The Millet System: Killing Christians In The Middle East

The Ottoman Empire was a military power, and demonstrated that they were a force to be reckoned with. Their successful conquering of Rome, Byzantium solidified their standing as a world power in 1453. The Ottoman Empire held to strict religious beliefs and practiced a form of Islam called Sunnism. Additionally, the Ottoman Empire made use of a system where the leaders in power also controlled the leaders of the church. The system was called casesaro-papism.

“...I was alone-terribly alone in a world without God and without man. Without love or mercy. I had ceased to be anything but ashes, yet I felt myself to be stronger than the Almighty, to whom my life had been tied for so long” (Weisel 65). The people in Syria are alone currently. There are many countries that are not accepting refugees into their premise. This creates a sense of loneliness for them. “And in spite of myself, a prayer formed inside me…” (Weisel 91). The dehumanization in Syria is caused by the fact that Syrians are a different religion; the religion of the cruel people who are killing innocent citizens (much like the Nazis in the Holocaust), and are all thought of as being terrorists. They are mentally forced to question their own religion, because it is what is causing them to be blamed for the death of thousands of people. “The Syrians have lost their faith. In other wars, people have lost everything but their faith. Not this war. This war, the Syrians are asking us, ‘Is God still there?’ For them, God doesn’t exist anymore. It is something new we are facing” (Patterson). The fact that innocent people are questioning a belief that has helped shape who they are and made them better people is dehumanization from the fascist leaders controlling

Many Christians were displaced when Islamic forces invaded large Christian cities in Iraq. People from different social and religious backgrounds are at the camps. One thing the people all have in common is the loss of their homes. A priest, Father Douglas Bazi, stated that, “During the first week, the only thing I could hear was crying” (qtd. In “Inside The Refugee Camps Of Northern Iraq”). The refugees were devastated that their homes, and that even some peoples lives were taken away. The refugees do get medical attention for psychological conditions they may have. Experiencing the trauma they had experienced having their home taken away can cause psychological problems. The refugee camps in Iraq house people who have had their homes taken from them.

The Ottoman Empire, one of the greatest empire on the longest one industry this empire dominant Far East Europe Middle East Africa and Asia, remarkable location enable this empire to go for a long time through several reasons the most important ones: centralization, all power within one person, Education and Judicial systems are run by the state, religion is substantial within the core of the empire. Ruthless when it comes to deal with a local leader’s, position and powers are being given to the ones who deserve it , united by Islamic ideology , taking best ideas from other cultures and make them their own , very strong army . All of those reasons maintain the power of the Ottoman Empire. That's what made it rules for several centuries. One of the things behind the powerful Ottoman Empire , that other religious are organized according to the millet , religious attic geographical communities with limited power and regulate their own affairs but everything under the supervision of the Ottoman administration . The battles between Muslims and Christians churches were converted to mosques and mosques and to churches according to who was the winner. Muhammad did not suppress the Christian faith itself. Sultan Mahmud was also influenced by the Islamic rule that Muslims should show respect to all religious.

Within the empire, it was found useful to divide populations into groups called millets due to the diversity of the empire. Muslims and other major religious groups held the major millets while the non-Muslims were put into the lesser millets. Due to Islam being the official religion of the empire, Muslims were impacted very positively within empire. They held the most rights and privileges while non-Muslims were required to pay a special tax to the

In the Islamic ruled empire, the Ottomans relied heavily on religion when it came to maintaining their empire as they used them to build an army using minorities and gain money for their empire them as well. In the Ottoman Empire, Christians and Jews were considered dhimmis, as dhimmis they had their rights protected by Ottoman law and were allowed to continue their own religious organizations, not be forced to follow Islamic law, and have freedom of choice; this system was seen as the Ottoman Empire’s greatest

Every empire that has ever been created constantly evolves. They will grow or they will diminish. Many empires cease to exist and some even start over under a different name. Throughout history, faith and religion have been at the core of almost every successful empire. There are a lot of factors that play into their faith. Two of the greatest empires to ever exist were the Ottoman and Safavid Empire. The Ottoman Empire was so large that it spanned from the Iranian frontier in the east to Algeria. One of the central values that contributed to both empire’s success was religion: Islam specifically. Religion was key to their successes because it not only united people of all different religious backgrounds, but it also played a central role in the millet system, which was implemented by Suleyman the magnificent.

There have been clashes between Muslims and Christians since before the crusades. There were truces between Christians and Muslims, but they both had control of land that each group wanted. Jerusalem and the cities around it were where Jesus lived on earth which is important to both religions. Today, there are many assumptions made about both religions and its practices. Most people don’t know the whole truth when they make their assumptions. In the United States, there is a culture of not being tolerant towards Muslims because of terrorist attacks that have occurred in recent years. Both religions can be compared through the passages in the Quran and the Bible. In Arabic, ‘Allah’ means God. Christians believe in the trinity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Even though there may seem to be many differences between Muslims and the practice of Jihad today and Christians today, there are much more similarities than differences. During the crusades, Muslims and Christians both wanted control of the Holy Land and were more similar than different when it came to war, peace, and motivations for their actions.

Christians have been living in Iraq for thousands of years. They have been living there

While numerous countries remain established under the ideology of Islamic fundamentalism currently, the religious conflicts between differentiating Islamic sects has initiated massive political and religious warfare. The conflicts between Shia and Sunni Muslims have dates back to the 7th century, after the death of Prophet Muhammad. This great divide still exists today, according to a 2009 study by Pew Research Center, between 10-13% of the Muslims are Shia, while 87-90% are Sunni Muslims, comprising of over 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide. While Islamic extremist may be viewed as separate from the mainstream Islamic groups, Muslim extremist groups have evolved alongside the Shia and Sunni sects. “Kharijites” were extreme doctrines which adopted

In the first millennium CE Turkic people began migrating into Anatolia. They had established the Ottoman Empire by the 14th Century. For over the next five centuries the Empire’s ethnically diverse population was organized into a “millet system, thereby ensuring cultural and religious pluralism” (Rutgers, 2013).

Religion has its shares of promoting violence. Many will argue that a cause of religion wars is for economic and political reasons, but others argue that those who start wars are, by definition, not religious. In reality, separating religion out of economic and political motives can be involved in such a way finding religious motives innocent of much. Excuses for Christianity responsibilities cannot be accepted whether the person has misappropriated the message of Christ. The primarily set of doctrines is not Christianity, but by living through past background it personified the visible actions of Christians. In other words, Christianity, Islam or any other religion has no intention of excusing from survey. Given certain conditions,

Three of the world’s major religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, originated in the Middle East. Although there are many smaller sects and religions throughout the Middle East, these three are the most prominent and fastest growing religions worldwide. Islam is the most prevalent religion throughout the region, but each of these three major religions has a rich history and has played a role in the development of the Middle East.

The Ottoman Empire was one of the longest enduring territories ever. One of the purposes behind its life span was, to some degree, that it endured the presence of different confidence groups. As being what is indicated, ten million Turks had the capacity standard more than 250 million individuals on three continents. The Ottomans governed their subjects through the Millet community structure; every group had its own particular independent courts and could enact as indicated by its own particular religious laws. They additionally accepted different religious qualities.

The Middle East before 1492(and now) is home to many Muslims. It was located in the same area as today, so in between Asia and Africa and south of Europe. It still was an arid climate.