[Syria] Masyaf Castle
Le Sage Aiham
The Assassin's sect Castle
Masyaf Castle (Arabic: قلعة مصياف) is a medieval structure in the town of Masyaf in Hama Governorate, Syria, situated in the Orontes Valley, approximately 40.03 kilometres to the west of Hama. It served to protect the approach to other Ismaili castles in the Syrian Coastal Mountain Range (Jabal Ansariya) at a site controlling the trade routes to cities further inland such as Banyas. The castle itself stands on a platform about 20 metres above the surrounding plain. It became famous as the stronghold from which Rashid ad-Din Sinan, known as the Old Man of the Mountain, ruled from 1166-1193. He was a leader of the Syrian branch of the Shia Nizari Isma'ili sect, also known as the Assassins, and a figure in the history of the Crusades.
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Александр П.
Another brand associated with the Elder of the Mountain and the Assassins is the Castle of Alamut (Eagle's Nest). This is where the scene of the Leap of Faith is associated with.
Le Sage Aiham
Александр П.: are you interested in the assassin's history?
Александр П.
Le Sage Aiham: it's more of a sarcasm to the local audience. A stamp dedicated to the founders of terrorism gets more votes than one commemorating the victory of fascism. People have short memories? It's become fashionable to support Nazis again.
Le Sage Aiham
Александр П.: well, I'm surly against fascism and terrorism, Ismaili Nizari is a religion sect that its still exist in Masyaf and other places in the world, they are very peaceful, their resistance against the huge empires at their time and against the crusades called terrorism in the west because they are fighting against them, they called the communist also like that in the cold war after they were allies in ww2, also they called the russians today as well as, not the new nazis in ukrain, this is the double standards of the west, if you are russian I can give a sources to review of a russian professor who wrote about Assassins.
and also other sources certainly.
and yeah, give me the link of the victory of fascism anniversary stamp to vote for it.
Александр П.
Le Sage Aiham: Terrorism refers to public acts of terrorizing civilians for political gain. In the case of assassins, it was about public brutal murders with the use of zombie fanatics who were drugged and indoctrinated. The issues of the assassins fighting the invasion under pseudo-religious flags, it is not about.
For example, I see no difference in US methods of dealing with indigenous populations, the war to "abolish slavery" which was simply renamed segregation, or the war with Spain to get Cuba. The usual state-level robbery. Same thing that happened to the Languedoc.
Stamps dedicated to the fight against Nazism:
International stamps dedicated to the Second World War prefer to be covered up quickly here.
Here is a regional one, for Russia is alive, it is not so prickly to the eyes of "civilized nations".