"There is a new book out on the biography of Genghis Khan. He did ban the use of torture."
Don't belive everything you read. He might have banned some torture, but I very much doubt that he banned all torture.
I'm sure he banned the kind of torture the American people have been subjected to of late - having to watch their own fellow-citizens and soldiers brutalized by half-baked savages who live to boast of it.
Genghis Khan was a great man.
The new book is based on a translation of "The Secret History of the Mongols" a recently deciphered manuscript which recorded the deeds of the great Genghis.
At one point one of his successors actually sent an embassy to the Pope requesting an alliance between the Mongols and Christian Crusaders to wipe out the Muslims.
Unfortunately it never came off.