Today in The Religion of Peace (tm)
On this day, July 18th, in 1857, the Islamic seige of the French colonial army at
Medina Fort in present-day Mali was repulsed when reinforcements arrived from Senegal. Islamic cleric El Hajj Umar Tall led the Muslim attack, after spending decades studying the Qur'an and years stockpiling weapons for the self-declared jihad against the Christian French.
In the aftermath of Umar Tall's failure against the Christian French, he redirected his jihad attacks against the animist Bambara kingdoms in Mali. After they were successfully conquered, he attacked and invaded other Islamic kingdoms along the Middle Niger River. He unfortunately did not die a martyr's death, as he was killed in an accidental detonation of his explosive stockpiles.
Posted on 7:24 AM by Artemis Gordon Glidden
