HW: Hassan i Sahbah not nice bloke shock!

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Jon Browne wrote:
>
> In message <01ICXH4KCJ1E8Y4Y5F at delphi.com>, HERBERT119 at DELPHI.COM writes
> > Calvert may have
> >picked all this stuff
> >up from reading Burroughs...
>
> Maybe, but the legend of that murderous, treacherous scumbag Hassan I
> Sahbah has been around for hundreds of years, although I believe it's
> only recently that he's been mythologised into this "Old Man Of The
> Mountains" with the beatific catchphrase "Nothing is True, Everything Is
> Permissable", like this guy was some Ghandi-like Great Man Of Peace and
> pot-advocate. Well, he was a ruthless killer, responsible for the deaths
> of thousands. He was definately a terrifying figure.

this is true,but a great number of those thousands sorely needed
killing.
mainly the crusaders and would-be land theives and the missionaries.too
bad they didn't kill more of THEM.
i know he was still a monster,but hey- he wasn't all bad.

> I must dig out my 1930's biog of the bloke, see if I can write a breif
> resume, if anyone's interested.

i'd like to check it out.

> It's still a great song though!!

that it is...

rj

> Jon Browne