Book overview
| Karen Armstrong, bestselling author of A History of God, skillfully narrates this history of the Crusades with a view toward their profound and continuing influence. In 1095 Pope Urban II summoned Christian warriors to take up the cross and reconquer the Holy Land. Thus began the holy wars that would focus the power of Europe against a common enemy and become the stuff of romantic legend. In reality the Crusades were a series of rabidly savage conflicts in the name of piety. And, as Armstrong demonstrates in this fascinating book, their legacy of religious violence continues today in the Middle East, where the age-old conflict of Christians, Jews, and Muslims persists. |
According to French President Chirac, Bush told him that the Iraq war was needed to bring on the apocalypse:
In Genesis and Ezekiel Gog and Magog are forces of the Apocalypse who are prophesied to come out of the north and destroy Israel unless stopped. The Book of Revelation took up the Old Testament prophesy:
"And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them."
Bush believed the time had now come for that battle, telling Chirac:
"This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people's enemies before a New Age begins"...
There can be little doubt now that President Bush's reason for launching the war in Iraq was, for him, fundamentally religious. He was driven by his belief that the attack on Saddam's Iraq was the fulfilment of a Biblical prophesy in which he had been chosen to serve as the instrument of the Lord.
And British Prime Minister Tony Blair long-time mentor, advisor and confidante said:
"Tony's Christian faith is part of him, down to his cotton socks. He believed strongly at the time, that intervention in Kosovo, Sierra Leone – Iraq too – was all part of the Christian battle; good should triumph over evil, making lives better."
Mr Burton, who was often described as Mr Blair's mentor, says that his religion gave him a "total belief in what's right and what's wrong", leading him to see the so-called War on Terror as "a moral cause"...
Anti-war campaigners criticised remarks Mr Blair made in 2006, suggesting that the decision to go to war in Iraq would ultimately be judged by God.
Given that the Iraq war really was a crusade, the fact that the Pentagon is now saying that it may have to leave troops in Iraq for another decade shows that the crusade is still ongoing under Obama
Saya akan jawab kalau ada tulisan sumber yang merujuk kepada ayat-ayat Alkitab untuk membenarkan perbuatan mereka.Tunjukkan kepada saya kalau ada prajurit Kristen yang membunuh demi agama Kristen. Bisa tunjukkan?
Sedangkan tulisan Mujahid Mayor Hasan sangat penuh dengan kalimat-kalimat yang sangat Islami, yang rujukannya adalah Hadits dan Alquran. Mereka jelas2 membunuh demi jihad Islam. Makanya saya tanya, salahnya dimana tulisan sang mayor Hasan tersebut, menurut Islam yang kamu tahu?
Subject: Re: [Milis_Iqra] Message From Mujahid Major Hasan, Soldier of AllahDate: Thursday, January 14, 2010, 9:42 AM
To: milis_iqra@googlegroups.com
nyomet123.....Saya ingin tanya juga kalau orang kristen, katolik membunuh orang Islam di Iraq dan Afganistan ditinjau dari keyakinan kristen, katolik bagaimana ya?
2010/1/10 rizal lingga <nyomet123@yahoo.com>
Saya hanya ingin bertanya, apakah ada yang salah dalam pernyataan Mujahid Major Hasan ini, ditinjau dari keyakinan Islam yang dianutnya?
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