Examples and Analysis of Religious Conflicts

Conflict is a state of open often prolonged fighting such as the battle or war. They can be things as harmless a small argument or something as big and devastating as a war. Conflict plays into a lot of our lives and exists throughout all time, and does not just pertain to any one such area. Although there are many types of conflict, religion is the biggest source of conflict, many disputes are caused by people's religious beliefs because we all tend to believe differently than one another, and that can, and does, lead to conflict. An example of this would be, Al Qaeda fighting to overthrow the government because they're doing what they believe religiously to be right. Other examples would be bombers at the 2014 Olympics or the hunting of sea mammals in Japan and how it follows the religion to do these things. When people don't agree on what should be done in these situations conflict sets in.

From religion and can rise many types of conflict including political, in Iraq conflict arises from “an insurgency led by militants affiliated with Al Qaeda” (Arango, Tim and Kareem Fahimjan, New York Times, “Iraq again uses Sunni tribesmen in militant war”). The Al Qaeda militants are trying to overthrow the government because of their religious beliefs, because they want to have more control over people. But it's because of these religious beliefs that this insurgency is sparked in the Prime Minister is forced to embrace the Sunni tribes to get their support to help fight against the militants. Although some support is gained, many do not want to join for fear of his false promises “of permanent jobs, pensions and death benefits for their families if they die on the battlefield.” (Arango, Tim and Kareem Fahimjan, New York Times, “Iraq agai...

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... right in the grand scheme of things and although conflict about the subject exists and is a growing problem, legally what they are doing is alright. So the conflict remains to who's right and who's wrong based on who believes what.

Although there are many types of conflict, religion definitely plays a large role in the amount of conflict that occurs, as well as the many disputes caused by people's differences in religious beliefs. Religious conflict is present in all parts of our world; it creates conflict in political, military and social areas of our lives and is present in things like the Olympics, battles, wars, terrorism and hunting, things far from the realm of inconceivable to us. Conflict is present in all of history, in all places and has many causes but all of these feed into how we change, grow, explore and learn more about our world for better or worse.