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Today in History: Eternal cycle of “black flags of Khorasan” begins (747)
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June 9, 2016
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5:02Now PlayingJohn Robson reports, on June 9 back in 747 the infamous “black flags of Khorasan”, supposed heralds of a new era of Islamic unity and purity, first made their appearance in the Abbasid revolt. Since then they've been unfurled in various forms countless times, because Islam’s difficulty separating mosque and state creates unrealistic expectations of earthly governments followed by violent revolt against their inadequacies by bleak purists in a dismal cycle. MORE
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