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Clash of the Worlds

Exploring how past conflicts between a Christian West and Islam can help explain more recent violence.
This series looks at three great clashes between a Christian British Empire and Islam:
The Indian Mutiny of 1857, the Mahdi uprising in 1880s Sudan and the creation of the state of Israel in the first half of the twentieth century.

The first programme tells the story of the Indian uprising in which both sides committed atrocities in the name of their faiths.

Mutiny


Sudan

Palestine

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