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The Sack Of Baghdad In 1258 – One Of The Bloodiest Days In Human History
War History Online ^ | 15feb19 | Jay Hemmings

Posted on 02/21/2019 4:45:37 AM PST by vannrox

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1 posted on 02/21/2019 4:45:37 AM PST by vannrox
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To: bigtoona

The Mongols wore MAGA hats, too. Didn’t you know this? :-P


3 posted on 02/21/2019 5:01:34 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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To: vannrox

Yet the muslims continued their invasion and occupation of the West.

And this narrative reminds me of the muslim sack and destruction of Constantinople.


4 posted on 02/21/2019 5:02:05 AM PST by 2banana (Were you)
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To: Blue Jays

"...peaceful, educated, and truly lovely Muslims who are very friendly and graciously kindhearted..."


Nope. Not buying the author’s written story.

5 posted on 02/21/2019 5:14:22 AM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: vannrox

For all their vaunted wisdom and love of beauty, the ‘ slimes sure didn’t seem to do much with them beside rape and pillage Europe.


6 posted on 02/21/2019 5:36:49 AM PST by IronJack
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To: bigtoona

I’m heartbroken


7 posted on 02/21/2019 5:56:08 AM PST by gr8eman (Since God has been banished from our classrooms, Satan has filled the void.)
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To: bigtoona
...innocent Muslims...

"Innocent" is a modern-day extrapolation. I don't think there is any such claim, implicit or explicit, in the article. This should be read in the context of the prevailing culture at the time.

8 posted on 02/21/2019 6:01:15 AM PST by nwrep
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To: vannrox

I just can’t seem to get upset over the deaths of hundreds of thousands of moslem terrorists.

I have a new found appreciation for the Mongols though. :D


9 posted on 02/21/2019 6:01:59 AM PST by John O (God Save America (Please))
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To: bigtoona

I recall the muslins burn the library at Alexandria. Turnabout is fair play.

My second thought was the Mongolsdid not mess around.


10 posted on 02/21/2019 6:03:34 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: vannrox

Interesting read, never heard of this before, thanks.


11 posted on 02/21/2019 6:11:41 AM PST by exPBRrat (.)
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To: vannrox

“Abbasid caliphs nonetheless presided over perhaps the greatest empire of scholarship and knowledge the world had seen up to that point.”

http://www.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/crap.wav


12 posted on 02/21/2019 6:28:09 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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The Mamluk rulers of Egypt and the last holdouts among the Crusaders in what is now Israel and Lebanon probably looked favorably on sack of Baghdad by the Mongols, which weakened their rival, the Seljuq Empire. Two years after the destruction of Baghdad, the Mamluks would defeat the Mongols at Ain Jalut, near Nazareth in modern-day Israel, in what was arguably one of history’s most decisive battles..


13 posted on 02/21/2019 6:39:16 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: John O
I just can’t seem to get upset over the deaths of hundreds of thousands of moslem terrorists.

Then you'll love the story of the sack of Aleppo and of Damascus in 1400 by Tamerlane--also a Moslem. He also sacked Baghdad in 1401, killing tens of thousands in the process.

14 posted on 02/21/2019 6:49:53 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: bigtoona

This is indeed pro-islam propaganda.


15 posted on 02/21/2019 6:57:37 AM PST by Blennos
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To: vannrox

What happened to all the bodies? Have they found mass graves? There should be lots of bones remaining from 1 million people.


16 posted on 02/21/2019 7:11:30 AM PST by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: vannrox
The invading horde led by Hulagu Trump. 😄
17 posted on 02/21/2019 7:14:38 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: vannrox

Josephus records more than a million people killed in Titus’ destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple. Passover pilgrims had been trapped in the city.


18 posted on 02/21/2019 7:36:34 AM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: 2banana

if the death cult Islam had been wiped out, imagine the lives that might have been spared each generation after that.


19 posted on 02/21/2019 7:50:35 AM PST by FreeAtlanta (what a mess we got ourselves into)
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To: vannrox

Bookmark


20 posted on 02/21/2019 8:51:33 AM PST by aquila48
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