Hundreds hid in a church, but Cromwell ordered it to be set alight - many were burnt alive, and all local priests were killed. The son of the dead Charles I soon caused Cromwell trouble, leading a Scottish army against England. Cromwell beat the Scottish army, but Charles
That is why every mosque today has a crescent moon on the top of its spire. Now when Mohammed's army of men, out to slaughter all the 'infidels', came to the city of Fez, in Morocco, they found a community of Christians. After killing all the Christians there with their Islamic-style swords, they took their hats (called a fez) and dipped them in the blood of the Christians, and wore the fezzes throughout the land glorying in their victory over Christianity. Today Shriner's put on red fezzes (representing the hats dipped in the blood of
Part of World War II was the fight against Adolf Hitler and The Nazi Party for their genocide, known as The Holocaust, which was (mainly) against those of the Jewish religion. This war resulted in a death toll range of 11 million to 17 million people. It is estimated that over a billion people, give or take, have lost their lives due to religious warfare, justifying the fear that caused the harsh critique of Bush. The
Then in 730 the Roman Emperor Leo III commanded that all these icons be destroyed. The men entered the churches in the East and removed the icons. As the icons were removed the people rioted. Later in 843 Queen Theodora ruled the city of Constantinople and she proclaimed the restoration of the icons. Also according to the High Middle Ages Chapter, the fourth crusade also added to the schism that existed between the Eastern and Western Churches.
These two completely different accounts describe the reasons and intensions of both the Christians and the Muslims. The attackers fled into the Holy land with joy which shows their strong devotion and reason. But for Muslims, Christians’ account and devotion showed their awful cruelty which slaughtered their people. All of those encounters happened on the “Holy Land”, which creates a really interesting and diverse meaning of “Holy Land” to both the Christians and the Muslims. As described by Fulcher of Chartres, it was Friday at noon when the Crusaders barraged the city; Friday, the day that Christ regained the world through his sufferings on the cross.
The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre (Massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy in French) in 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations, followed by a wave of Roman Catholic mob violence, both directed against the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants), during the French Wars of Religion. Traditionally believed to have been instigated by Catherine de' Medici, the mother of King Charles IX, the massacre took place six days after the wedding of the king's sister Margaret to the Protestant Henry III of Navarre (the future Henry IV of France). This marriage was an occasion for which many of the most wealthy and prominent Huguenots had gathered in largely Catholic Paris. The massacre began two days after the attempted assassination of Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, the military and political leader of the Huguenots. Starting on 23 August 1572 (the eve of the feast of Bartholomew the Apostle) with murders on orders of the king of a group of Huguenot leaders including Coligny, the massacres spread throughout Paris.
Genocide in the 20th Century The definition of genocide is “the deliberate and systematic destruction of a group of people because of their ethnicity, nationality, religion, or race”(Genocide 1). In the 20th century, we see three comparable examples of this crime against mankind in the Armenian Genocide, Holocaust and Rwandan Genocide. In an effort to completely eradicate the targeted groups, all genocides follow these five steps: designation, separation, state supported harassment, forced migration, and extermination. The Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust followed along these steps completely and both aggressor nations had internal conflicts that they blamed on a minority group. The Rwanda Genocide is different, because it skipped the step of forced migration and didn’t involve a government and a minority group, but two competing cultural groups.
She was brought before the new Alexandrian emperor, Emperor Maxentius, who had replaced her deceased father. Emperor Maxentius was persecuting Christians. Catherine reprimanded him for this cruelty and asked him to stop. Insulted and astounded at Catherine’s boldness, the Emperor held Catherine prisoner at his palace. He called his scholars in to try to trick her into committing heresy against the Roman religion so she could be put to death.
[iv]The Conquistadors attacked the French three times, but the most important attack was the attack at Fort Caroline. Menendez, the leader of the Conquistadors, was to drive out the French settlers ‘by what means you see fit’. They ruthlessly killed the French, and Menendez, it is affirmed, hanged his prisoners on trees, and placed over them the inscription, ‘I do this, not as to Frenchmen, but as to Lutherans.’ The few women and children that Menendez spared was because he feared God would punish him otherwise. Besides these view individuals, he killed any Lutherans he could. He spared the few Catholics of the French, the Spanish only wanted to rid of the
Mary was called this for a reason, as Mary ascertained that all Protestants of England who declined to become a Catholic were killed. But Mary made sure that they went through pain, and made them go through a harsh and brutal death, which was by burning them alive at the stake near the South-East of London. Horrifically, between the period of 1555-1558, Mary had 284 Protestants burned, including Thomas Cranmer, who was the Archbishop of Canterbury at the time, as had given Henry VIII a divorce form Mary’s mother, Catherine of Aragon. People of London