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Causes And Consequences Of The Crusades

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The crusades are one of the more inter-religious Great Wars of all times, a war, that several named; the combat of the crescent and the cross. During more than two centuries, two of the greatest religions of the world, Christianity and the Islam, will be the principle actors engaged in this war. Going through the origin how this war we noticed that the intolerance between Muslims and Christian was not born from yesterday. The Crusades generally refer to the pilgrimages, which were held between 1096 and 1291. The general goal of the Crusades like it was ordered in a speech by the Pope Urban II calling all Christians in Europe to war against Muslims oppressors in order to reclaim the Holy Land and the recovery of the sanctuary of the Holy Sepulcher …show more content…

To better understand the origins, the motivations and the consequences enables us to better understand the ditch which separates the two great religions and accentuates, still today, cleavage between these two major cultures. how can someone who read the Bible can understand and follow along such an unethical behavior? Well maybe it has more of a cultural meaning and depends on the context of the situation. Because religions are meanly supposed to be tolerant of one another and compromise to coexist which is not the case. After the eight crusades one might think that all those people who lost their lives in the name of the religion was for at least a good cause and show the rest of the world that division is not a solution no until today we still whiteness such violence and opposition between Christianity and Islam. For instance in Central Republique of Africa lets zoom on the fate of a country in great distress where the beginning of war between Christians and Muslims makes run tens of thousands of people in the forests. Since March 24th, 2013, a coup d'etat reversed the president francois Bozize. Plundering, rapes and violence between the Christians and the Moslem who represent the minority of the population are the daily newspaper of the inhabitants of the country. The populations in escape are driven out by Seleka (rebellion with dominant Muslim which came to power last March and which constitutes from now on the official army). Downtown, many Moslem houses are set in fire((2015, January 8). The almost same exact scenario is happening today in France. Gunmen started a killing spray at a French magazine named Charli Hebdo killing twelve people and several were hurt. It moves to be a simple and unfortunate massacre to have a religious meaning attach to it allegedly the gunmen were Moslem and the government of Yemen is verifying if they do not have any link to Al Qaeda this was the

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