Posted on 08/09/2012 4:14:49 AM PDT by Milagros
Edited on 08/09/2012 5:22:45 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
The digging began about a decade ago and 70 followers soon moved into an eight-level subterranean honeycomb of cramped cells with no light, heat or ventilation.
Children were born. They, too, lived in the cold underground cells for many years
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...the Jews of the place, who were exceedingly wealthy, had lived peaceably in their retirement until the insurrection which took place in 1834, but about the beginning of that year a highly religious Mussulman called Mohammed Damoor went forth into the market-place, crying with a loud voice, and prophesying that on the fifteenth of the following June the true Believers would rise up in just wrath against the Jews, and despoil them of their gold and their silver and their jewels...When that day dawned the whole Mussulman population of the place assembled in the streets that they might see the result of the prophecy.Suddenly Mohammed Damoor rushed furious into the crowd, and the fierce shout of the prophet soon ensured the fulfilment of his prophecy. Some of the Jews fled and some remained, but they who fled and they who remained, alike, and unresistingly, left their property to the hands of the spoilers. The most odious of all outrages, that of searching the women for the base purpose of discovering such things as gold and silver concealed about their persons, was perpetrated without shame.
The poor Jews were so stricken with terror, that they submitted to their fate even where resistance would have been easy...When the insurrection was put down some of the Mussulmans (most probably those who had got no spoil wherewith they might buy immunity) were punished, but the greater part of them escaped. None of the booty was restored, and the pecuniary redress which the Pasha had undertaken to enforce for them had been hitherto so carefully delayed, that the hope of ever obtaining it had grown very faint. http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/k/kinglake/alexander_william/eothen/chapter26.html
(Eothen [by A.W. Kinglake]. By Alexander William Kinglake, 1864 [p. 291]
http://books.google.com/books?id=_GYBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA291
Eothen - Page 217 - Alexander William Kinglake - 1914 - 238 pages [p. 217]
http://books.google.com/books?id=6pcLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA217)
For the safety of the free world, all moslems must be considered terrorists. Their scriptures and, time and time again, their behavior proves it.
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