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life started again and members of the three monotheistic faiths
returned to peaceful coexistence." 17

The example of the Crusaders is indicative of a general phenome-
non. The more the adherents of an ideology are uncivilised, intellectu-
ally underdeveloped and ignorant, the more likely they are to resort to
violence. This also holds true for ideologies that have nothing to do with
religion. All communist movements around the world are prone to vio-
lence. Yet the most savage and bloodthirsty of them were the Khmer
Rouge in Cambodia. This was because they were the most ignorant.

In the same way ignorant people can carry every idea espousing
violence to the point of madness, so they can also involve violence in
the Divine religions, which are absolutely opposed to violence. As in

the Christian and Jewish worlds, examples of this have also taken place
in the Islamic world and are still taking place today.
It is essential to refer to the character of the Bedouins in the time

of our Prophet (pbuh) in order to see the true face of those who com-
mit terror in the name of religion.

Christianity is a religion based on love, yet
Crusaders carried out some of the most vio-
lent acts in history. These masses, who knew
almost nothing about their religion, and who
had probably never read the Bible once in
their lifetime, were led into barbarism under
the conditioning of slogans which presented
this violence falsely as "God's Will".