Re: Islamic population bomb?
Crusade, as a means to counter anti-Christian aggression, like Breha said, was preached often by the Catholic Church.
Spain was a constant scenario for Crusades, in favour of the Recuperatio Hispania or Reconquista. Whenever one Hispanic king organized a major campaign against Muslims on Spanish soil, the Crusade was preached in the Hispanic kingdoms.
This was important because the Pope's support to the Crusade would mean that the part of taxes collected for the Church would go to finance the campaign. Also, the Crusade could be preached among the Ultramontanos ("Trans-Pyrenaics") too.
The Crusade implied to a certain degree a call to duty for Christendom.
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et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
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–Plato–
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–Gerry McGeough, Irish Nationalist and POW–
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