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It was also several hundred years ago since Christians engaged en masse in any sort of 'holy war', whereas jihad (righteous struggle, which I realise is not always violent, but often is) is widespread in the Islamic world today, and, I would argue, fundamental to the religion, in Shia Islam being the first of the ten Ancillaries of the Faith (furūʿ ad-dīn), and in Sunni Islam often referred to as one the Six Pillar of the Faith.