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The Mongol Horde....

Posted by pancho (Guest) - Wednesday, October 4 2006, 18:08:13 (CEST)
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Durant on what the Mongol Invasion meant to the Islamic East...

"Never in history had a civilization suffered so suddenly so devastating a blow. The barbarian conquest of Rome (also by Christian barabarians...mine)had been spread over two centuries;between each blow and the next some recovery was possible; and the German conquerors respected, some tried to preserve, the dying Empire which they helped to destroy. But the Mongols came and went within forthy years; they came not to conquer and stay, but to kill, pillage, and carry their spoils to Mongolia. When their bloody tide ebbed it left behind it a fatally disrupted economy, canals broken or choked, schools and libraries in ashes, governments too divided, poor and weak to govern, and a population cut in half and shattered in soul. Epicurean indulgence, physical and mental exhaustion, military incompetance and cowardice, religious sectarianism and obscurantism, political corruption and anarchy, all culminating in piecemeal collapse before external collapse---this, and no change in climate, turned Western Asia from world leadership to destitution, from a hundred teeming and cultured cities in Syria, Mesopotamia, Persia, the Caucasus, and Transoxiana into the poverty, disease, and stagnation of modern times."

...yet...have you ever heard any Muslim DEMANDSISING an apology from Mongolia? Has there ever been a half-wit who`s addressed a formal protest letter to a minister of Mongolia? Why us???

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