It should not have taken centuries to teach the Crusades fairly

In the year 1212, a failed religious movement known as the Children’s Crusade began in Europe with the purpose of recovering Jerusalem from the Muslims. More than eight centuries later, the history of the Crusades as a whole has been extensively documented, with certain narratives having become set in popular imagination. But those narratives are not always rooted in actual historical texts, which can cause significant issues related to racism and cultural respect, both in the West and the Arab world.

The opening of the article. The full text is at The National.