What does religion have to do with Iraqi war?

Question

Are Muslims and Christians fighting a religious or a secular war?
Not sure which category to put this in. Would also like to hear from the R&S section.

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Answer 1

I know that I'm not qualified to answer this one but I will give it a shot. The war in Iraq is but one part of a larger war that is both secular and religious in nature. I know the athiest out there are not going like this but all wars are both whether you believe in God or not. The reason that this is so is because religion is an idea, a belief if you will. Even Athiests have beliefs, some very strong ones if I am to believe the Athiests that I have talked with. These beliefs, whether religious or not, tend to attract people of similiar beliefs. When people of like minds and practices feel threatened by people of other beliefs, war is the natural outcome. People would like to say it isn't the normal outcome, but I have heard many of these same people with high Ideals resort to threats of violence and death plenty of times. I ask you, does this sound familiar to you "oh, I wish people that thought they way would just die"? Some would say that those are just words used in the heat of the moment, but the truth is that powerful words influence even the most intelligent people in powerful ways. The vast majority of secular leaders in the middle east are either controlled in various ways by religion or are the heads of the religion itself. The leaders we are currently having to deal with are Islamic and espouse an extreme version of Islam that calls for the death or enslavement of all non muslims. You can see where that would be a problem for a country where the majority of the population is christian, can't you? You could just ignore the outright threats of death and hope that they are just big winded threats, but if you were wrong you would be in all likelyhood condemning your nation, your family, to a violent and merciless death.

Answer 2

anybody who says the Iraq warfare is taken into consideration one of religion, desires to take a closer look. usa has in no way waged a warfare for faith (i'm not asserting it incredibly is inevitably a competent or undesirable element), the iraq warfare has greater to do with the destabilization we've brought about interior the area because of the fact the previous due 70's and with the aid of the eighty's and early ninety's. After 9/11 Bin encumbered gave 3 particular reasons for the attack, and would not you comprehend it none of them had something to do with faith. in the experience that your going responsible faith for something a minimum of be certain you comprehend what your speaking approximately; helpful the attack became brought about with the aid of Jihads, yet they have been incredibly basically a device. they did not only awaken at some point and say oh we actually hate usa right this moment, shall we blow something up.

Answer 3

this is not a religious war, this is politics at its worst. corporations running the gov't, and in the middle we hav two stupid muslim sects fiting each other, i am muslim, but over 90% of the followers out there follow religion blindly seriously, christianity=religion based on lies and murders, islam=religion based on putting things in name of religion for benefit of people ex. many muslims dont know but the reason they dont eat pork is because back then they couldnt clean the pork and it had worms so to keep the people healthy they sed that eating pork is a sin, nowadays pork is clean and muslims shoudl eat it. the reason many muslims say is that god along time ago turned evil people into pigs. >_> stop following religion blindly and use your own mind first before the minds of others. many believe wat they are told or are raised to believe and follow blindly cuz they dont think for themselves. ex. hindu that believes in many gods but is a good person and has only done good will go to hell according to strict christians and muslims that dont think for themselves. this is false in my opinion, they were born into hinduism and cant change that, as long as they are a good person then they go to heaven.

Answer 4

Yes you can say like in most big wars the victors fear and hate the enemy. This is a religious war. USA wants to take over Iraq before Iraq takes over USA. It's kind of like why the Nazis wanted to get the communist Jews out of the way.

- 2 + evil groups just want control, oh it is a holy war.

Answer 5

I think it's not really a Muslim vs Christian war. It's a Civil War between the two Muslim sects with a Christian army in the mess.

Answer 6

Religion has nothing to do with the Iraqi war. Its oil and control

Answer 7

nothing at all except between themselves which has gone on since the beginning of time until were gone it religious wars all over germany was fought in for them having religious wars are we there again nope this is bushes war he is defending his dads honor

Answer 8

Religion has absolutely nothing with religion.

They have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction they have been looking for as their pretext of invading Iraq. There's just one problem - it's in North Korea.

Answer 9

According to the libs,we are fighting the war over oil.

Answer 10

A lot. Muslims have hijacked their religion and used it to attack freedom and democracy, which has its roots in Christianity.