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.
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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.
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.
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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)
>> 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.
“His Timurid Empire rivaled the size and power of the Mongolian domain forged by Genghis Khan a century earlier.”
Genghis would have been proud of Tamerlane’s many victories. However, Tamerlane’s empire is small in comparison to the Mongol empire built by Genghis Khan. The Great Khan was not Muslim either. In fact, he was the greatest killer of Muslims in world history.