Introduction
A Holy war could be a war primarily caused or
justified by differences in faith. In the modern period, debates are common
over the extent to which religious, economic, or ethnic aspects of a conflict
predominate during a given war. The reference book of Wars, out of all 1,763
known/recorded historical conflicts, 123, or 6.98%, had religion as their
primary cause. Matthew White's the good big Book of Horrible Things offers
religion as the reason for 13 of the world's 100 deadliest atrocities. In
several conflicts as well as the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, the Syrian civil
war and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, spiritual elements are overtly
present but variously represented as fundamentalism or spiritual
extremism—depending upon the observer's sympathies. However, studies on these
cases typically conclude that ethnic animosities drive much of the conflicts.
The Holy War in individual religious traditions
In the Christianity religious the
Christianity war was widely accepted,
but warfare was not regarded as a virtuous activity and expressions of concern
for the all salvation of all those people
who killed enemies in battle, regardless of the cause for which they
fought, was common.
Islam
Starting
in the lifetime of Muhammad and spanning the centuries, down to the Ottoman
wars in Europe. In thirteen century, in
the Muslim conquests were those of a more or less coherent empire, the
Caliphate, but after the Mongol invasions, expansion continued on all fronts
for the another half millennium until the final collapse of the Mughal Empire
in the east and the Ottoman Empire in the west with the onset of the modern
period.
Judaism
In
the Jewish religion, the expression "commandment war" refers to a war
that is obligatory for all Jews (men and women).Such type of wars were limited
to territory within the borders of the land of Israel. The geographical limits
of Israel and conflicts with surrounding nations are detailed in the Tanka, the
Hebrew Bible, especially in Numbers.
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