The Crusaders were never gentlemen, they massacred thousands when Jerusalem fell during the First Crusade.
Saladin's gentleman gloves came off when during the Third Crusade, Richard III executed 2700 prisoners after the Siege of Acre and Saladin responded in kind.
Saladin never had any gentlemen gloves. When Sudanese regiments in Cairo revolted against him he had their survivors and their wives and children burned to death. He was a ruthless warlord, and you don't get to draw together all the different local Muslim leaders by being kind and gentle.
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