of late.
If these fail to help you re-focus, you're probably a Clintonista and there is no hope for you.
And nosimij, you might consider looking at the actual history of the Crusades to give yourself some perspective; and while you're at it, review the first mooslum invasion of Europe. It will give you a better appreciation of the religion of peace.
And before you start in with the "Christians did some pretty barbaric things, too," please note that we Christians had a "reformation" which brought our faith out of the middle ages. We don't stone whores or adulterers anymore. We don't burn nonbelievers to death. We don't throw men who sleep with other men from high buildings to their death below (or murder them in an Orlando gay club). We don't chop off the hands of thieves. Protestants don't regularly execute Roman Catholics. Methodists don't kill Baptists. But Wahhabi adherents regularly kill Sunni believers and Shi'ite practitioners happily murder Wahhabi believers. And we don't regularly deny the Holocaust or proclaim that all Jews should be eradicated. Yet, even those faithful mooslums who claim to be peaceful find all of these actions to be acceptable because they are consistent with Shariah.
And Alf, good luck in your efforts. Writing scintillating prose and finding that perfect turn of phrase can be rewarding on their own. However, I would also note that trying to explain that which has no rational explanation can be frustrating in the extreme. It's probably why writers drink.
FWIW
Crusader Rabbit