For your brethren who live in the east are in urgent need of your , and you must hasten to give them the aid which has often been promised them. for . . the turks and arabs have attacked them. . if you permit them to continue thus . . the faithful of god will be much more widely attacked by them. —pope urban ii, 1095 what was one reason for this speech?

One reason for this speech was the fear of the spread of Islam.

Explanation:

The paragraph of the speech shown in the question above shows how Pope Urban II encouraged the Catholic population to support the crusades for fear of Islamic expansion. The Pope gave a very persuasive speech in which he warned the faithful of the danger of allowing the Mulsumans to continue to make progress on their land conquests and how Christians would be persecuted if no one stopped them.

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