Posted on 06/23/2006 1:25:18 PM PDT by sergey1973
Osama bin Laden was far from the first jihadist to kill infidels as an expression of religious piety. This years marks the 600th anniversary of the death of Tamerlane (Timur Lang; “Timur the Lame”, d. 1405), or Amir Timur (“Timur” signifies “Iron” in Turkish). Osama lacks both Tamerlane’s sophisticated (for his time) military forces and his brilliance as a strategist. But both are or were pious Muslims who paid homage to religious leaders, and both had the goal of making jihad a global force. Santayana was correct when he told us that those who refuse to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.
Tamerlane was born at Kash (Shahr-i-Sebz, the “Green City”) in Transoxiana (some 50 miles south of Samarkand, in modern Uzbekistan), on April 8 (or 11), 1336 C.E. Amir Turghay, his father, was chief of the Gurgan or Chagtai branch of the Barlas Turks. By age 34 (1369/70), Timur had killed his major rival (Mir Husain), becoming the pre-eminent ruler of Transoxiana. He spent the next six to seven years consolidating his power in Transoxiana before launching the aggressive conquests of Persia, Afghanistan, and Iraq, and then attacking Hindustan (India) under the tottering Delhi Sultanate. [1]
Grousset [2] contrasts Jenghiz Khan’s “straightforward planning” and “clean sweeps” with the “higgledy-piggledy” order of Timur’s expeditions, and the often incomplete nature of the latter’s conquests:
Tamerlane’s [Timur’s] conquering activities were carried on from the Volga to Damascus, from Smyrna to the Ganges and the Yulduz, and his expeditions into these regions followed no geographical order.
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You may get tied from a number of historical articles I pinged you on that are related or not to Russia/Eurasia, but it's great to put things in perspective, especially when it comes to Islam and Jihad.
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This article is soo wrong. NEither Osama nor Tamer lane were the first psychopaths of islam. IT was an bandit called Mohammed who was the first serial killer in Islam.
*Did you eat a bad zebra or something?
Many libs and multiculturalists try and, tragically, even President Bush tries, to convice us that Islam is a religion of Peace.
It is no such thing. Anyone with at least an 6th grade reading level can simply read the Koran itslef. And they can read the Sira. And tehy can read the Hadiths. And they can read the public statements of the Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar in Cairo. This ain't rocket science.
Islam is a religion of Peace applies solely to an Isalmic State, run by Clerics, under Sharia Law.
Pssst..I mentioned Tamer Lame too..
The story did NOT comment on how many people Tamerlane killed: Far past 100,000 I understand slaughtered in the cities he burned and destroyed.
That aside, when it comes to muhammed, I am in agreement with Mr. Trifkovic, who describes him as "part John Gotti, part David Koresh"
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