Posted on 04/16/2018 2:37:12 AM PDT by Cronos
41) Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older brother of the two Boston Marathon bombers, he who died by police fire and being run over by his younger brother , was named after the nefarious follower of the demon god Baal, Tamerlane. Syria’s Assad likewise is a follower of Baal. Allah is but a recent renaming of that same demon that demands human sacrifice and submission.
Therefore Assad must be sacrificed to his own nefarious god in order to gain peace in the Middle East.
In earlier times, "You got a "Tamerlane" in your attic?" was a heard as a joke.
Creepy stuff about his tomb being opened in 1941.
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That map shows an empire a small fraction of the size of Genghis Khan, who conquered from Korea and China to Hungary, from the Indian Ocean to the Baltic Sea, including the entirety of China. Timurlane, in comparison, conquered only SW Asia.
Fascinating history post.
When they get the very basic facts wrong, it's difficult to take anything they say seriously. The Kurgan didn't die until centuries later, when he was decrapitated by Connor MacLeod. There can be only one.
When I was deployed to Uzbekistan, I saw Tamerlane’s tomb, his image on Uzbek coins where the eyes stare back and currency depicting his statue on horseback. He is their national hero to this day.
Think Mohammed is the most popular boy’s name among Muslims? In UZ it’s Timur, which means “iron”.
Supposedly in 1941 Stalin ordered Tamerlane’s tomb opened. Three weeks later the Nazis invaded.
Assad isn't a Ba'al worshiper or a Mohammaden
you get rid of Assad and who do you, Candor7, want to replace him with?
The Mongols never held on to lands west of the Dnieper for very long
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Thanks for this post, Cronos. I read Michner’s “Caravans” 45 years ago and that sparked a life-long interest in and knowledge of, both Afghanistan and Tamerlane.
This synopsis was an interesting reminder of an overlooked figure whose influence (effects?) far outlived his empire.
When a fool states “Afghanistan has never been successfully conquered and is the graveyards of empires” show them this (out of many other examples)
"...In much of Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, and India, he is vilified as a monster for massacring the populations. Because of this, some Muslim scholars applaud him for uniting the Muslim world.
“Most of Genghis Khan’s empire — with the exception of ... China...”
Besides that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play? To be clear, Genghis Khan conquered all of China, perhaps not for long. And even then, that was about 1/4 of the world’s population... before Khan got ahold of it, anyway.
As for not holding lands very long... well, yeah, Timur was less than a century after Genghis. That kinda goes without saying.
>> While others have succeeded in immortalizing themselves with barbarism, we may never know why Tamerlane escaped a similar degree of notoriety. <<
He wasn’t a legend in his day among Europeans because he was largely irrelevant to the daily lives of Europeans. He didn’t become well-known as global studies supplanted Western History in schools because he led the Muslims to indiscriminately slaughter tens of millions of people. It’s sorta like asking why schools don’t cover Stalin the way they cover the Nazis.
Was Baghdad's population largely Christian in 1399? It had previously been the capital of a Muslim caliphate.
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