Which were at odds first; Jews and Muslims, or Christians and Muslims? Crusaders, etc.?

Question

I can't remember. Didn't Muslims and Jews live relatively peacefully before the reclamation?

Answer 1

Yes you are correct...The Jew and Muslim lived in the deserts of the Sinai for several hundreds of years in relative peace. It's only been the last 60 years or so that there's been conflict. So far as Crusaders who by the way were Christians go they've been at it against the Muslim and Jew for many hundreds of years. PEACE!

Answer 2

I am not sure what you mean by the reclamation, but Muslims and Jews lived pretty peacefully side by side for centuries in most of what is now considered the Islamic world, i.e. the Middle East, North Africa, SE Europe, etc. These areas tended to be governed by Islamic regimes who recognized the value of the Jewish minorities within their own cultures and tended to be tolerant and respectful. Mohammed himself recognized the Jews as 'Elder Brothers of the Book'(Old Testament) and tried to forge a religious alliance with the Jews, but was rejected. Undoubtably there are numerous historical instances where there was open conflict between Muslims and Jews, but most of the conflict has existed between Christians and Muslims since early in the history of Islam. The Crusades, and there were many, 6 or 7 altogether I think over a couple of centuries, were a pretty shameful piece of history for the Western world and Christianity in general. The main benefit to the West was the re-exposure to Greek and Roman scholarship and knowledge which had been preserved to a far greater extent in the Islamic cultures than in the West.

Answer 3

The dispute between Jews and Christianity started back around 30 CE. Over the centuries since then, that dispute has heated up, cooled down, then boiled over again. Since the Jews have not had any territory that they could control, for most of that time, they have not been in a position to heat the conflict up. Christians have had control of the territory, and have, on numerous occasions, heated the dispute up.

The dispute between Islam and Judaism dates back to when Mohammad finally understood that Jews considered him to be an idol worshiper, and that they were not going to convert to his worship of a false god. In time, Rabbinical Judaism compromised its position, deciding that Islam did not worship false gods, but merely misunderstood what the Torah taught. Karaite Judaism retained the position that Islam worshiped false gods. So long as Muslims retained political, and economic control of a territory, Rabbinical Judaism was tolerated. If Rabbinical Judaism gained too much economic power, it was suppressed. Karaite Judaism was consistently oppressed by Muslim clerics. When any branch of Judaism gained political influence, amongst non-Jews, or "too much" political power, the standard response was to wipe out a couple of the leaders. IOW, peaceful co-existence was only possible, when Islam controlled everything. The instant Judaism controls anything, the bloodshed begins, with Muslims claiming first blood.

Islam and Christianity have never had a peaceful co-existence. The closest they have come to a truce, has been when both were ganging up against Jews. As to who drew first blood, that depends upon which conquest one starts with. As a general rule of thumb, Muslims use the sword first, whilst Christians use the pen first.

Modern scholarship suggests that Mohamed was a mythological character, created merely as an attempt to minimize the bloodshed between the different factions of Arabs. The sects of Islam, that predate the writing of the Q'ran, reflect some of those ongoing disputes.

IOW, Islam ws created, because the leaders of the various factions realized that they were too violent for their own long term survival. That violence against each other has not diminished, but usually gets targeted towards other religions, rather then between themselves.

Answer 4

The Nation of Israel came first...When they rejected Jesus The Christ He established The Church... The Jews did not like that and there have been differences between them and the Christian Faith ever since... Then around 600Ad or so along came a guy who wanted to start His own sect so he could controle the people around where he was... he shopped around to the Jews and the christians to see if they would let him add his sect into theirs... He got turned down hard by both... So he got mad at them and started taking the sword to all who would not follow him... and that has been the primary means of spreading the evil that is islam ever since... untill the wepons got so powerfull that it made it necessary for the muslims to modify their approch... but look to every nation that is dominated by them...the sword is still used to control...why...because if they did not fear losing their heads no one would stay in that evil...

The Christian Faith can not be spread at the point of the sword... God will not allow it...look at what has happened to any who have tried it... The crusades being the prime example...

Answer 5

Both Jews and Christians where first attacked by Muslims first. The Crusades was a response to a bunch of this attackes on Christians. I guess even a Muslim leopard can't change it's spots.

Answer 6

Jews

Answer 7

Of the three groups you mentioned, it was Jews vs Christians first. Paul (Saul) was originally a persecutor of early Christians, if you go by the bible.

Answer 8

Jews haven't been at odds with anyone by choice - it always seemed the other way around.

Answer 9

i guess it started when the muslims took spain. but the christians have been the number one killers ever since.

Answer 10

It was when Mohammed was thrown out of the temple he started freaking out. On both sides.