ARE WE IN A HOLY WAR?

As the world has forgotten the Holy Wars (the crusades), the Muslims have not.

The crusades are all about Jerusalem.

Most of the worlds population does not understand the crusades. Nor do some even know it existed.  Many may think that it was stories made into movies.

For this reason, we hear the two terms; peaceful and radical Islam.  We may not be in a religious war with Muslims, but they are in a war with us.

That's why they are fighting, killing, and beheading. They are still fighting a Holy War. A war to form their caliphate.

To understand the caliphate is to also understand why there will never be peace.  Peace within the caliphate only comes with one people and religion in the world.  Muslims and Islam.  Anything different than that has to go.

Living together in peace does not fulfill their prophecy.  If one does not convert they are a infidel.

 The definition of infidel - a person who does not accept a particular faith. A person who does not accept the Islamic faith. Unbeliever.

To understand what is happening now, you must understand history.  You must understand the Crusades.

 Not the stories you have heard.  Not the tales you have been told.  Not a vague understanding of the crusades, but you must understand the history of the Crusades. What they were about. The struggle and It's subject.

 It is a struggle about worship and forming a caliphate state.  It is a struggle that is still going on in that region of the world as of today between the whole Muslim world and Israel.

A caliphate is a form of Islamic government led by a caliph...a person considered a political and religious successor to the prophet Muhammad and a leader of the entire Muslim community.

To understand the caliphate and what is happening now, you must understand the Crusades.  Not the stories, but truly understand the Crusades.  How they came about and why it was a holy war between Christians/non believers and Muslims.

 The crusades are all about Jerusalem and the caliphate.

 Being that Jerusalem is a place of worship for both Christians and Muslims, it has always been a hot spot. And the fact that the Christians God is different then the god of the Muslim, Both lay religious claim to Jerusalem as a place of worship and to worship.

  It was a Holy War. And it remains a Holy War till this day.  We are simply in it and do not realize that we are because no one understands the end goal of the caliphate and Jerusalem. No one understands that the Crusades are not over.

 It's not about peace and getting along.  It's about the caliphate and the one true god of Islam.

The Crusades are all about Jerusalem.  Originally the crusades were Roman Catholic endeavors to re-capture the Holy Land from the Muslims.

For centuries, Jerusalem had been governed by Muslims, but they tolerated Christian Pilgrims because they helped the economy. (Christian pilgrims were visitors that came to and from to worship in Jerusalem).

Then, in the 1070s, Turks (who were also Muslim) conquered these holy lands and mistreated Christians before realizing how useful their good will and money could be.  The Turks also threatened by the Byzantine Empire.  Emperor Alexius asked the pope for assistance and Urban II, seeing a way to harness the violent energy of Christian Knights made a speech calling for them to take back Jerusalem.

Thousands responded, resulting in the First Crusade. (Sorta sounds similar as to what is happening these days...does it not)?

 Pope Urban II proclaimed the First Crusade with the stated goal of restoring Christian access to holy places in and near Jerusalem. (Sorta sounds like the same issues between the Jewish people and Muslims today...does it not)?

 The Crusades were expeditions undertaken, in fulfillment of a solemn vow, to deliver the Holy Places from Mohammedan tyranny. Muslims were threatening to conquer this remnant of the Roman Empire for Allah. As they had already done in most parts of Europe.

 The threat was real; most of the middle east, including the Holy Land where Christ had walked, had already been vanquished.

Thus began the era of the Crusades, taken from the Latin word crux or cross.  Committed to saving Christianity, the Crusaders left family and jobs to take up the cause.

 Most that fought on the side of Christians, where in fact not Christians. They were people that fought for other reasons.. They did so in the name of Christ. However, being that all of Europe was involved, many did it for power, riches and trade.

 Thus one reason I believe Christians have such a disconnect with the history of the crusades and the Muslims do not.

What started out as a noble war and over 200 years it was politicized by Europeans at the expense of Christianity.. .

Today, the only people that truly understand the crusades are the Muslims.  They have never stopped fighting for Jerusalem and the caliphate.

The rest of the world moved on to other wars and conquest.  In the process, the world forgot about Jerusalem and left the battle between the Jews and Muslims who still to this day battle over Jerusalem and surrounding lands.

It's a history lost; but a Holy War that is still being fought.  Its a Holy War that calls for Jerusalem to be under the control of Muslims and death to all that are in the way.

The Crusade Period was between 1095 - 1291. Historians consider that between these dates there were seven major Crusades and numerous minor ones.

The goal was to recapture Jerusalem, to aid the Byzantine East, and to unite Europe in a common cause. The early Crusades did unite Western Europe in a common purpose, provided an influx of Eastern thought into Western culture, and opened new avenues of trade between Europe an the Levant. It also changed the world forever. Europe was able to take back most of their cities taken by Muslims.

During this 200 year struggle for control of the Holy Land, the conflict ended in 1291 with the fall of the last Christian stronghold in the Holy Land at Acre,Israel, after which Roman Catholic Europe mounted no further coherent response in the east.

So you see, the Muslim world hates Christians as much as they do Israel.

The crusades was a 200 year war between Christians and Muslims all over Jerusalem and the right for each religion to worship at the very same spot.

There is so much history within this 200 year period.  But I would encourage you to study it.

You will never know where your headed if you don't know whence you came.

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