the mongols never returned, they were absorbed; cultures like India and Persia have too much history to allow themselves to be taken over and yet both have Islam And you'd be surprised at how many people have the blood of Genghis Khan. Fraggle did a thread on it once
I not saying martyrdom is a Muslim creation, rather that martyrdom is far more common in Islam than any other religion today.
You think so? How many Muslims laid down their lives for their cause last year? How many US troops? How many NATO troops? "Defending" themselves and their civilisation in other people's countries?
US troops, NATO, from my knowledge not many of them blew themselves up in the name of god. by the way hows that cold turkey going, oh not well I see.
How many Muslims went on a suicide mission to murdered innocent people in other countries, does Mumbi ring a bell? Great Britian, does that ring a bell? New York, does that ring a bell? Spain, does that ring a Bell? How about all the suicide bomber from Lybia that went to Iraq and blew up innocent Iraqs? Issers, Ding! Ding! Ding! Does Amman Jordan, ring a bell? Does Sharm al-Sheikh, ring a bell? Does Issers, ring a bell? Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Does Yessentuki, ring a bell? Does Vladikavkaz, ring a bell? Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!
224 of 300 suicide terror attacks from 1980 to 2003 compiled by the Chicago Project on Suicide Terrorism involved Islamist groups or terrorist acts in Muslim-majority lands. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_attack SAM seriously you said you would go cold turkey, you need to let go and live life.
complete denial: philosophy professor says "Prove to me this chair does not exist." answer: "what chair?" You deny reality, you deny your self a life, all you do is live on internet forums, you need help.
And their history is thereby - - changed - -. But not taken over, of course. Just some ways of life sort of disappear, as if they had gotten rid of themselves. Is that what happened to them - they got rid of themselves?
The Zoroastrians had a little help getting rid of themselves, actually. But today the mainstream islamic political process mostly handles it.
Inasmuch as Indians became "Hindoos, Mussalmans and Christians", I guess. But I doubt that the average Persian is equal to the average Arab, or even the average Arabised Levantine
The odd inaccuracy is inconsequential. The damage has been done, and the world is aware of the atrocities committed. (UN human rights expert and retired Princeton law professor Richard Falk-http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/01/26/gaza-horror-charges-filed-against-15-israeli-officials/) (same source)
