A Holy War is a war fought in God's name. In other words, it's saying that they have a right to fight in order to defend their religion and beliefs. An example of this would be the Christians and the Muslims in the southern Maluku island of Ambom. This conflict between these two religious groups began months ago. Dozens of people of both sides were being killed weekly. As a result, Indone

sia is now rife with refugee camps. But why is there conflict between them? The answer is because of ethnic and religious tensions that slowly built up from about 30 years ago. Thirty years ago, the island's religious mix began to change because the Indonesian government started encouraging hundreds of thousands of Muslims to move to the Moluccas (which was mainly inhabited by Christians). On top of the ethnic and religious tensions, this war has to do with the urge for revenge. Last year Christian militias destroyed the Muslim town of Maliput, so that made the Muslims even angrier. So now more tension grew between these two ethnic groups, who both claim to gain back their homes and fight this war to defend their own religion. It is evident that in this case, religion is influencing a nation in a very negative way. Innocent people are being killed everyday simply because what they believe seems to be wrong to others or they believe in something that the other side doesn't. As you can see, religion is playing a very unfair role in this particular situation and this clearly shows that it's affecting the wor

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