Does Pete Hegseth Have Extremist Tattoos? Were the Crusades Unprovoked Wars of Conquest?

Media are chiming in to try to cancel President Trump’s choice of Secretary of Defense, Peter Hegseth. One angle of attack is to claim that he has tattoos favored by “white supremacists” and “the European far right.” That makes him seem like some dangerous extremist unfit to lead the American military. Historian of Islam and Stream columnist Raymond Ibrahim unpacks the real history of the symbol Hegseth has tattooed on his arm, and the current media narrative which portrays the Crusades as an aggressive, unprovoked war of conquest against peaceful Muslims.