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Video games such as "Medieval Total War" and "Crusader Kings" often portray jihad as an Islamic counterpart to the Crusades, with multiple realms joining forces to seize a single target on religious grounds. Is there any actual historical basis for this?

by /u/cake_flattener1 in /r/AskHistorians

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