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The Muslim commander Khalid ibn al-Walid had prayed to Allah that he would flow rivers of blood if he helped him win the battle. After the retreat of the Sassanian army - including the Persians and the Christian Arabs - toward Al-Hirah, Khalid ibn al-Walid went in pursuit and succeeded in capturing nearly 70000 of the retreating masses.
To fulfill his pledge, he brought the captured people in groups, and beheaded them one after the other by the river Khaseef, which was actually a canal used to power water mills.
After three days of beheading, when he saw the blood was congealing on the soil instead of flowing, on the advice of Qa'qa ibn Amr, one of the commanders of the Muslim army, Khalid ordered the dam on the river to be opened, and the water then flowed in and moved mills, then they made bread with that which fed his troops of 18000 for three days, thus fulfilling his earlier oath about running the river with blood. The river Khaseef as a result became known as the "River of Blood".
Hey be tolerant! It's their culture! You'd think some of the lefties would open their eyes and see these cultures for what they are... basically the antithesis of the liberal ideology.
They just butchered US prisoners that they accused of spying, by hanging them from meat hooks and carving them up like animals.
Yeah, let's bring more of then here. After all, they are the jv team.
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