Comparison Of War Between Muslims And Crusades: The Seljuk Turks

Anatolia, the place that ignited the speech given by the Pope was part of the Byzantine Greek Empire and became a center for Christianity as well as a guardian of Greek and Roman culture. It was a trading route to pass through the region, but as the Empire declined the Turks conquered the peninsula in the battle of Manzikert where the Byzantines were defeated by the Seljuk Turks, which established themselves over large areas of Anatolia taking Constantinople as their capital. The Turkish language as well as Islamic religion was introduced in the peninsula, which started a slow transition from Anatolia being a predominantly Christian and Greek speaking into a Muslim and Turkish speaking peninsula.

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Also, through igniting their emotions with the use of very sharp adjectives to emphasize the atrocities that Muslims did, how they are against God’s will as these pagans burned church and took Anatolia that was considered as a center for Christianity this was his presentation to make it seem that it’s actually for the better of society if Muslims were killed. Emphasizing the atrocities that the Muslim did in order to create that aura of aggression towards these pagans, a call for war between Muslims and Crusades in order to create an army with religious coloring that is the cross, a religious coloring to the taking of land. The pope viewed the Turks, Persians and others from the region as barbarians, he gave them a general position as barbarians that are not exactly true but a generalization of the people. Being called as “Barbarians” are a stereotype that is not necessarily the right image of the region, no person representing an “enemy” would see the good traits or even acknowledge them because the purpose of the speech is to raise the feel of opposition to this religion, group of Turks that are taking over the Christian land, referring to the enemy as barbarians that should be fought in order to be lead for the path of eternal reward. Just like the former president of the United States, Bush presented the idea of terrorism, “terrorist” a stereotypical word for the calling the enemy and the call of Global War on Terrorism in 2011 seeing all Easterners as possible threat which is not the truth, there are good and bad people in life as there are good and bad Muslim