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Yes, that's clearly an abuse. I also think most non-religious people wouldn't want to use a Hitchens (e, to stay relevant) book as a text.
My point about the Crusades is that all most people think is that the Muslims were there, minding their own business, and then a bunch of Christian fanatics went to kill them at the behest of the pope. People would be more circumspect if they saw the context of the story.
Bonus knowledge: If you read history before the sixties, the Crusades were mostly considered to be a good thing. I just finished an H.P. Lovecraft story where he mentions that people would brag that they ancestors were crusaders (My ancestors are Spanish and the Spanish Crusade lasted 800 years so I'm sure some Guirados got in there.).
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