Islam has a long history of using terror as a political instrument. The most famous of these was the ‘Fort of the Assassins’ of the founder of the Ismaili order. It was finally destroyed by the Mongols under Haleku Khan.
terrorism, by which we mean the threat and use of violence against innocents, has a long tradition in Islam going back to Prophet Muhammad himself. The Hadits (record of the acts of the Prophet) record that the Prophet had the poetess Asma bint Marawan assassinated while sleeping with her child. Her crime was satirizing the Prophet and his claims in some of her verses.
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long history of using terror as a political instrument. The most famous of these
was the ‘Fort of the Assassins’ of the founder of the Ismaili order. It was
finally destroyed by the Mongols under Haleku Khan.
of violence against innocents, has a long tradition in Islam going back to
Prophet Muhammad himself. The Hadits (record of the acts of the Prophet)
record that the Prophet had the poetess Asma bint Marawan assassinated while
sleeping with her child. Her crime was satirizing the Prophet and his claims in
some of her verses.
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