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Revision as of 10:04, 5 October 2009 by 189.160.152.20 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Holy war may refer to:
- a Religious war justified by religious differences.
- The Cherem referred to in the Tanakh.
- Crusades
- French Wars of Religion
- Jihad, a duty for Muslims which has different meanings.
- Reconquista
- Seisen, the name given by Showa era propaganda to the Second Sino-Japanese War, based on the hakko ichiu.
- Taiping Rebellion
- Muslim conquest in the Indian subcontinent
- Jewish-Roman Wars
- Arab-Israeli Wars
- Way of the Celestial Masters
- Five Pecks of Rice Rebellion
- Holy War: The Crusades and their Impact on Today's World, a book by Karen Armstrong
- Holy War (Villanova vs. St. Joe's), the annual college basketball rivalry between two Philadelphia-area schools, Saint Joseph's University and Villanova University.
- Holy War (Boston College vs. Notre Dame), the occasional college football game between Boston College and the University of Notre Dame, the only two Roman Catholic Division I FBS schools
- Holy War (Utah vs. BYU), an annual college football game matching Utah in-state rivals Brigham Young University and the University of Utah.
- "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due", a song written by Megadeth on their 1990 album Rust in Peace.
- Svyaschennaya Voyna (The Sacred War), a song written on the day after the Nazi invasion of the USSR
- The Holy War, a 1682 novel by John Bunyan
In computer programming and technolgy in general, holy wars are endless debates where no consensus is achieved, such as
- Indent style
- Windows vs. Mac vs. Linux
- Debian vs. Red Hat vs. SUSE vs. Ubuntu
- Editor war: vi vs. emacs
- Opera vs. Firefox
- C++ vs. Java vs. C#
- Perl vs. Ruby vs. Python
- KDE vs. GNOME
- Underscores vs. CamelCase
- Big Design Up Front vs. agile software development
- Neats vs. scruffies, a debate in artificial intelligence research.
In videogames
- Seisen no Keifu Genealogy of the Holy War a Fire Emblem videogame
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