Last year, a religious faction of Afghanistan called the Taliban attacked the world trade center. This faction believed they were doing gods work. Almost 800 years before this happened, the pope created an army and sent them to attack the Middle East and retake the holy cities of the Christianity. These attacked were called the crusades. Even though these two separate events happened hundreds of years apart, they still parallel each other significantly. Many similarities are …showed first 75 words of 299 total…

…showed last 75 words of 299 total…as the number of people who attacked and the openness of the crusaders attack in comparison to the hidden nature of the Taliban. It is scary how these two events relate. We are so quick to judge the Taliban as horrible criminals, but we too did something much like this a long time ago. I am in no way defending the Taliban’s actions, but we have to look at ourselves before we judge others.