2006-08-07 06:58:29 · 9 answers · asked by Olivia 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
To my mind, the key similarity is that each side is intolerant of the other. Even an open-minded medieval traveller like Marco Polo said "Christians are right and pagans are wrong."
What is most striking to me is that all these religions (Jewish, Christian, Islam) worship the same god and have some of the same ancestors and prophets in common. They all share the same basic principles of behavior--except for the few radicals who are by no means living according to any scriptural code of law.
It's quite clear that Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed would be aghast at all the killing being done in their names.
2006-08-07 08:06:59 · answer #1 · answered by vickness 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are similar because they are all about who controls the Holy land (that is holy to Islam, Christianity and the Jews). The Crusades were between the Christians and Muslims, now it is between the Muslims and Jews. In both conflicts there seems to be no middle ground. In the Crusades the Christians wanted to drive the Muslims out now the Muslims want to drive the Jews out. Both Hezbollah and Iran want to see Israel wiped off the map. Also both sides believe themselves to have God on their side.
2006-08-07 15:16:46 · answer #2 · answered by happyjumpyfrog 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, back then the highly educated and civilized people of the Middle East were doing just fine minding their own business until a group of superstitious fanatic fundamentalist Christians decided to take control of Jerusalem and create a theocratic Christian empire.
Now the superstitious fanatic fundamentalists trying to create a theocratic empire across the middle east all the way to Indo-China are the Muslims.
2006-08-07 17:11:36 · answer #3 · answered by Lumas 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
early christian crusaders started the one going war in the middle east. because of the crusades, muslim-christian hatred started. i guess the crusaders did it more for god, gold and glory. well in fact the crusaders only murdered and pillaged. they just brought the image to recapture the holy land and convert pagans to christians in order to bring honor and dignity to their war.
2006-08-07 15:25:17 · answer #4 · answered by buang 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the Crusades, the Jews were also victims. This is not the case now.
2006-08-07 14:57:26 · answer #5 · answered by Mike P 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, there's a war but besides that they're not similar at all because we're not trying to convert them to Christianity.
2006-08-07 14:49:11 · answer #6 · answered by uscmedguy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both were wars trying to drive the "infidels" out of the holy land.
2006-08-08 09:10:57 · answer #7 · answered by cross-stitch kelly 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everybody was killing everybody in the name of God.
2006-08-07 16:55:29 · answer #8 · answered by Only hell mama ever raised 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nobody is looking for a holy grail this time...
2006-08-07 14:54:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋