Bryan Adams
Bryan Adams

Ich bin seit zwölf Jahren Vegetarier. Und ich war noch nie ernsthaft krank. Vegetarische Ernährung stärkt das Immunsystem. Ich glaube, dass Fleisch krank macht.

John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams

Dies ist der letzte Tag auf Erden, ich bin zufrieden.

Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie

William always scanned the airports and airplanes for little brown guys who reeked of fundamentalism. That meant William was equally afraid of Osama bin Laden and Jerry Falwell wearing the last vestiges of a summer tan. William himself was a little brown guy, so the other travelers were always sniffing around him, but he smelled only of Dove soap, Mennen deoderant, and sarcasm.

Muhammad ibn al-Qasim
Muhammad ibn al-Qasim

Janaki was one of the daughters of King Dahir of Sindh. She was captured along with her sister and sent to the Khalifa at Baghdad. When the Khalifa invited Janaki to share his bed, she lied to him that she had already been violated by Muhammad bin Qasim. Her sister supported her statement. The Khalifa ordered that Muhammad be sewed up in raw hide and sent to his court. Muhammad was already dead

when the chest containing him arrived in Baghdad. Janaki accused the Khalifa of having killed one of his great generals without making proper enquiry. She said, 'The king has committed a very grievous mistake, for he ought not, on account of two slave girls, to have destroyed a person who had taken captive a hundred thousand modest women like us,… and who instead of temples had erected mosques,

pulpits and minarets.

Muhammad ibn al-Qasim
Muhammad ibn al-Qasim

In a letter Hajjaj instructed Muhammad bin Qasim on how to deal with the adversary. The way of granting pardon prescribed by law is that when you encounter the unbelievers, strike off their heads… make a great slaughter among them… (Those that survive) bind them in bonds… grant pardon to no one of the enemy and spare none of them” etc., etc.

Muhammad ibn al-Qasim
Muhammad ibn al-Qasim

When Muhammad bin Qasim invaded Sind, he took captives wherever he went and sent many prisoners, especially women prisoners, to his homeland. Parimal Devi and Suraj Devi, the two daughters of Raja Dahir, who were sent to Hajjaj to adorn the harem of the Caliph, were part of a large bunch of maidens remitted as one-fifth share of the state (Khums) from the booty of war (Ghanaim). The Chachnama

gives the details. After the capture of the fort of Rawar, Muhammad bin Qasim halted there for three day, during which time he masscered 6,000 …men. Their followers and dependents, as well as their women and children were taken prisoner.” When the (total) number of prisoners was calculated, it was found to amount to thirty thousand persons (Kalichbeg has sixty thousand), amongst whom thirty

were the daughters of the chiefs. They were sent to Hajjaj. The head of Dahir and the fifth part of prisoners were forwarded in charge of the Black Slave Kaab, son of Mubarak Rasti.96 In Sind itself female slaves captured after every campaign of the marching army, were married to Arab soldiers who settled down in colonies established in places like Mansura, Kuzdar, Mahfuza and Multan. The standing

instructions of Hajjaj to Muhammad bin Qasim were to give no quarter to infidels, but to cut their throats”, and take the women and children as captives. In the final stages of the conquest of Sind, when the plunder and the prisoners of war were brought before Qasim… one-fifth of all the prisoners were chosen and set aside; they were counted as amounting to twenty thousand in number… (they

belonged to high families) and veils were put on their faces, and the rest were given to the soldiers”.97 Obviously, a few lakhs of women were enslaved and distributed among the elite and the soldiers.

Muhammad ibn al-Qasim
Muhammad ibn al-Qasim

During the Arab invasion of Sindh (712 C. E.), Muhammad bin Qasim first attacked Debal, a word derived from Deval meaning temple. It was situated on the sea-coast not far from modern Karachi. It was garrisoned by 4000 Kshatriya soldiers and served by 3000 Brahmans. All males of the age of seventeen and upwards were put to the sword and their women and children were enslaved. 700 beautiful females,

who were under the protection of Budh (that is, had taken shelter in the temple), were all captured with their valuable ornaments, and clothes adorned with jewels.” Muhammad despatched one-fifth of the legal spoil to Hajjaj which included seventy-five damsels, the rest four-fifths were distributed among the soldiers. Thereafter whichever places he attacked like Rawar, Sehwan, Dhalila,

Brahmanabad and Multan, Hindu soldiers and men with arms were slain, the common people fled, or, if flight was not possible, accepted Islam, or paid the poll tax, or died with their religion. Many women of the higher class immolated themselves in Jauhar, most others became prize of the victors. These women and children were enslaved and converted, and batches of them were dispatched to the Caliph

in regular installments.

Muhammad ibn al-Qasim
Muhammad ibn al-Qasim

The agriculturists in this part of the country were Jats, and they made their submission and were granted protection. When all these circumstances were communicated to Hajjaj [Muhammed bin Qasim's uncle], he sent an emphatic answer, ordering that those who showed fight should be destroyed, or that their sons and daughters should be taken as hostages and kept. Those who choose to submit, and in

whose throats the water of sincerity flowed, were to be treated with mercy, and their property secured to them…

Andrew Grove
Andrew Grove

Ich bin ein dummer User, eigentlich das perfekte Marketingmodell.

Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson

Ich selber habe die Bank der Vereinigten Staaten genau beobachtet. Ich hatte Männer die sie eine lange Zeit beobachteten, und ich bin überzeugt ihr habt die Gelder benutzt um mit der Brotkasse des Amerikanischen Volkes zu spekulieren. Wenn ihr Erfolg hattet, habt ihr die Gewinne unter euch aufgeteilt, und wenn ihr euch verspekuliert habt, habt ihr die Verluste der Bank aufgebürdet. Ihr seid

eine Grube voll mit Schlangen und Dieben. Ich habe beschlossen euch auszurotten, beim Allmächtigen, ich werde euch ausrotten.