Is it true that the Crusaders were the 1st group of people to try and convert one religion to another?
2007-06-17 05:22:23 · 11 answers · asked by sombody 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
I'm sure there were people killing other people over religion long before Jesus and Mohammed.
2007-06-17 08:43:12 · answer #1 · answered by n0n0stalgia 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No it is not true Muslims from their founding by Muhammed had been forcing conversions to Islam from 620CE (Common Era) until present times. If people, mostly Christians and Jews, did not convert they were killed, made slaves, or were forced to pay a protection tax. (Dhimmi) They were considered 3rd class citizens. Islam believes in Holy Wars, not Christianity. In the Crusades, Christian Europe wanted to take back the Holy Land.
2007-06-17 05:58:15 · answer #2 · answered by m24762 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No.
As a matter of fact the eight Holy Crusades were a direct result of Islamic imperialism.
The newly founded religion of Islam were persecuting (killing, raping, enslaving, and torturing) Christians making their pilgrimidges to the Holy Lands.
The Mohammedians threw the first stone.
2007-06-17 06:01:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
in case you have not observed. there has been a holy conflict occurring in view that Arab tribesmen swept out of the Arabian Peninsula almost immediately after the demise of the Prophet Muhammad in 632. interior the couple of minutes span of 10-15 years they conquered the lands of Syria, Iraq, Egypt and Persia, halving the territory of the classic Byzantine empire based in Constantinople, and bringing the Sassanian Persian empire to an extensive. those tribesmen have been stimulated with the aid of the religion of Islam, and in accordance to the Muslim interpretation of activities given divine help to choose those 2 evil empires which had engaged in a pointless conflict previous to the Muslim invasion lasting some 25 years and destroying almost the finished region. now maximum of Europe is misplaced. (my own remark)
2016-11-25 03:09:17 · answer #4 · answered by vaibahv 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What about the Jews? They lay waste to cities in the region of Canaan (their promised land) because they believed God told them to. Any survivors had to convert to Judaism. Now they are still trying to get rid of "unbelievers" in Israel. If the Arabs all recanted Islam, the internecine war would be over (even though most Israelis have no religion).
2007-06-18 03:09:50 · answer #5 · answered by henry d 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not hardly. The Crusades are a relatively recent event in human history. Your history book doesn't go back far enough.
2007-06-17 05:28:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
I'm pretty sure that when the Neanderthals were dragging their knuckles through the dirt that the ones who worshipped the shiny disc in the daytime sky tried to convert the ones who worshipped the silver disc at night.
2007-06-17 05:26:47 · answer #7 · answered by Moxie 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
No, during the 7th century (AD 600s), Mohammad was killing tens of thousands of people that didn't believe like him. In other words, if they didn't convert to Mohammad's belief he killed them. The crusades happened four hundred years LATER.
2007-06-17 05:27:36 · answer #8 · answered by . 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
No. Islam gets the credit for being the first to invest in forcible conversion on a grand scale.
2007-06-17 14:26:29 · answer #9 · answered by Fred 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Jihad is clearly spelled out in the Qur'an (- Muslim Holy Text -) circa 632.
2007-06-17 05:29:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋