weird crusade targets

[Askthepizzaguy]

It has nothing to do with religion, I mean the targets.
For example I had antioch as turks and a crusade was sent against it when I had 98-100 percent muslim and the pope will even send crusades against catholic if there in bad standing with him

I think it has something to do with religion, priority-wise. The Pope is very likely to have excommunicated Catholic factions on his listy list. The are a priority because they are predominantly Catholic, being ruled by an apparenly non-Catholic regime (any excommunicated leader is treated as a non-Catholic whether he considers himself one or not).

Next on the list is Muslim regions. The Pope hates Muslims. Not so much Orthodox Christians. It's interesting, I've never seen the Pope call for a crusade against Russia or orthodox-held Constantinople, when in reality, the great schism resulted from a Crusade against orthodox Constantinople. (I believe... feel free to correct me)

Sometimes the pope also includes rebel-held territories which have Christian populations. Stettin, for example, is not Catholic, it is Pagan, and I never see Stettin on the list. The Catholic/Orthodox rebel regions like Riga appear on the list, as well as Tunis, which is mostly Muslim if I recall, but contains christians.

There is something to do with religion, clearly. I wish I knew how it worked.

Jihads also puzzle me. Almost none of the Christian regions appear on the list. Orthodox regions appear, but it's mostly rebel-held Islamic regions.

Jihads simply don't happen as far as I can tell unless the target has some Muslim population. The larger, the better, so long as it is not controlled by an Islamic sect.