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To: Lane3 who wrote (50422)	6/15/2004 2:54:27 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) of 793917

"Crusade" is one of those words that are sort of self-explanatory if you know the derivation, which is from the various permutations of "cross". Self-describing the armed excursions by European Christians to the so-called Holy Land in order to "free" them from "Muslim tyranny." The Muslims, of course, did not think the intention was liberation, but subjugation, and/or what we would now call "ethnic cleansing." The politics of that particular region have never been simple. The term was later extended to other "holy wars" against other "heretics" and "infidels", but retains the basic meaning of a religious war. I don't think the WOT or the war against the Iraqi Ba'athist regime counts as a religious war, per se. Muslims in general agree that killing innocent people is contrary to Islam.

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