Maria Monk Quotes
Others too would occasionally entertain and privately express such doubts; though we all had been most solemnly warned by the cruel murder of Saint Francis.
Monk, Maria. Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk. Howe & Bates, 1836, p. 150.
The victim would be slowly cut 1000 times in ways to inflict more and more pain but not kill the victim rapidly.
The Bull was directed at French King Louis VII. On Christmas Eve the year before Zengi had broken into the city of Edessa and massacred the French inhabitants. This was the Proclamation of the start of the 2nd Crusade. Note that the Pope, in order to raise troops and money for the Crusades, used the remission of previous sins to motivate Pietro dei Paganelli di Montemagno
This is one of the early descriptions of Islamic Terrorists and Assassins. Tutuses employed them to kill his brother, the Sultan. This passage also illustrates part of the history of Islamic sultans being deposed and/or killed by their own relatives which explains the hostility of Sultans to their own family during the Ottoman Empire. Note also the glorification of their own death which has been characteristic of many Islamic subgroups throughout history. So the modern suicide bomber is in a sense not a new phenomenon; the weapon is what has changed.
The Pope was justifying his earlier excommunication of Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV who in turn excommunicated Pope Gregory.
It was a custom for suicide bombers in the Middle East to write or video record last words to loved ones.
In early America, the political parties had their own newspapers where “truth” was not an important journalistic virtue. Red scares and other fears of foreign conspiracies are as old as our nation. In 1798 the Federalists accused Vice President Thomas Jefferson, among others, of being in contact with the foreign conspirators and printed details of a "manufactured" plot to massacre the citizens of Philadelphia in one of their controlled newspapers. The nation was so alarmed that the infamous Alien and Sedition Acts were passed by Congress a few months later. These were probably the greatest infringements on American civil liberties in our history.
Most sophisticated Muslim theologians would not agree at all with the “permission” he quotes from the Koran. However, there is no hierarchy of belief in Islam and there are tens of thousands of Muslim imams and millions of individual Muslims who believe and teach just what this particular terrorist stated.
The king was found guilty and was decapitated, but not wearing a crown.
Maria Monk was a Canadian woman whose book Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, or, The Hidden Secrets of a Nun’s Life in a Convent Exposed (1836) claimed to expose systematic sexual abuse of nuns and infanticide of the resulting children by Catholic priests in her convent in Montreal. The book became a best-seller.
