[dennisw]

I've known about the Thugee but never in a million years did I know they were Muslims. Now it makes a lot more sense.

[tictoc]

Some Thugs were Muslims, but most were Hindu.

What the article illustrates is the importance of having a robust belief in the superiority of your own culture, and of taking decisive action in expression of that belief.

Not having, or not admitting to, that belief is like fighting with one hand tied behind your back.

[Destro]

The reasonable explanation is that these Thug Muslims were once Hindus. An example of residual Hindu pagan beliefs continuing after the Muslim invasions.

Residual pagan beliefs existed amongst European populations converted to Christianity for a time, too.

[xm177e2]

Dennis, "they" were not Muslims, a small number of them were.

[Avoiding_Sulla]

Thanks for the ping.

[sheik yerbouty]

It all falls into place. A cult of death.

[SauronOfMordor]

Thus were neither Muslim nor Hindu -- they were Thugees, which was its own religion. Thugee may have adopted the surface trappings of Islam or Hinduism, but at the core they worshipped the demon of death

A widespread, well-organized, murderous secret society that stayed undetected for centuries, perhaps millenia. And yet, these days, those who consider the possibility of modern secret societies are lebeled "tinfoil hat crowd"