Pax Hierusalemica
The heathens still dare to threaten Jerusalem. Of course, they know that their demise is coming, now that their dream of subjugating Europe to their devilist religion died.
Sine Deus, sine pax.
The heathens suffer internal strife, famine and collapse while the faithful thrive in Jerusalem.
However, soon this prosperity would reach a new level.
The crusaders were only a minority among a majority of arabs. Despite being the rulers, the same also applied to Egypt where now they have become one with the turban. It is clear that something must be done, a project unlike any ever thought of, a daring and massive project.
All European nobles were encouraged to have lots of children who would then be given fiefs over Iraq, while in Iraq, with the support of the Catholic Church, several newborn children were "adopted" from their obviously incapable parents to be raised by nuns and noblewomen and have Latin as their mother tongue, all intended with the goal of eradicating the arab culture from the region, while most importantly, speaking and writing in the arab language was banned over Iraq, with death as punishment, and the most undesirable among the population, specially the heathen minorities, were being rounded up and executed on the spot. This would lead to much strife and some infamy, but it had to be done for the betterment of Jerusalem. The future generations, purged from such subhuman and savage culture, will definitively not regret this and thank Jerusalem for doing what had to be done.
In fact, although arguable, the effects of the harsh laws and drastic measures were instantaneous, and proved this could work all over the kingdom, given enough time.
Unus Regno, Unus Populus, Unus Dux!
Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Führer!
REMOVE KEBAB FROM THE PREMISES
No longer foreign rulers to these lands, but thanks to the best day of their lives, as local as the Jews who killed lots of Palestinians to reclaim Israel in another timeline, they have now everything set to eradicate one of the many towelhead cultures in their kingdom.
Although triumphant over Europe, in the hot and desertic climates of Jerusalem, the knights have shown their limitations, and thus, with the advancement of many fields in Jerusalem related to the equipping, tactics and training of land forces, a new type of cavalry has emerged in their stead. Rapid and focused on ambushing the foe, the Stradioti may not have the same symbollic and historical glory of the knights, but they are definitively better for fighting in the desert.
The heathens, driven into perpetual baaw, have tried to hurt Jerusalem through other means now that they have been defeated again and again and Jerusalem stands as the greatest power and greatest kingdom in the Levant. Of course, although the turbanheads were riled up, this will be of no consequences.
Finally the word of God has reached Damascus, and at last, the greater divinely inspired mission was achieved!
DEUS VULT!
Jerusalem is changing. Despite the massive protests of the arch-conservative bishops Humanity has Risen and The Brazilian Slaughter, the new king was a philosopher, and justified by the glories and achievements of the kingdom, he believed he had the right to do whatever he wanted. After all, all that Jerusalem achieved was thanks to God and to themselves. The Church never did anything to help Jerusalem since it became self-sufficient at the end of the 14th century. Actually, it was Jerusalem that did a lot to help the Church by giving to the Papal State the opportunity to spread the true faith to Tripolitania and Tunisia and crushing most of the heathens that, before Jerusalem victory, even conquered territory over Italy.
Thus, hearing upon mythical tales of a land full of riches to the west, beyond the known word, and aware of how way too restrictive definition of what is HERESY! and what isn't was hurting their progress, he took one of first many steps that would shift Jerusalem from a kingdom driven from a religious to one driven by a philosophical and religious ideal and by eventually, many centuries later, from a developing nationalism driven from both the epic tales of ancient Israel and of the new epic tales of the crusaders.
Thus the king made the definition of heresy a bit less strict and pleased the LIBERALS. Although of course any idea even remotely comparable to late 20th century LIBERALS remains and will remain EXTRA HERESY!!!
Whether this means decline or incline is not certain yet.
They don't need Jerusalem, but in the interests of not having them as enemies, Jerusalem will formally support their wars in vast and unknown lands of India. An influential foreign merchant once politely suggested to the king that Jerusalem should break this "unholy alliance" to seek a road of conquest all the way towards India and its valuable spices, to which the king replied: "Greed has brought many kingdoms to their demise. Khorasan may be backwards and heathen, but their legions are vast, and in peace, Jerusalem can grow stronger. By developing tolerance to any idea that does not defy God, Jerusalem can allow progress to a point where eventually our armies will be so better equipped their numbers shall become irrelevant, but until then, we bide our time in peace and this alliance of convenience."
He didn't bother silencing the merchant because the fact it was an alliance of convenience that could be broken at any time was well known and obvious enough, so if he decided to be a gossipmonger about the king's words it would make no difference. Relations between Jerusalem and Khorasan, although not actually bad, have been worsening, and what was done at Iraq didn't help much either.
Through contact with the Khanate of Khorasan, Jerusalem has identified a part of the mythical India. However, lacking any naval might and with a now long lasting culture of self-sufficiency and ignoring trade, they couldn't bother to make use of such information, for now.
Carmelites are invited to Hawran. Their virtue of diligence will strengthen Jerusalem.
The reduction of the narrowmindedness of Jerusalem brought accusations from the Knights of Gaza against the kingdom. Obviously short-sighted, they have long become irrelevant, the only reason their diplomatic annexation wasn't done yet is because the current king is not particularly skilled at diplomacy to convince them to step down and let Jerusalem rule their lands directly.
Of course Jerusalem accepts, although it is saddening, if predictable, to discover that Jerusalem is the farthest reach of Christianity in Asia(with Georgia being the second farthest and 100% Asian), and eastwards there seems to be only heathens and more heathens.
Having lost part of their original lands to the now defeated Algiers, Egypt was in a perfect position to try reclaiming such land thanks to the victories of Jerusalem. Of course they answer the call although they most likely won't have to do much for Egypt to achieve its objective. Christianity is winning again the battle for North Africa, even if some of them are heretics.
Algiers, defeated and crushed, could do nothing about it. Meanwhile, the truce with the Mamluk leftover was ending, and their presence, despite not being a threat by itself, motivated traitors and heathens to dare rebelling against Jerusalem. Crushing them completely would further bring the hopes of the traitors down while Egypt is about to take control over their last territories out of Kerak.
Godfrey II was a man known for talking too highly of himself and this caused issues: nothing too severe, fortunately.
Eventually the truce is over. It is time to finish the job.
Defeated and without vast legions in their side, and most importantly, without God, the war against the Mamluks was the shortest ever in the History of Jerusalem, lasting only 10 days. Unfortunately the allies of the heathens are still at large, and must be taught another lesson.
DEUS VULT!
The heathens are losing the war now. Their precious Mecca has fallen, they are crushed and defeated and besides Iberia, irrelevant other than as filthy traitors and heathen rebels.
A new great general rises, good for what he is and enough to lead Jerusalem to victory. His greatest skill is however his ability of organizing an agile march.
The Pax of Jerusalem is far from over as its glorious crusaders march to defeat even more heathens.