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For your brethren who live in the east are in urgent need of your help, 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?