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The Hash smoking assassins were a weird(er?) sect of Islam. They used to smoke hash in the barracks until a young recruit would pass out - then he would awake in a garden paradise where young women would feed his carnal desires for food and flesh - then break out the hash and smoke him to unconsciousness again. When the young recruit would wake up back in the barracks they would tell him he had dreamed of the paradise that awaited him should he die for the cause.

They were famous for stabbing their victims right during religious worship right in the middle of the Mosque on a Friday (their sabbath). It was, obviously, a suicide mission.

When Saladin took a hard line against the cult - they promised to make him think better of it. Saladin put men positioned outside his tent in a ring with interlocking arms - but he STILL woke up with a red dagger (their symbol) stuck in the sand beside his head. He remarked “they have arguments that are difficult to dismiss.”

The name “Assassin” is actually derived from the Hashish they used to smoke.