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Originally Posted by Vick!
Do you know how Christianity and western world was 600 years ago? You'd be ashamed to know what your ancestors were doing back then. Never forget Islam is 600 years younger than Christianity.
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Why do people always bring up what happened hundreds of years ago? I fucking live in the present and anyone who doesn't think there is a problem with the way tens of millions of Muslims(there are over one billion total) interpret their religion in the here and now have their heads stuck in the sand.
Why would I be ashamed of my ancestors? Thats the way the world was. People need to stop looking at history with their 21st century rose coloured glasses on.
A few examples of how it used to be
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- For the Massagetan people, when someone got very old, relatives sacrificially killed him, then put the body in a stewpot with other meat for a ceremonial meal.
- When Babylon was under siege by the Persians, 50,000 females were strangled so there would be fewer mouths to feed during the siege.
- When a bridge he had built across the Hellespont was destroyed by a storm, in the campaign against the Greeks to avenge the battle of Marathon, Xerxes, "punished" the water with 300 lashes, and beheaded all those involved in building the bridge.
- In his campaign against the Scythians (Ukraine), Darius routinely had the losers in every battle killed.
- When the Spartans held Thermopylae, it was understood that no soldier should survive a losing battle. Those who did were ostracized or committed suicide.
- With three sons in Darius' army, one Oebazus asked Darius if one of the sons could stay behind so his genealogical line would not be destroyed. Darius courteously replied that all three sons could stay behind -- and cut the throats of all three.
- Panionus made a living by buying young boys, castrating them and selling them as slaves. He was befriended by a high-ranking eunuch who castrated his four sons -- then had the sons castrate their dad.
Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski
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