Worst atrocities in the name of god (part-1)

 

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Crimes committed in the name of god

Throughout history, religion has been used as a reason, or inspiration, for some of the worst mayhem possible. From pre-history to modern history, religion is, for many people, just an excuse to kill other people. Here is a compilation of the worst atrocities the world has witnessed…

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Hindu-Muslim riots

A pig caused hundreds of Indians to kill one another in 1980. The animal walked through a Muslim holy ground at Moradabad, in Uttar Pradesh. Muslims, who think pigs are an embodiment of Satan, blamed Hindus for the defilement. They went on a murder rampage, stabbing and clubbing Hindus, who retaliated in kind. The pig riot spread to a dozen cities and left more than 200 dead. There are endless such unfortunate instances between the two communities.

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Jihad

Islamic teachings were misinterpreted by various Muslims around the world. These Muslims consider Jihad as religious obligation and bloodshed large number of non Muslims in the name of so called Jihad. Muslims formed various religious groups that tend to kill non Muslims to achieve their required targets in name of religion.

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Baha'i vs Islam

When the Baha'i faith began in Persia in 1844, the Islamic regime sought to exterminate it. The Baha'i founder was imprisoned and executed in 1850. Two years later, the religious government massacred 20,000 Baha'is. Streets of Tehran were soaked with blood. The new Baha'i leader, Baha'ullah, was tortured and exiled in foreign Muslim prisons for the rest of his life.

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Taiping Rebellion

The Taiping Rebellion was a massive civil war in southern China from 1850 to 1864, against the ruling Manchu-led Qing Dynasty. It was a millenarian movement led by Hong Xiuquan, who announced that he had received visions in which he learned that he was the younger brother of Jesus. At least 20 million people died, mainly civilians, in one of the deadliest military conflicts in history.

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Sacrifice to Goddess Kali

Members of lndia's Thuggee sect strangled people as sacrifices to appease the bloodthirsty goddess Kali, a practice beginning in the 1500s. The number of victims has been estimated to be as high as 2 million. Thugs were claiming about 20,000 lives a year in the 1800s until British rulers stamped them out. At a trial in 1840, one Thug was accused of killing 931 people. Today, some Hindu priests still sacrifice goats to Kali.

 

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Witchcraft

 In the 1400s, the Inquisition shifted its focus to witchcraft. Priests tortured untold thousands of women into confessing that they were witches who flew through the sky and engaged in sex with the devil - then they were burned or hanged for their confessions. Witch hysteria raged for three centuries in a dozen nations. Estimates of the number executed vary from 100,000 to 2 million. Whole villages were exterminated. The witch craze was religious madness at its worst.

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Sati practice

Sati was a social funeral practice among some Indian communities in which a recently widowed woman would immolate herself on her husband’s funeral pyre. The practice was banned several times, with the current ban dating to 1829 by the British. However, Sati remained legal in some Indian princely states for a time after it had been abolished. Jaipur banned the practice in 1846 and Nepal continued to practice Sati well into the 20th century. On the Indonesian island of Bali, Sati was practised as late as 1905.

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Buddhists in Burma

In 1850, Buddhists monks in Burma still practiced ritual human sacrifices in which performing it. Along with moving the capital to Mandalay, 56 people considered to be "blameless" were killed and buried under the city walls to become patrons of the new settlement. Soon, two of the graves were found empty, which has led royal astrologers give a verdict radical: 500 people have killed and buried under the walls, otherwise capital will be discharged. By the intervention of British Governors sacrifices ended, 100 people had been killed already.

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Inquisition

 First Inquisition movements were caused by the attitude of the masses to Christianity, particularly of the Cathars and Valdensienilor. The torture began to be used after the year 1252. Pope Innocent IV, in a papal edict known as Ad exstirpanda, authorized the torture. But the ruling forbade bloodshed, mutilation or death. One of the methods commonly used was "strappado", which involved linking the accused hands back and its suspension in the air to arm fracture. 

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