Posted on 03/04/2002 6:29:29 AM PST by OPS4
"Women who answer "Muslim" are set free, but typically soldiers gang-rape those who answer "Christian" then cut off their breasts and leave them to die as an example for others."
"He who seeks to save his own life shall lose it, but he who seeks to lose his life for my sake, shall keep it"
"He who denies Me before Men, so shall I deny him on the Day of Judgement, before my Father, and all the angels of Heaven"
"And he caused all, small and great, rich and poor, to have a mark placed on his right hand..."
The Mark of Islam (i.e. Antichrist)
At the time of the Mahdi, the Sudanese people, who were predominantly Muslim in the part of the Sudan where this historical drama occurred, were oppressed by a foreign Egyptian government, whichg was directed by a corrupt and brutal Ottoman Empire. The British supported the Ottoman Port and Egypt in oppressing the Sudanese as it aided their imperial goals. The Mahdi, the son of a Sudanese boat-builder, attempted to overthrow the corrupt Turkish domination of the Sudan and their English and Egyptian puppets, and he succeeded.
"Chinese" Charles Gordon, a man in many ways a Christian mirror of the Mahdi, became involved by convoluted means in the situation and, as one historian put it, attempted to defend the iundefensible at Khartoum.
The Mahdi actually admired Gordon, attempted to convert him, entered into a correspondence with him over religious matters, and ordered his troops to capture Gordon alive as he - the Mahdi- believed Gordon was a good man fighting in a bad cause and he wished to spare his life. The Mahdi was enraged when he learned that his troops had cut down Gordon, although, knowing the personality of Gordon, capturing him alive would have been an expensive proposition.
Much later, after the death of the Mahdi, even European troops were impressed by the unbelievable courage of his followers at Omdurman when they heroically and recklessly charged into modern European artillery and machine gun fire armed mainly with spears and swords, and died to the last man.
In the big picture, the Mahdi and Gordon were both good and brave men. Osama Bin Laddin, killer of women, children and old men, is a vile monster by any same man's standards in any age.
I have not seen the picture, but would like to. Heston is a great actor and another great man. But I doubt that Hollywood did credit to the complicated personality of Gordon or the Mahdi.
The peace of the grave, maybe, but the craven will take peace wherever they can find it.
Bump for a horrible story that isn't being told. (Note to self--time to start writing.)
He also herded groups of about a dozen people into a hut, where he asked the first person "Do you renounce Jesus Christ?" Anyone who refused was killed by a three-inch nail driven into the top of the head.
This I don't understand. I thought Islam regarded Jesus as a prophet and teacher. I don't know why they would demand that people renounce Him. Cease worshiping Him, maybe. Proclaim Mohammed's superiority, maybe. But renounce Jesus? This just seems to be more proof of what this 'religion' really is and that most of Islam's adherents are not playing with a full deck. Islam is a haven for brutish, barbaric, ignorant, hateful people. No wonder it seems to be more like an instrument of satan than an actual belief system.
The Muslim agenda is quite clearAnd yours ain't too blurry either. If you wanna see gang raped women, many of the movies are made in the USA. By Christians.
Would you die for him?
The sudan muslim forces are sick wackosI would agree with a corrected version "The sudan government forces are sick wackos" assuming that the report is accurate, and that the rape and murder of christian civilians are prescribed by the government.
Canada does nothing to hold the Canadian petrochemical company Talisman Corp. accountable for their support of ethnic cleansing.
And China loves every opportunity to grab hold of oil fields and kill Christians while they are doing it. So the Sudan is a perfect fit for the Chinese.
Eternal shame be on PM Chretien and Canada.
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