[MR] Modern Mongols

[Alex Long]

no actually, I dont' know how to read. I just look at the pictures. <grin>
seriously, I was doing an image search & didnt' read the article. I just thought the photo was cool.

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--- On Wed, 10/22/08, David Chessler <chessler at usa.net> wrote:

> From: David Chessler <chessler at usa.net>
> Subject: Re: [MR] Modern Mongols
> To: kyrilex at yahoo.com, "Merry Rose" <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>, "Sacred Stone" <brnsacstone at yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 3:41 AM
> Did you read the article? It's a one-sided history of
> the Mongols' wars with
> the Muslims. It certainly doesn't correspond to western
> views of the Mongols,
> and omits the Mongols' attack on Europe, which had not
> provoked them.
> Moreover, it treats Muslims and Christians as natural
> allies, which would be a
> surprise to Russia and Eastern Europe (Poland, Hungary,
> Austria, Northern
> Italy, the Balkans) which occurred 10 or more years before
> the attacks on
> Syria. 
> 
> The article also seems to call for using Mongol tactics to
> destroy Islam. I
> doubt whether western democracies could practice thirteenth
> century warfare
> even if they wanted to. Genocide got a bad name in the 20th
> century.
> 
> 
> 
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> ------ Original Message ------
> Received: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:55:56 AM EDT
> From: Alex Long <kyrilex at yahoo.com>
> To: Merry Rose <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>,	Sacred
> Stone
> <brnsacstone at yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [MR] Modern Mongols
> 
> > found this photo & found it interesting:
> > http://www.historyofjihad.org/mongol3.jpg
> > 
> > Here is the photo within the contents of its webpage:
> > http://www.historyofjihad.org/mongolia.html
> > 
> > The page was so long I figured I'd reference the
> specific picture so nobody
> would have to search for it.
> > 
> > -- Ceara ní Néill 
> > http://www.HouseBarra.com 
> > Quare Operor Quisquam Dimidium?
> > 
> > 
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