Huh? Where did this bizarre non sequitor come from? Look, I see no point in continuing this inane discussion. Poka.
Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Chris Doss wrote:
> Dude, I think I know who Imam Shamil is. I referred to his failed
> attempt to impose Shariah in an earlier, apparently unread, post. He was
> a Dagestani Avar. Shamil Basayev is named after him. He lived out his
> last years in a sumptuous palace outside St. Petersburg on the tsar's
> money, after having been bribed to quit fighting. He died in what is now
> Saudi Arabia, after having been given permission to go there by the tsar.
I am not sure I gather your drift here. You seem to be okaying the
Czarist conquest of the Caucauses because they were fighting backward
religious practices or something like that? I had no idea that the
Russian Orthodox Church was a beacon of civilization and enlightenment.
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