But Timur never had the credentials to officially hold either title, so he contented himself with being de facto ruler. Timur is remembered as a brilliant military thinker who was ruthlessly brutal to his opponents. His conquests of Baghdad and Delhi were particularly bloody. He was also a patron of the arts funny how often the two go together , and turned his capital city of Samarkand into a place of architectural innovation. European leaders were gleeful at Timur's successes against the Ottoman Empire, even as they feared that he would turn his armies on them, too.
They needn't have worried, because Timur died as he was gathering together a campaign to invade China, which was in the early stages of the Ming Dynasty. His empire gradually fell apart after his death. Many Hindus and Christians have a dim view of Timur, given his atrocities, but the same can be said about many Muslims.
Timur's victims were often Muslims living in what is now Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and elsewhere. These individuals while benefiting from the opportunities offered by their host countries create a parallel world populated by ideas of victimhood, self-pitying, self-glorification and vendetta. As social networks are teeming with sermons of hate preachers and glorification of terrorism as a religious duty, these glory-seeking wannabe jihadists can trigger into action on their own or used by a local franchise of terrorist organisations.
But we seem determined not to learn from anything. After the Boston bombing we should have all felt the urge to see inwards so that the malaise afflicting the Muslim world could be correctly diagnosed and adequately cured.
On the contrary, the spin doctors are again deflecting the need for generating the right discourse. For instance, on Pakistani sites a story became viral in which a drone attack on the boat in which the surviving bomber was hiding was theorised to promote self-consoling victimhood mentality among the readers.
The comparison was absurd to say the least. How can we not realise that ordinary local police had no problem in accessing the boat in the backyard of a house where the young fugitive was hiding. All the residents of the area fully cooperated with the law-enforcement agencies and went into a partying mode once it became clear that the surviving terrorist had been taken into custody.
Serving as havens to the terrorist groups even army commandoes find it difficult to enter these areas without massive causalities.
After Merah was gunned down in a shootout with police, the French government first tried to ship his corpse to Algeria for burial, only to have the Algerian government refuse. Merah was eventually interred at Cornebarrieu cemetery outside Toulouse despite protestations from Toulouse's mayor. In Russia, the government accords the remains of alleged terrorists few rights. Anti-terrorism and burial laws first adopted in state that the bodies of terrorists shall be buried in unmarked graves and in undisclosed locations, and even the relatives of the dead terrorists shall not be notified of the time or place of the burials.
Such was the fate of the Chechen and Ingush terrorists killed by Russian special forces during the Moscow theater and Beslan school hostage massacres , in which and hostages were killed, respectively.
Brian Glyn Williams , an expert on Chechen history at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, said the practice was a response to the Chechen tradition of building shrines at the graves of "great highland warriors who have died over the centuries fighting the Russians" and which then "become sites for pilgrimages. Israel adheres to the same practice, burying the bodies of terrorists in unmarked graves within Israel, often in the Israeli-controlled Jordan Valley. In June the Israeli government returned the remains of 91 Palestinians, most killed during attacks on Israel and some dating back to , to the West Bank and Gaza as a goodwill gesture to help bring the Palestinians back to peace negotiations.
The remains, returned in their coffins, were accorded honors and recognized as "martyrs" by the Palestinian Authority and Hamas before they were reburied in their hometowns. The United States has previously confronted the issue of terrorist burials. McVeigh, a U. Army veteran, was cremated after his execution in and his ashes scattered, a practice often used in the case of mass killers.
The Obama administration chose to bury Osama Bin Laden at sea in after Saudi Arabia refused to have his remains repatriated, in part to complete the burial within the 24 hours prescribed by Islam, but also to cut short any controversy about the interment. During the s, another hot period of political terrorist activity, governments sometimes shipped the remains of foreign terrorists killed within their borders to the terrorists' countries of origin or countries with similar religious or ideological leanings.
After the Munich Massacre at the Summer Olympic Games, Germany shipped the corpses of the five Palestinian terrorists killed during the rescue operation to Libya, where they received a hero's welcome and were buried with full military honors. The Palestinian and German terrorists involved in the hijacking of Air France Flight , and subsequently killed by Israeli soldiers during the rescue raid on the Entebbe airfield in Uganda , received military funerals under Ugandan dictator Idi Amin.
Tamerlane made his irruption through this plain when he took and destroyed so many cities. But the great ones of the earth talked on, attending to their own business in the face of Tamerlane and his victorious force.
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