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WhiteEagle
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They saying. "that those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it", seems to be applicable.
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In the 1880s, there was also a mahdi army of mahdi Abdullah, who defeated the Ottoman Turk Misr Egyptian garrisons out of el Obeid in north Kordofan and out of Khartoum and out of Kassala and out of Berber, under the banner of sharia Islam.
England's Bible-soldier Governor-General Charles Gordon was beheaded by the Abdullah madhists in 1885 and Gordon's torso was thrown into the Nile to the crocodiles.
By 1886 and 1887, Christian England and Christian Europe feared that mahdism could move north into Kush Nubia and into Misr Egypt and join with the Arabi nationalists against England's interests in northeast Africa.
In 1885-86, Mahdi Abdullah died suddenly and was succeded by Mahdi Khalifa Abdullah, who wrote a letter to Queen Victoria of England and summoned her to "come to Omdurman (near Khartoum) at once and become a moslem".
When mahdi messengers delivered this summons to Queen Victoria in 1886-87, the mahdi messengers were highly offended when they saw their letter being passed around the court with guffaws and derisive laughter.
England again began to stir up into a war footing and the talk in England was that "even Christianity had been defied" by these sharia Islamic mahdists of Sudan.
Likewise, the mahdists considered the Islamic Ottoman Turks to be practically "infidels", much like Islamists in Iraq are considered "infidels" by the likes of Osama bin Laden and Zarqawi.
Little has changed since then.
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I've been reading a book about the Crusades written from the Arab/Mulsim point of view.
It draws on actual written accounts by Muslim scholars from the time of the Crusades.
Some things that I've noticed:
The sects of Islam (Sunni and Shi'ite) have hated each other since the time of the Prophet Mohammad.
One reason the European Crusaders were able to make such conquest in Palestine was due to the division of these sects and their hatred toward each other.
Even back in the 1100's there were Islamic suicide killers, called the Assasins. They didn't have bombs, as they do today, but they were a feared terrorist group that trained young men to murder certain leaders in public in the daylight. They knew by doing the murder openly they would be executed and they were, but they did it this way to cause more fear among their enemies.
It's funny how time has not changed things very much.
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