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The Real Assassin's Creed: Deadliest Special Forces Of The Dark Ages
Chronicle-Medieval History ^ | 21/3/24

Posted on 03/30/2024 12:41:40 PM PDT by Eleutheria5

The Order of Assassins were the deadliest special forces of the Medieval world. They were masters of disguise and stealth, wielding psychological warfare as their greatest weapon. Originating in 11th-century Persia, the Assassins, led by Hassan-i Sabbah, targeted prominent figures, including Sunni leaders, employing tactics like stabbing with stilettos and slashing with concealed weapons. The Assassins successfully assassinated key figures, instilling fear and dread across the Middle East.

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TOPICS: History; Reference; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: alhashshashin; assassincult; assassins; crusades; elhashaashun; hashshashin; hassanisabbah; iran; islam; middleages
Fear and dread has never left, though the Assassins are long gone as an organization. They were humane by comparison with Hamas, et al.
1 posted on 03/30/2024 12:41:40 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

So no one expected the Order of the Assassins, did they?

I take it that their two greatest weapons were fear and disguise. ...And a near-fanatical devotion to Hassan-i Sabbah...


2 posted on 03/30/2024 12:49:04 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Eleutheria5

What does Hashashin mean in Arabic?
hashish users
Origin of the Word “Hashshashin”

The most commonly-repeated theory holds that the word comes from the Arabic hashishi, meaning “hashish users.” Chroniclers including Marco Polo claimed that the followers of Sabbah committed their political murders while under the influence of drugs, hence the derogatory nickname.Sep 19, 2019


3 posted on 03/30/2024 12:50:12 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Eleutheria5

“”targeted prominent figures, including Sunni leaders””

Another example that even if the State of Israel did not exist, the Middle East is still a cauldron of Hate. Millions of Arabs/Muslims, whatever, can live, work, vote and thrive in Israel. Once the Islamofascistnazis take over a country, any hope of freedom is gone.


4 posted on 03/30/2024 12:52:58 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: Eleutheria5

The “Dark Ages” was almost exclusively a European phenomenon. At the same time, Arabia was having a Golden Age.


5 posted on 03/30/2024 12:57:06 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

RE: Once the Islamofascistnazis take over a country, any hope of freedom is gone.

A citizen who didn’t for Sadiq Khan:
“Tell me about it.”


6 posted on 03/30/2024 12:59:15 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: BradyLS

Or the Spanish Inquisition.


7 posted on 03/30/2024 1:15:45 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Paal Gulli

They were also demolishing it at the same time. The ElMohads came into Spain from Morocco and demanded that everyone either accept Islam or expect the sword, so the great Jewish luminary Maimonides was forced to flee Moorish Spain with his family, beginning a lifetime of wandering and persecution. Alexander’s library was destroyed and as a result only 11 of Aristophanes’ plays are extant in their entirety. The Greek texts that the Mohammedans preserved were actually in the keeping of a Christian university in Damascus, where Algebra was also invented. They preserved it all by deciding not to burn the university down.


8 posted on 03/30/2024 1:22:11 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Chode

That’s the theory, but according to the author of this video it’s stuff and nonsense. Doing such a precise act as targeted assassination of a high-ranking official requires focus and decisiveness. Perhaps they were rewarded with Hashish after the mission was accomplished, like Snuffles the Dog.


9 posted on 03/30/2024 1:24:29 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Eleutheria5

lol...


10 posted on 03/30/2024 1:49:00 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Paal Gulli

….. according to the Standard Islamic Narrative.


11 posted on 03/30/2024 1:51:41 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: Paal Gulli
The “Dark Ages” was almost exclusively a European phenomenon. At the same time, Arabia was having a Golden Age.

The so-called “Dark Ages” is a term invented by “Enlightenment” thinkers as to denigrate the Age of Faith that came before them, vaunting their own times as the “Age of Reason.”

12 posted on 03/30/2024 2:05:22 PM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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To: Eleutheria5
What they would do was take the potential assassin, dope him p with Hashish and women, then give him three days stoned and laid.

When this was over, the leader told him this was Islamic Paradise and if you followed him as a leader this is where you would go when you died.

13 posted on 03/30/2024 2:42:52 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople ( "Never thot I'd live to see the day when the right wing would become the cool ones"-Johnny Rotten)
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To: Eleutheria5

No offense, but check out the Thuggee of India.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuggee

A cult with a 500+ year-long trail of assassination and crimes. They’re still out there today, worshiping the goddess Kali. (highlighted in the movie, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom).

“A-SASS-in” vs. “Ah-sass-EEN” in dialect.

President Trump has used the word “thug” in speeches. The classic Thuggee were road agents, bandits, and violent thieves. Somehow, ‘thug’ is viewed as anti-black now.

That’s projection on the part of leftists.


14 posted on 03/30/2024 3:08:25 PM PDT by KitJ (Shall not be infringed...)
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To: KitJ

Indiana Jones, nothing. Check out Gunga Din, starring, inter alia, Carry Grant.


15 posted on 03/30/2024 3:18:42 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: KitJ

The Thuggees were in India, and were probably brown skinned. But so were their victims.


16 posted on 03/30/2024 3:47:11 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Eleutheria5

Though we beat you and we flayed you,
By the Living God that made you,
You’re a better man than I am,
Gunga Din!


17 posted on 03/30/2024 4:10:47 PM PDT by KitJ (Shall not be infringed...)
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To: Eleutheria5
Or the Spanish Inquisition.

😉👍

18 posted on 03/31/2024 8:12:08 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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