Followed a few centuries later by Charlemagne who forced conversion to the Catholic Church at the point of a sword (and massacred 4,500 in Verden during the Saxon Wars), later followed by the colonizing Crusades and Inquisition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_Verden
Followed a few centuries later by Charlemagne who forced conversion to the Catholic Church at the point of a sword (and massacred 4,500 in Verden during the Saxon Wars), later followed by the colonizing Crusades and Inquisition.
Followed a few centuries later by Charlemagne who forced conversion to the Catholic Church at the point of a sword (and massacred 4,500 in Verden during the Saxon Wars), later followed by the colonizing Crusades and Inquisition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_Verden
And of course, only the Muslims are accused of "spreading religion by the sword" as they "swarmed out of Arabia."
If the Crusades weren't a holy war, I don't know what is!