We all are aware of the term 'Jihad'. This is the term used by the Muslim community to justify their evil deeds and proclaiming themselves to be messengers of Allah. Jihad has a clear denotation that goes on to say that they need to kill people to save their religion. If they return alive they will be contemplated as veracious towards their religion, if not their Martyrs. Now, we all feel that Jihad is the root of terrorism.
How many of us are well versed with the term 'Crusades'? This was something that was intercepted in the 11th century by Pope Urban II. Crusades is something which is actually quite in-depth knowledge and to talk about that would consume the entire article. So lets not get into in-depth details and just get the cursory understanding of it. We all know the realm of hatred that flew among the Jews and Christians for each other since the Crucification of Jesus. Millions of lives lost, properties damaged leading to an entire massacre. Before the Christians had to finally forgive the Jews since they couldn't deny the fact that their God was also a Jew and hating Jews would be equivalent to hating their own God. But in the 11th Century, there was a religious war that was called by Pope Urban II which clearly meant that any one who goes to Jerusalem, kills the Jews and takes the city captive would be considered true follower of Messiah and would be sent to heaven after death. Following the belief, there was a series of Religious wars that was witnessed from 11th-15th Century. Now lets understand why people know more about Jihad and not crusades. Its simply because of lack of Digitalization in the 11th Century. We didn't have media, internet, to get access to the evil that was occurring then. People considered it to be holy without being eloquent about the fact that any movement which is a reason of killing millions of people is nothing but evil. Since we are in the 21st century now and we have high access to media and internet, we know what Jihad is and curse the Muslim community. However, i am not in support of any religion and talk in terms of humanity. But if Jihad is something that makes us curse the Muslims, i guess we should be sensitive enough to curse the Christians for Crusades. There has always been hatred in this world. We used to feel that in the early days commoners used to forge a peaceful living. But studying facts in depth proves that 11th century marks the beginning of Evil and Terrorism. Never to forget the evil which was committed by the Jews, Crusades was a revenge. But understanding the manifest, reason of all terrorism is envy and revenge.
How long will this continue? Revenge is an unending affair. Honest people are being mutiliated, new born children are found dead on roads, people in Syria have no gurantee of making a living tomorrow for themselves and their families, commoners dying out of hunger and thirst. Are we becoming so selfish that we are blindfolded with the notion of revenge that we are least bothered for the lives of honest people? Remembering few lines from the song 'Heal The World' by Michael Jackson, 'There are people dying, if you care enough for the living, make a better place for you and for me'.
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