Agreed. Crusades have also close ties with gnosticism since the Templars themselves were gnostics.
It's complicated because besides the ones in the Middle East, there was also one in the 1200s in France against the Cathars -- a "heretical" sect of Christianity that was into gnosticism/dualism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albigensian_Crusade
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It's complicated because besides the ones in the Middle East, there was also one in the 1200s in France against the Cathars -- a "heretical" sect of Christianity that was into gnosticism/dualism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albigensian_Crusade