I'm going to declare something else the worst holy war ever.
Then we can have an even worse holy war than ever was before, making ourselves both wrong.
Then we can have an even worse holy war than ever was before, making ourselves both wrong.
There. Problem solved. Unless you wanna kill a few hundred thousand people and go to war for a few hundred years.
(If I'd said "The holocaust", I could've Godwinned this thread, but that wasn't really a holy war.)
I'm trying to think of other real "holy wars" - the 30 Years War is perhaps the only other major one I can think of. I guess most other "holy wars" are really justs lingering fall out from conquests Ottoman invasion of Europe, Ireland, .....
Consider that Sweden, one of the big participants, was financed by the famously Protestant country France! :-)
(Let us bunch the Crusades as one single example, at least for this argument.)
(The Huns/Mongols were religiously tolerant and motivated by conquest, right?)
But where the Ottomans religiously tolerant in all periods?
It seems the Turks where really disliked by their subjects (both in Middle East and in the Balkan), where did that come from, then?
Neither side will ever give an inch, and vast armies of anonymous have lobbed internets at each other, killing a few StarCraft players in Korea and memeing millions upon millions more, with more arriving every day.