WAR
ON
TERROR
UNDERSTANDING THE ENEMY
AND
THE CASE FOR CLOSING THE MOSQUES
AND
DEPORTING OR INCARCERATING MUSLIMS IN AMERICA
US AND THEM
A TEXT FOR THOSE ENGAGED IN DEFENDING WESTERN CIVILIZATION
by
Robert J. Firth
PREFACE
The western democracies are again at war with the Islamic peoples. Throughout history Islamic hordes have invaded the West with the aim of proselyization, death and domination.
A defining characteristic of Islam is that it cannot tolerate the existence of those who do not share its twisted worldview. Islam wants to dominate, totally. It seeks to install its laws (Sharia) as the only body of law in any country wherein Muslims are in power or in the the majority.
The purpose of this text is to prepare the law enforcement officer and soldier to survive and triumph in any confrontation with the Islamic Warrior.
SHORT HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD
Those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat the mistakes of their predecessors
A short primer for all who are involved in fighting the war on Terror
The collective experience of mankind is one of strife, war, death pestilence and struggle. Modern history, for all of us alive in and after September 11, 2001 has to begin in 571 AD, the year of the elephant and the year of the birth of the unholy prophet of Islam. Mohammed began killing in the name of Islam in 624, beginning the history of the bloodiest cult in the long sad story of mankind.
In 2001 the civilized non-Muslim world was slow to realize that they had been engaged in a war unto death 20 years earlier. The events of September 11, 2001 changed all that. We woke up and saw the enemy. The Israelis knew who he was- they have been fighting Islam for 50 years.
The battle of Tours in 732 was arguably singularly responsible for allowing for the creation of western civilization. The combative Muslim armies were plundering, pillaging and proselytizing throughout Europe- putting to the sword all who refused to convert to their diseased cult. Karl “the Hammer” Martel finally stopped the murdering Muslims dead just 30 miles south of where Paris France is today. This victory is the beginning of modern European history and it is this battle that all of us infidels alive today had better study and heed well the lessons. We must take into account the facts of history – we must learn these lessons well lest we make the same sad mistakes.
In 1914 -1918 America fought the Germans in WW I. In 1941-45 we fought another world war against the Nazis and the Japs who stupidly attacked Hawaii on December 7th 1941.
The exact number of people killed because of World War II will never be known. Military deaths probably totaled about 17 million. Civilian deaths were even greater as a result of starvation, bombing raids, massacres, epidemics, and other war-related causes. The Soviet Union is said to have lost 20 million in this conflict.
The battlegrounds spread to nearly every part of the world. Troops fought in the steaming jungles of Southeast Asia, in the deserts of northern Africa, and on islands in the Pacific Ocean. Battles were waged on frozen fields in the Soviet Union, below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, and in the streets of many European cities.
World War II began on Sept.1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. Germany's dictator, Adolf Hitler, had built Germany into a powerful war machine. That machine rapidly crushed Poland, Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, and France.
By June 1940, the United Kingdom stood alone against Hitler. That same month, Italy joined the war on Germany's side. The fighting soon spread to Greece and northern Africa.
In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union. Japan attacked United States military bases at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on Dec. 7,1941, bringing the United States into the war. By mid-1942, Japanese forces had conquered much of Southeast Asia and had swept across many islands in the Pacific.
On December 7, 1941, while German armies were freezing before Moscow, Japan suddenly pushed the United States into the struggle by attacking the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Four days later, On December 11, 1941, Hitler declared war on the United States. President Roosevelt called on Congress for immediate and massive expansion of the armed forces. Twenty years of neglect and indifference, however, could not be overcome in a few days.
Germany, Italy, and Japan formed an alliance known as the Axis. Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and the German-created states of Croatia and Slovakia eventually joined the Axis. The United States, the United Kingdom, China, and the Soviet Union were the major powers fighting the Axis. They were called the Allies. The Allies totaled 50 nations by the end of the war.
In 1942, the Allies stopped the Axis advance in northern Africa, the Soviet Union, and the Pacific. Allied forces landed in Italy in 1943 and in France in 1944. In 1945, the Allies drove into Germany from the east and the west. A series of bloody battles in the Pacific brought the Allies to Japan's doorstep by the summer of 1945. Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945, and Japan on Sept. 2, 1945.
An uneasy peace took effect as a war-weary world began to rebuild after World War II. Much of Europe and parts of Asia lay in ruins. Millions of people were starving and homeless. Europe's leadership in world affairs had ended. The United States and the Soviet Union had become the world's most powerful nations but this wartime alliance broke down soon after the war. New threats to peace arose as the Soviet Union sought to spread Communism in Europe and Asia.
World War II killed more people, destroyed more property, disrupted more lives, and probably had more far-reaching consequences than any other war in history. It brought about the downfall of Western Europe as the center of world power and led to the rise of the Soviet Union. The development of the atomic bomb during the war opened the nuclear age.
WW III: In 2001, the Islamo-fascists started what will likely be the longest war in modern history. The destruction of the twin towers in New York, with the death of 3000 innocent non-combatants, started the civilized world on what will become known as the 12th crusade and World War III. Eleven times in the past, since the birth of the diseased cult of Islam, the Christian world has had to lay waste to these vicious bastards. When, in just a few short weeks, we wiped out the insane tallybanners in Afghanistan what was left of the bearded wackos scuttled into the caves of Tora Bora understanding perhaps, as did the JAPS and Nazis before them, that they had badly miscalculated and enraged a terrible enemy- one who would not rest until all their kind have been erased from the face of the earth. Thus begins the end of Islam.
Why, one might well ask do we today find ourselves involved in a war to the death with an enemy representing a billion desperately impoverished, malnourished, misinformed, ignorant and backward brainwashed fanatical followers the vast majority of which literally don’t have a pot to piss in.
The answer to this question lies in the distant past. Islam is a wretched cult that was born and is sustained in blood. It was and is spread by the sword. The non-muslim world has been locked in dire combat with Islam since the filthy cult began expanding its areas of influence.
The ancient origins of the clash of civilizations we are witnessing today includes the Muslim Invasion of Europe culminating in the Battle of Tours in 732. Let no one tell you that the animus between Christians and Muslims is all about Israel- nothing could be farther from the truth.
Today, we might not realize the significance of the victory of the Franks (Ferrenghis – as the Muslims called them) over the Arabs, a few miles south of Paris in 732. Had it not been for this victory, today the whole of Europe might have been Muslim, and the history of the world would have been far more bloodied and dark.
The Muslims insatiable appetite for land and together with a burning desire to put end to Christianity had only increased after the conquest of Syria, Egypt, North Africa, and Spain. They dreamt of overrunning the whole of Western and Northern Europe. Thus began the Muslim invasion of France under the leadership of Abd-ur Rahman, who was then been appointed the chieftain of the Muslim occupiers of Spain.
The Franks were a Gothic (Germanic) tribe who eventually became the French as we know it today. It was another related Gothic clan – the Ostrogoths, who were ruling Spain when the Muslims attacked. The tales of mindless Muslim cruelty, savage torture, subterfuge deception and bloodchilling ruthlessness that the Ostrogoths who fled Muslim occupied Spain told their Frankish clansmen, had contributed to further stiffen the Frankish resolve to defeat the Muslim invaders.
The ferocity with which Charles (Karl) Martel fought against the invading Arabs, and the personal weapon of a hammer like axe that he used, earned him the sobriquet of Karl the Hammer.
Abd-ur-Rahman was an Arab soldier and the emir of subjugated Spain in a time when Islam, as a military force, was the most powerful in the world. He appointed himself governor of the defeated land of Spain in 721. In 722, and with the normal Muslim avarice to conquer more lands and convert the subjugated population to Islam, he set his greedy eyes on France and in the year 722 he led an army across the Pyrenees Mountains into the dominions of the Franks.
Abd-ur-Rahman crossed the Pyrenees at the head of an immense army and advanced as far as the Loire River, pillaging and burning as he went. David W. Koeller in his article The Battle of Tours, says, " (The) Moslem army, in a crusading search for land and the end of Christianity, after the conquest of Syria, Egypt, and North Africa, began to invade Western Europe under the leadership of Abd-ur-Rahman." The Muslim army had between 600,000 to 400,000 soldiers, and "an over whelming number of horsemen." (Encyclopedia.com, Battle of Tours). In October 732 AD, exactly one hundred years after Muhammad’s death, in 622 an army led by Abd-ur-Rahman… made contact with the Frankish army… along the road between Poitiers and Tours, [a city which was reputed to contain vast riches.]
Abd-ur Rahman led his infantry across the Western Pyrenees and toward the Loire River. A Muslim commander named Al-Semak had led the first invasion across the Pyrenees in 721, establishing a base at Norbonne. He was followed by Abd-ur Rahman the following year with fresh contingents, who moved up the Rhône as far as Lyons and Dijon, destroying churches and monasteries, following Muhammad's creed of especially targeting non-Muslim places of worship, before moving on to Bordeaux.
The Muslim general who invaded France destroyed palaces, burned churches, and imagined he could pillage the basilica of St. Martin of Tours. It is then that he found himself face to face with the lord of Austrasia, Charles Martel , a mighty warrior from his youth, and well trained in all the occasions of arms.
Abd-ur Rahman had crossed the Pyrenees, with a larger army and traversed the defiles [in the mountains] and the plains, so that he could penetrate deeper into the lands of the Franks with his ravaging and slaying campaigns. He gave battle to Duke Eudes (of Aquitaine) beyond the Garonne and the Dordogne, and put him to flight---so utterly was he beaten, and a large number of his compatriots were slain and wounded.
After this Abd-ur Rahman set in pursuit of Eudes; he destroyed palaces, burned churches, and imagined he could pillage the basilica of St. Martin of Tours. Between Poitiers and Tours, there was a clash between Abd-er Rahman, and the army of Charles Martel. After some spectacular victories, The Saracens (as the Franks called the Muslims) were met just outside the city of Tours by Charles Martel, known as the Hammer, and the entire Frankish Army.
October 10, 732 AD marks the conclusion of the Battle of Tours, arguably one of the most decisive and important battles in all of western history. Martel gathered his forces directly in the path of the oncoming Moslem army and prepared to defend themselves by using the "phalanx" style of combat. The invading Moslems rushed forward, relying on the slashing tactics and an overwhelming number of horsemen that had brought them victories in the past.
At Poitiers, the Franks outmatched the Muslims in all departments of the game – subterfuge, cruelty, ruthlessness, and so were victorious, giving the Muslims their first decisive defeat. Before the battle was joined, for almost seven days the two armies watched one another, waiting anxiously the right moment for joining the struggle. Finally, they met in combat when the Franks suddenly advanced on the Arabs after nightfall on the seventh day. In the shock of the battle the men of the North seemed like a sea that cannot be moved. Firmly they stood, one close to another, forming ,as it were, a bulwark of ice; and with great blows of their swords they hewed down the Arabs. Drawn up in a band around their chief, the soldiers of Martel carried all before them. Their tireless hands drove their swords down to the breasts [of the foe].
The Franks were the only ones to learn that the terror of the Arab Muslims can be neutralized only by a greater counter-terror. THIS IS THE LESSON.
This counter terror has to be a mega-terror or a super-terror to strike such fear in the hearts of Muslims that they give up their aggressive mentality on the pain of death LET US NOT FORGET THIS!
The Frankish Army, composed of foot soldiers armed with swords, shields, axes, javelins, and daggers, was well trained. Despite the effectiveness of the Moslem army in previous battles, the terrain caused them a disadvantage. Their strength lay in their cavalry, armed with large swords and lances, which, along with their baggage and mules, limited their mobility. The French army displayed great ardency in withstanding the ferocious attacks.
It was one of the rare times in the Middle Ages when infantry held its ground against a mounted attack. The exact length of the battle is undetermined; Arab sources claim that it was a two day battle whereas Christian sources hold that the fighting clamored on for seven days. In either case, the battle ended when the French captured and killed Abd-ur Rahman.
For the Muslims, the scale of their slaughter at the hands of the Franks and the death of their leader caused a sharp setback and the few survivors had no choice but to retreat back across the Pyrenees. The defeat and slaughter of the Muslims was so complete and ruthless that the Arab-Muslims were never to return again to France till the 20th century as immigrants from North Africa setting fire to their hosts cars and rioting in the French streets for the imposition of Sharia law and the right to destroy French laws.
Not only did this great battle prove to be extremely decisive for the Christians but, the Battle of Tours is considered the high water mark of the Moslem invasion of Western Europe.
The Arabs marching through France had acquired a lot of loot, and this too worked in the favor of the Franks, who were not weighed down with the task of guarding their treasure, nor did they posses baggage trains of any kind. This drives home an important fact. The Arabs were there to loot, rape and covert the French to Islam at the point of the sword. The Franks were defending their nation. This aside, in tactics and ruthlessness the Franks could match the Arabs and were able to massacre of the invaders.
The outcome of the Battle of Tours saved future WESTERN Civilization from becoming extinct in 732
The Battle of Tours was a significant in stopping the spread of Islam and the survival of Christianity. The Battle of Tours decided history much more than one might imagine. The powerful Muslim hordes spreading Islam were knocking on Europe’s door. The battle of Tours changed all that and Europe was safe for the next 700 years till the Muslims breached the Eastern Gateway when they overran Constantinople in 1453.
Lessons from the battle of Poitiers (Tours)
The lesson here is that the conflict between the Muslim hordes and the Christian world has nothing whatsoever to do with Israel and everything to do with the evil intentions of Muslims toward all non- Muslims. Iran wants the bomb and God help us if they succeed.
In battle of Poitiers the Franks (Ferengis) taught a lesson to the Arab Muslims that they had till then taught others. The Frankish infantry almost entirely slaughtered the defeated and fleeing Muslim army. The Franks took no prisoners, they slaughtered all Muslims who fell into their hands. The Muslims, for the first time in their truculent march, had met an enemy that had outmatched them in military capability and cruelty.
The rotting corpses of the slaughtered Muslims littered the valley of Poitiers for months and for years thereafter travelers saw the heaps of Muslim bones- all that remained to remind people of this decisive battle.
The lesson from the battle of Poitiers is that the terror of the Arab Muslims can be neutralized only by a greater counter-terror. Counter terror, to be effective, has to be a mega-terror or a super-terror to strike real and lasting fear into the hearts of Muslims so that they give up their bloody quest to spread their dark cult . Until Islam spread its filthy dark wings, the Arab people built a highly developed civilization, they invented algebra and trigonometry and developed impressive scientific credentials. After Islam, all intellectual progress completely stopped in the Arab world and to this day they exist in a dead mental gene pool with discernable talent only in killing each other and any who would oppose them.
The Muslims do not deserve any compassion or dialogue if we are to defeat Islam
Another lesson that victory at Poitiers teaches is that, among the general Frankish population, there were no values like compassion and chivalry towards any adversary. Hence they did not think of negotiating a peace with the defeated Arabs. They also never allowed any of the defeated Arabs to retreat and live to fight another day. They slaughtered almost all of them so that they could never again threaten the civilized world. The culture of the Franks was based on warfare, as was that of the Mongols under Hulagu, who also defeated the Muslims in 1258 at Baghdad. The Franks expected no quarter from the Muslims and gave none. They never pleaded for mercy from the ghoulish Muslim invaders, and whenever they had the chance, they showed no mercy to the defeated Muslims. The perception of an enemy as a legitimate object of destruction, was present in each and every Frankish soldier.
The Franks were victorious because they did not have the dead-weight of a public opinion that cried “Stop the War”
It was not that the Franks had the dead-weight of a public opinion that cried “Stop the War” or “Down with Charles Martel” as the Anti- war Americfans communists and their pro-Terrorist lackeys today shouted “Down with Bush”. The Frankish leadership and the lay population, both represented an example of the public perception of the enemy being a legitimate object of destruction. This is a powerful memory which was indelibly imprinted on the Arabs of the 7th century and existed for centuries. This is a concept that we need to return to if we are to defeat Islam.
The only difference is that the objective of utterly destroying the enemy by using all means available, does not exist any longer in America or anywhere in the Western world today where we see communists, Muslims and other pro-terrorist marchers shouting anti-war slogans. Such was the ferocity of the Franks against the Arabs, that the words Ferangee or Feringi, which the Arabs used to refer to the Franks became an invective in Arab terminology.
The final victory against the challenge of Islam, called terrorism in our times, is yet to be delivered. What do we need to have within us to be victorious?
The Franks were never under any illusion that they could reach out to the Muslims and have any kind of an honorable peace with them. For the Franks it was a do or die battle and one wherein they succeeded. This is another lesson for the World leaders of today, who keep talking of "reaching out to the moderate Muslims" and isolating the Jihadis from the general Muslim population, saying that after all “Islam is a religion of peace, that has been hijacked by the Jihadis”. No sir, Islam is religion of war.
Islam is a dark religion of war and can be defeated only through war when it s mad followers have been physically pulverized
Islam is religion of war from root to fruit based on a precept they call the Jihad. For us to hallucinate that there exists is an entity called moderate Muslims is like saying that there is a possibility of being partially pregnant! You are either pregnant or you are not. There is no go between.
So also you are either a Muslim or you are not. And if you are a Muslim, you are a war monger who follows the Instructions as expressed in the Manual of Arms (Quran) commanding you to convert all non-Muslims at the pain of death. This evil book teaches you to use all kinds of trickery and subterfuge in order to defeat and subjugate the non-Muslims.
The Franks were one of the first to recognize the only way to successfully defeat Muslims. The only answer to Muslim terrorism of Jihad is a mega-terrorism and super-terrorism, that will not just intimidate Islam, but take it to its physical destruction once and forever. In that the franks failed and many subsequent crusades equally failed. Now, the swine have crept out of the burning sands once again and are challenging the Christian world. Now, it is up to us.
IGNORANCE OF THE ENEMY ; Islam, Fanatic Islam and Islamic Terrorism
Today, many the world over are innocent of how Islam was founded, how it grew and what Islam implies for the future of Humankind. So there are endless debates that Islam is a religion of peace, that all Muslims are not fanatical, and that we need to differentiate between, Muslims and terrorists.
Reading the history of Islam ( presented in chronological detail in this manual) should be enough to dispel the notion that Islam differs from Islamic fanaticism, or that Islam is a religion of peace and that the Terrorists have hijacked a peaceful religion. No that is not the case! Islam gave birth to Terrorism which started from the evil mind of its founder Mohammed (yimach shmo ve-zichro - may his name and memory be obliterated) and has filtered down to every last weak minded follower (Muslim) today. Islam is Fanaticism, it is high time we woke up to this chilling reality.
How Islam prevents Muslims from leaving Islam – Murder any Muslim leaving Islam
Mohammed was a shrewd man who knew that there was always a danger of Muslims deserting Islam and reverting to some other less blood-thirsty religion, so he made it an offense punishable with death for anyone leaving Islam, having once accepted it. According to the Shariah, a Murtad (Muslim Apostate) has to be killed, and it is the duty of all Muslims to kill any other Muslim who leaves Islam.
The murderous Quran is the inviolable word of god ( some god with a very small letter g.)
There can also never ever be any changes, questioning or discussion on the murderous commands of the Quran, since it is the word of god, or so Mohammed (yimach shmo ve-zichro) (may his name and memory be obliterated) told his followers.
Assemble five times a day to swear your loyalty to Islam
To be doubly sure that his flock remains together in to its murderous "ken" (prison), he decreed that it was compulsory for all Muslims to come together and pray five times during the day. This , so there was no chance for his followers to leave Islam and emancipate themselves- neighbors watching neighbors.
Getting into Islam was a one way street.
Islam is a dead end, where you can enter, (in fact, for many, you were forced to enter at the pain of death), but could never leave, since you would be killed. In fact such was the indoctrination and mass hysteria that Mohammed (yimach shmo…) started. After several generations, converts forgot that their forefathers were not Muslims. In fact, in North Africa, they even forgot that they were not Arabs. They forgot that their forefathers were made to submit to Islam at the pain of death.
This sealed the fate of all those forced to embrace Islam from ever becoming decent thinking humans ever again.
Only the total destruction of non-Muslim heritage and wholesale slaughter of non-Muslims has got the Muslims what victories they have enjoyed. Thus Islam is indeed spread by the sword!
With every Muslim military victory, there was not just a change of ruler but a wholesale slaughter of those who refused to convert or pay "Jaziya" ( a tax on non muslums) . There was also a total destruction of the pre-Islamic culture, educational institution, libraries, etc. The planned and deliberately implemented slaughter of the non-Muslim priest and warrior class was done to enfeeble the conquered populace to the extent they would forget who they had been- their national and cultural history subsumed under a newly imposed Arabized Muslim identity.
This kind of tyranny was never known to the human race, with any other conqueror. Alexander, Julius Caesar, Hannibal, or even those who came after the Muslims like the British Colonialists, or the Spanish Conquistadors never tried to utterly destroy a peoples national identity. Yes, the Spanish Conquistadors were ruthless, but, in spite of all they did to the native Americans, they still were able to preserve their culture. Not so with the Egyptians, North Africans, Berbers, et al.
Ask any Egyptian who he is, he will say he is an Arab, were the Pharaohs Arabs? Were the builders of the Pyramids, Arab? Ask any Libyan, Sudanese, Algerian, Tunisian, Somalian, who he is he will say he is an Arab. These are people, whom the conquering Muslim Arab, so Arabized that they forgot who they were. Their national identities have been completely submerged into the Arab Muslim Ummah.
This has not happened with the native Americans or the Maoris or the Africans, in spite of the fact that apartheid was practiced in South Africa. The Arabs, as conquerors, totally brain washed, at the point of the sword, all the conquered people.
Knowing all this is relevant today for those who seek to defeat Islam. To do so we have to first understand the depth of depravity in Islam. If the Muslims have to be saved from Islam, then it is not sufficient to conquer the Muslim countries and try to being democracy to them, we have to de-Islamize these people, if they are to be emancipated and turned into civilized beings. This will take many years, a reasonable estimate is a minimum of 50 to 100.
Islam has brutalized them and made them robotic followers and into robotic killers, narrow-minded individuals, despotic rulers, and cruel sadists following the injunctions in their Manual of Arms (the Quran). This is proven by the bloodied Shiite-Sunni murders that have started in Iraq despite elections. Elections by people who support a murderous creed will always revert to murdering their legislators as is the case of Hamas and the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
Islam is a perverted mental sickness based on intimidation to convert all non-Muslims to Islam, and to murder any who refuse. If you manage to save your head, then you have to live under their dehumanizing tyranny and live as non-Muslims (Dhimmis or Zimmis).
The Retrograde Negative Spirit of Islam pervades all across all Islamic peoples.
The very first verse uttered by that lecherous mass-murderer, the accursed Mohammed-ibn-abdallah was “La Ilah Il Allah, Mohammed ur Rasoolallah” which translated literally would read “No god but god, Mohammed is the prophet of god”. In Arabic “La” connotes “No”. So what can one expect from a mentality whose very first of its five principles is based on negativism?
Negativism permeates all through Islam, its attitudes towards all non-Muslims, its use of dishonesty to portray itself as a victim, its murderous intent towards all those who refuse to convert to Islam, its use of any level of cruelty to Islamize entire humankind. Today Islamic organizations in America and Europe are using the laws of western civilization to pursue their evil ends and the ignorant westerners allow them to continue perverting their legal systems.
We can save ourselves from this Malignant Madness of Islam, only if we see it through to its grave. The other option is landing in the grave ourselves along with liberty, progress and free-thinking, freedoms and scientific advancement, all of which will be become slaves to that Instruction Manual of Hate and Terror – the Quran, the Islamic manual or arms.
Why is death the only way to defeat Islam?
Islam was spread with the use of death threats. The defeated non-Muslims were given the choice of Islam or Death. After having been forced to accept Islam through such terminal coercion, the converted people had no way of renouncing Islam. If they did so they were targeted as Murtads (apostates) and were killed. It is mandatory in Islam for Muslims to kill anyone who leaves the cult. So the converts were forced to remain Muslims. As this was their fate, the best way forward was to imbibe the murderous attitude themselves and impose it on others.
Today, although "Islam or Death" is not possible openly unless you live in Muslim ruled countries of the Islamic crescent like Egypt, Sudan, Iran, Pakistan or in areas contiguous to Muslim majority areas like Malaku in Indonesia, Southern Sudan, Kashmir, North Nigeria.
Muslim converts today are convicts or psychological wrecks like Jose Padilla and Richard Reid
The Muslims have devised ingenious methods to reach those best suited for Islam. They evangelize in Prisons where they can appeal to the ignorant dregs of society. Recently, in 2009, the Authorities have engaged in violent gun battles and arrested dozens of these violent jihadists. It is on the emotions of such unfortunate wrecks and irredeemable convicts that the Muslim missionaries prey like vultures and hyenas to make them join the murderous ranks of Islam. Richard Reid, the Shoe bomber, Jose Padilla are specimen of those who become Muslim today. The very idea of bringing the Guantanamo monsters into American prisons is absurd and suicidal.
Across the fourteen centuries of Islam’s existence, it has been its death threat that made people Muslim and it is the same death threat that keeps them Muslim. The same death threats are used today to intimate Ayan Hirsi Ali, Salman Rushdie and many others like them to keep them from speaking the truth about Islam.
He who was born by the sword shall die by the sword
Modifying the age-old adage “He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword.” We can say that “Islam which was born and spread by the sword shall rightly die by the sword” As it was a death threat that made people into Muslims and kept them as Muslims, the only way these scum can be shaken out of their adherence to the savagery called Islam is a very real and close threat of death. Not individual death threats as the Muslims hurl today at Hirsi and Salman Rhusdie, but a death threat of mass extermination through a nuclear holocaust of the entire Muslim population across the globe!
Only when the beastlike Muslims see the determination of a world to do them in, up to ther last man can the Ummah of Islam be smashed.
Only when the Muslims see that there is no option other than death if they persist in remaining Muslim will the fort of Islam be breached. Once the first trickle of Muslims who renounce Islam starts the trickle will become a flood and an avalanche that will wipe out Islam.
Yes there will certainly be many Muslims who will try to kill those who renounce Islam, but when these murderers are themselves hunted down with equal ferocity, will the lay Muslims believe that it is safe for them to give up Islam. Then, and only then, shall we see Muslims coming over in droves to give up Islam. But this can happen only we seriously hurl and start executing a death threat of mass killing of all Muslims across the globe. There are no soft options here.
Do we have it in us to do that?
The answer decides whether civilization or Islam wins! The lesson here is clear- this a very old war that has very little to do with America backing Israel or Israel at all and everything to do with the intrinsic nature of Islam.
“For most of the fourteen centuries of recorded Muslim history, Jihad was most commonly interpreted to mean armed struggle for the defense or advancement of Muslim power. In Muslim tradition, the world is divided into two houses: the House of Islam ( Dar al Islam), in which Muslim governments rule and Muslim law prevails, and the house of War ( Dar al Harb), the rest of the world, still inhabited and, more important, ruled by infidels. The presumption is that the duty of Jihad will continue, interrupted only by truces, until all the world either adopts the Muslim faith or submits to Muslim rule.” *
America locked up the Japanese in WWII. The government didn’t reach this conclusion without serious contemplation and consideration. There were very good reasons for the government to take this monumental step. The Japanese population in America contained many spies and saboteurs. This fact has long been established and no serious student of history will argue otherwise. The reason we locked them all up was because we were unable to sort out the bad ones from the good ones.
Today, America is under attack from without and within by Islamic militants. Again, this point bridges no argument and, as with the Japanese, we cannot discern good Muslims from bad.
Given the same circumstances as those existing in 1941, except that Muslims attacked instead of the Japanese, there can be no doubt that, that government, in those times, would act just as they did and lock up the Muslims.
The overriding difference between then and now is that this is not the same America that existed in 1941. We are a people torn between our core values, our sense of self preservation and the pressures of political correctness and social diversity that have been foisted upon us by our governments, its institutions and NGO’s. Interestingly, 100% of the P.C. pressure in America was created by our politicians solely to pander for the votes of the counterculture underclass. One might call the slow erosion of our society a victory for the great unwashed.
Even though one can creditably argue that there is a powerful case for closing the mosques and herding the Muslims into camps, it is entirely doubtful that such will ever occur. Americans no longer are one people; we are a hugely diverse mob without the common values and beliefs that united us in WWII. Today we have no common heritage and indeed, perhaps as many as 50% of the country is unable to read, was not born here and is not of European stock. The overwhelming majority of the Muslims in America fit into this group. They have no love of our country and no knowledge of America’s history. Their sole
* The Crisis of Islam, Bernard Lewis
loyalty is to international Islam and their common unity is motivated by a hatred of all things western.
The Mosques in America preach this hatred and use our resources to finance terror both in America and abroad. Every time you fill up your tank, you may be helping to finance an Islamic mosque in America. If that sounds far-fetched, consider this:
Some of the largest mosques and Islamic centers in America are funded by the dictatorial government of Saudi Arabia, which obtains all of its revenues from oil exports and America is a big customer.
Saudi Arabia embraces a radical and acutely violent strain of Islam called "Wahhabism," one that is spreading rapidly from its borders. Most of the Saudi people adhere to this increasingly anti-American sect.
Saudi Arabia was home to 15 of the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers, as well as their leader, Osama bin Laden and it has been a reluctant ally in America's war on terror. Now federal authorities are investigating whether the Saudis laundered money to Islamic terrorist groups through U.S.-based Muslim charities. Some 80 groups have recently received subpoenas for financial records.
Of the more than 1,200 mosques in America, more than 80 percent have been built within the last 20 years – In a large part due to Saudi money, "Saudi Arabia alone has spent $87 billion since 1973 to spread Islam throughout the United States and the Western hemisphere. ( see appendix,P-86, new Mosques in America)
For example, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia pledged as much as $8 million to build a new mosque at the site of the Masjid Bilal Islamic Center, the mostly black mosque in South Central Los Angeles. Last year, the Saudi's Islamic Development Bank committed an additional $295,000 for the construction of the Bilal Islamic Primary and Secondary School. ( imagine what they teach there?)
Bilal is just one of many black mosques funded by the Saudis. Most of them, including Bilal, are associated with Imam W. Deen Mohammed, head of the Chicago-based Muslim American Society, or MAS, which has been credited with helping convert more than a million U.S. blacks to Islam. (see appendix Ethnicity of converts)
A spokesman for this group ( call him “Safa”) said "hundreds of American mosques are associated with" MAS, explaining that each major city has "one main mosque and two or three smaller centers in the suburbs." The Chicago area, for example, has a MAS mosque and three related centers, he says Black converts make up the fastest-growing segment of the Muslim population in America. Why, because they as a group, harbor a deep resentment toward white America, are often ignorant of history, mathematics or science, basically illiterate and have developed a counter culture that sustains this blind hatred. Islam preaches hatred so there’s the common attraction. An estimated 60 to 90 percent of all U.S. converts to Islam are black, Safa says.
"Eighty percent of these converts were raised in the church," he added.
Christianity Today predicts that if the conversion rates continue, Islam could become the dominant religion in black urban areas by 2020. Then watch out!
Nation of Islam ( in America)
Mohammed originally took over the Nation of Islam after the death of his father, Elijah Muhammad, who founded the group. A rift with Louis Farrakhan, then a rising Nation of Islam star, led him to found MAS, which is considered by the misinformed to be less radical than Farrakhan's Nation of Islam.
Mohammed has recently been steering MAS toward a more hateful brand of fundamentalism to cater to the growing number of immigrants attending his mosques.
His for-profit Collective Purchasing Conference, also based in Chicago, sells members orthodox Muslim clothing and "halal" meats butchered according to the Koran, the sacred book of Muslims.
Mohammed's father, Elijah, "hated" the U.S. and celebrated when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Subsequently, he was arrested and served three years in jail for draft evasion. Though he expressed "shock" at the Sept. 11 terrorism, W. Deen Mohammed didn't and hasn’t to this day, categorically condemed the 9/11 attacks.
That Saudi Arabia is stoking the black Muslim movement in America does not comfort Islam-watchers, given the growing resentment of Saudis toward the U.S. – which, as it happens, dovetails with black attitudes as several recent polls show.
Sixty-four percent of Saudis have an "unfavorable" view of the U.S., according to a Gallup poll taken December and January, after the terrorist attacks. That compares with 57 percent of black Muslims who think America is an "immoral society," according to a Zogby International poll taken November and December 2002.
Like the Saudis, the vast majority of black Muslims oppose U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.
Fully 70 percent, in fact, blame the Sept. 11 attacks on that policy, the Zogby poll says. Echoing Saudis, most black Muslims say America should stop aiding Israel and support a Palestinian Islamic state under Sharia law.
Tellingly, the Saudi government prevented Gallup from asking the following questions of its citizens:
- Is U.S. military action in Afghanistan morally justifiable?
- Do you believe news reports that Arabs carried out the Sept. 11 attacks?
- Do you like or dislike President Bush?
Analysts speculate Saudi officials feared the answers would make their country look like it hates its supposed ally.
That's actually not far from the truth, judging from recent actions. Since Sept. 11, the Saudi government has refused to let the U.S. use its bases as staging areas for military operations in Afghanistan, and now it's saying the bases are off-limits for any military campaign against Iraq.
"We will not accept in our country even a single (American) soldier who will attack Muslims or Arabs," Saudi Defense Minister Prince Sultan said late last year. Ironically, In 2004, early in the war in Iraq, a US black soldier, professing Islam, murdered a US Officer and wounded several others in a sneak attack while the victims were sleeping. Let’s see how he likes Leavenworth for the next 100 years.
Saudi also has been slow to freeze financial assets of terrorist groups, forcing President Bush to plead for cooperation. Little known is that Saudis have been accused of involvement in two terrorist attacks on Americans in Saudi Arabia – the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Dharhan, which killed 19 U.S. airmen, and the 1995 bombing of a Riyadh military center that left five Americans dead.
Even less known is that Saudi-born bin Laden had closer links to Saudi intelligence than to the CIA during the Afghan-Soviet war.
During the '80s, he was "effectively working as an arm of Saudi intelligence," said Peter Bergen, author of "Holy War Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden." Bin Laden comes from a wealthy and connected Saudi family, as did some of the hijackers. Despite Saudi Arabia's growing anti-American extremism, attempts to reduce U.S. dependence on Saudi oil have fallen flat.
America imports more than half its oil supply, and Saudi is its biggest overseas supplier, shipping more than 1.5 million barrels here a day, according to the American Petroleum Institute( API). (Canada is actually America's biggest overall foreign supplier.)
API and the Energy Department don’t break out U.S. purchases of Saudi crude by oil-and-gas company but of household names, Sunoco buys the least Persian Gulf (of which Saudi is the largest producer) oil, Energy says. Chevron, Exxon and Amoco buy the most.
In 2003, Senate Democrats and a handful of eco-friendly Republicans killed a proposal in Bush's energy plan to open up the Alaskan wilderness reserve to oil drilling. Curiously, the initiative went down without much more than a whimper from the White House.
Opening up the area to exploration would produce an estimated 6 billion to 16 billion additional barrels of domestic crude – potentially replacing all of what America imports from the Saudis for the next 30 years, according to the National Center for Public Policy Research.
That would, in turn, dry up some major Saudi money for mosques and the spreading of Islamism in America. However, much damage has already been done by these Holy fifth columnists. We have over 8 million committed Islamic fundamentalists in every corner of America. The vast number of these adherents to this failed religion are black, ignorant and undereducated. They utterly believe whatever the Imam says without question and there are millions of them in our country and thousands in our government and armed forces.
“We do not have leave to love one another and we have long ago lost the ability. It was so written twelve hundred years earlier. This is our overpowering legacy and we have regenerated ourselves by hatred from decade to decade, generation to generation, century to century. The return of the Jews ( to the Middle east after WWII) has unleashed that hatred, exploding wildly, aimlessly, into a massive force of self-destruction. In ten, twenty, thirty years the world of Islam will begin to consume itself in madness. We cannot live with ourselves or accommodate the outside world…..we never have. We are incapable of change. The devil who makes us crazy is now is devouring us. We cannot stop ourselves and if we are not stopped, we will march, with the rest of the world, to the day of the burning. What we are now witnessing is the beginning of Armageddon.”
* Speech of the Arab Muslim protagonist by Leon Uris in his famous and enlightening book The Haj, 1985
The Myths of PC
If Robert Frost was correct when he quipped "a liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel," then America has descended into the depths of leftism. The systematic way in which government and the media have consistently followed the path of self-loathing and self-negation could be the source of great humor, if the matters being bungled were not so grave.
While the attacks of September 11th roused a dormant patriotism in the collective American bosom, it also unveiled how deeply entrenched public discourse is in political correctness. Day after day the "war on terror" brings more misinformation, disinformation and propaganda. Most security measures are either window dressings for public consumption or usurpations of civil liberties by power-hungry elements within the bowels of bureaucracy.
The myths need to be dispelled and the elephant in America's living room needs to be addressed for the sake of that rarest of post-modern commodities - the truth.
Myth #1: Terrorism is not about Islam.
In fairness, someone did try to warn America to this sobering fact in the fall of 2003, in a Wall Street Journal editorial. The author, Amir Taheri, is a Muslim. He declared that "to claim that the attacks had nothing to do with Islam amounts to a whitewash." Some may think it ironic that a Muslim author is the one sounding the warning bell about his own faith. It isn't ironic in the least. Given the ground rules of politically correct discourse, only a minority may criticize a minority - only a Muslim may criticize Muslims.
Myth #2: Profiling is an evil to be avoided at all costs.
Profiling is an integral part of detective work and one component of the process is a person's race. When a cross is set ablaze on a black homeowner's lawn, you can guess that "white male" is placed atop the list of likely attributes of potential perpetrators. A white male is also most likely to be a serial murderer.
Truthfully, there is nothing in the genetic composition of a race that dictates social behavior. The real danger is that similar groups of people tend to share common cosmologies. If an ethnic group (pygmies for example) adopts an evil practice (cannibalism) for example, one may rightly call them backwards and savage - not because they are animists or short black men or from a different part of the globe, but because they have chosen to dine on human flesh. Terrorists are, overwhelmingly, Muslim males between the ages of 17 and 40 and from Middle Eastern ethnicities. If there doesn't exist a genetic predisposition to terrorism in the genes of peoples of the Tigres and Euphrates, then it must be their shared belief system - Islam. ( or both)
If you are a young Islamic Arab male, you fit the profile for 19 of 19 terrorists of September 11th and you should be prepared, as an absolute minimum, to face additional security in airports.
Myth #3: Part of the FBI's failure on September 11th was lack of Arab or Muslim agents.
This laughable idea comes from the spin machine of the FBI's restructuring. Director Mueller has announced an Arab-American/Muslim affirmative action hiring policy as a part of the new proactive FBI. What Mueller or Attorney General Ashcroft have not done is explain exactly how having stuffy white-bread types at the Bureau led to the success of the attacks. If anything, there is evidence to the contrary.
FBI counter-terrorism special agent-turned-whistleblower Robert Wright has related an episode of some import. Wright asserts that while investigating possible Islamic terrorist activities, a Muslim special agent refused to wear an undercover wire, stating that "Muslims don't record other Muslims." Mueller and Ashcroft have not addressed this claim. I wonder of he ( the Islamic Agent) is still employed? We know that Mr. Wright is not!
Uncooperative Islamic FBI agents aside, the FBI does not receive the lion's share of the blame for the incidents of September 11th. That honor goes to the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Because of INS's incompetence, the United States is overrun with illegal immigrants - some are past terrorists, some are potential terrorists.
Myth #4: We must ally the "moderate" Muslims.
The truth be told, we don't understand who's who in the world of Islam. President Bush trotted out Sheikh Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi as the imam of "peaceful Islam." However, it wasn't long before Tantawi was advocating for the suicide bombers in Israel.
Even Mullah Omar calls himself a "moderate" Muslim, in that his Taliban regime did nothing more nor less than is called for in the Koran. With comments like that, Omar should move to Washington. After all, the FBI is hiring.
The following is an article written for ‘Foreign Affairs” Magazine
DEFINING TERRORISM
ISLAM - FROM THE PAST TO THE PRESENT
by
Robert Firth
“Marharba sadik!” The old salutation, as timeless as Arabic itself, whispers over the destruction in the wind and blowing dust of the twin towers…We wonder, where could such evil come from, what dark sands of destiny brought forth such hatred?
Evil comes in many disguises. Hitler and Stalin both seemed relatively sane in their early years. Sadam Husian went to school with other little boys just as did Usoma Ben Laden and China’s great murderer, Mao. In point of fact, Mohammad, the originator of Islam was also once just a little boy. Who could imagine the future depths of hellish destruction and mass murder awaiting the world at the hands of these “ little boys?”
Mohammad, born in 571, in the year of the Elephant, began his forced conversion program in the name of “Allah the merciful” while still in his twenty’s. He began a quest for dominance that began at one end of the crescent of the Middle East and ended in the other. While still young, he slaughtered hundreds in the battle of Fijar. His generals and his army’s reached a high water mark when in 641 they destroyed and sacked the city of Alexandra. The history of Islam is a story of bloody conquest, mass murder and mayhem. From the 6th century until today it is marked by battle after bloody battle, strewn with corpses and the stench of death.
On the death of Mohammad in 632, his successor, Hadrat Abu Bakr, the new Caliph, battled in Syria and in many other vicious wars, one almost every year until he died in 634 and another guy took over. Hadrat Umar Farooq, following his predecessors, fought a succession of wars again, every year, until, in 641, when awash in the blood of any who disagreed with the teachings of the Holly Prophet, he saw the great library of Alexandra, and asked his general, “What is that building?” The general replied, “ there sir is the great library wherein all the world’s knowledge has been collected.” Farook is then reputed to have said, ” where the information contained within agrees with the Qur’an it is superfluous and where it disagrees, it is blasphemous, burn it.” From that day forward, in all the lands under the Islamic sword, never again did an “original idea” emerge.
A dark age of ignorance spread throughout the Muslim lands that exists until today. A dead gene pool, like a stagnate swamp, keeps the Muslim world from advancing along with the West. Few, if any, discoveries or contributions to man’s quest for the stars in any of the intellectual disciplines such as medicine, mathematics, science, the arts or literature have been made from that day in any Muslim nation.
The contest to spread this worship of ignorance, hatred, death, conflict and mass poverty continues until today. History is replete with examples of the efforts by the West and the Islamic world to destroy each other. The West has made several determined attempts to eliminate Islam. The crusades were specifically designed to eradiate the spreading influence of Islamic faith and culture. Over the centuries, Islamic hordes ventured deeply into Europe pillaging, prophesizing and proselytizing. This contest for influence and power split the world. The West, advancing in all areas of modernity, knowledge and science, while much of the Islamic world remains trapped in a fly-paper religion that saps them of whatever vestige of gumption remaining, encouraging them to blame their failures on any but themselves.
These sad failed states are bastions of hatred, ignorance, poverty and disease. Here Islam can flourish and grow. Here religion is life itself and no one dare condemn or criticize the edicts of the hate-filled mullahs.
The West has to understand that Islam, for almost every year of its sad existence has been engaged in war, murder and mayhem, all in the name of Allah. Wahabee Islam, preaching a particularly vicious hatred of the West, is practiced and paid for by the Saudi’s. Schools all over the world administered by mindless mullahs are in business specifically to teach a fanatical hatred of western life. Here young, ignorant and desperately poor male children are taught to hate and to appreciate the glory of dying for the faith.
In America, dolts like Noam Chompsky spew apologetic garbage damming every military move by his country in the last 200 years, probably even wishing that the revolutionary war itself could have been appealed to a world court. His infantile idealistic faith in anyone at all but American’s to settle international disputes and right wrongs is laughable were not for the large numbers of soft minded followers who fill the halls where he and other like him speak. He sees the twin towers and says we have only ourselves to blame. It is our imperialist attitudes that have brought this attack to our shores.
The logical mind wishes to see the issues in real terms, to get at the truth of the why’s and what actions need be taken in our defense. Chompsky sees Western retaliation in Afghanistan as intrinsically wrong. He believes we should have appealed to the UN and what, sued Ben Laden at the world court? He sees no moral right of sovereign nations to defend themselves and their principals. He has no morality and no principals save pacifism. He believes that getting rid of the communists in Nicaragua was wrong, arresting the drug crazed mad man in Panama, likewise wrong. In fact, every action America has taken in defense of liberty and freedom, wrong! He sees a vast conspiracy for total world domination by America.
Fortunately, the majority of the citizens in the West speak with a united voice to those who attacked us on September 11. Every bomb and every bullet sends a clear and unequivocal message. We kill them and then we kill more of them. This gradually will settle the problem. Over time, when we have killed enough of them, they, those glorious martyrs remaining, will understand that attacking the West is not such a good idea. Like Patton said, “ you don’t win wars by dying for your country but by making the other son of a bitch die for his.” This is the only message we can send that will be understood. No amount of talking or reasoning is possible, we have no common ground upon which to base a dialogue.
Wahabee Islam and the west have grown so far apart that there can be no bridging the gulf. Hatred of the West is so intense in these wretched, wasted lands that no voice of reason can penetrate their calcified craniums. Once we understand this we can move forward. Make no mistake, this is an ancient war with roots spanning many generations. Beginning 586, the date of the first war fought in the name of Allah, this will be a battle unto the finish between the mostly Christian West and the Islamic world movement. Don’t be fooled by Washington’s political rhetoric, we are in a fight to the death, a holly Jihad. The battle has been joined. It is not between a few misguided terrorists or even a few impoverished terrorist states. This is a religious war that will only be won when the Mullahs and their sad company go off to die in some miserable cave or licking their wounds, finally forget about us.
The fix for the West is to eradicate every vestige of Wahabee influence throughout the world. We first must get rid of them in our back yards. Close the mosques and deport or arrest the mullahs and their twisted flocks. To do this we have to understand that this is not the elimination of free speech. We cannot judge them by our standards.
They preach sedition, treason and murder. The hate laws that we already have on the books are sufficient to justify our actions. We, in the west, have to understand that this is a political war as much as a religious one. The radical Muslims disguise their political aims by labeling all westerners as “ infidels.” What do they mean that westerners are "infidels?" An infidel is literally, one who is unfaithful. In Muslim theistic context, this means what, an unbeliever? In all translated formats of the Qur’an, Muslims are encouraged to kill Infidels. This message is amplified in the “hadiths” or traditions supposedly as spoken by the Prophet. “ Jihad is your duty. A day and a night of fighting is better that a month of prayer. He who dies without taking part in war dies in a kind of unbelief. God loves those to whom Islam is brought by conquest, who are dragged to paradise in chains, Learn to shoot; paradise is in the shadow of the swords.
The Qur’an tells Muslims to kill the disbelievers wherever they find them (Q. 2:191), to murder them and treat them harshly (Q. 9:123), slay them (Q. 9:5), fight with them, (Q. 8: 65) even if they are Christians and Jews, humiliate them and impose on them a penalty tax (Q. 9: 29). The Qur’an takes away the freedom of belief from all humanity and says clearly that no other religion except Islam is accepted (Q. 3: 85). It relegates those who disbelieve in the Qur’an to hell (Q. 5:10), calls them (filthy, untouchable, impure) (Q. 9: 28). It orders its followers to fight the unbelievers until no other religion except Islam is left (Q. 2: 193). It says that the non-believers will go to hell and will drink boiling water (Q. 14: 17).
Well, what wonderful people these Muslims are-just kill the infidels? Well, old boy, as you can see, that only applies if we don’t kill you first! There is no other religion in the world that tells its believers to kill those who are of a different faith . Islam is a sick faith that needs to be wiped finally from the earth.
The principal monotheistic religions all subscribe, obviously, as the name implies, to the idea of a belief one God. In fact, the God of Abraham, Jesus, and Mohammed is the same God. So, how can the Christian and Jewish people be infidels? The nomenclature used by the mad mullahs is, by definition, wrong and, were they not so dangerous, laughable. The hateful rhetoric spewing from these Mosques and Madrasses must be silenced before they convert even one more child to their perverted cause.
The long-term job of the west is to bring enlightenment to the hearts and minds of the impoverished Muslim world. We need to find ways of stabilizing their economies, helping to build workable governments and encouraging industry. Life in the Muslim world is harsh, brutish and short, life for women, intolerable.
A chronological reading of the history of Western Civilization by contrast, shows that different peoples and different nations can co-exist without rampant and constant conflict. Of course, there is a long history of wars, but, not every year as in the Islamic lands. The West has steadily progressed while radical Islam has maintained a very shabby status quo. Many in these horrible countries live today as they did 1000 or more years ago. It is interesting to note that none of these miserable failed states can manufacture even a bicycle from scratch. Every single shred of modernity is imported from the West, all the phone systems, electrical components, even nails and screws. Of course, they build no aircraft, no cars, no engines, nothing, not even air conditioners.
Interestingly, from 1980 until 2002, all the Arab countries together registered only 350 patents vs. over 8000 for Israel 30,000 for Italy and over a million in the USA. Of those patents registered, by Arabs 150 were by Saudi Arabia. The rest of the world, during this period of time, registered by comparison, 2.5 million patents.
Where do we go from here? Will the terrorism end? Can it be eliminated and contained? The answer is a resounding YES! We can defeat these pathetic fools and we are. We have to root them out of their caves and dark places in our societies and kill, imprison or deport those whom have been rendered harmless. Once rid of the dangers of having them living in our backyards and devising and implementing better security measures, we can concentrate on the longer term job of changing the hearts and minds of the militant mullahs and their explosive savage flocks.
How do we do this and will we have the will to follow through? As to the will, I cannot say but “how” is relatively clear. Forced lobotomies may be needed for the unmanageable and murderous mullahs and considerable quantities of mind and mood altering psychotropic drugs poured into the drinking water and food will greatly help their hateful followers. Over several years, the next generation can perhaps grow up with less dependence on religion and more on themselves. Better schools that teach useful, functional technical information can be a step in the right direction. The Peace Corp and other similar organizations might help set up and administer these institutions. If local governments impede our efforts they can be removed using whatever force is required. It is doubtful however that, after several years of a massive Quaalude diet, we will brook much opposition. Certainly, this means of behavior modification beats the Islamic approach of just killing anyone not in agreement.
If all this sounds perfectly dreadful, consider the 15,0000 lb exploding Volkswagens that we have been dropping for months on the be-ragged heads of the “faithful” in Afghanistan. We need a well thought out program that we can agree on and stick with to defeat the Islamic fundamentalist’s radical philosophy. Whatever path we decide on has to be one that positively eliminates the threat. I have attempted here to point out the issues and define the threat. It will be up to those with the means to define the cure. The principal issue for all of us to understand what we are up against and what we have to do about it. Do this and we may never see another hijacked aircraft flying into an occupied office building, ignore the threat, and we likely will and probably worse.
http://www.barkati.net/english/chronology.htm
US Patent & Trademark Office
Patents counts by country
The Islamic Warriors
WHO ARE THEY
Are all Muslims, Muslims first and Americans, or French, or German or whatever, second? Can a Muslim ever be truly trusted? Do they refer to themselves as Muslim- Americans? It is one thing to call oneself an Afro-American because skin color announces in advance, the affiliation and often the politics of the person or group. Religion, on the other hand is more subtle. Unless the person is clad in a head to toe Burka or wearing a Thobe and playing with worry beads, a devoted Muslim can appear as ordinary as the guy next door.
The FBI had a Muslim agent Gamal Abdel-Hafiz, who shortly after 9/11, was asked to wear a wire and meet with a group of fellow Muslims in Dallas. He flat refused saying that “Muslims never spy on other Muslims.” He announced to the world that he wasn’t FBI first, he was Muslim first and he wasn’t American first, he was Muslim first. America and 9/11 were a long way back in this guy’s loyalties.
You will remember that shortly after the invasion of Iraq, Sgt. Hasan Akbar's , a American soldier, attacked his fellow American troops solely out of loyalty to Islam, not because of racism or anything else (contrary to widely published reports). At his courts martial, a prosecution witness testified that the Islamic American soldier charged with killing two officers in a grenade attack during the Iraq war, confessed to the crimes after his arrest, saying he feared the wartime deaths of Muslims. He stated that he “ did it in the name of being Muslim.” Isn't that sad? Religion means to him, to kill because he thinks that other Muslims are going to be raped and murdered by the American troops. I guess he doesn't consider himself to be an American even though he was born and grew up in America.
What about those who are born in the States into a Muslim family and culture but themselves have, or appear to have, no interest in the faith, who don’t attend the mosque and are, more or less, westernized and secular? Can these individuals be trusted and if so to what degree?
There are thousands of individuals and families who were originally of the Muslim faith but now, due to living in western cultures, have migrated far from their roots. They no longer profess their religion and appear to have strong loyalties to their adopted country.
These individuals can be recruited by western intelligence agencies and used to penetrate radical Islamic terrorists cells. It is important to remember however, in working with them, that they can never be fully trusted and whatever information they are given access to needs be highly compartmentalized and limited.
Individual westernized and apparently non-religions Muslims can revert anytime. A sickness in the family, a crisis in their lives, being offended or otherwise ostracized by non- Muslims, etc. anything like this can send them back into their traditional faith and they can then work as double agents.
The 19 bloodthirsty Terrorists that were involved in 9/11 were taught before they came to America, not to display Islamic behavior. They stayed away from mosques and even visited bars and drank alcohol. They lived in non- Muslim neighborhoods and to all appearances and after interviewing their neighbors, were “just regular guys.”
The point is that once a Muslim, always a Muslim. In Islam there is nothing so hated and despised as the Apostate. The Wahabbee sect in Saudi Arabia will kill a former believer who has turned away from Islam faster than they will an infidel. All former Islamic individuals carry this knowledge and guilt with them every day of their lives. They can revert anytime.
So, what about more or less moderate Muslims? Surely, all Muslims don’t want to kill Infidels, do they?
There are 5 translations of the Qur’an and all of them refer to non- Muslims as Infidels. Every one of the translations states that Jihad is the duty of all Muslims. The religion, if you can call it that, exhorts the faithful to kill Infidels, especially Jews and Christians. Any reading of the Qur’an spells out this in detail. Bernard Lewis in his recent book, “The Crisis in Islam”, says that “Islam is not only a matter of faith and practice; it is also an identity and a loyalty- for many an identity and loyalty that transcend all others.”
Mr. Lewis goes on to say ” for most of the 1400 years of recorded Muslim history, Jihad was most commonly interpreted to mean armed struggle for the defense or advancement of Muslim power.”
The following are excerpts from the Qu’ran:
“ God marvels at people ( those to whom Islam is brought by conquest) who are dragged to paradise in chains”
“Learn to shoot for the space between the mark and the archer is one of the gardens of Paradise.”
“Paradise is in the shadow of the swords”
Jihad is an obligation of all Muslims wherever they may live. Jihad is what Ben Ladin invoked in his declaration of war against the United States and it is the duty of the Muslim community as a whole, to attack Americans. No Muslim can deny the call to Jihad. This principal and obligation is further defined and clarified by classical Muslim jurists. Islamic law recognizes four types of enemies; Infidels ( that’s anyone who is not a Muslim) apostates, rebels and bandits. It is only the first two that qualify under Jihad. Jihad is thus a religious obligation.
The above makes it clear that Americans cannot ever trust the peaceful appearing Muslim and have therefore to use his services very carefully. Now let’s discuss the committed terrorist. Where does he fit into the world Islamic movement and who is he? What motivates him, what goes on in his mind , how did he get this way and how can he be stopped?
America has captured many committed “enemy combatants” from battlefields in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Malaysia, the Philippines, and many other places around the world. We are indeed engaged in a world war that is far different from any we have fought before.
Following the invasion in Iraq, when we actually did have some use for our high tech weapons, the real war began. Many of us will all soon be involved in this effort and aside from the possible initial use of our powerful weapons, future wars will have no use for them. We can park our fighter planes, the enemy doesn’t have any. Our carrier groups likewise have no enemies. Our submarines can be sent home, most of the battle armor can lbe parked or shipped home.
The war against the Islamic extremists is a conflict between ideologies. The enemy is committed and welcomes death unlike any other enemy we have ever faced. Even the Japanese, following the Emperor’s defeat and subsequent surrender, went home and took off their uniforms.
The enemy today has no uniform, no aircraft, no subs, no carriers, no tanks. The enemy has only an implacable hatred of anything western. Particularly anything American. Islamic prisoners are, in an important respect, not human. As such, it’s arguably a misnomer for “ human rights” organizations to attempt efforts on their behalf. This interesting fact is often not clearly understood by the bleating activists pressing for the administration to treat the Terrorists more humanely. Provide what, air conditioned cells, government appointed attorneys, hearings in US courts, amnesty, first class tickets back to wacko-vile, what exactly do they want?
Those captured thus far in the war on terror should logically, never and can never, be released. What is not understood by the critics and self-appointed bleeding hearts is that Islam has turned these murderers into non-human monsters with a very slight chance of ever being released into any “normal” society.
Americans, and indeed, most of the non-Muslim world, have absolutely no understanding the effect that 20 or 30 years of unrelenting hateful wahabee fundamentalism can have on the human mind.
Imagine, waking from your sleep at 05 dark every day of your life and praying five times a day. Imagine, squatting in miserable mosques and being exposed every waking minute to viscous hate speech in the name of “GOD. ”Shrieking torrents of hatred generated from loudspeakers on every street. Imagine, squatting in mud builidngs year after year, having your mind filled with only this garbage. Listening to an unrelenting barrage of bombastic, vicious rhetoric being spewed into your ears… for all - of - your - life…! Imagine, being surrounded every waking moment, by mobs of your peers screaming fanatically for Christian and Jewish blood! . Having no job, no education, wearing filthy rags, eating lousy food, living in absolute squalor. We, in the civilized west, cannot possibly imagine the horrendous effect of such overwhelming propaganda. We have absolutely no basis for comparison. Yet, this is the reality for most of the un-holly warriors that are killing Americans every day.
If the single most important characteristic of humanity is the ability to reason, then, by any measure, the Jihadists are most certainly a sub-human species.
After 20, 30, or more, years of constant exposure to this mind numbing propaganda, all espoused in the name of God, these Islamic warriors resemble humans only in their external form. They cannot reason. Not at all!
None of those captured, as individuals, or as a group, have even a scintilla of reasoning ability remaining in their entire collective consciences. You can’t reason with them, you can’t change their minds, You can’t negotiate with them. You can’t rehabilitate them. You can’t make them stop trying to kill all who disagree with their Islamic view of the world. Of course, there can be no peaceful solution in the Middle East. How can one negotiate with hate-filled unrelenting terrorists! One can’t! There is absolutely no middle ground. None! Think, concession and compromise are the essence of all successful negotiations. How can there possibly be any workable peace between the Israelis and Palestinians when the latter can’t even concede even the existence of Israel? Small wonder they are building the wall? One can’t train wild beasts to stop eating domestic sheep, can one?
Let me expand just a little here for the benefit of those who simply can’t grasp the concept. The human mind is both very sensitive and very resilient at the same time. What we have learned about how we think and reason is amazing. More amazing is what we don’t know and perhaps, never will. One of these is the effect of years of continuous, unrelenting Islamic hate rhetoric. We do know very well however the results, if not the actual internal psychological and physical changes, that the subject undergoes.
Imagine the soft tissue within the cranial cavity base slowly being hardened as the child grows into an adult. Essential synaptic connections being formed and frozen, as happens to us all. Now, imagine that the thought patterns that are hardened into cement only involve hatred killing, bloodshed and Allah. The extraordinary intensity of this type of powerful and irresistible brainwashing goes far beyond the comprehension of the normal Western mind. These cemented cranial furrows allow for no modifications. The committed Islamic killer cannot be dissuaded by any kind of rehabilitative therapy.
Anyone who thinks, even for a moment, that one can reason with the most unreasonable force on the planet simply isn’t thinking. Wahabeisim and other forms of extreme Islam make up what can arguably be defined as the most evil force mankind has ever been exposed to. For centuries it has lain buried in the sand biding its time to attack Western civilization. This is the 4th such time.
In 571, when the murderous Mohammad was born until today, all Islam has done is kill its neighbors, plunder, rape and murder anyone and destroy anything that wasn’t in perfect accord with it’s rigid world view. The fools in Afghanistan, “Tallybanners” or something, weren’t they? Didn’t they finally pull the curtain up and show the world exactly what the “ideal Islamic world” would look like- a view of pure hell!
As much as the Bush administration is loath to admit, we are engaged today on the forth-Great Crusade to protect our lives and property and indeed, our very civilization from the most purely evil force ever released on this sad world.
One might wonder how such a terrible evil ever came to pass. One might speculate, if one were to believe in “evil incarnate,” that Islam has indeed created a perfect “hell on earth” for its pathetic followers. Perhaps, if we follow this line of thinking, we might wonder who or what inspired Mohammed? Islam has forced the Arabs to remain in the forth century. They have not progressed since 642 when they burned down the great library at Alexandria. No Arab country can manufacture even an air conditioner- they have no factories for making freon or copper tubing. In fact, the recent speech by the prime minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Bin Mohamad, which constitutes one of the most virulent attacks on the west by a powerful Islamic, points out that for centuries, Islam has dissuaded its followers from any kind of intellectual pursuit.
Everything they have is imported from the hated west. They call us the “Great Satin” meanwhile, they are watching Al Jazerra broadcasts on an imported TV using a technology that they have absolutely no idea of how it works or of the underlying scientific principals. They do not design or manufacture aircraft, have made no medical advancements, no scientific advances, nada! Since 574, the Islamic world has not made any contributions to the advancement of civilization whatsoever. They are, as a people, a vast intellectually depleted gene pool. They incarcerate their women, stone their sisters to death, torment their children and themselves, and can seemingly agree on only one thing, Killing infidels.
Of course we can’t just let the Terrorists held at Camp Delta in Guantanimo or any other Islamic prisoners go. Not as they are. Were we to just release them they would immediately take up where they left off, killing infidels. ( That’s you by the way!) They freely admit this and they cannot be dissuaded. They are not even disingenuous enough to lie about this until they are released. Unbelievable!
Maybe we can perform double lobotomies and send them back to wander about their sand piles? How about Injecting a pellet deep in their brains that tells us where they are and explodes whenever they get near an airport screening machine or whenever a few of them congregate? (We tell them about the pellet but we never tell them how many of their fellow killers it takes to make it explode) That will certainly keep them on their toes.
DEFEATING ISLAM
Defeating Islam, rendering it harmless to western civilization is the end game in the War on Terror. The enemy is sustained by his faith in a cruel and barbaric religion that has engaged in murder, war, assassination and the unholy infliction of pain on humans since its dark inception in 571 (year of the birth of the un-Holly prophet)
We have to understand that Islam is a sick religion. One has to study the history of Islam to see how terribly true this is. There has never, in the history of Humanity, been such a horrific belief system.
We cannot kill or incarcerate Islam’s’ billion plus adherents worldwide. We see five new terrorists recruited for every one we eliminate. The military solution is useful only as a stopgap measure. We can slow them down and keep them in check for a time. We cannot however expect the military to stop the festering and monumental hatred of the Islamic fanatic or completely eliminate them as threat to western civilization.
The enemy screams “Jihad” and says that he loves death more than we love life.
This kind of insane fanaticism is incomprehensible to the western mind. To succeed in defeating the committed Islamic terrorists, we need to recognize that this is a contest of ideas, the western Christian civilizations against an ancient enemy who has emerged again from his dark sands of despair, motivated by his ignorance, profound hatred and blind faith. The War on Terror is a war of conflicting ideologies and it is through offering competing ideas that we can win.
The overall best methodology for defeating Islam has to be one wherein we use our remarkable communication tools to change the religion at its roots. We expose its weaknesses and corruption. We demonstrate that the so-called “Holly Prophet” and all who followed him were ignorant killers engaging in murder, mayhem and war to further their power.
We show the world what a gang of ruthless murderers the Islamic terrorists truly were and are. We ridicule and humiliate the brutes who would attack us by showing them and the world that Extremist Islam is an absurd and backward practice that has only served to make its practitioners the most miserable creatures on earth.
We point out, on the world stage, that Wahabbe Islam is a festering sore on humanity and use every possible argument, secular and religious, to demean and destroy the faith of its followers.
We demonstrate with un-impeachable evidence (which exists) that most of the Koran was copied from the Old Testament and all of it was written hundreds of years after Muhammad’s life who himself was illiterate and never wrote a word of the Q’uaran. We prove that many of those places Islam considers holly were actually sites of pagan worship long before Islam came along. We show, with equal certainly, that the Islamic countries are backward, unproductive swamps of human misery and lag far behind the civilized world. We engage the Islamic women under a banner of individual freedom to revolt and demand to be set free. We point out how barbaric are the laws of sharia and how primitive and stupid are monarchy’s, dictatorships and theocracies in a modern world or indeed, how absurd any government where one man makes decisions for all.
In time, the faith of the majority will be so devastated by the incredible and unrelenting volume of anti- Islamic rhetoric and worldwide torrent of propaganda that even the most blindly fanatic will begin to question their faith.
Over time, the fanatic’s will to attack the truth will wane and eventually disappear. Then, and only then, can we be certain that the threat of Islam and its 1400 year reign of unholy terror, repression and murder will be truly eradicated. One might logically argue for America to launch a worldwide campaign to utterly de-bunk Islam once and for all. We have the world’s best propaganda tools and we have the knowledge- we need only the will. The western nations will eventually join our effort. Islam has been building mosques and gathering converts within many western countries. These centers of hate have to be shut down immediately.
Western governments have to recognize that the War on Terror is a religious war that can be won only by recognizing it for what it is and acting accordingly. Destroy the misplaced and erroneous faith of the Islamic nut cases and you destroy their will. It is that simple. Keep on killing them and you create only martyrs inducing additional fools to join the war.
“ The Arabs have no halftones in their register of vision. They exclude compromise and peruse the logic of their ideas to absurd ends, without seeing the incongruity of their opposed conclusions. Their convictions are by instinct, their activities intuitional”
*Attributed to the English Officer, Laurence of Arabia
SUMMARY:
In reading and considering the foregoing, it is doubtful that any clear thinking individual cannot fail to be convinced that America is facing a dangerous crossroads and a most determined enemy. We have fought Nazis and after the war, they went home, changed into civies and went to work for Volkswagen. There were suicidal Japs who were all for diving planes filled with explosives into our ships. After the war, they went home and found work at Toyota. We never heard from any of them again. But, now, we are fighting ethnicity and religion, not political doctrine no matter how persuasive.
What we know is that “religion and ethnicity will always win out over the thin bonds of patriotism to an adopted country.” There is case after case proving the validity and truth of this fact. Jay Pollard, the committed Jewish spy is still in prison for espionage against America. There was Ana Belen Montes, who spied for Castro and Wen Ho Lee who was fired from his job at Los Almos for sending our atomic research to China and many more.
Clearly, we have to root out the fundamental Islamists in our government, armed forces, law enforcement agencies and anywhere else where they can cause us damage. Although this is position is outrageously non-PC, it is logical and needs to be done. The Mosques have to be closed and the Islamic schools shut down. Our relationship with Saudi Arabia has to be reviewed and diplomatic and military pressure exerted to “persuade” the wahabbees that their present course of action is not in their long-term best interests.
There is a clear and marked increase in the number of attacks against American interests by Islamic extremists since 1970. (see history of terror in appendix) This increase is correlated and matches the construction of new mosques on our soil and the increase in converts and immigrants from the Islamic world to America. (see graph on numbers of Mosques appendix)
The case is clear, the evidence is there. It remains now for America to stand up and do the right thing! The government has to understand that this is a war and we need to declare it and fight it as such! The enemy is extremist Islam and they have a billion jihadists worldwide with 7 million in the USA.
“ Islam is unable to live at peace with anyone. We Arabs are the worst. We can’t live with the world and even more terrible, we can’t live with each other. In the end, it will not be Arab against Jew but Arab against Arab. One day our oil will be gone along with our ability to blackmail. We have contributed nothing to human betterment in centuries, unless you consider the assassin ands the terrorist as human gifts.. The world will tell us to go to hell. We, who tried to humiliate the Jews, will find ourselves humiliated as the scum of the earth.”
Leon Uris, ‘The Haj,’ 1985
APPENDIX
- CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF TERRORIST ATTACKS, P 22
- CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF ISLAM AND THE MIDDLE EAST P.37
- FACES OF THE ENEMY ( PHOTO GALLERY) P 48-51
- GRAPH: LOCATIONS OF MOSQUES IN AMERICA
- GRAPH : ETHNICITY OF ISLAMIC CONVERTS IN AMERICA
- GRAPH : NUMBER OF MOSQUES IN THE USA AND DATES FOUNDED
The following data outlines chronological, every attack against the west by Islamic Terrorists. Included is a year-by-year history of Islam since its inception. A careful reading cannot but impress the reader with the incredibly bloody murderous nature of this sick worship of hatred.
A HISTORY OF TERRORIST ATTACKS
1964 - Founding of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) to support establishment of a Palestinian state. Some PLO members adhered to legal and political methods, and some committed acts of violence.
1967 - Israeli military conquered the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Sanai, and the Golan Heights.
1967 - United Nations Resolution 242 called upon Israel to withdraw unconditionally from occupied Palestinian territories.
1967 - Mohammed bin Oud bin Laden, Yemeni immigrant to Saudi Arabia who eventually became wealthy as the owner of the largest construction firm in Saudi Arabia, was killed in a helicopter accident in Texas. His son Osama bin Laden, the 17th of 52 children, inherited millions of dollars.
1968 - Some members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) who wished to abandon political organization and focus on committing terrorist acts broke away from the group to form the new Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command (PFLP-GC)
1972 - US and USSR signed the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) treaty.
1972 - Terrorists attacked the Olympics in Munich, Germany, killed 2 athletes, and took hostages and a helicopter. Police snipers shot the terrorists but didn't kill them. One of the terrorists threw a hand granade into the helicopter and killed all the hostages. (In response, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir authorized 5 secret agents to infiltrate terrorist organizations for the purpose of killing its members without trial. 3 of the 5 agents were killed during their mission.)
9/74 - Ilich Ramirez-Sanchez, alias, Carlos the Jackal, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), threw a hand grenade into a drugstore in Paris, killing two people and injuring 34.
1974 - the Abu Nidal Organization (ANO) formed by former members of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
12/75 - Carlos the Jackal and associates, armed with guns, burst into OPEC headquarters in Vienna, Austria, during meeting of OPEC oil ministers. Identified himself with, "I am Carlos. You know me." Took 62 hostages. Demanded pro-PFLP statement be read on TV in Austria. Demanded and received an airplane to escape. Flew to Algeria and released some of the hostages. Flew to Libya and released more hostages. Government of Saudia Arabia paid him $40 million in ransom, and the remaining hostages were released. Carlos escaped.
2/76 - Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) expelled Carlos the Jackal for disobeying orders and seeking personal fame. He continued terrorist activities on his own.
1979 - Saddam Hussein became the leader of Iraq.
11/4/79 - 80 Iranian students invaded the US embassy in Tehran, Iran and took 52 US citizens hostage. The abductors demanded that the US extradite the overthrown Shah of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, who was in the US for medical treatment, so that they could execute him. US refused demand. The hostages were held until 1/20/81.
12/26/79 - Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. This incited Osama bin Laden, then 23 years old, who was working in the family construction business, and had, earlier in 1979, graduated from King Abdel Aziz University in Jidda, Saudi Arabia with a degree in economics and civil engineering. Bin Laden and his associate Mohammed Atef, almost immediately traveled from Saudi Arabia to Afghanistan to assist organization of the Mujahedeen rebellion against the Soviet occupation.
4/8/80 - On order of President Carter, US ended diplomatic relations with Iran due to failure of negotiations to persuade Iran to release the hostages taken 11/4/79
4/80 - 6 Islamic terrorists seized the Iranian embassy in London. They announced that they would kill a hostage every half hour, and killed two. The British anti-terrorist department SAS raided the embassy and killed 5 of the 6 terrorists. The remainder of the hostages were released unharmed.
1980 - US and 59 other countries boycotted the 1980 Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
1980-1988 : the Iran-Iraq war.
1/20/81 - Ronald Reagan inaugurated as President of the United States. Four hours after the inauguration, militants holding 54 US citizens hostage in Iran since 11/4/79 released the hostages, after 444 days in captivity. Reagan's foreign policies included aid to the Mujihadeen resistance to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
1981 - US ended diplomatic relations with Libya, and banned travel by US citizens to Libya.
1981 - Members of the Al-Jihad organization assassinated President Anwar Sadat of Egypt.
3/82 - Carlos the Jackal attacked public buildings and transportation facilities in France, in retaliation for the 2/82 arrest of his girlfriend in Paris when she was found with explosives in her car. (After she was released from prison in 1985, he and she went to live in Syria.)
4/18/83 - Hizballah suicide bomber with the support of Iran and Libya crashed a pickup truck full of explosives into the US embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. 63 people killed, of whom 17 were US citizens. Among the 17, 8 worked for the CIA. Imad Mugniyah is a top suspect. ( note in 2008, it is reported that he was killed by the Israelis in Damascus Syria)
10/23/83 Shiite suicide bombers from the Hizballah organization, with the support of the government of Iran, bombed barracks in Beirut, Lebanon where US Marines and French paratroopers were housed. 299 were killed, including 241 US Marines. Bin Laden's terrorism "teacher", Imad Mugniyah allegedly involved in the planning.
12/12/83 - Shiite suicide truck bomber working for the government of Iran crashed into the US embassy in Kuwait. Additional attacks on the French embassy, apartments of Raytheon Corporation employees, the control tower of the airport, and an oil refinery. Total of 5 people killed (6, including one of the the truck bombers) and 80 injured. (Kuwait later arrested and convicted 17 suspects. When Iran conquered Kuwait 8/2/90, Iran released the 17, who have never been recaptured.)
11/20/84 - Truck bomb exploded outside the Aukar, Lebanon annex of the US embassy in Beirut. 24 people killed, including 2 US military personnel. The US attributed the act to to the pro-Iran Hizballah organization. Imad Mugniyah is a suspect.
1984 - Bin Laden moved to Pakistan, co-founded Maktab al-Khidamat organization (MAK) to organize approximately 20,000 anti-Soviet Mujahideen rebels, and to channel overseas funds and weapons to them. The U.S. CIA donated funds to the MAK by channeling it through Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI). The U.S. paid about $3 billion to afghan rebels opposing Soviet occupation.
12/3/84 - Kuwait Airways Flight 221 from Kuwait to Pakistan was hijacked and diverted to Tehran. Hijackers demanded the release of 17 suspects arrested by Kuwait for the 12/12/83 bombing of the US embassy in Kuwait. When the demand was refused, the hijackers killed 2 passengers who were US government employees. Iranian troops entered the plane, arrested the hijackers, released the passengers. Iran later released the hijackers instead of putting them on trial. (Imad Mughniyah alleged to have been involved in the planning of the hijacking.)
6/14/85 - TWA Flight 847 from Athens to Rome was hijacked and diverted to Beirut, Lebanon. Hijackers demanded the release of 500 Shiites imprisoned by Israel and the the 17 suspects imprisoned in Kuwait for the 12/12/83 bombing of the US embassy in Kuwait. Hijackers killed U.S. Navy Diver Robert Stethem and threw his body out onto the airport tarmac. Israel released some Shiite prisoners and some of the hostages were released. In 1987 the US government Hizballah leader Imad Mugniyah as a suspect in the planning, but he was never apprehended. Police in Frankfurt, Germany arrested suspect Mohammed Ali Hamadei, who was convicted in 1989 and sentenced to life in prison in Germany.
8/85 - US government began selling weapons to Iran, to persuade Iran to release hostages, and to (illegally) channel funds to the Contra militants fighting the Sandanista government in Nicaragua. Known in the press as the "Iran-Contra" or "arms-for hostages" scandal. Iran immediately released hostage Benjamin Weir after 495 days of captivity. (Iran released hostages Martin Jenco in 7/86 and David Jacobson in 11/86.)
9/5/95 - The Taliban militia conquered the city of Herat, Afghanistan.
10/7/85 - Hijackers working for the government of Libya raided the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro near Egypt, took hostages, demanded the release of Palestinians imprisoned worldwide. Hijackers killed US citizen Leon Klinghoffer. Hijackers attempted to fly out of Egypt, US plane forced the plane down. Four suspects imprisoned in Italy. One of the convicts escaped from prison, and the government of Italy released one of them.
12/17/85 - Terrorists working for the government of Libya bombed the airports in Vienna and Rome, killing 20 people.
4/5/86 - Terrorists working for the government of Libya bombed a disco in West Berlin, killing a Turkish woman and a US soldier, and injuring hundreds.
4/15/86 - In retaliation for the disco bombing of 4/5/86, the US, under orders from President Reagan, bombed Benghazi and Tripoli in Libya (Operation El Dorado Canyon). US Bombing of the home of Moammar Qadaffi didn't harm the Libyan leader, but killed his infant daughter. (After the bombing, Libyan militants associated with Abu Nidal retaliated by killing three US citizens employed by the University of Beirut.)
1/2/87 - Hostage negotiator Terry Waite, in Beirut, Lebanon to negotiate with Iranian Hizballah terrorists who were holding hostages, was made a hostage himself. (The United Nations sent another negotiator to meet with the Hizballah. Waite was released 11/91; later the others were released.)
1987 - Founding of the Palestinian anti-Israel terrorist organization Hamas, an acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement. (Organized mainly in Israel, the occupied territories, and Jordan, tactics have included bombings and suicide bombings. More recently, Hamas has begun using political organization, including running candidates in local elections.)
1988 - Bin Laden reorganized former Mujahedeen members and others into a new organization called al Qaeda -- the Base.
12/23/88 - A bomb onboard 757 airliner Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 (259 aboard and 11 town residents). US State Department said that intelligence linked the crime to both the government of Libya and the Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command (PFLP-GC). Investigators recovered a part of the bomb's timing circuitry, which bore identification marks. The marks indicating that the components were among a lot that Mebo, a private electronics company in Libya, had sold to the Libyan government. 5/3/00 A Scottish court convening in the Netherlands put two Libyan government employees on trial. 1/31/01 the court convicted Abdel Basset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi of planting the bomb, and sentenced him to life in prison. The court acquitted Al Amin Kalifa Fahima.
2/15/89 - The final withdrawal of Soviet troops left Afghanistan. Approximately 15,000 Soviet troops had been killed since the invasion 12/16/89. (After the Soviets left, the Soviet installed leader of Afghanistan, Mohammed Najibullah remained in power until 4/92, a few months after the Soviet Union was abolished 1/92 and ceased to provide him with aid.) (After the Soviet withdrawal, Osama bin Laden went to Sudan to organize rebels there.)
6/30/89 - Military coup in Sudan left the National Islamic Front (NIF) in control of the country.
8/2/90 - Iraq invaded Kuwait, a member state of the United Nations, and annexed it as "the Iraqi province of Kuwait."
1990-1991 - The Persian Gulf War: United Nations coalition forced Iraq to withdraw from occupied Kuwait. 2/24/91 U.S. began bombing Iraq. US introduced new tactic of "softening up" the enemy with a lengthy series of air strikes before ground troops enter. US introduced new policy of trying to avoid damage to most civilian regions while bombing government, military and industrial facilities.
Arabia rejected Osama bin Laden's offer of his help in fighting Iraq, and then permitted US troops to use its military bases. Bin Laden was said to have felt insulted and became more determined to declare both the US and Saudi Arabia to be enemies. (After the war ended, US retained troops permanently in Saudi Arabia. Al Qaeda and other critics of the US denounced US military presence in the country in which Mecca and Medina, the two most sacred cities in Islam, are located.)
1992 - Ethnic civil war in city of Kabul, Afghanistan resulted in 50,000 people killed. The Soviet-installed leader Mohammed Najibullah fled. Kajik troops of Mujihadeen Prime Minister Burhanuddin Rabbini and Mujihadeen military commander Ahmed Shah Masood battled with Pashtun troops of warlord Gilbuddin Hekmatyar. (Rabbani and Hekmatyar finally joined forces 6/96 because both were under seige by the Taliban, Hekmatyar endorsing Rabbini as Prime Minister, nevertheless, the Taliban took control of the country 9/96.)
1992 - Osama bin Laden made a proposal to his rivals in the pro-Iran Shiite terrorist organization Hizballah that they set aside their differences, so that they can cooperate in a common objective of killing United States troops stationed in Asia and Africa.
1992 - Bin Laden established legal businesses in Sudan, farms, a tannery, and a construction firm, to increase his available funds, and as fronts for al Qaeda camps he was organizing there.
1992 - Imad Mugniyah allegedly bombed a Christian center in Argentina.
1992 - Hizballah agents bombed the Israeli embassy in Argentina.
1/92 - The Soviet Union dissolved; end of its support for Mohammed Najibullah, the Soviet-installed leader of Afghanistan, however, he remained in power until 9/27/96 when the Taliban overthrew his administration.
12/29/92 - A bomb exploded in a hotel in Aden, Yemen. The hotel had recently been used by US troops preparing to go to Somalia, but all the US troops had already departed. Two Austrian tourists were killed.
2/26/93 Car bomb exploded at 5:12 PM on the second level of parking basement in the World Trade Center, killed 7 and injured hundreds. The bombers also left behind a device designed to release cyanide gas to kill emergency response crews and area residents, but the fire destroyed the cyanide. Bin Laden denied involvement. Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, who had been trained in Afghanistan, was named as an FBI suspect and added to the Ten Most Wanted list, with a $2 million reward. In 1995, Yousef was recognized in Pakistan, arrested, and extradited to the US. Yousef was convicted of planning the 2/26/93 attack and sentenced to life in prison.
8/93 Unsuccessful attempt by the Al-Jihad organization to assassinate Interior Minister Hassan al Alfi of Egypt.
10/93 - 18 U.S. troops involved in the U.S. "humanitarian mission" were killed in Mogadishu, Somalia, when two US helicopters were shot down. The victims were among of 28,000 US troops in Somalia. US news media covered a mob celebrating the killings by dragging the bodies through the streets. (In 1996, the US indicted Osama bin Laden for allegedly training the killers. In 1997, bin Laden admitted involvement in interview with CNN. In 2000, court testimony of al Qaeda defector Jamal Ahmed al-Fadl implicated both Osama bin Laden and Mohammed Atef in planning the killings.)
11/93 - Unsuccessful attempt by the Al-Jihad organization to assassinate Prime Minister Atef Sedky of Egypt.
1994 - Saudi Arabia revoked bin Laden's citizenship.
1994 - Bin Laden's family and relatives publicly "disowned" him due to his crimes.
1994 - Hizballah agents bombed an Israeli cultural center Buenos Aires, Argentina.
8/14/94 Ilich Ramirez-Sanchez, alias, Carlos the Jackal arrested by French Secret Service [DST]. Sentenced to life in prison.
10/12/94 - The Taliban militia conquered the city of Kandahar, Afghanistan.
1995 - The Islamic Jihad organization bombed the Egyptian embassy in Pakistan
1995 - Foiled plot to bomb 12 U.S. airliners. FBI named Khalid Shaikh Mohammed as suspect.
3/20/95 Japanese terrorists of the Aum (or Aum Shinrikyo) cult, which believes that the end of the world is imminent, released Sarin nerve gas into Tokyo subway trains. 12 killed and approximately 5,000 to 6,000 injured. 10/95 Japanese government revoked Aum's classification as a religious organization, but decided not to invoke a law that would have outlawed the organization. Suspect Shoko Asahara, who founded the cult in 1987, imprisoned by the Japanese government.
6/95 - Unsuccessful attempt by the Islamic Group organization to assassinate President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt while he was in Ethiopia.
11/13/95 - Truck bombing of US National Guard training center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 7 people killed, including 5 US military personnel. (Later, four suspects were convicted by Saudi court and executed by decapitation.)
6/25/96 - Truck bombing of Khobar Towers in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, a residence of US military personnel. 19 US military personnel were killed. FBI suspects Ahmed Ibrahim al-Mughassil, Ibrahim al-Yacoub and Abdel Karim al-Nasser were indicted.
8/23/96 - Date on bin Laden's written "declaration" of attack against the US. The document was written and published about two months after the bombing in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Demands included the removal of US troops from Saudi Arabia, and the overthrow of the government of Saudi Arabia.
9/11/96 - The Taliban militia conquered the city of Jalalabad, Afghanistan
9/26/96 Mujihadeen military commander Ahmed Shah Masood fled from the Afghan city of Kabul, due to the imminant invasion by the Taliban.
9/27/96 - The Taliban militia conquered the capital city of Kabul, Afghanistan. The Taliban acquired power in Afghanistan by overthrowing the government of Mohammed Najibullah, the political leader who had acquired power after the departure of the Soviet invaders, was executed by hanging on a public street.
1996 - Taliban closed Kabul University; male students permitted only high school education. Female students over the age of 12 banned from all schools, and ordered to stay at home most of the time to perform housework. Many other repressive laws enacted.
1996 - After the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, the Jamiat-ul-Ulema-e-Islam political party in Pakistan assisted organization of terrorist training camps in Afghanistan.
1996 - Responding to a request from the US government, Sudan expelled bin Laden. He returned to Afghanistan, setting up a training facility near the city of Jalalabad, and further organizing al Qaeda as an international network.
5/23/97 - Taliban militia conquered the city of Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan. Eleven diplomats from Iran were executed.
5/24/97 - Pakistan formally recognized the Taliban government.
1997 - CNN interviewed bin Laden. He said, in part, "We declared a jihad against the United States because it is unjust, criminal, and tyrannical." Without directly taking credit for the actions, he mentioned the 1995 killing of 7 US troops in Riyadh and the 1996 killing of 19 US troops in Dharan as examples of the jihad.
February 1998 - Bin Laden published declaration which included the objective: "To kill Americans and their allies, civilians and military, is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it, in any country in which it is possible to do it."
8/7/98 - A car bomb exploded outside US embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. A few hours later, explosion at US embassy in Dar es Salaam, capital of Tanzania. In both attacks, 224 people were killed and almost 5,000 were injured. (Later, a suspect was arrested and he said he was a member of al Qaeda. The US Justice Department indicted 17 member of al Qaeda, including bin Laden, for the two embassy bombings. 4 of the 17 were later arrested and convicted; 13 remained at large.)
8/20/98 - 13 days after the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, U.S. bombarded several locations in Khost, Afghanistan, and one location in Sudan, with Tomahawk missiles. The attacks were announced on the same day by President Clinton during televised press briefing. The President identified Osama bin Laden and his terrorist training camp as a target in Khost. Bin Laden survived by leaving the destroyed camp in Afghanistan shortly before the attack. One of the missiles launched into Sudan destroyed the country's major pharmaceutical factory warehouse, which the US government asserted to be in use as a terrorist weapons warehouse.
9/11/98 The United Nations announced that it had confirmed an accusation by Amnesty International that the Taliban government of Afghanistan had massacred thousands of people near Mazar-i-Sharif in 8/98. The killings were committed because the victims were of the Hazara ethnic group and of the Shiite denomination of Islam. The UN determined that the number of victims, between 4,000 and 6,000 people, was about three times more than AI had alleged.
11/98 - US Justice Dept indicted Osama bin Laden for the 8/7/98 bombing of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
12/98 - The Aden Abyan Islamic Army (AAIA) in Yemen took 17 hostages. In a raid by the Yemen police, 4 of the hostages were freed and 13 of the hostages were killed. AAIA leader Zein al-Abideen al-Mehdar was arrested and executed.
1998 - Reporter John Miller of ABC News interviewed bin Laden, who said, in part, "Our battle against the Americans is far greater than our battle was against the Russians. We anticipate a black future for America. Instead of remaining United States, it shall end up separated states and shall have to carry the bodies of its sons back to America."
1/12/99 - In Peshawar, Pakistan, intruders entered the house of Afghan political moderate Abdul Haq, who was not at home. The intruders killed his wife and 11-year-old son.
3/27/99 - In Peshawar, Pakistan, Mohammed Jehanzeb, the secretary of anti-Taliban organizer Haji Qadir, the brother of Adbul Haq, was assassinated.
4/23/99 The Human Rights Commission of the United Nations issued condemnation of persistent human rights abuses by the Taliban government of Afghanistan.
9/99 - On two separate days, Chechen terrorists bombed apartment buildings in Moscow, Russia. 212 were killed.
1/16/99 US Justice Department indicted bin Laden and 11 other members of al Qaeda for killing and conspiring to kill US citizens internationally. FBI placed bin Laden in its Most Wanted list, with a reward of $5 million for information leading to his arrest and conviction. (In 2001, the reward was increased to $25 million.)
10/15/99 United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution imposing sanctions on the Taliban government of Afghanistan. The UNSC said that the Taliban must turn over Osama bin Laden "without further delay to appropriate authorities in a country where he has been indicted, or to appropriate authorities in a country where he will be returned to such a country, or to appropriate authorities in a country where he will be arrested and effectively brought to justice."
2/00 -- An al Qaeda defector, Jamal Ahmed al-Fadl testified in the trial of four men accused in the bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. He revealed many details about the al Qaeda network. The four defendants were convicted. ("Jamal al Fadl, an al Qaeda defector who testified in the trial of four men convicted in the 1998 embassy bombings, illuminated an organization structured with bin Laden and his consultative council at the top, surrounded by committees to handle business enterprises, military training, religious policy and even publicity." -- Washington Post, 9/15/01) Al-Fadl testified that he was born and raised in Sudan, moved to the US, then moved back to Sudan in 1991 to work for an al Qaeda office in Khartoum. He decided to defect after he realized he was in trouble for having embezzled $100,000 from bin Laden's fund. He also testified that bin Laden had tried to buy uranium from black market sources for $1.5 million, presumably in an attempt to develop nuclear weapons.
7/2/2000 - United States National Park Service released a commissioned report concluding that national monuments which attract tourists, such as the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument, are likely targets terrorist attacks.
9/28/00 - Start of the New Intifiada, a Palestinian rebellion against Israeli occupation
10/12/00 - Suicide bombing of the U.S.S. Cole. The ship was refueling at the port city of Aden in Yemen when attacked. A boat filled with explosives got near the Cole and exploded, producing a large hole in the ship. 17 US sailors were killed and 37 were injured. Bin Laden released a videotape, claiming responsibility for attack.
5/26/01 A panel established by the United Nations Security Council accused the Taliban government of Afghanistan of selling opium and heroin to finance the training of terrorists and its war against the Northern Alliance.
5/29/01 - Four followers of bin Laden convicted in the 8/7/98 bombing of US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. The four men convicted were Rashed Daoud Al-'Owhali of Saudi Arabia, Khalfan Khamis Mohamed of Tanzania, Mohamed Sadeek Odeh of Jordan, and Wadih El-Hage Arlington, Texas. Four men sentenced on 7/10/01 to life in prison.
5/30/01 - Taliban ambassador to Pakistan told the press that the US has no proof thet bin Laden was involved with the 8/7/98 bombings of US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya.
6/01 - Bombing of a disco in Tel Aviv, Israel killed 21 people, mostly teenagers. Israeli government charged that Ayman Halaweh, a leader of the Hamas organization, was the bomb maker. Afterward, Halawah was killed when his car exploded in Nablus.
8/3/01 - Taliban government of Afghanistan arrested 24 international humanitarian aid workers in Kabul. Incarcerated were 16 citizens of Afghanistan, 4 from Germany, 2 from the US and 2 from Australia. Several were members of Shelter Now International (SNI). Several were accused of trying to propagate Christianity, punishable by long terms or execution. (The 24 were freed 11/15/01 by anti-Taliban rebels, and the 8 who were not Afghan citizens were transported out of the country by US helicopters.)
9/11/01 - Hijacked American Airlines flight 11 from Boston to Los Angeles (92 aboard) turned south over Vermont and at 8:45 crashed into 1 World Trade Center (north tower, 110 stories) in New York City. Five alarm fire reported (call for 200 firefighters). Hijacked United Airlines flight 175 from Boston to Los Angeles (65 aboard) turned south over Vermont and at 9:03 AM crashed into 2 World Trade Center (south tower, 110 stories). 9:21 AM, NYC mayor Giuliani ordered lower Manhattan south of 14th Street evacuated, all bridges and tunnels into Manhattan closed, all public and private schools closed, mayoral primary elections cancelled. 9:31 AM, President Bush called the hijackings and collisions "an apparent terrorist attack on our country." Hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 from Newark to San Francisco (45 aboard) made u-turn over northwestern Pennsylvania toward Washington, D.C. and at 9:43 AM crashed into land in southwestern Pennsylvania, 86 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 from Washington to Los Angeles (64 aboard) made 180-degree turn over West Virginia and at 9:45 AM crashed into the Pentagon in Washington, DC. US military declared "threat con delta," highest state of alert. 9:48 AM, Capitol Building and the White House evacuated. 9:49 AM, FAA grounded all US flights. International flights bound for US were diverted to Canada, 17,000 people bound for US stranded in Canada. 9:50 AM, north tower of the WTC collapsed. All 200 of the firefighters who responded to the first alarm were killed. 10:13 AM, UN building evacuated. 10:20 AM, SEC closed US financial markets. 10:22 World Bank closed. 10:29 AM, south tower of the WTC collapsed. 12:04 PM, Los Angeles International Airport evacuated. 12:15 PM, INS declared alert at US borders. 12:15 PM, San Francisco International Airport evacuated. 1:20 PM President Bush transported from Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana to an undisclosed location. 1:27 PM, Washington, D.C. declared state of emergency. 2:51 PM US Navy dispatched battleships and aircraft carriers to New York and Washington, DC areas. 4:10 PM, building 7 World Trade Center (47 stories) found to be burning; 5:20 PM, building 7 collapsed. 5:30 PM, secondary collapse of the south tower (bottom 10 floors). Notes: Most of the approximately 50,000 people employed at the WTC were employees of 430 businesses from 26 countries.
9/12/01 - NYC Mayor Giuliani requested that the federal government ship 6,000 body bags to NYC. Collapse of 1 Liberty Plaza in NYC (54 story building, already evacuated) due to the 9/11 attack. FBI assigned 4000 special agents and 400 laboratory technicians to investigate the 9/11 attacks, making this the largest criminal investigation government in history. NATO announced that all member countries will cooperate with the US in anti-terrorist military actions, pursuant to Article 5 of NATO charter, which states that an attack on any member country is regarded as an attack on all.
9/13/01 FBI determined that some suspected 9/11 hijackers were trained at flight schools in Florida. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta announced new FAA regulation prohibiting airline passengers from carrying sharp objects; only airport already in compliance with new procedures may reopen. 1,500 NYS National Guard troops sent to NYC. Congress passed $40 billion emergency funding bill. US military alert status downgraded from delta to Charlie (second highest alert level).
9/17/01 - In the US, two murders and the vandalism of a mosque, apparently hate crimes directed at Arab Americans and Muslim Americans
9/18/01 US Congress passed S.J. Res. 23 / H.J. Res. 64 -- "Joint Resolution to authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against those responsible for the recent attacks launched against the United States."
9/20/01 - President Bush, during televised address to a joint session of Congress, issued demands to the Taliban. "These demands are not open to negotiation or discussion." He also said, "From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime."
9/27/01 - US Department of Justice today released charts with the names and photos of the 19 alleged 9/11 hijackers. FAA announced that all airline passengers will be "patted down" and all carry-on bags will be "dump searched." Up to 5000 National Guard troops will be used to protect airports. Bush asked Congress for $500 million to improve security at 420 airports in the US.
10/2/01 - British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced: "I say to the Taliban, surrender the terrorists or surrender power."
10/5/01 - Acknowledging Pakistan's cooperation with the US in the coalition against the Taliban, the Senate voted to end economic sanctions against Pakistan which had been imposed due to Pakistan's testing of nuclear weapons.
10/6/01 - Bush commented on the Taliban government during radio address, "Full warning has been given, and time is running out."
10/7/01 - US and British forces began bombing Taliban and al Qaeda forces in Afghanistan, early morning Afghan time. Missing persons list for the World Trade Center site revised to list 4,979 missing, 393 confirmed dead, of whom 335 have been identified.
10/8/01 - President Bush announced to the nation: "On my orders, the United States military has begun strikes against Al Qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan." Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge sworn in as the director of newly-created the Office of Homeland Security. In Pakistan, pro-Taliban demonstrations turned violent; President Musharraf called out the army.
10/9/01 - On third day of military attacks in Afghanistan, the first civilian casualties. Four Afghan volunteers working for a mine-clearing group, with headquarters about 900 feet away from Taliban anti-aircraft artillery (AAA), were killed by US bombing.
10/10/01 - FBI released updated Most Wanted list, including 22 terrorism suspects.
10/16/01 - US anti-terrorism bill to expand police investigative powers was signed into law, despite opposition by libertarians to infringements on personal privacy.
10/18/01 - The four men convicted 5/29/01 of the 8/7/98 bombing of US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya were sentenced in US District Court in New York City to life in prison.
11/13/01 - Northern Alliance of Afghanistan repelled the Taliban from the capital city of Kabul.
11/14/01 - Al Qaeda military commander Mohammad Atef killed by a US laser-guided bomb.
11/17/01 - Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani, who was deposed by the Taliban 9/27/96, returned to Kabul to resume his presidency.
The brutal history of Islamic agression against the west continues of course to include the attacks on the British and Spanish trains and the mad bombings in Israel and throughout the world.
The following is a chronological history of Islam from 545 to recent times. It categorically condemns the Islam as one of the worlds most bloodthirsty and evil forces on earth.
Islamic History (Chronology)
6th Century (500-599) C.E.
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545: |
Birth of Abdullah, the Holy Prophet's father. |
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571: |
Birth of the Holy Prophet. Year of the Elephant. Invasion of Makkah by Abraha the Viceroy of Yemen, his retreat. |
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577: |
The Holy Prophet visits Madina with his mother. Death of his mother. |
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580: |
Death of Abdul Muttalib, the grandfather of the Holy Prophet. |
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583: |
The Holy Prophet's journey to Syria in the company of his uncle Abu Talib. His meeting with the monk Bahira at Bisra who foretells of his prophethood. |
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586: |
The Holy Prophet participates in the war of Fijar. |
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591: |
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594: |
The Holy Prophet becomes the Manager of the business of Lady Khadija, and leads her trade caravan to Syria and back. |
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595: |
The Holy Prophet marries Hadrat Khadija. Seventh century |
7th Century (600-699) C.E.
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605: |
The Holy Prophet arbitrates in a dispute among the Quraish about the placing of the Black Stone in the Kaaba. |
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610: |
The first revelation in the cave at Mt. Hira. The Holy Prophet is commissioned as the Messenger of God. |
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613: |
Declaration at Mt. Sara inviting the general public to Islam. |
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614: |
Invitation to the Hashimites to accept Islam. |
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615: |
Persecution of the Muslims by the Quraish. A party of Muslims leaves for Abyssinia. |
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616: |
Second Hijrah to Abysinnia. |
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617: |
Social boycott of the Hashimites and the Holy Prophet by the Quraish. The Hashimites are shut up in a glen outside Makkah. |
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619: |
Lifting of the boycott. Deaths of Abu Talib and Hadrat Khadija. Year of sorrow. |
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620: |
Journey to Taif. Ascension to the heavens. |
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621: |
First pledge at Aqaba. |
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622: |
Second pledge at Aqaba. The Holy Prophet and the Muslims migrate to Yathrib. |
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623: |
Nakhla expedition. |
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624: |
Battle of Badr. Expulsion of the Bani Qainuqa Jews from Madina. |
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625: |
Battle of Uhud. Massacre of 70 Muslims at Bir Mauna. Expulsion of Banu Nadir Jews from Madina. Second expedition of Badr. |
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626: |
Expedition of Banu Mustaliq. |
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627: |
Battle of the Trench. Expulsion of Banu Quraiza Jews. |
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628: |
Truce of Hudaibiya. Expedition to Khyber. The Holy Prophet addresses letters to various heads of states. |
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629: |
The Holy Prophet performs the pilgrimage at Makkah. Expedition to Muta (Romans). |
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630: |
Conquest of Makkah. Battles of Hunsin, Auras, and Taif. |
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631: |
Expedition to Tabuk. Year of Deputations. |
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632: |
Farewell pilgrimage at Makkah. |
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632: |
Death of the Holy Prophet. Election of Hadrat Abu Bakr as the Caliph. Usamah leads expedition to Syria. Battles of Zu Qissa and Abraq. Battles of Buzakha, Zafar and Naqra. Campaigns against Bani Tamim and Musailima, the Liar. |
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633: |
Campaigns in Bahrain, Oman, Mahrah Yemen, and Hadramaut. Raids in Iraq. Battles of Kazima, Mazar, Walaja, Ulleis, Hirah, Anbar, Ein at tamr, Daumatul Jandal and Firaz. |
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634: |
Battles of Basra, Damascus and Ajnadin. Death of Hadrat Abu Bakr. Hadrat Umar Farooq becomes the Caliph. Battles of Namaraq and Saqatia. |
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635: |
Battle of Bridge. Battle of Buwaib. Conquest of Damascus. Battle of Fahl. |
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636: |
Battle of Yermuk. Battle of Qadsiyia. Conquest of Madain. |
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637: |
Conquest of Syria. Fall of Jerusalem. Battle of Jalula. |
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638: |
Conquest of Jazirah. |
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639: |
Conquest of Khuizistan. Advance into Egypt. |
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640: |
Capture of the post of Caesaria in Syria. Conquest of Shustar and Jande Sabur in Persia. Battle of Babylon in Egypt. |
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641: |
Battle of Nihawand. Conquest Of Alexandria in Egypt. |
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642: |
Battle of Rayy in Persia. Conquest of Egypt. Foundation of Fustat. |
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643: |
Conquest of Azarbaijan and Tabaristan (Russia). |
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644: |
Conquest of Fars, Kerman, Sistan, Mekran and Kharan.Martyrdom of Hadrat Umar. Hadrat Othman becomes the Caliph. |
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645: |
Campaigns in Fats. |
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646: |
Campaigns in Khurasan, Armeain and Asia Minor. |
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647: |
Campaigns in North Africa. Conquest of the island of Cypress. |
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648: |
Campaigns against the Byzantines. |
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651: |
Naval battle of the Masts against the Byzantines. |
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652: |
Discontentment and disaffection against the rule of Hadrat Othman. |
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656: |
Martyrdom of Hadrat Othman. Hadrat Ali becomes the Caliph. Battle of the Camel. |
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657: |
Hadrat Ali shifts the capital from Madina to Kufa. Battle of Siffin. Arbitration proceedings at Daumaut ul Jandal. |
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658: |
Battle of Nahrawan. |
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659: |
Conquest of Egypt by Mu'awiyah. |
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660: |
Hadrat Ali recaptures Hijaz and Yemen from Mu'awiyah. Mu'awiyah declares himself as the Caliph at Damascus. |
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661: |
Martyrdom of Hadrat Ali. Accession of Hadrat Hasan and his abdication. Mu'awiyah becomes the sole Caliph. |
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662: |
Khawarij revolts. |
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666: |
Raid of Sicily. |
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670: |
Advance in North Africa. Uqba b Nafe founds the town of Qairowan in Tunisia. Conquest of Kabul. |
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672: |
Capture of the island of Rhodes. Campaigns in Khurasan. |
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674: |
The Muslims cross the Oxus. Bukhara becomes a vassal state. |
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677: |
Occupation of Sarnarkand and Tirmiz. Siege of Constantinople. |
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680: |
Death of Muawiyah. Accession of Yazid. Tragedy of Kerbala and martyrdom of Hadrat Hussain. |
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682: |
In North Africa Uqba b Nafe marches to the Atlantic, is ambushed and killed at Biskra. The Muslims evacuate Qairowan and withdraw to Burqa. |
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683: |
Death of Yazid. Accession of Mu'awiyah II. |
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684: |
Abdullah b Zubair declares himself aS the Caliph at'Makkah. Marwan I becomes the Caliph' at Damascus. Battle of Marj Rahat. |
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685: |
Death of Marwan I. Abdul Malik becomes the Caliph at Damascus. Battle of Ain ul Wada. |
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686: |
Mukhtar declares himself as the Caliph at Kufa. |
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687: |
Battle of Kufa between the forces of Mukhtar and Abdullah b Zubair. Mukhtar killed. |
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691: |
Battle of Deir ul Jaliq. Kufa falls to Abdul Malik. |
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692: |
The fall of Makkah. Death of Abdullah b Zubair. Abdul Malik becomes the sole Caliph. |
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695: |
Khawarij revolts in Jazira and Ahwaz. Battle of the Karun. Campaigns against Kahina in North Africa. The' Muslims once again withdraw to Barqa. The Muslims advance in Transoxiana and occupy Kish. |
8th Century (700-799) C.E.
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700: |
Campaigns against the Berbers in North Africa. |
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702: |
Ashath's rebellion in Iraq, battle of Deir ul Jamira. |
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705: |
Death of Abdul Malik. Accession of Walid I as Caliph. |
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711: |
Conquest of Spain, Sind and Transoxiana. |
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712: |
The Muslims advance in Spain, Sind and Transoxiana. |
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713: |
Conquest of Multan. |
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715: |
Death of Walid I. Accession of Sulaiman. |
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716: |
Invasion of Constantinople. |
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717: |
Death of Sulaiman. Accession of Umar b Abdul Aziz. |
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720: |
Death of Umar b Abdul Aziz. Accession of Yazid II. |
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724: |
Death of Yazid II. Accession of Hisham. |
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725: |
The Muslims occupy Nimes in France. |
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732: |
The battle of Tours in France. |
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737: |
The Muslims meet reverse at Avignon in France. |
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740: |
Shia revolt under Zaid b Ali. Berber revolt in North Africa. Battle of the Nobles. |
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741: |
Battle of Bagdoura in North Africa. |
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742: |
The Muslim rule restored in Qiarowan. |
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743: |
Death of Hisham. Accession of Walid II. Shia revolt in Khurasan under Yahya b Zaid. |
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744: |
Deposition of Walid I1. Accession of Yazid II1 and his death. Accession of Ibrahim and his overthrow. Battle of Ain al Jurr. Accession of Marwan II. |
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745: |
Kufa and Mosul occupied by the Khawarjites. |
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746: |
Battle of Rupar Thutha, Kufa and Mosul occupied by Marwan II. |
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747: |
Revolt of Abu Muslim in Khurasan. |
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748: |
Battle of Rayy. |
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749: |
Battles of lsfahan and Nihawand. Capture of Kufa by the Abbasids. As Saffah becomes the Abbasid Caliph at Kufa. |
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750: |
Battle of Zab. Fall of Damascus. End of the Umayyads. |
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751: |
Conquest of Wasit by the Abbasid. Murder of the Minister Abu Salama. |
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754: |
Death of As Saffah. Accession of Mansur as the Caliph. |
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755: |
Revolt of Abdullah b Ali. Murder of Abu Muslim. Sunbadh revolt in Khurasan. |
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756: |
Abdul Rahman founds the Umayyad state in Spain. |
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762: |
Shia revolt under Muhammad (Nafs uz Zakia) and Ibrahim. |
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763: |
Foundation of Baghdad. Defeat of the Abbasids in Spain. |
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767: |
Khariji state set up by Ibn Madrar at Sijilmasa. Ustad Sees revolt in Khurasan. |
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772: |
Battle of Janbi in North Africa. Rustamid. state set up in Morocco. |
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775: |
Death or the Abbasid Caliph Mansur, Accession of Mahdi, |
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777: |
Battle of Saragossa in Spain. |
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785: |
Death of the Caliph Mahdi. Accession of Hadi. |
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786: |
Death of Hadi. Accession of Harun ur Rashid. |
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788: |
Idrisid state set up in the Maghrib. Death of Abdul Rahman of Spain, and accession of Hisham. |
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792: |
Invasion of South France. |
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796: |
Death of Hisham in Spain; accession of al Hakam. |
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799: |
Suppression of the revolt of the Khazars. Ninth century. |
9th Century (800-899) C.E.
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800: |
The Aghlabid rule is established in North Africa. |
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803: |
Downfall of the Barmakids. Execution of Jafar Barmki. |
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805: |
Campaigns against the Byzantines. Capture of the islands of Rhodes and Cypress. |
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809: |
Death of Harun ur Rashid. Accession of Amin. |
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814: |
Civil war between Amin and Mamun. Amin killed and Mamun becomes the Caliph. |
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815: |
Shia revolt under Ibn Tuba Tabs. |
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816: |
Shia revolt in Makkah; Harsama quells the revolt. In Spain the Umayyads capture the island of Corsica. |
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817: |
Harsama killed. |
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818: |
The Umayyads of Spain capture the islands of Izira, Majorica, and Sardinia. |
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819: |
Mamun comes to Baghdad. |
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820: |
Tahir establishes the rule of the Tahirids in Khurasan. |
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822: |
Death of AI Hakam in Spain; accession of Abdul Rahman. II. |
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823: |
Death of Tahir in Khurasan. Accession of Talha and his deposition. Accession of Abdullah b Tahir. |
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827: |
Mamun declares the Mutazila creed as the state religion. |
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833: |
Death of Mamun. Accession of Mutasim. |
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836: |
Mutasim shifts the capital to Samarra. 837 Revolt of the Jats. |
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838: |
Revolt of Babek in Azarbaijan suppressed. |
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839: |
Revolt of Maziar in Tabaristan. The Muslims occupy South Italy. Capture of the city of Messina in Sicily. |
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842: |
Death of Mutasim, accession of Wasiq. |
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843: |
Revolts of the Arabs. |
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847: |
Death of Wasiq, accession of Mutawakkil. |
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850: |
Mutawakkil restores orthodoxy. |
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849: |
Death of the Tahirid ruler Abdullah b Tahir; accession of Tahir II. |
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852: |
Death of Abdur Rahman II of Spain;. accession of Muhammad I. |
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856: |
Umar b Abdul Aziz founds the Habbarid rule in Sind. |
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858: |
Mutawakkil founds the town of Jafariya. |
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860: |
Ahmad founds the Samanid rule in Transoxiana. |
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861: |
Murder of the Abbasid Caliph Mutawakkil; accession of Muntasir. |
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862: |
Muntasir poisoned to death; accession of Mutasin. |
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864: |
Zaidi state established in Tabaristan by Hasan b Zaid. |
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866: |
Mutasim flies from Samarra, his depostion and accession of Mutaaz. |
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867: |
Yaqub b Layth founds the Saffarid rule in Sistan. |
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868: |
Ahmad b Tulun founds the Tulunid rule in Egypt. |
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869: |
The Abbasid Caliph Mutaaz forced to abdicate, his death and accession of Muhtadi. |
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870: |
Turks revolt against Muhtadi, his death and accession of Mutamid. |
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873: |
Tahirid rule extinguished. |
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874: |
Zanj revolt in South Iraq. Death of the Samanid ruler Ahmad, accession of Nasr. |
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877: |
Death of Yaqubb Layth in Sistan, accession of Amr b Layth. |
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885: |
Death of Ahmad b Tulun in Egypt, accession of Khamar- wiyiah. |
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866: |
Death of Muhammad I the Umayyad ruler of Spain, accession of Munzir. Death of Abdullah b Umar the Habbari ruler of Sind. |
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888: |
Death of Munzir the Umayyad ruler of Spain, accession of Abbullah. |
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891: |
The Qarmatian state established at Bahrain. |
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892: |
Death of the Samanid ruler Nasr, accession of Ismail. |
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894: |
The Rustamids become the vassals of Spain. |
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896: |
Death of the Tulunid ruler Khamarwiyiah; accession of Abul Asakir Jaish. |
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897: |
Assassination of Abul Asakir Jaish; accession of Abu Musa Harun. |
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898: |
Qarmatians sack Basra, |
10th Century (900-999) C.E.
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902: |
Death of the Abbasid Caliph Muktafi; death of the Saffarid ruler Amr. |
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903: |
Assassination of the Qarmatian ruler Abu Said; accession of Abu Tahir. |
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905: |
Abdullah b Hamdan founds the Hamdanid rule in Mosul and Jazira. End of the Tulunid rule in Egypt. |
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907: |
Death of the Abbasid Caliph Muktafi; accession of Muqtadir, |
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908: |
End of the Saffarid rule, annexation of their territories by the Samanids. |
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909: |
Ubaidullah overthrows the Aghlablds and founds the Fatimid rule in North Africa. |
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912: |
Death of the Umayyad Amir Abdullah in Spain, accession of Abdur Rahman III. |
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913: |
Assassination of the Samanid ruler Ahmad II, accession of Nasr II. |
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928: |
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929: |
Qarmatians sack Makkah and carry away the Black Stone from the Holy Kaaba. In Spain, Abdur Rahman III declares himself as the Caliph. |
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931: |
Deposition and restoration of the Abbasid Caliph Muqtadir. Death of the Qarmatian ruler Abu Tahir; accession of Abu Mansur. |
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932: |
Death of the Abbasid Caliph Muqtadir; accession of Al Qahir. |
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934: |
Deposition of the Abbasid Caliph AI Qahir; accession of Ar Radi. Death of the Fatimid Caliph Ubaidullah ; accession of Al Qaim. |
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935: |
Assassination of the Ziyarid ruler Mardawij; accession of Washimgir. Death of Hamdanid ruler Abdullah b Hamdan accession of Nasir ud Daula. |
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936: |
By coup Ibn Raiq becomes the Amir ul Umara. |
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938: |
By another coup power at Baghdad is captured by Bajkam. |
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940: |
Death of the Abbasid Caliph Ar Radi, accession of Muttaqi. |
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941: |
Assassination of Bajkam, capture of power by Kurtakin. |
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942: |
Ibn Raiq recaptures power. |
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943: |
Al Baeidi captures power. The Abbasid Caliph Muttaqi is forced to seek refuge with the Hamdanids. Sail ud Daula captures power at Baghdad and the Caliph returns to' Baghdad. Power is captured by Tuzun and Sail ud Daula retires' to Mosul. Death of the Samanid ruler Nasr II, accession of Nuh. |
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944: |
Muttaqi is blinded and deposed, accession of Mustakafi. |
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945: |
Death of Tuzun. Shirzad becomes Amir ul Umra. The Buwayhids capture power. Deposition of the Abbasid Caliph Mustakafi. |
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946: |
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954: |
Death of the Sasanid ruler Nuh, accession of Abdul Malik. |
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961: |
Death of the Samanid ruler Abdul Malik, accession of Manauf. Alptgin founds the rule of the Ghazanavids. Death of the Umayyad Caliph Abdul Rahman III in Spain; accession of Hakam. Death of the Ikhshid ruler Ungur accession of Abul Hasan Ali. |
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965: |
Death of the Qarmatian ruler Abu Mansur; accession of Hasan Azam. Assassination of the Ikhshid ruler Abul Hasan Ali; power captured by Malik Kafur. |
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967: |
Death of the Buwayhid Sultan Muiz ud Daula, accession of Bakhtiar. Death of the Hamdanid ruler Sail ud Daula. |
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968: |
Byzantines occupy Aleppo. Death of the Ikhshid ruler Malik Kafur; accession of Abul Fawaris. |
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969: |
The Fatimids conquer Egypt. |
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972: |
Buluggin b Ziri founds the rule of the Zirids Algeria. |
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973: |
Shia Sunni disturbances in Baghdad; power captured in Baghdad by the Turkish General Subuktgin. |
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974: |
Abdication of the Abbasid Caliph AI Muttih; accession of At Taii. |
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975: |
Death of the Turk General Subuktgin. Death of the Fatimid Caliph Al Muizz. |
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976: |
The Buwayhid Sultan Izz ud Daula recaptures power with the help of his cousin Azud ud Daula. Death of the Samanid ruler Mansur, accession of Nuh II. In Spain death of the Umayyad Caliph Hakam, accession of Hisham II. |
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978: |
Death of the Buwayhid Sultan Izz ud Daula, power captured by Azud ud Daula. The Hamdanids overthrown by the Buwayhids. |
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979: |
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981: |
End of the Qarmatian rule at Bahrain. |
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982: |
Death of the- Buwayhid Sultan Azud ud Daula; accession of Samsara ud Daula. |
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984: |
Death of the Zirid ruler Buluggin, accession of Mansur. |
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986: |
The Buwyhid Sultan Samsara ud Daula overthrown by Sharaf ud Daula. |
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989: |
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991: |
Deposition of the Abbasid Caliph At Taii, accession of AI Qadir. |
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996: |
Death of the Zirid ruler Mansur, accession of Nasir ud Daula Badis. |
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997: |
Death of the Samanid ruler Nuh II, accession of Mansur II. |
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998: |
Death of the Samanid ruler Mansur II, accession of Abdul Malik II. Mahmud becomes the Amir of Ghazni. 999 End of the Samanids. |
11th Century (1000-1099) C.E.
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1001: |
Mahmud Ghazanavi defeats the Hindu Shahis. |
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1004: |
Mahmud captures Bhatiya. |
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1005: |
Mahmud captures Multan and Ghur. |
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1008: |
Mahmud defeats the Rajput confederacy. |
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1010: |
Abdication of Hisham II in Spain. accession of Muhammad. |
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1011: |
In Spain Muhammad is overthrown by Sulaiman. |
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1012: |
In Spain power is captured by Bani Hamud. Death of the Buwayhid Baha ud Daula, accession of Sultan ud Daula. |
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1016: |
Death of the Zirrid ruler Nasir ud Daula Badis; accession of AI Muizz. |
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1018: |
In Spain power is captured by Abdul Rahman IV. |
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1019: |
Conquest of the Punjab by Mahmud Ghazanavi. |
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1020: |
The Buwayhid Sultan ud Daula is Overthrown by Musharaf ud Daula, Death of the Fatimid Caliph AI Hakim, accession of Al Zahir. |
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1024: |
In Spain assassination of Abdul Rahman IV, accession of Mustafi. |
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1025: |
Death of the Buwayhid Mushgraf ud Daula, accession of Jalal ud Daula. |
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1029: |
In Spain death of Mustaft, accession of Hisham III. |
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1030: |
Death of Mahmud Ghazanavi. |
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1031: |
In Spain deposition of Hisharn III, and end of the Umayyad rule. Death of the Abbasid Caliph Al Qadir, accession of Al Qaim. |
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1036: |
Death of the Fatimid Caliph AI Zahir, accession of Mustansir. Tughril Beg is crowned as the king of the Seljuks. |
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1040: |
Battle of Dandanqan, the Seljuks defeat the Ghazanavids. Deposition of Masud the Ghazanavid Sultan, accession of Muhammad. AI Moravids come to power in North Africa. |
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1041: |
The Ghazanavid Sultan Muhammad is overthrown by Maudud. |
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1044: |
Death of the Buwayhid Jalal ud Daula, accession of Abu Kalijar. |
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1046: |
Basasiri captures power in Baghdad. |
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1047: |
The Zirids in North Africa repudiate allegiance to the Fatimid and transfer allegiance to-the Abbasids. |
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1048: |
Death of the Buwayhid Abu Kalijar, accession of Malik ur Rahim. |
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1050: |
Yusuf b Tashfin comes to power .in the Maghrib. |
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1055: |
Tughril Beg overthrows the Buwayhids. |
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1057: |
Basasiri recaptures power in Baghdad, deposes Al Qaim and offers allegiance to the Fatimid Caliph. |
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1059: |
Tughril Beg recaptures power in Baghdad, al Qaim is restored as the Caliph. |
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1060: |
Ibrahim becomes the Sultan of Ghazni. Yusuf b Tashfin founds the city of Marrakesh. The Zirids abandon their capital Ashir and establish their capital at Bougie. |
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1062: |
Death of the Zirid ruler AI Muizz, accession of Tamin. |
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1063: |
Death of the Seljuk Sultan Tughril Beg; accession of Alp Arsalan. |
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1071: |
Battle of Manzikert, the Byzantine emperor taken captive by the Seljuks. |
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1073: |
Death of Alp Arsalan, accession of Malik Shah. |
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1077: |
Death of the Abbasid Caliph AI Qaim, accession of AI Muqtadi. |
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1082: |
The A1 Moravids conquer Algeria. |
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1086: |
Battle of Zallakha. The AI Moravids defeat the Christians in Spain. Death of the Rum Sejuk Sultan Sulaiman, accession of Kilij Arsalan. |
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1091: |
The Normans conquer the island of Sicily; end of the Muslim rule. |
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1092: |
Death of the Seljuk Sultan Malik Shah, accession of Mahmud. |
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1094: |
Death of Mahmud; accession of Barkiaruk. Death of the Abbasid Caliph AI Muqtadi, accession of Mustahzir. |
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1095: |
The first crusade. |
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1099: |
The crusaders capture Jerusalem. |
12th Century (1100-1199) C.E.
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1101: |
Death or the Fatimid Caliph Al Mustaali, accession of Al Aamir. |
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1105: |
Death of the Seljuk Sultan Barkiaruk, accession Of Muhammad. |
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1106: |
Death of the AI Motavid Yusuf b Tashfin. |
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1107: |
Death of the Rum Seljuk Sultan Kilij Arsalan, succession of Malik Shah. |
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1108: |
Death of the Zirid ruler Tamin, accession of Yahya. |
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1116: |
Death of the Rum Seljuk Sultan Malik Shah. accession of Rukn ud Din Masud. |
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1118: |
Death of the Seljuk Sultan Muhammad; accession of Mahmud II. Death of the Abbasid Caliph Mustahzir, accession of Mustarshid. In Spain the Christians capture Saragossa. |
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1121: |
Death of the Fatimid Caliph AI Aamir, accession of AI Hafiz. |
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1127: |
Imad ud Din Zangi establishes the Zangi rule In Mosul. |
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1128: |
Death of the Khawarzam Shah Qutb ud Din Muhammad; accession of Atsiz. |
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1130: |
Death of the Seljuk Sultan Mahmud II; accession of Tughril Beg II. |
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1134: |
Assassination of the Abbasid Caliph Mustarshid; accession of Al Rashid. Death of the Seljuk Sultan Tughril Beg II, accession of Masud. |
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1135: |
Deposition of the Abbasid Caliph AI Rashid, accession of AI Muktafi. |
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1144: |
Imad ud Din Zangi captures Edessa from the Christians, second crusade. |
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1146: |
Death of Imad ud Din Zangi, accession of Nur ud Din Zangi. |
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1147: |
In the Maghrib AI Moravids overthrown by the Al Mohads under Abul Mumin. |
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1148: |
End of the Zirid rule' in North Africa. |
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1149: |
Death of the Fatimid Caliph AI Hafiz, accession of AI Zafar. |
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1152: |
Death of the Seljuk Sultan Masud, accession of Malik Shah II. Hamadid rule extinguished in North Africa. |
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1153: |
Death of the Seljuk Sultan Malik Shah I1, accession of Muhammad II. |
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1154: |
Death of the Fatimid Caliph AI Zafar, accession of AI Faiz. |
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1156: |
Death of the Rum Seljuk Sultan Rukn ud Din Masid, accession of Arsalan II. |
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1159: |
Death of the Seljuk Sultan Muhammad II, accession of Gulaiman. |
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1160: |
Death of the Abbasid Caliph AI Mukta, accession of Al Mustanjid. Death of the Fatimid Caliph Al Faiz, accession of Al Azzid. |
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1161: |
Death of the Seljuk Sulaiman, accession of Arsalan Shah. |
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1163: |
Death of the AI Mohad ruler Abul Mumin, accession of Abu Yaqub Yusuf. |
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1170: |
Death of the Abbasid Caliph Mustanjid, accession of Al Mustazii. |
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1171: |
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1172: |
Death of the Khawarzam Shah Arsalan, accession of Sultan Shah. |
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1173: |
The Khawarzam Shah Sultan Shah is overthrown by Tukush Shah. |
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1174: |
Salah ud Din annexes Syria. |
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1175: |
The Ghurids defeat the Guzz Turks and occupy Ghazni. |
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1176: |
Death of the Seljuk Sultan Arsalan Shah, accession of Tughril Beg III. |
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1179: |
Death of the Abbasid Caliph AI Mustazaii, accession of AI Nasir. Shahab ud Din Ghuri captures Peshawar. |
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1185: |
Death of the AI Mohad ruler Abu Yaqub Yusuf, accession of Abu Yusuf Yaqub. |
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1186: |
The Ghurids overthrow the Ghaznvaids in the Punjab. |
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1187: |
Salah ud Din wrests Jerusalem from the Christians, third crusade. |
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1191: |
Battle of Tarain between the Rajputs and the Ghurids. |
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1193: |
Death of Salah ud Din; accession of Al Aziz. Second battleof Tarain. |
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1194: |
Occupation of Delhi by the Muslims. End of the Seljuk rule. |
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1199: |
Death of the Khawarzam Shah Tukush Shah; accession of Ala ud Din. Death of the AI Mohad ruler Abu Yusuf Yaqub; accession of Muhammad Nasir. Conquest of Northern India and Bengal by the Ghurids. |
13th Century (1200-1299) C.E.
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1202: |
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1204: |
Shahab ud Din Ghuri defeated by the Ghuzz Turks. |
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1206: |
Death of Shahab ud Din Ghuri. Qutb ud Din Aibik crowned king in Lahore. |
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1210: |
Assassination of the Ghurid Sultan MahmUd, accession of Sam. Death of Qutb ud Din Aibak, accession of Aram Shah in India. |
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1211: |
End of the Ghurid rule, their territories annexed by the Khawarzam Shahs. In India Aram Shah overthrown by Iltutmish. |
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1212: |
Battle of AI Uqab in Spain, end of the AI Mohad rule in Spain. The AI Mohads suffer defeat by the Christians in Spain at the Al-Uqba. The AI Mohad Sultan An Nasir escapes to Morocco where he dies soon after. Accession of his son Yusuf who takes over title of AI Mustansir. |
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1214: |
In North Africa death of the AI Mohad ruler Al Nasir, accession of Al Mustansir. The Banu Marin under their leader Abdul Haq occupy the north eastern part of Morocco. |
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1216: |
The Banu Marin under their leader Abdul Haq occupy north eastern part of Morocco. The AI Mohads suffer defeat by the Marinids at the battle of Nakur. The Banu Marin defeat the AI Mobads at the battle of Nakur. |
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1217: |
The Marinids suffer defeat in the battle fought on the banks of the Sibu river. Abdul Haq is killed and the Marinids evacuate Morocco. In the battle of Sibu the Marinids suffer defeat; their leader Abdul Haq is killed and they evacuate Morocco. |
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1218: |
Death of the Ayyubid ruler AI Adil, accession of AI Kamil. The Marinids return to Morocco under their leader Othman and occupy Fez. |
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1220: |
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1222: |
Death of the Zangi ruler Nasir ud Din Mahmud, power captured by Badr ud Din Lulu. |
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1223: |
Death of the Al Mohad ruler Muntasir, accession of Abdul Wahid. Death of Yusuf AI Mustansir, accession of Abdul Wahid in Morocco.. In Spain a brother of Yusuf declares his independence and assumes the title of AI Adil. In Spain Abu Muhammad overthrows AI Adil. AI Adil escapes to Morocco and overthrows Abdul Wahid. |
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1224: |
Death of the AI Mohad ruler Abdul Wahid, accession of Abdullah Adil. |
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1225: |
Death of the Abbasid Caliph AI Nasir, accession of AI Mustansir. |
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1227: |
Death of the AI Mohad ruler Abdullah Adil, accession of Mustasim. Assassination of Al Adil, accession of his son Yahya who assumes the throne under the name of Al Mustasim. |
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1229: |
Death of the AI Mohad ruler Mustasim, accession of Idris. The Ayyubid AI Kamil restores Jerusalem to the Christians. Abu Muhammad dies in Spain and is succeeded by Al Mamun. AI Mamun invades Morocco with Christian help. Yahya is defeated and power is captured by Al Mamun. He denies the Mahdiship of Ibn Tumarat. |
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1230: |
End of the Khawarzam Shah rule. |
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1232: |
Death of the AI Mohad ruler Idris, accession, of Abdul Wahid II. Assassination of Al Mamun; accession of his son Ar-Rashid. |
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1234: |
Death of the Ayyubid ruler AI Kamil, accession of AI Adil. |
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1236: |
Death of Delhi Sultan Iltutmish. Accession of Rukn ud Din Feroz Shah. |
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1237: |
Accession of Razia Sultana as Delhi Sultan. |
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1240: |
Death of Ar-Rashid; accession of his son Abu Said. |
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1241: |
Death of Razia Sultana, accession of Bahram Shah. |
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1242: |
Death of Bahram Shah, accession of Ala ud Din Masud Shah as Delhi Sultan. Death of the AI Mohad rules Abdul Wahid, accession of Abu Hasan. Death of the Abbasid Caliph Mustansir, accession of Mustasim. |
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1243: |
Death of the AI Mohad ruler Abdul Walid II, accession of |
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1244: |
The Al Mohads defeat the Marinids at the battle of Abu Bayash. The Marinids evacuate Morocco. |
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1245: |
The Muslims re-conquer Jerusalem. |
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1246: |
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1248: |
Death of the AI Mohad ruler Abul Hasan, accession of Omar Murtaza. Abu Said attacks Tlemsen, but is ambushed and killed; accession of his son Murtada. |
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1250: |
The Marinids return to Morocco, and occupy a greatar part thereof. |
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1258: |
The Mongols sack Baghdad. Death of the Abbasid Caliph Mustasim. End of the Abbasid rule. Fall of Baghdad, end of the Abbasid caliphate. The Mongol II-Khans under Halaku establish their rule in Iran and Iraq with the capital at Maragah. Berek Khan the Muslim chief of the Golden Horde protests against the treatment meted out to the Abbasid Caliph and withdraw his Contingent from Baghdad. |
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1259: |
Abu Abdullah the Hafsid ruler declares himself as the Caliph and assumes the name of AI Mustamir. |
|
1260: |
Battle of Ayn Jalut in Syria. The Mongols are defeated by the Mamluks of Egypt, and the spell of the invincibility of the Mongols is broken. Baybars becomes the Mamluk Sultan. |
|
1262: |
Death of Bahauddin Zikriya in Multan who is credited with the introduction of the Suhrawardi Sufi order in the IndoPakistan sub-continent. |
|
1265: |
Death of Halaku. Death of Fariduddin Ganj Shakkar the Chishti saint of the Indo-Pakistan sub-continent. |
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1266: |
Death of Berek Khan the first ruler of the Golden Horde to be converted to Islam. The eighth crusade. The crusaders invade Tunisia. Failure of the crusade. |
|
1267: |
Malik ul Salih establishes the first Muslim state of Samudra Pasai in Indonesia. Murtada seeks the help of the Christians, and the Spaniards invade Morocco. The Marinids drive away the Spaniards from Morocco. Assassination of Murtada; accession of Abu Dabbas. |
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1269: |
Abu Dabbas is overthrown by the Marinida, End of the Al Mohads. End of the rule of the AI Mohads in Morocco, the Marinids come to power in Morocco under Abu Yaqub. |
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1270: |
Death of Mansa Wali the founder of the Muslim rule in M ali. |
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1272: |
Death of Muhammad I the founder of the state of Granada. Yaghmurason invades Morocco but meets a reverse at the battle |
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1273: |
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1274: |
Death of Nasiruddin Tusi. The Marinids wrest Sijilmasa from the Zayenids. Ninth crusade under Edward I of England. The crusade ends in fiasco and Edward returns to England. |
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1277: |
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1280: |
Battle of Hims. |
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1283: |
Death of Yaghmurasan. Accession of his son Othman. |
|
1285: |
Tunisis splits in Tunis and Bougie. |
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1286: |
Death of Ghiasuddin Balban. Death of Abu Yusuf Yaqub. Bughra Khan declares his independence in Bengal under the name of Nasiruddin. |
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1290: |
End of the slave dynasty Jalaluddin Khilji comes into power. Othman embarks on a career of conquest and by 1290 C.E. most of the Central Maghreb is conquered by the Zayanids. |
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1291: |
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1296: |
Alauddin Ghazan converted to Islam. |
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1299: |
Mongols invade Syria. The Marinids besiege Tlemsen the capital of the Zayanids. |
14th Century (1300-1399) C.E.
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1301: |
In Bengal, Death of Ruknuddin the king of Bengal, succeeded by brother Shamsuddin Firuz. |
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1302: |
In Granada, Death of Muhammad II; succession of Muhammad III. |
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1304: |
In the Mongols II Khans empire, Death of Ghazan, succession of his brother Khudabanda Ul Jaytu. In Algeria, Death of Othman, succession of his son Abu Zayan Muhammad. |
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1305: |
In the Khiljis empire, Alauddin Khilji conquers Rajputana. |
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1306: |
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1307: |
In the Marinids empire, Assassination of the Marinid Sultan Abu Yaqub Yusuf; accession of Abu Thabit |
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1308: |
In the Chughills empire, Deposition of Kunjuk, power captured by Taliku. In Algeria, Death of Abu Zayan Muhammad, succession of his brother Abu Hamuw Musa. In the Marinids empire, Abu Thabit overthrown by Abu Rabeah Sulaiman. |
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1309: |
In the Chughills empire, Assassination of Taliku, accession of Kubak. In Granada, Muhammad III overthrown by his uncle Abul Juyush Nasr. |
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1310: |
In the Chughills empire, Kubak overthrown by his brother Isan Buga. In the Marinids empire, Abu Rabeah Sulaiman overthrown by Abu Said Othman. In the Khiljis empire, Alauddin conquers Deccan. |
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1312: |
In Tunisia, In Tunis Abul Baqa is overthrown by Al Lihiani. |
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1313: |
In the Mongols II Khans empire, Invasion of Syria, the Mongols repulsed. In the Golden Horde empire, Death of Toktu, accession of his nephew Uzbeg. |
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1314: |
In Kashmir, Rainchan an adventurer from Baltistan overthrows Sinha Deva the Raja of Kashmir. Rainchan is converted to Islam and adopts the name of Sadrud Din. In Granada, Abul Juyush overthrown by his nephew Abul Wahid Ismail. |
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1315: |
In Tunisia, War between Bougie and Tunis, Lihani defeated and killed. Abu Bakr becomes the ruler of Bougie and Tunis. |
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1316: |
In the Mongols II Khans empire, Death of Khudabanda Ul Jaytu, succession of Abu Said. In the Khiljis empire, Death of Alauddin, accession of Shahabuddin Umar, usurpation of power by Malik Kafur, a Hindu convert. |
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1318: |
In the Khiljis empire, Assassination of Malik Kafur, deposition of Shahabuddin Umar, accession of Qutbuddin Mubarak. In the Chughills empire, Isan Buga overthrown by Kubak. |
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1320: |
In the Khiljis empire, Assassination of Qutbuddin Mubarak, usurpation of power by Khusro Khan a Hindu convert. Khusro Khan overthrown by Ghazi Malik. End of the rule of Khiljis. In Tunisia, Abu Bakr expelled from Tunis by Abu Imran. In the Tughluqs empire, Ghazi Malik founds the rule of the Tughluq dynasty. |
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1321: |
In the Chughills empire, Death of Kubak, succession of Hebbishsi who is overthrown by Dava Temur. |
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1322: |
In the Chughills empire, Dava Temur overthrown by Tarmashirin, who is converted to Islam. In Bengal, Death of Shamsuddin Firuz. The kingdom divided into two parts. Ghiasuddin Bahadur became the ruler of East Bengal with the capital at Sonargaon, Shahabuddin became the ruler of West Bengal with the capital at Lakhnauti. |
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1324: |
In Bengal, Shahabuddin dies and is succeeded by his brother Nasiruddin. |
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1325: |
In the Tughluqs empire, Death of Ghazi Malik (Ghiasuddin Tughluq); accession of his son Muhammad Tughluq. In Granada, Assassination of Abul Wahid Ismail, succession of his son Muhammad IV. Assassination of Muhammad IV. Accession of his brother Abul Hallaj Yusuf. In the Samudra Pasai empire, Death of Malik al Tahir I, accession of Malik al Tahir II. In Bengal, With the help of Ghiasuddin Tughluq, Nasiruddin over-throws. Ghiasuddin Bahadur and himself become's the ruler of United Bengal. |
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1326: |
In the Ottoman Turks empire, Death of Othman, succession of Orkhan. Orkhan conquers Bursa and makes it his capital. |
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1327: |
In the Ottoman Turks empire, The Turks capture the city of Nicaea. |
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1329: |
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1330: |
In the Chughills empire, Death of Tramashirin, succession of Changshahi. Amir Hussain establishes the rule of the Jalayar dynasty at Baghdad. In Tunisia, Abu Bakr overthrows Abu Imran and the state is again united, under him. In Bengal, Muhammad b Tughluq reverses the policy of his father and restores Ghiasuddin Bahadur to the throne of Sonargeon. |
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1331: |
In the Marinids empire, Death of Abu Said Othman, sucession of Abul Hasan. In Bengal, Annexation of Bengal by the Tughluqs. |
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1335: |
In the Mongols II Khans empire, Death of Abu Said, power captured by Arpa Koun. In the Chughills empire, Assassination of Changshahi, accession of Burun. |
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1336: |
In the Mongols II Khans empire, Arpa defeated and killed, succeeded by Musa. Birth of Amir Temur. In the Jalayar empire, Death of Amir Hussain, succession of Hasan Buzurg. In the Ottoman Turks empire, The Turks annex the state of Karasi. In Bengal, The Tughluq Governor at Sonargeon assassinated by armour bearer who captured power and declared his independence assuming the name of Fakhruddin Mubarak Shah. |
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1337: |
In the Mongols II Khans empire, The rule of Musa overthrown, Muhammad becomes the Sultan. In the Sarbadaran empire, On the disintegration of the II-Khan rule, Abdur Razaq a military adventurer establishes an independent principality in Khurasan with the capital at Sabzwar. In the Muzaffarids empire, On the disintegration of the II Khan rule Mubarazud Din Muhammad established the rule of the Muzaffarid dynasty. In the Ottoman Turks empire, The Turks capture the city of Nicomedia. In Algeria, Algeria is occupied by Marinids. |
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1338: |
In the Mongols II Khans empire, Muhammad overthrown, succession of Sati Beg. Sati Beg marries Sulaiman who becomes the co-ruler. |
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1339: |
In Kashmir, Death of Sadrud Din, throne captured by a Hindu Udyana Deva. In the Chughills empire, Deposition of Burun, accession of Isun Temur. In Bengal, The Tughluq Governor at Lakhnauti-Qadr Khan assassinated and power is captured by the army commander-in-chief who declares his independence and assumes the title of Alauddin Ali Shah. |
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1340: |
In the Muzaffarids empire, The Muzaffarids conquer Kirman. In the Chughills empire, Deposition of Isun Temur, accession of Muhammad. |
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1341: |
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1342: |
In the Golden Horde empire, Tini Beg overthrown by his brother Jani Beg. |
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1343: |
In the Chughills empire, Muhammad overthrown, power captured by Kazan. In Bengal, Ilyas an officer of Alauddin murders his patron and captures the throne of West Bengal. |
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1344: |
In the Mongols II Khans empire, Deposition of Sulaiman, succession of Anusherwan. |
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1345: |
In the Samudra Pasai empire, Death of Malik al Tahir II, accession of Tahir III. His rule lasted throughout the fourteenth century. In Bengal, llyas captures East Bengal and under him Bengal is again united. He establishes his capital at Gaur. |
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1346: |
In the Chughills empire, Deposition of Kazan, accession of Hayan Kuli. In Tunisia, Death of Abu Bakr, succession of his son Fadal. In Kashmir, Death of Udyana Deva, throne captured by Shah Mirza who assumed the name of Shah Mir, and rounded the rule of Shah Mir dynasty. |
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1347: |
The Marinids capture Tunisia. In the Bahmanids empire, Hasan Gangu declares his independence and establishes a state in Deccan with the capital at Gulbarga. |
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1349: |
In Kashmir, Death of Shah Mir, accession of his son Jamsbed. In Algeria, The Zayanids under Abu Said Othman recapture Algeria. |
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1350: |
In the Sarbadaran empire, Revolt against Abdur Razaq. Power captured by Amir Masud. In Tunisia, Deposition of Fadal, succession of his brother Abu Ishaq. In Kashmir, Jamshed overthrown by his step brother Alauddin Ali Sher. |
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1351: |
In the Marinids empire, Death of Abul Hasan, succession of Abu Inan. In the Tughluqs empire, Death of Muhammad Tughluq accession of Firuz Shah Tughluq. |
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1352: |
In Algeria, The Marinids again capture Algeria. Abu Said Othman is taken captive and killed. |
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1353: |
End of the Mongol II Khan rule. In the Ottoman Turks empire, The Turks acquire the fortress of Tympa on the European side of the Hollespoint. In the Muzaffarids empire, The Muzaffarids conquer Shiraz and establish their capital there. |
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1354: |
In the Muzaffarids empire, The Muzaffarids annex Isfahan. In Granada, Assassination of Abu Hallaj Yusuf, succession of his son Muhammad V. |
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1356: |
In the Jalayar empire, Death of Hasan Buzurg, succession of his son Owaia. |
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1357: |
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1358: |
In the Bahmanids empire, Death of Hasan Gangu, accession of his son Muhammad Shah. In the Muzaffarids empire, Death of Mubarazuddin Muhammad; accession of Shah Shuja. In the Marinids empire, Assassination of Abu Inan, succession of Abu Bakr Said. In Bengal, Death of Ilyas, succession of his son Sikandar Shah. |
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1359: |
In the Ottoman Turks empire, Death of Orkhan, succession of Murad. In the Muzaffarids empire, Shah Shuja deposed by his brother Shah Mahmud. In Tunisia, Abul Abbas a nephew of Abu Ishaq revolts and establishes his rule in Bougie. In Algeria, The Zayanids under Abu Hamuw II recapture Algeria. In the Marinids empire, Abu Bakr Said overthrown by Abu Salim Ibrahim. In Granada, Muhammad V loses the throne in palace revolution, succeeded by Ismail. |
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1360: |
In the Muzaffarids empire, Death of Shah Mahmud. Shah Shuja recaptures power. In the Chughills empire, Power captured by Tughluq Temur. In Granada, Ismail overthrown by his brother-in-law Abu Said. |
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1361: |
In the Ottoman Turks empire, Murad conquers a part of Thrace and establishes his capital at Demolika in Thrace. In the Golden Horde empire, Kulpa overthrown by his brother Nauroz. In the Marinids empire, Abu Salim Ibrahim overthrown by Abu Umar. Abu Umar overthrown by Abu Zayyan. |
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1362: |
In the Golden Horde empire, State of anarchy. During 20 years as many as 14 rulers came to the throne and made their exit. In Granada, Abu Said overthrown by Muhammad V who comes to rule for the second time. In Kashmir, Death of Alauddin Ali Sher, succeeded by his brother Shahabuddin. |
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1365: |
In the Ottoman Turks empire, The Turks defeat the Christians at the battle of Matiza, the Byzantine ruler becomes a vassal of the Turks. |
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1366: |
In the Marinids empire, Assassination of Abu Zayyan, succession of Abu Faris Abdul Aziz. |
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1369: |
Power captured by Amir Temur. End of the rule of the Chughills. Amir Temur captures power in Transoxiana. In Tunisia, Death of Abu Ishaq. Succession of his son Abu Baqa Khalid. |
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1370: |
In Tunisia, Abu Baqa overthrown by Abul Abbas under whom the state is reunited. In the Sarbadaran empire, Death of Amir Masud, succession of Muhammad Temur. |
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1371: |
In the Ottoman Turks empire, Invasion of Bulgaria, Bulgarian territory upto the Balkans annexed by the Turks. |
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1372: |
In the Marinids empire, Death of Abu Faris, succession of Abu Muhammad. |
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1374: |
In the Marinids empire, Abu Muhammad overthrown by Abul Abbas. |
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1375: |
In the Sarbadaran empire, Deposition of Muhammad Temur, power captured by Shamsuddin. In the Jalayar empire, Death of Owais, succession by his son Hussain. |
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1376: |
In Kashmir, Death of Shahabuddin, succeeded by his brother Qutbuddin. |
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1377: |
In the Bahmanids empire, Death of Muhammad Shah, succeeded by his son Mujahid. |
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1378: |
In the Bahmanids empire, Mujahid assassinated, throne captured by his uncle Daud. |
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1379: |
Turkomans of the Black Sheep empire, Bairam Khawaja found the independent principality of the Turkomans of the Black Sheep and established his capital at Van in Armenia. In the Bahmanids empire, Assassination of Daud; accession of Muhammad Khan. |
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1380: |
In the Golden Horde empire, Power is captured by Toktamish, a prince of the White Horde of Siberia. In Amir Temur's empire, Amir Temur crosses the Oxus and conquers Khurasan and Herat. Amir Temur invades Persia and subjugates the Muzaffarids and Mazandaran. |
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1381: |
In Amir Temur's empire, Annexation of Seestan, capture of Qandhar. |
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1384: |
In Amir Temur's empire, Conquest of Astrabad, Mazandaran, Rayy and Sultaniyah. In the Muzaffarids empire, Death of Shah Shuja, accession of his son Zainul Abdin. In the Marinids empire, Abul Abbas overthrown by Mustansir. Turkomans of the Black Sheep empire, Death of Bairam Khawaja, succession of Qara Muhammad. |
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1386: |
In Amir Temur's empire, Annexation of Azarbaijan, Georgea overrun. Subjugation of Gilan and Shirvan. Turkomans of the Black Sheep defeated. In the Marinids empire, Death of Mustansir, succession of Muhammad. |
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1387: |
In the Marinids empire, Muhammad overthrown by Abul Abbas who comes to power for the second time. |
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1388: |
In Algeria, Death of Abu Hamuw II, succession of Abu Tashfin. In the Tughluqs empire, Death of Firuz Shah Tughluq, succeeded by his grandson Ghiasuddin Tughluq II. |
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1389: |
of Abu Bakr Tughluq Shah. Turkomans of the Black Sheep empire, Death of Qara Muhammad. succession of Qara Yusuf. |
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1390: |
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1391: |
In Amir Temur's empire, Annexation of Fars. In the Muzaffarids empire, Annexation of the Muzaffarids by Amir Temur. In Granada, Death of Muhammad V, succession of his son Abu Hallaj Yusuf II. |
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1392: |
In the Jalayar empire, Death of Hussain, succession of his son Ahmad. In Granada, Death of Abu Hallaj ; succession of Muhammad VI. |
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1393: |
Amir Temur defeats Tiktomish, the ruler of the Golden Horde. Capture of the Jalayar dominions by Amir Temur. In the Marinids empire, Death of Abul Abbas; succession of Abu Faris II. |
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1394: |
Amir Temur defeats the Duke of Moscow. In the Tughluqs empire, Death of Nasiruddin Tugluq, accession of Alauddin Sikandar Shah. In Kashmir, Death of Qutbuddin. Turkomans of the White Sheep empire, Qara Othman established the rule of the White Sheep Turkomans in Diyarbekr. |
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1395: |
In the Golden Horde empire, Amir Temur defeated Toktamish and razes Serai to the ground. End of the rule of the Golden Horde. Annexation of Iraq by Amir Temur. In the Tughluqs empire, Death of Sikandar Shah. Accession of Muhammad Shah. |
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1396: |
In the Amir Temur's empire, Destruction of Sarai, and of the rule of the Golden Horde. In the Sarbadaran empire, Principality annexed by Amir Temur. |
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1397: |
In the Bahmanids empire, Death of Muhammad Khan. |
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1398: |
In the Amir Temur's empire, Campaign in India. In the Marinids empire, Death of Abu Faris II. In the Tughluqs empire, Invasion of Amir Timur, Mahmud Shah escapes from the capital. In Morocco, Death of the Marinid Sultan Abu Faris II; succession of his son Abu Said Othman. |
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1399: |
In the Amir Temur's empire, Campaign in Iraq and Syria. In the Burji Mamluks empire, Death of Saifuddin Barquq, succession of his son Nasiruddin in Faraj. |
15th Century (1400-1499) C.E.
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1400: |
In the Burji Mamluks empire, The Mamluks lost Syria which was occupied by Amir Timur. |
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1401: |
In the Golden Horde empire, Death of Timur Qutluq, the ruler, installed by Amir Timur. accession of Shadi Beg. |
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1402: |
In the Ottoman Turks empire, Defeat of Bayazid at the battle of Ankara, taken captive Amir Timur. |
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1403: |
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1405: |
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1407: |
In the Golden Horde empire, Deposition of Shadi Beg, installation of Faulad Khan by the king maker Edigu. |
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1410: |
In the Golden Horde empire, Deposition of Faulad Khan, installation of Timur. |
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1412: |
In the Golden Horde empire, Deposition of Timur, installation of Jalaluddin. In the Burji Mamluks empire, Death of Nasiruddin Faraj, succession of Al Muayyad. |
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1413: |
In the Golden Horde empire, Deposition of Jalaluddin, installation of Karim Bardo. |
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1414: |
In the Golden Horde empire, Deposition of Karim Bardo, installation of Kubak Khan. |
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1416: |
In the Golden Horde empire, Deposition of Kubak Khan, installation of Jahar Balrawi. Deposition of Jahar Balrawi, installation of Chaighray. |
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1419: |
In the Golden Horde empire, Death of Edigu, overthrow of Chaighray, power captured by Ulugh Muhammad. |
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1420: |
Turkomans of the Black Sheep empire, Death of Qara Yusuf; succession of his son Qara Iskandar. In Morocco, Assassination of Abu Said Othman; succession of his infant son Abdul Haq. |
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1421: |
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1424: |
In the Golden Horde empire, Death of Daulat Bairawi, succession of Berk. In Algeria, The Halsida of Tunisia occupy Algeria. This state of affairs continued throughout the fifteenth century. |
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1425: |
In the Uzbegs empire, Abul Khayr, a prince of the house of Uzbeg declare his independence in the western part of Siberia, |
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1427: |
In the Golden Horde empire, Berk overthrown by Ulugh Muhammad who captured power for the second time. |
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1430: |
In the Uzbegs empire, Abul Khayr occupies Khawarazm. |
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1434: |
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1435: |
In Tunisia, Deposition of Abu Abdullah Muhammad, power captured by Abu Umar Othman. |
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1438: |
In the Burji Mamluks empire, Death of Barsbay, accession of his minor son Jamaluddin Yusuf; Yusuf overthrown and power captured by the Chief Minister Saifuddin Gakmuk. Turkomans of the White Sheep empire, Ali Beg overthrown by his brother Hamza. |
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1439: |
In the Golden Horde empire, Ulugh Muhammad withdrew from Sarai and found the principality of Qazan. Said Ahmad came to power in Sarai. |
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1440: |
Turkomans of the White Sheep empire, Hamza overthrown by Jahangir a son of Ali Beg. |
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1441: |
In the Golden Horde empire, Crimea seceded from Sarai. |
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1446: |
In the Timurids empire, Death of Shah Rukh, succession of Ulugh Beg. In the Ottoman Turks empire, Second battle of Kossova resulting in the victory of the Turks. Serbia annexed to Turkey and Bosnia became its vassal. |
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1447: |
In the Golden Horde empire, Astra Khan seceded from Sarai. |
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1449: |
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1450: |
In the Timurids empire, Assassination of Abdul Latif, accession of Abu Said. |
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1451: |
In the Ottoman Turks empire, Death of Murad II; accession of his son Muhammad II. |
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1453: |
In the Ottoman Turks empire, Capture of Constantinople by the Turks. Turkomans of the White Sheep empire, Death of Jahangir; accession of his son Uzun Hasan. In the Burji Mamluks empire, Death of Gakmuk. succession of his son Fakhruddin Othman. Othman overthrown by the Mamluk General Saifuddin Inal. |
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1454: |
In the Ottoman Turks empire, Attack against Wallachia, Wallachia became a vassal state of Turkey. |
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1456: |
In the Ottoman Turks empire, Annexation of Serbia. |
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1461: |
In the Ottoman Turks empire, Annexation of Bosnia and Herzogovina. In the Burji Mamluks empire, Death of Saifuddin Inal, succession of his son Shahabuddin Ahmad. Shahabuddin Ahmad overthrown by the Mamluk General Saifuddin Khushqadam. |
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1462: |
In the Ottoman Turks empire, Annexation of Albania. |
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1465: |
In the Golden Horde empire, Death of Said Ahmad, succession of his son Khan Ahmad. In Morocco, Assassination of Abdul Haq. End of the Marinid rule. Power snatched by Sharif Muhammad al Jati. |
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1467: |
Turkomans of the Black Sheep empire, Death of Jahan Shah, end of the rule of the Black Sheep Turkoman rule. Turkomans of the White Sheep empire, Jahan Shah of the Black Sheep attacked the White Sheep. Jahan Shah was defeated and the Black Sheep territories annexed by the White Sheep. In the Burji Mamluks empire, Death of Khushqadam, accession of his son Saifuddin Yel Bey. Deposition of Yel Bey, power captured by the Mamluk General Temur Bugha. |
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1468: |
In the Uzbegs empire, Death of Abul Khayr, succession of his son Haidar Sultan. Turkomans of the White Sheep empire, Uzun Hasan defeated the Timurids at the battle of Qarabagh whereby the White Sheep became the masters of Persia and Khurasan. In the Burji Mamluks empire, Deposition of Femur Bugha, power captured by the Mamluk General Qait Bay. |
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1469: |
In the Timurids empire, Death of Abu Said, disintegration of the Timurid state. In Khurasan Hussain Baygara came to power and he ruled during the remaining years of the fifteenth century. |
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1472: |
In Morocco, Sharif Muhammad al Jati overthrown by the Wattisid chief Muhammad al Shaikh who establishes the rule of the Wattisid dynasty. |
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1473: |
In the Ottoman Turks empire, War against Persia; Persians defeated. |
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1475: |
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1478: |
Turkomans of the White Sheep empire, Death of Uzun Hasan, succession of his son Khalil. |
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1479: |
Turkomans of the White Sheep empire, Khalil overthrown by his uncle Yaqub. |
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1480: |
In the Golden Horde empire, Assassination of Khan Ahmad, succession of his son Said Ahmad II. |
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1481: |
In the Golden Horde empire, Said Ahmad I1 overthrown by his brother Murtada. In the Ottoman Turks empire, Death of Muhammad II, accession of Bayazid II. |
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1488: |
In the Uzbegs empire, Death of Haider Sultan, succession of his nephew Shaybani Khan. In Tunisia, Death of Abu Umar Othman after a rule of 52 years, succession of Abu Zikriya Yahya. |
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1489: |
In Tunisia, Abu Zikriya Yahya overthrown by Abul Mumin. |
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1490: |
In Tunisia, Abul Mumin overthrown, power recaptured by Abu Yahya. |
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1493: |
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1495: |
Turkomans of the White Sheep empire, Bayangir overthown by his cousin Rustam. |
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1496: |
In the Burji Mamluks empire, Abdication of Qait Bay, succession of his son Nasir Muhammad. |
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1497: |
Turkomans of the White Sheep empire, Rustam overthrown by Ahmad. Anarchy and fragmentation. |
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1498: |
In the Burji Mamluks empire, Deposition of Nasir Muhammad, power captured by Zahir Kanauh. |
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1499: |
In the Uzbegs empire, Shayhani Khan conquered Transoxiana. In the Golden Horde empire, Death of Murtada, succession of Said Ahmad III." In the Ottoman Turks empire, The Turks defeated the Venetian fleet in the battle of Lepanto. |
16th Century (1500-1599) C.E.
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1500: |
In the Burji Mamluks empire, Zahir Kanauh overthrown by Ashraf Gan Balat. |
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1501: |
Isamil I establishes the Safavid dynasty in Persia, and the Twelve-Imam Shi'ism becomes the state religion. |
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1507: |
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1508: |
Turkomans of the White Sheep empire, End of the White Sheep dynasty and the annexation of their territories by the Safawids. |
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1511: |
D'Albuquerque conquers Malacca from the Muslims. |
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1517: |
The Ottoman Sultan Selim Yavuz ("the Grim") defeats the Mamluks and conquers Egypt. |
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1520: |
The reign of Sulayman the Magnificent begins. |
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1526: |
Louis of Hungary dies at the Battle of Mohacs. |
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1526: |
The Battle of Panipat in India, and the Moghul conquest; Babur makes his capital at Delhi and Agra. |
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1528: |
The Ottomans take Buda in Hungary. |
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1529: |
Unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna. |
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1550: |
The architect Sinan builds the Suleymaniye mosque in Istanbul. |
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1550: |
The rise of the Muslim kingdom of Atjeh in Sumatra. |
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1550: |
Islam spreads to Java, the Moluccas, and Borneo. |
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1556: |
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1568: |
Alpujarra uprising of the Moriscos (Muslims forcibly converted to Catholicism) in Spain. |
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1571: |
The Ottomans are defeated at the naval Battle of Lepanto, and their dominance in the Mediterranean is brought to a close. |
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1578: |
The Battle of the Three Kings at Qasr al-Kabir in Morocco. King Sebastian of Portugal is killed. |
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1588: |
Reign of Safavid Sultan Shah Abbas I begins. |
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1591: |
Mustaili Ismailis split into Sulaymanis and Daudis. |
17th Century (1600-1699) C.E.
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1600: |
Sind annexed by the Mughals. End of the Arghun rule in Sind. |
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1601: |
Khandesh annexed by the Mughals. |
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1603: |
Battle of Urmiyah. Turks suffer defeat. Persia occupies Tabriz, Mesopotamia. Mosul and Diyarbekr. Death of Muhammad III, Sultan of Turkey, accession of Ahmad I. In Morocco al Shaikh died. |
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1604: |
In Indonesia death of Alauddin Rayat Shah, Sultan of Acheh, accession of Ali Rayat Shah III. |
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1605: |
Death of the Mughal emperor Akbar; accession of Jahangir. |
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1607: |
Annexation of Ahmadnagar by the Mughals. |
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1609: |
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1611: |
Kuch Behar subjugated by the Mughals. |
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1612: |
Kamrup annexed by the Mughals. |
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1617: |
Death of Ahmad I, Sultan of Turkey, accession of Mustafa; Deposition of Mustafa: accession of Othman II. |
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1618: |
Tipperah annexed by the Mughals.: |
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1620: |
In Turkey deposition of Mustafa, accession of Othman II. |
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1623: |
In Turkey Mustafa recaptured power. |
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1625: |
In Turkey deposition of Mustafa, accession of Murad IV. |
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1627: |
Death of the Mughal emperor Jahangir, accession of Shah Jahan. |
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1628: |
Reign of Safavid Sultan Shah Abbas I comes to an end. |
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1629: |
In Persia death of Shah Abbas; accession of grandson Safi. |
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1631: |
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1637: |
Death of Iskandar Muda in Indonesia; accession of Iskandar II. |
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1640: |
Death of Otthman Sultan Murad IV. accession of his brother Ibrahim. |
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1641: |
Turks capture Azov. In Indonesia death of Iskandar II; accession of the Queen Tajul Alam. |
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1642: |
In Persia death of Shah Safi, accession of Shah Abbas II. |
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1648: |
In Turkey Ibrahim deposed; accession of Muhammad IV. |
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1656: |
Muhammad Kuiprilli becomes the Grand Minister in Turkey. |
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1658: |
Deposition of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, accession of Aurangzeb. |
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1661: |
Death of Muhammad Kuiprilli, accession of his son Ahmad Kuiprilli. |
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1667: |
Death of Shah Abbas II; accession of Shah Sulaiman. |
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1675: |
Execution of the Sikh Guru Tegh Bahadur. In Indonesia death of the queen Tajul Alam, accession of the queen Nur ul Alam. |
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1676: |
Death of the Grand Wazir of Turkey Ahmad Kuiprilli, succession by Kara Mustafa. |
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1678: |
In Indonesia death of the queen Nur ul Alam, accession of the queen Inayat Zakia. |
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1680: |
Death of Marhatta chieftain Shivaji. |
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1682: |
Assam annexed by the Mughals. Aurangzeb shifts the capital to Aurangabad in the Deccan. |
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1683: |
The Turks lift the siege of Vienna and retreat. Kara Mustafa the Grand Wazir executed for the failure of the expedition. |
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1686: |
Annexation of Bijapur by the Mughals. |
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1687: |
Golkunda annexed by the Mughals. Second battle of Mohads. Defeat of the Turks by Austria. Deposition of Muhammad IV. Accession of Sulaiman II. |
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1688: |
In Indonesia death of queen Inayat Zakia, accession of the queen Kamalah. |
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1690: |
Death of the Ottoman Sultan Sulaiman II, accession of Ahmad II. |
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1692: |
Death of the Turk Sultan Ahmad II, accession of Mustafa II. |
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1694: |
In Persia death of Shah Safi, accession of Shah Hussain. |
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1699: |
In Indonesia death of Queen Kamalah. |
18th Century (1700-1799) C.E.
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1700: |
Murshid Quli Khan declares the independence of Bengal and establishes his capital at Murshidabad. |
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1703: |
Ahmad 11I becomes the Ottoman Sultan. Birth of Shah Wali Ullah. Birth of the religious reformer Muhammad b Abdul Wahab. |
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1707: |
Death of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb, accession of his son Bahadur Shah. |
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1711: |
War between Turkey and Russia. Russia defeated at the battle of Pruth. |
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1712: |
Death of the Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah, accession of Jahandar Shah. |
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1713: |
Jahandar Shah overthrown by his nephew Farrukh Siyar. |
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1718: |
In the war against Austria, Turkey suffers defeat. By the treaty of Passarowich Turkey loses Hungary. |
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1719: |
Deposition of the Mughal emperor Farrukh Siyar Muhammad Shah ascends the throne. In Sind the Kalhoras came to power under Nur Muhammad Kalhora. |
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1722: |
Saadat Khan found the independent state of Oudh. Battle of Gulnabad between the Afghans and the Persians. The Persians were defeated and the Afghans under Shah Mahmud became the masters of a greater part of Persia. Shah Hussain taken captive, accession of Shah Tahmasp II. |
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1730: |
Zanzibar freed from Portugese rule and occupied by Oreart. |
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1747: |
Ahmad Shah Durrani established Afghan rule in Afghanistan. |
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1752: |
Death of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai, writer of Sassi Pannu, Sohni Mahinwal and Umer Marvo. |
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1752: |
Ahmed Shah Durrani captured Punjab, Kashmir and Sind. |
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1761: |
Death of Shah Waliullah Dehlavi. |
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1761: |
Battle of Panipat. Ahmad Shah Durrani came to India at the invitation of Shah Waliullah Dehlavi and smashed rising Maratha power in the battle of Panipat. |
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1764: |
Conversion to Islam of Areadi Gaya. ruler of Futa Bandu State in West Sudan. |
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1773: |
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1783: |
End of Kalhora rule in Sind. |
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1797: |
Death of Muhammad Khan Qachar, king of Persia. |
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1797: |
Russia occupied Daghestan. |
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1799: |
Ranjit Singh declared himself Maharajah of Punjab defeating Afghans. |
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1799: |
Khoqand declared independent Islamic State. |
19th Century (1800-1899) C.E.
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1803: |
Shah Abdul Aziz ibn Saud assassinated by a Shia fanatic. Shah Shuja proclaimed as King of Afghanistan. |
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1805: |
Ibn Saud captured Madinah defeating the Turk garrison. |
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1804: |
Othman Dan Fodio established Islamic State of Sokoto in Central Sudan. |
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1805: |
Faraizi movement launched in Bengal. Muhammad Ali appointed Pasha of Egypt by the Turks. |
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1806: |
Khanate of Khiva came into limelight under the rule of Muhammad Rahim Khan. |
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1807: |
Darqawi sect revolted against Turkish domination. Tunisia repudiated suzerainty of Algeria. |
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1811: |
Birth of Ali Muhammad Bab founder of Bab movement. |
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1811: |
British occupied Indonesia. |
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1812: |
Madina fell to Egyptians. |
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1813: |
Makkah and Taif captured by Egyptian forces and Saudis expelled from Hijaz. |
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1814: |
Iran executed treaty of alliance with the British known as Definitive Treaty. |
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1814: |
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1814: |
King Othman of Tunisia assassinated by his cousin Mahmud. |
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1816: |
British withdrew from Indonesia restoring it to the Dutch. |
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1822: |
Death of Maulay Ismail in Morocco. |
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1827: |
Malaya became a preserve of the British according to Anglo- Netherland treaty in 1824. |
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1828: |
Russia declared war against Turkey. |
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1829: |
Treaty of Adrianople. |
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1830: |
French forces landed near Algiers and occupied Algeria ending 313 years rule of Turks. |
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1831: |
Syed Ahmad Barelvi and Shah Ismail leaders of Jihad movement in India fell fighting the Sikhs in Balakot. |
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1832: |
Turks defeated in the battle of Konia by Egyptian forces. |
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1832: |
Sayyid Said, King of Oman, shifted his capital to Zanzibar. |
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1834: |
Abdul Qadir recognised as ruler of the area under his control by the French. |
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1839: |
Defeat of Turkey by the Egyptians in the battle of Nisibin. |
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1840: |
Quadruple Alliance by the European powers to force Egypt to relinquish Syria. |
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1840: |
British free occupied Aden. |
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1841: |
State of Adamawa established by Adams adjacent to Nigeria. |
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1842: |
Amir Abdul Qadir, ousted from Algeria by the French. crossed over to Morocco. |
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1842: |
Shah Shuja assassinated ending the Durrani rule in Afghanistan. |
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1847: |
Amir Abdul Qadir surrendred to France under the condition of safe conduct to a Muslim country of his choice but France violated its pledge and sent him as a captive to France. |
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1849: |
Death of Muhammad Ali pasha. |
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1850: |
Ali Muhammad Bab arrested and executed by Iranian government. Qurratul Ain Tabira, a renowned poetess and staunch advocate of Babism also shot dead. |
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1852: |
Release of Amir Abdul Qadir by Napolean III. He settled in Turkey. |
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1855: |
Khiva annexed by Russia. |
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1857: |
British captured Delhi and eliminated Mughal rule in India after 332 years. Last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar was exiled to Rangoon in Burma. This was also the end of 1000 years of Muslim rule over India. |
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1859: |
Imam Shamil laid down arms before Russian forces and the Islamic State of Daghestan became a Russian province. |
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1860: |
Maulay Muhammad defeated by Spain. |
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1861: |
Death of Sultan Abdul-Majid of Turkey. |
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1862: |
Faraizi movement fizzled out after the death of Dadu Miyan.. |
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1865: |
Khoqand State liquidated by Russia. |
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1869: |
Jamaluddin Afghani exiled from Afghanistan. He proceeded to Egypt. |
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1871: |
Tunisia recognised suzerainty of Turkey through a Firman. |
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1876: |
Britain purchased shares of Khediv Ismail in the Suez canal and got involved in Egyptian affairs. |
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1878: |
Turkey handed over Cyprus to Britain. |
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1878: |
Adrianople fell to Russia. |
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1879: |
Jamaluddin Afghani exiled from Egypt. |
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1879: |
Treaty of Berlin. Turkey lost 4/5 th of its territory in Europe. |
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1881: |
France invaded Tunisia and the Bey acknowledged supremacy of France as a result of the treaty of Bardo. |
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1881: |
Muhammad Ahmad declared himself Mahdi in northern Sudan. |
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1882: |
Egypt came under British military occupation. |
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1883: |
Death of Amir Abdul Qadir in Damascus. |
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1885: |
Muhammad Ahmad declared free Government of Sudan under his rule. |
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1885: |
Death of Mahdi Sudani five months after the occupation of Khartum. |
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1890: |
End of Banbara State. |
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1895: |
Afghanistan got Wakhan corridor by an understanding with Russia and British India making Afghan touch China. |
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1895: |
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian claimed prophethood. |
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1897: |
State of Bagirimi occupied by the French, |
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1899: |
Fall of Mahdi State occupied by the British and the Egyptians jointly. |
20th Century (1900-1992) C.E.
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1901: |
Ibn Saud (Abd al-Aziz) captures Riyad. |
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1901: |
French forces occupy Morocco. |
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1904: |
Morocco becomes a French protectorate under the Conference of Algeciras. |
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1904: |
The Presian constitution is promoted. |
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1905: |
The beginning of the Salafiyyah movement in Paris with it's main sphere of influence in Egypt. |
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1907: |
The beginning of the Young Turks movement in Turkey. |
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1912: |
The beginning of the Muhammadiyyah reform movement in Indonesia. |
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1914: |
Under Ottoman rule, secret Arab nationalist societies are formed. |
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1914: |
World War I. |
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1916: |
Arab revolt against Ottoman (Turkish) rule. Lawrence of Arabia leads attacks on the Hijaz Railway. |
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1918: |
Armistice signed with Ottomans on October 30. |
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1918: |
World War I ends on November 11. |
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1918: |
Syria and Damascus become a French protectorate. |
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1921: |
Abd Allah bin Husayn in made King of Transjordan. His father was the Sharif of Mecca. |
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1921: |
Faysal bin Husayn is made King of Iraq. His father was the Sharif of Mecca. |
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1921: |
Abd al-Karim leads a revolt against colonial rule in Moroccan Rif, and declares the "Republic of the Rif". |
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1922: |
Mustafa Kemal abolishes the Turkish Sultanate. |
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1924: |
The Turkish Caliphate is abolished. |
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1924: |
King Abd al-Aziz conquers Mecca and Medina, which leads to the unification of the Kingdoms of Najd and Hijaz. |
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1925: |
Reza Khan seizes the government in Persia and establishes the Pahlavi dynasty. |
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1926: |
Abd al-Aziz (Ibn Saud) assumes title of King of Najd and Hijaz. |
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1927: |
Death of Zaghlul, an Egyptian nationalist leader. |
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1928: |
Turkey is declared a secular state. |
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1928: |
Hasan al-Banna founds the Muslim Brotherhood. |
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1932: |
Iraq granted independence by League of Nations. |
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1934: |
War between King Abd al-Aziz and Imam Yahya of the Yemen. |
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1934: |
Peace treaty of Ta'if. |
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1934: |
Asir becomes part of Saudi Arabia. |
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1935: |
Iran becomes the official name of Persia. |
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1936: |
Increased Jewish immigration provokes widespread Arab-Jewish fighting in Palestine. |
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1939: |
World War II. |
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1941: |
British and Russian forces invade Iran and Reza Shah is forced to abdicate in favor of his son Mohammad Reza Shah in Iran. |
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1943: |
Beginning of Zionist terrorist campaign in Palestine. |
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1945: |
End of World War II. |
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1946: |
Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria are granted independence from Britain and France. |
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1947: |
Creation of Pakistan from Muslim Majority area in India. |
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1948: |
Creation of state of Israel. Arab armies suffer defeat in war with Israel. |
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1949: |
Hasan al-Banna, leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, is assassinated. |
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1951: |
Libya becomes independent. |
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1952: |
King Faruq of Egypt forced to abdicate. |
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1953: |
General Zahedi leads coup against Musaddeq, Shah returns to power. |
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1953: |
Death of King Abd al-Aziz (Ibn Saud) of Saudi Arabia. |
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1953: |
The foundation stone is laid to enlarge the Prophet's mosque in Medina. |
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1956: |
Morocco becomes independent. |
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1956: |
Tunisia becomes independent. |
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1957: |
The Bey of Tunisia is deposed, and Bourguiba becomes becomes president. |
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1957: |
Enlargement of the Haram in Mecca begins. |
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1962: |
Algeria becomes independent. |
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1962: |
Death of Zaydi Imam of Yemen (Ahmad). Crown Prince Bahr succeds him and takes the title Imam Mansur Bi-Llah Muhammad. |
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1965: |
Malcom X is assassinated. |
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1968: |
The enlargement of the Haram in Mecca is completed. |
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1969: |
King Idris of Libya is ousted by a coup led by Colonel Qadhdhafi. |
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1973: |
King Zahir Shah of Afghanistan is overthrown. |
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1975: |
Death of Elijah Mohammad, leader of Nation of Islam among African Americans in North America. |
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1975: |
Wallace Warith Deen Mohammad assumes leadership of Nation of Islam and shifts movement toward Islamic Orthodoxy renaming it American Muslim Mission. |
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1978: |
Imam Musa Sadr is apparently assassinated after he disappears on a trip to Libya. He was the religious leader of the Lebanese Twelve-Imam Shi'ites. He promoted the resurgence of Shi'ites in Lebanon and set the foundation of Amal. |
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1979: |
The Shah leaves Iran on January 15, thus bringing the Pahlavi dynasty to an end. |
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1979: |
On 1 Muharram AH 1400/21 November, the first day of the 15th Islamic century, fanatics led by students of the Theological University of Medina attempt to promote one of their group as Mahdi and thus fulfill a certain prophetic Hadith: "A man of the people of Medina will go forth, fleeing to Mecca, and certain of the people of Mecca will come to him and will lead him forth against his will and swear fealty to him between the rukn (Black Stone corner of the Kabah) and the Maqam Ibrahim." They hold the Haram of Mecca against the army for two weeks. Sixty-three of the 300 fanatics are captured alive, the mosque is recovered, and the conspirators are all put to death. |
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1980: |
Beginning of the Iran-Iraq war. |
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1989: |
Iran-Iraq comes to an end with much loss of life. |
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Military annexation of Kuwait by Iraq, under Ba'athist leader Saddam Hussain, is reversed in 1991 by a coalition of United States-led forces.
Islamic fanatics led by Osoma bin Laden, a Saudi extremist; attack America, flying 2 aircraft into the Twin Towers with the death of 3000. Another aircraft crashes into the Pentagon and a fourth crashes into the ground. America attacks the terrorist base in Afghanistan toppling the Taliban. The USA with a coalition of 30 countries continues the attack into Iraq ridding the world of the murderous reign of Sadam Hussein. America leads the world in the Christian attack against Islam throughout the world. |
Political History Of the Middle East
1904 Leading Labor Zionist, Aharon David Gordon, arrives in Palestine to work in cooperative in Galilee. Rabbi Abraham Yitzak Kook arrives in Palestine to spiritualize secular Zionist movement.
1905 Mullahs demand the Shah form "house of justice." In Tehran, stage mass protests and in following year bring on Constitutional Revolution.
1906 New Shah, Muhammad Ali, signs Fundamental Law, creating government modeled on Belgian constitution.
1908 Oil discovered in Iran.
1912 Formation of Agudat Israel (Union of Israel), joining of forces of orthodox AND Hasidim, in eastern and western Europe, seeking creation of Jewish Homeland for for defense and preservation of a persecuted people.
1917 Balfour Declaration. British pledge support for a Jewish Homeland in Palestine.
1919 Mustafa Kemal Ataturk leads Turkish war of independence. In following years creates a secular nationalist state, expelling foreigners.
1922 British grant partial independence to Egypt. Liberal constitution and parliamentary body established. British keep control of defense and foreign policy, control elections.
1925 Publication of Ali Abd al-Raziq's al-Islam wa usul a-hukm (Islam and the Bases of Power), which argues that Egypt must sever its connections to Islam if it is to modernize. Rashid Rida answers with al-Khalifa, which argues the restoration of the caliphate and the creation of a future caliph, a mujtahid who would modernize the Shariah.
1928 Hasan al-Banna forms Society of Muslim Brothers with 6 point program: 1) interpretation of the Koran in the spirit of the age, 2) unity of Islamic nations, 3) raising standard of living achievement of social justice and order, 4) struggle against illiteracy and poverty, 5) emancipation of Muslim lands from foreign domination, 6) promotion of Islamic peace and fraternity throughout the world. Brothers run night schools, found clinics, trade unions. By 1949 2,000 branches between 300,000 and 600,000 Brothers and Sisters.
1929 Shah Rheza Pahlavi's modernization plan in Iran introduces Laws on the Uniformity of Dress: Western dress made obligatory for all men except the ulema. Women forbidden to wear the veil. Soldiers tear off women's veils with bayonets and rip them apart in the streets.
1935 Unarmed crowd fired upon demonstrating against the dress code Hundreds killed or wounded.
1944 Ayatolla Khomeini publishes Kashf al-Asrar (The Discovery of Secrets). Shah dies and is succeeded by son, Muhammed Reza. Women allowed to wear veils. Passion plays permitted. Muhammad Musaddiq's pro-soviet National Front, demands Iranian oil be nationalized. Paramilitary Fedayin-e Islam (fighters of Islam) formed, attack secular agenda.
1945 President Franklin Roosevelt meets King Ibn Saud on board a ship n the Suez Canal and promises him U.S. protection in return for guarantees of access to Saudi oil.
1946 Soviet Union refuses to withdraw troops from Iran as promised during World War II, citing needed guarantees of access to Iranian oil for reconstruction. U.S. and Iranian government broker guarantee of 40% of Iranian oil sales and Soviets withdraw all troops from Iran. With Washington's encouragement Iran reneges on the agreement.
1947 Despite the opposition of all Arab states, the United Nations "provisionally" partitions British Palestine into an Arab and a Jewish state to see whether the plan is feasible.
The Secret Apparatus, an underground branch of Muslim Brotherhood murders judge Ahmed al Khazinder and begin raids on Jewish district in Cairo, December 28, and assassinate Prime Minister Muhammad al-Nurqrashi. Society repudiates attacks. Society suppressed.
1948 Responding to outbreak of violence, the U.S. calls for suspension of U.N. effort to partition Palestine. 750,000 Palestinians displaced. Marines sent to Palestine to protect the American Consul.. U.N. mediator between Jews and Arabs in Palestine, Count Bernadotte, is assassinated by the Stern Gang under the leadership of Yitzhak Shamir. Bernadotte's plan involved either the right of return of Palestinian Arabs who had fled their homes in the Jewish sector as a result of massacres such as at Deir Yassin, or compensation by any future Israeli government.
1948 February Banna is assassinated outside Young Men's Muslim Association. Ayatollah Kashani is from Iran banished for attempted assassination of Shah.
1949 United Nations admits the State of Israel. U. S. grants recognition on condition that Israel guarantee the right of return or compensation of Arabs displaced during the first Arab-Israeli conflict. Neither provision fulfilled.
1950 Hasan Ismael al-Hudaybi, moderate and proponent of non-violence, elected head of Muslim Brotherhood. Kashani returns to Iran after Mussaddiq's National Front Party makes huge gains in election .
1951 Publication of writings of Abu Ala Mawdudi, Pakistani journalist and politician, claiming Islam about to be destroyed by West. He calls for jihad as revolutionary struggle to seize power for the good of humanity.
1952 Egyptian military overthrows corrupt King Farouk. Gamal Abdel Nasser becomes prime minister and introduced new revolutionary government, announces intention to nationalize the Suez Canal and expel British.
1953 International Court at The Hague rules in favor of Iran's right to nationalize its oil. British and U.S. portray Mussaddiq as dangerous fanatic, thief, and communist. Oil companies join in unofficial boycott of Iranian oil. With support for Mussaddiq faltering Operation Ajax a coup to depose Mussaddiq is initiated under aegis of CIA. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, led by Kermit Roosevelt, grandson of Teddy Roosevelt. Insurrectionists weapons provided by U.S. New government is created under Shah Reza Pahlevi. Senator Hubert Humphrey says the Shah's new army "isn't going to fight the Russians; it's planning to fight the Iranian people." The Shah's rule fuels the Shiite Muslim fundamentalist movement that overthrows him in 1979 and takes 52 American hostages.
1954 Nasser dissolves the Muslim Brotherhood on grounds it was plotting a counter revolution. Nasser is shot by Abd al-Latif, a member of Society. Society leaders sent to prison camps. Many abandon Banna's reformist vision, turn to new Sunni fundamentalism of Sayyid Qutb who calls for jihad against jahiliyyah of West and secularized regimes
1956 Claiming that Egypt was using Soviet aid to marshal troops for an attack on Israel, Israel attacks Egypt and initiates the Suez War. Britain and France join with Israel in order to punish Nasser for nationalizing the Suez Canal.
U.S. Marines sent to Egypt to evacuate American citizens in Suez Crisis.
1957 Creation of SAVAK. Iranian secret police with aid of CIA and Israeli Mossad. Crackdown against opposition groups.
Eisenhower Doctrine announces: "The United States regards as vital to the national interest and world peace the preservation of the independence and integrity of the nations of the Middle East.'
14,000 U.S. marines land in Lebanon to support a Christian, pro-American government threatened by Muslim opposition.
C.I.A. supports attempted overthrow of Syrian government claiming it was about to go communist.
C.I.A. involved in plot to assassinate Gamal Abdul Nasser, president of Egypt, ostensibly for leaning toward Russia though arguably for creating pan-Arabic union between Egypt and Syria.
1958 Iraqi monarchy overthrown. New leader General Abdul Karim Kassem initiates attempt to oppose western oil monopolies. This organization would evolve into OPEC. CIA initiates plot to assassinate Kassem. Joint Chiefs of Staff initiate secret plan for joint US-Turkish invasion of Iraq. Soviet threats to intercede force Washington to stand down.
1960 General Kassem of Iraq overthrown and murdered by junior officers of the Baathist Movement, including Saddam Hussein, with CIA assistance.
President Charles de Gaulle of France declares his intent to grant Algeria independence. Four French generals, with encouragement from the CIA, attempt a coup to overthrow the French government in Algeria to prevent independence. In secret testimony before Congress, a former CIA briefing officer states that CIA discussed plans to assassinate de Gaulle with dissident French officers.
1961 First Summit meeting of Arab leaders in Cairo.
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) established.
1962 Shah Muhammad Rez Pahlavi announces White Revolution.
1963 Alyatollah Khomeini attacks Shah as enemy of Islam. SAVAK forces surround madrasah in Qum on anniversary of martyrdom of sixth Imam, killing students. Ayatollah Khomeini imprisoned, released. A second arrest leads to uprising harshly suppressed.
1964 Khoumeini denounces conspiracy of Jews, Christians, imperialists, and the Shah's acceptance of 200 million dollars for arms from U.S. Khoumeini is deported.
1965 Fatah, the armed wing of the PLO, is established by Yasser Arafat and begins attacking Israel from Jordan where most of the Palestinians evicted from Israel dwell in refugee camps. Israel retaliates by attacking Jordan.
Claiming that President Sukarno, Indonesian leader of the non-aligned movement in the 3rd World, was about to be overthrown by communists backed by China, a military coup led by General Suharto, with substantial aid from the CIA, takes power instead. A massacre of over 500,000 Indonesians, mostly by Muslims against the Chinese minority, takes place.
1967 Third Arab-Israeli War - the Six Day War- begins on June 5 when Israel attacks Egypt and Syria, claiming they were planning to attack first.
On June 8, Israeli warplanes attack the U.S.S Liberty, an electronic spying vessel, in international waters. Israel claims mistaken identity, but the Navy ship is prominently flying the American flag., and the attacks continue over several hours. Even lifeboats are strafed. 34 crewman are killed and 171 wounded. The U.S. State Department believes the attack was intentional to protect Israeli secrets, yet no formal charges to this effect were levied by Washington.
As result of June war Israel takes Gaza strip from Egypt, West Bank from Jordan, Golan Heights from Syria. City of Jerusalem, which had been divided between Israel and Jordan since 1948, annexed as eternal capital of Jewish state. Land of Israel Movement founded to prevent territorial concessions.
1968 Moshe Kevinger and Kookists visit Hebron, site of 1929 massacre, posing as Swiss tourists, then refuse to leave, staying on as squatters despite Geneva convention prohibition of settlement in territories occupied during hostilities and U.N. demands that Israel withdraw from occupied lands. By 1972 settlement at Hebron grown to 5,000.
Israel puts its top-secret, underground, nuclear weapons development plant in the desert at Dimona into operation. Though Washington knows about this, and knows it violates the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty only recently crafted, which Israel refuses to sign, President Johnson approves the sale of F-4 combat planes to Tel Aviv.
1969 Junior officers overthrow the Libyan monarchy and with Muammar Quaddafi as header establish the Libyan Arab Republic. When Quaddafi announces his intent to sell oil to the Soviets, and to replace American oil companies with Libyan-controlled firms, the CIA initiates plans to overthrow him.
1970 Fearing wholesale destruction of his army by Israel, King Hussein of Jordan launches assault on Al Fatah and the PLO and expels it to Lebanon in event known as "Black September."
1971 U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, George Bush, declares Israeli settlements in the West Bank Illegal.
Anwar Sada succeeds Nasser, dismisses 1,500 Soviet advisors, announces Infitah, "Open Door," begins releasing Muslim Brothers from camps, allows publication of their journal Al-Dawah "The Call" again. Al Dawah focuses on four enemies of Islam: Western Christianity (al-Salibiyyah, the Crusade), communism, secularism, and Zionism. Shukri Mustafa released from camp after being held five years for distributing pamphlets for the Brotherhood, forms separatist Society of Muslims. By 1976, Society has 2,000 members.
Sheikh Ahmed Yasin founds Mujamah "Congress" after PLO nationalists are suppressed by Sharon in Gaza.
1972 Calling itself "Black September" a group of armed Palestinians kill nine Israeli athletes and a trainer at the Munich Olympics. Israel retaliates by bombing Lebanon killing 400 civilians.
President Nixon decides to arm Kurds of Iraq attempting to gain independence. Cooperating with the U.S. the Shah of Iran allows the Iraqi Kurds to use Iranian territory, even as he represses Iran's own Kurds. Later, after Iran and Iraq come to terms with U.S over oil prices, the U.S. support for Kurds is dropped. Kurds are massacred by officers like Saddam Hussein.
1973 Fourth Arab-Israeli War- the Yom Kippur War- begins when Egyptian and Syrian forces attack Israeli forces in the occupied territories, Gaza and the Golan Heights. Israeli troops march on Cairo, where they are bound to confront Egypt's Soviet advisers. The USSR goes on full military alert. Henry Kissinger demands that Israel halt its advance.
Navy evacuates American citizens from Cyprus when Turkey invades
1974 Gush Emunim, "Bloc of the Faithful" movement founded to secure occupied territories.
1975 Moshe Levinger leads march of 20,000 into West Bank. Peres agrees to settlement at Elon Moreh after confrontations with soldiers.
Lebanon's civil war begins when Lebanese Muslims combine with the PLO to overthrow rule by Christian Phalange.
1976 Marines evacuate U.S. citizens from Lebanon
1977 President Jimmy Carter declares that Palestinians deserve a state of their own.
Labor government in Israel defeated. Ariel Sharon, head of Israel Land Commission declares intention of settling 1 million Jews on West Bank in twenty years. By 1984, 113 official settlements.
Anwar Sadat and Menachim Begin sign Camp David Accords. Israel to return Sinai Peninsula to Egypt and Egypt to recognize Israel and guarantee security along common borders.
Shukri Mustafa disciples launch raids on apostates, demands apologies for false portraits of the Society in press. He is later captured and executed for kidnapping and killing of Muhammed al-Dhahabi for denouncing Society. Jamaat al-islamiyyah, Islamic Student Association on university campuses grows to 500,000.
Goethe Institute in Tehran in October, thousands attend week-long poetry reading by sixty Iranian poets and writers opposing Shah's regime. Following the reading dissidents are rounded up and arrested. Khomeini's son dies mysteriously in Iraq. Police attack mourners, more arrests and beating during poetry readings following in November. Shah flies for talks with President Carter
1978 Iranian Government publishes article slandering Khomeini. Thousands of student protest in Qum and other cities, demand Khomeini be allowed to return. Seventy students killed. Successive riots follow in cities when mourners are attacked on 40-day anniversaries.
U.S. government declares there is virtually no likelihood the Shah will be overthrown by Islamic militants.
U.S. government begins secret recruiting, training, and arming tens of thousands of Mujahedeen from across the Islamic world to conduct jihad against Marxist government and its Soviet ally in Afghanistan. Between 1982-1992 35,000 from 43 countries will go to join in fighting with Afghan Mujahedeen.
1979 Soviet Union invades Afghanistan, overthrowing one communist government and setting up another. President Carter's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski says: "Now we can give the Soviet Union its Vietnam War."
Peace Treaty between Egypt and Israel, brokered by President Jimmy Carter at Camp David, signed in Washington by Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat.
Saddam Hussein becomes President of Iraq.
Saudi fundamentalists storm and occupy the Grand Mosque at Mecca forcing Saudi king to send in troops, killing dozens, thereby fostering the further growth of fundamentalist movement.
Israeli Tehiya ("Renaissance"} Party formed of secular and religious forces to fight further territorial concessions.
At Minya, Student members of jammaat al-Islamiyyah vandalize churches, attack students refusing to wear Islamic dress, take over University City, hold 30 Christians captive. Organization banned, assets frozen. Jammaat hold huge rallies
Ayatollah Khomeini returns from France to Iran. Shiite fundamentalists loyal to Khomeini overthrow the Shah of Iran and subsequently storm the American Embassy in Tehran, taking 52 American hostages. The French harbored the madman for years hoping to curry favor with the new Islamic Theocracy using this advantage against America to further his own interests.
Iraq invades Iran. Two million Iranian youth from the age of twelve, many from the Foundation for the Downtrodden volunteer.
Six yeshiva students murdered in Hebron. Retaliatory bombs planted in cars of 5 Arab mayors.
1980 Iran Iraq war. The U.S. approves implicitly Iraq's invasion in order to weaken Iran's Islamic Revolution, and to prop up Saddam Hussein as a force against Shiite fundamentalism in the Persian Gulf region. The United Nations calls for a cease-fire but does little else. Eventually the U.S. gives support, including arms, to both sides. The war lasts until 1988 with at least a half-million deaths on both sides.
President Jimmy Carter dispatches Delta Force to Iran in Operation Eagle Claw, an attempt to rescue 52 American hostages held for nearly a year. The operation had to be aborted when a U.S. helicopter and C-130 transport plane collided in the desert killing seven Americans. U.S Navy planes shoot down two Libyan jets over Gulf of Sidra in waters claimed by Libya but considered international waters by Washington. Israel bombs and destroys Iraqi nuclear facility at Osirak. Anwar Sadat assassinated by Islamic Sunni fundamentalists opposed to peace with Israel.
1981 Hostages released.
1982 Levinger leads thousands of settlers to Yamit in Sinai where they camp in abandoned houses refusing to leave. Rabbi Kook dies. Israel invades Lebanon and carries out massive bombardment of Beirut with enormous civilian casualties. Lebanese Christian Phalangists, exacting revenge for the assassination of President Bashir Gemayel, enter Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila in Beirut and systematically massacre between 1,000 and 2,000 civilians. Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon is later found culpable for allowing the massacre to happen and is forced from office. Marines sent to Lebanon to assist in PLO withdrawal from Beirut. Later that year a much larger force is dispatched to restore government of Lebanon to Christian control against Shiite Muslims backed by Iran. Shiite Muslim Islamic Jihad storms the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. Four CIA officials, including the agency's chief Middle East analyst are killed. Congress authorizes Marine force to remain in Lebanon for 18 months but a suicide bombing of the Marine Barracks, killing 241, results in withdrawal of the force.Osama bin Laden settles in Peshwar, aids Mujahedeen in building roads, Khost tunnel.
1984 CIA Station Chief in Lebanon, William Buckley, kidnapped by Shiite fundamentalist Hezbollah (Party of God) which is backed by Iran. Revelation of existence of Jewish underground plan to blow up Dome of the Rock.
1985 Secret transfers of U.S. arms to Iran are approved with Israel as intermediary in hope to obtain release of Buckley.Jonathan Pollard, a Jewish-American and civilian employee of the Office of Naval Intelligence, is arrested and charged with selling nuclear and other secrets to Israel. Among the classified documents sold is information aiding Israel's own nuclear targeting of the Soviet Union, as well as information about U.S. targeting that testimony reveals was sold by Israel to the USSR. In 1987 Pollard received a life sentence to federal prison
1986 President Ronald Reagan signs a secret finding authorizing covert shipments of arms to Iran, in violation of U.S. law, in order to win release of American hostages held in Lebanon, and to obtain funds, denied by Congress, for illegal covert war in Central America.
U.S. jets bomb Muammar Quaddafi's headquarters in Tripoli, killing his youngest child and sending his other seven children and wife to the hospital. Between 65 and 100 civilians living in the neighborhood are also killed. The U.S. says the attack was in retaliation for a terrorist bombing in Germany that killed two American servicemen. CIA official, William Buckley, dies in Hezbollah captivity after months of torture inflicted to obtain information.
In an interview with Israeli nuclear technician, Mordecai Vanunu, the London Sunday Times reveals Israel's longstanding and secret nuclear program. Among other things Vanunu reveals that Israel has seeded the Israeli border with Syria along the Golan Heights with nuclear mines. Vanunu later is captured by Israeli agents and committed to prison.
1987 U.S. dispatches 29 naval vessels to the Persian Gulf to protect oil-carrying vessels from Iranian attacks says President Reagan. At the same time Washington says Kuwaiti tankers will be re-flagged to fly the American colors. After series of skirmishes with Iranian speedboats U.S. Navy destroys two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf.
First Intifada, or uprising of Palestinians against Israeli occupation in West Bank and Gaza begins, will last until 1993. Formation of Hamas (Haqamat al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyyah, Islamic Resistance Movement).
1988 U.S.S. Vincennes shoots down Iranian airbus carrying 290 passengers, including over 60 children. The ship is an Aegis cruiser with state-of-the-art computerized radar surveillance and missile weapons systems. Despite eyewitness accounts by other navy officers in nearby ships that the plane was ascending and not diving to attack, the captain of the Vincennes says that he thought the airbus was a much smaller Iranian F-14 intent on attacking his ship. Over 150 planes per day used the airspace in question, and the Iranian airliner was on a regularly scheduled, daily flight path, well known to military intelligence.
Saddam Hussein uses poison gas, banned under international law, on Kurdish villagers in northern Iraq, killing over 5000 civilians. The U.N. General Assembly votes a condemnation of this act. Only three members vote in opposition - The United States, Great Britain and Israel.
U.S. Government initiates first formal contacts with the Palestine Liberation Organization
1989 Four months before his death Khomeini issues fatwa against Salmon Rushdie and his publishers for blasphemous portrait of Muhammad. At Islamic conference fatwa is condemned b 44 of 45 member countries as un-Islamic. Osama Bin Laden builds Al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan.
1990 Iraq invades Kuwait over long-standing issues. Iraq claims Kuwait as its 19th province, and blames Kuwait for stealing oil from a disputed oilfield along their common border during Iraq-Iran War. When queried the U.S. State Department notes that it is not under treaty obligation to defend Kuwait. April Glaspie, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, notes that the U.S. takes no position on the issues between the two nations.
U.S. dispatches its largest force overseas since the Vietnam War in Operation Desert Storm to restore Kuwaiti sovereignty. The air war over Iraq is the largest concentrated air assault in history. After the war the U.N. commission set up to assess the damage says that Iraq is in an "apocalyptic condition." Owing to the utter devastation of civilian infrastructure, the effects of a U.N. sanctioned embargo, and the indifference of Saddam Hussein to his people's suffering, estimates are approximately 70,000 people die every month, half of them children. These figures hold over the next five years, and continue at somewhat lower levels to the present.
During Gulf War, and after Iraq has launched Scud missiles at Israeli cities, Israel puts its nuclear launchers on full alert.
Osama Bin Laden returns to Saudi Arabia, sets up welfare organization for aiding Arab Afghan veterans and their families. Condemns government for allowing U.S. troops to be stationed.
Claiming it seeks to protect Kurds and Shiites from Saddam's vengeance, though Iraq's Revolutionary Guard has already conducted wholesale massacres against both, the U.S. sets up "No-Fly" zones in the northern Kurdish areas, and in the south where majority Shiites live.
The International Court of Justice in the Hague (World Court) finds in favor of Iran's suit to obtain damages in the wake of the downing of the Iranian airbus by the U.S.S. Vincennes. The U.S. says it does not recognize the authority of the court in this matter.
1993 Oslo Accords revealed. Secret meetings in Norway result in agreement between Israel and PLO on the right of each to exist. A key aspect is a provision for an eventual Palestinian State. Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority assumes political leadership in West Bank and Gaza.
World Trade Center bombing. 6 killed, over 1,000 injured.
1994 Taliban emergence, takin control of Kandahar.Osama Bin Laden settles in Sudan with other Arab Afghan veterans.
1995 Gush rabbis raise question whether Rabin had become a rodef, one deemed worthy of death under Jewish law. Yigal Amir, former veteran and student assassinates Rabin at a Peace rally.
1996 Osama Bin laden announces Jihad against Americans occupying Saudi territory.
Clinton signs Anti-Terrorism Bill, allowing government to block assets.
Taliban take Kabul.
1997 Khatami electoral victory in Iran. New government seeks more positive relations with West, dissociates itself from fatwa against Rushdie and publishers. Human rights groups claim 20,000 suspected guerrillas held without trial in Egyptian prisons. Jamaat al-Islamiyyah kills 58 foreign tourists at Luxor.U.S. attempt to abduct Osama Bin Laden fails
1998 February, Osama Bin Laden issues manifesto for the International Islamic Front for Jihad against Christians and Jews.
August, U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania are bombed within minutes of each other by Islamic fundamentalists loyal to Osama Bin Laden. U.S retaliates sending 70 Cruise missiles against sights in Afghanistan and the Sudan.
Taliban ban tv, videos, restore strict Sharia punishments and dress code.
2000 Second Intifada erupts after Ariel Sharon leads hundreds of followers to what Israel regards as the Temple Mount and Arabs revere as the Dome of the Rock. Sharon aims to make a statement about Israeli ownership of the site and Arabs take the action as a desecration of the site.
The U.S. S. Cole, a state of the art Aegis destroyer, is the target of a terrorist attack by al Qaeda in Yemen. 17 American servicemen are killed and 39 wounded.
Ariel Sharon becomes Prime Minister of Israel and later declares the Oslo peace process "dead."
2001 On September 11 Islamic fundamentalists drive airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon killing more people than any other act of terror in history. President Bush declares a global war on terrorism.
In October the U.S. launches air assaults on Taliban positions, and later Al Quaeda's mountain redoubt. By December both organizations are routed. The international community pledges to rebuild and restore Afghanistan under new coalition government. Osoma Ben Laden escapes after 8 months of determined attacks by American and coalition forces.
2001: The Iraqi intelligence service assassinates Abu Nidal, the Arab terrorist and mastermind of many assassinations and a documented key player between Iraq and the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
2002: Iraq war on terror. President Bush unleashes “Shock and Awe” campaign. The Iraqi Army folds and Baghdad is under Coalition control in a few months.
2003: Attacks continue on Coalition forces in Iraq by Bathest supporters. Sadam escapes but is captured in December by US Army units after 6 months.
