User:Jclaremoore

Not sure how this works, but I want to respond to a complaint about my revision:

"The murder of millions of innocents" might reasonably be applied to the allies in WW II, but not to the Albigensian Crusade. Most wars kill innocent people ("collateral damage," "civilian casualties"), and unfortunately, the medieval rules of war provide that if a city fails to surrender, all the inhabitants will be slaughtered when conquered. Hence, the massacre at Beziers. But most scholars would consider the contemporary estimate of 20,000 deaths a great exaggeration. If you want to come up with an estimate of the number of people killed by the crusade, go to a reputable scholar's account, and go from there. But "millions" or "million" is ridiculous. And if you want to use the word "murder," OK, but it is mainly a display of your indignation, rather than a scholarly judgment.