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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (223225)	3/8/2007 4:46:03 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Tamerlane was a Muslim (I mistook him with great grandfather, Genghis Khan). But this is ALL that you got right. He certainly had no problems killing Muslims. He fought more Muslim kingdoms than non-Islamic ones. The list includes: Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, Iran, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, etc. His invasion of India was against the Muslim ruler of Delhi. Similarly, he started a war with Bayezid I, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, and the Mamluk sultan of Egypt. So no, he was not motivated by expanding the glory of Islam any more than Europeans who were busy slaughtering each other were motivated by expanding the "glory" of Christianity, even if they each cited God and Christ as their cause. And all this, and it still does not apply to what I named: The Indian Mogul Caliphate of 1527-1856. Tamerlane was nearly 150 years before the time span and the dynasty I called for.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (223225)	3/8/2007 4:57:01 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

"Non-Muslims do not do this." You're kidding right? spur.asn.au en.wikipedia.org And how about the way the Jews have always been separated out and murdered? I mean really. Whole Jewish villages and enclaves murdered- for all kinds of reasons, for as long as we have recorded history of Jews in Europe. Murdered because they were believed to have brought the plague. Murdered because they were believed to have caused famines. I can't believe you would say only non-Muslims separate out people on the basis of religion and then kill them. I mean what was the holocaust of the Nazis, if not simply a continuation of the bitter anti-semitism of Europe, and a revival of the continual flareups of Christian zeal to exterminate Jews? It's really odd you'd overlook that. jewishvirtuallibrary.org