“I kill, therefore I am.”

I Kill, therefore I Am

At the core of the discipline of "history" is the production of a record of the number of people killed in a particular episode of war or genocide. The greater the number of people killed, the more "significant" the historical event. Terrorist philosopher Abdullah Azzam understood the dynamic. History, he said, does not write its lines "except in blood." Historical glory rests upon "counting skulls."

Historians collude with mass-murderers. It's a symbiotic reltionship. The mass-murderer understands how the process works, and so does the historian.

Remembering mass-murder lies at the heart of the historical process. Leaders and societies kill in order to be remembered; so we will not forget what they have done.

We remember those leaders and societies who produced the greatest number of cripples and corpses.

Richard Koenigsberg
June 9, 2019

History builds upon an ediface of cripples and corpses.

Terrorist philosopher Ali Benhadj stated that if a faith is not watered or irrigated by blood it “does not grow.” A belief needs to be reinforced by “sacrifices, suicide operations and martyrdom.”

Saddam Hussein called history a “record of sacrifices made in blood.” History, he said, is elevated to the status of belief when “sacred blood is shed in the most crucial situations.”

According to Islamic revolutionary Abdullah Azzam, history “does not write its lines except with blood.” Glory does not build its lofty edifice “except with skulls.” Honor and respect are established on a foundation of “cripples and corpses.”

“History” records the acts of political leaders who have killed a lot of people. Historical “significance” is measured by “counting skulls.”