First Crusade: The Religious Motive or Not

Introduction

The collision between the civilization of truth and "civilization" fallacious fact fatalism is no need to deny it, and can be given based on the sweep of history, whether the collision because of the different cultural perspectives or was due to a conflict of interest or the combination of both. Any attempt to raise the possibility of permanent coexistence in the light of this difference seems a form of inspired dreamers, or for transportation: It is - in fact - Hrobeh exercise will not only benefit the enemy. Especially when they come in, such as the current situation, characterized by the spread of Western influence, and the growing ambitions in the capabilities of the Islamic world.

First Crusade

First Crusade launched by Pope Urban II in 1095 to restore control of Christianity on the Holy City (Jerusalem) and the whole of the Holy Land from the hands of Muslims. What began as a call for help quickly turned to immigration, the control group, and the opening of areas outside Europe. In addition, he traveled many of the knights and serfs without many of the central administration by land and sea areas of Western Europe towards Jerusalem and captured it in 1099, establishing the Kingdom of Jerusalem woken and other Crusader states. Although the control of those lasted less than two centuries, the Crusade a major turning point in the expansion of powers Alfrbah, and was the only crusade - unlike the subsequent campaigns, which has achieved its stated goal (Shermer, 43-89).

Argument: the dominant motive for going on the First Crusade was religious”?

Different people have a different view in regard to crusade. However, it can be thought the Crusade can be fought in order to protect the religion.

Crusades and Just Wars

Crusades are holy wars fought for the defense of religion. Reichberg and his colleagues (2006) identify at least seven crusades-or Christian holy wars or medieval wars-that fought against the Muslims between 1095/1096 and 1274 for the liberation of Jerusalem and the holy sepulcher, which is Christ's grave. They contend that the crusades failed to uphold Christian virtues and remained at best a mixture of religious ideals and experiences of brutal violence suffered by the people. Similarly, Muslim holy wars are fought under the concept of jihad. Innocent IV, who was the Pope from 1243 to 1254, wrote commentaries on the contemporary papal legislation known as Decretals, which highly influenced Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) in his development of the concept of the just war (Reichberg et al., 2006). In his Decretals, Innocent IV wrote that the Pope could legitimately take steps to recover and defend the holy land that had been taken over by the Muslims, while also protecting all the devoted inhabitants, but mentioned that the property rights of infidels in other jurisdictions must be respected (Innocent IV, 1535/2006). He argued that the holy land was won in a just war by the Roman emperor after Christ's death, and so it was legitimate for the Pope to take it ...