Yet the muslims continued their invasion and occupation of the West.
And this narrative reminds me of the muslim sack and destruction of Constantinople.
"...peaceful, educated, and truly lovely Muslims who are very friendly and graciously kindhearted..."
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.
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
Interesting read, never heard of this before, thanks.
“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
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..
What happened to all the bodies? Have they found mass graves? There should be lots of bones remaining from 1 million people.
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.
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Lots of speculative and inconsistent writing there...
They should have took the Khans offer. This is why Genghis was the greatest combo of ruler and conqueror in history, because even long after his death, his empire continued to grow under his sons and grandsons.
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What I like about this story is that it may show God’s divine retribution for Islam’s persecution and murder of Jews and Christians. Islam ALWAYS has bloody borders and bloody conquest. Historically, Christians and Jews seem to especially bear the brunt of Muslim ire because they do not convert to the Moon God religion. Poetically, God sends a Mongolian of Christian decent to be the “hammer” of judgment...
While people here pat them selves on the back for hating President George W Bush, History will remember him as the conqueror of Baghdad and his victory over the tyrant Saddam Hussein
The Jews were taken to the area many centuries earlier. Only a handful returned to Jerusalem to build The Temple and the city back up. I would guess that if one followed bloodlines you would find God’s chosen responsible for much of the good in the area.
SUMMARY—
Muhammad’s Jihad armies had wasted, converted and conquered the Middle East, North Africa, Spain and Persia.
BUT crumpled when when the Mongols of Hulagu Khan rode into Baghdad.
The Mongols really only wanted to take over the Province of Rum. Baghdad was just a bump in the road to them.