He ' s a big PHONEY ! Look , his baseball cap comes right off ! <| sep |> They actually were pretty chill about the whole pilgrimage thing and there weren ' t much more bandits attacks that under Byzantine reign . The first crusade got started by the emperor of Byzantium Alexios Komnenos wanting to reclaim Anatolian land he lost by conquest and pleading to Urban II for a military action because any other power ignored his calls for help . That crusade hurt Byzantium much more than the Muslims , so much that they never recovered before the empire was conquered by the Ottomans in 1453 , and also culminated with a massive pogrom across what ' s now Germany . So yeah , it wasn ' t about christian pilgrims . <| sep |> you are a bunch of racists . and you ' re delusional to boot .