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Do the inside of mosques make vikings invisible?

I just found it so strange how oblivious they all were to floki's presence, and then all the other vikings presence, even when one of them was beheaded, they still carried on praying like no threat was there, like the vikings were invisible.

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Yes that was odd. Looks like nothing can disturb an Arab's prayer until it is done or you're beheaded, whichever comes first.

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They were focus on pleasing their Lord that's why Floki was so amazed by the moment. Floki made it very clear from the very beginning everything he does is to please the Gods. He was very overzealous about it. So to see these men worshiping and not being afraid of men with swords walking around them he actually respected them. The dude gets beheaded and they didn't stop their prayer. He was taking away by it all.

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What they did is called PASSIVE RESISTANCE.

GANDHI used the same thing as a way to DEFEAT the ENGLISH and get them out of INDIA.

http://www.sahistory.org.za/article/gandhi-and-passive-resistance-campaign-1907-1914

MLK also used the same process as a way to DEFEAT discrimination against his followers back in the 60'S.


The passive resistance campaigns led by MK Gandhi in South Africa had huge consequences not only for the history of the country but also for world history in general. Gandhi’s campaigns forged a new form of struggle against oppression that became a model for political and ethical struggles in other parts of the world – especially in India (the struggle for independence) and the United States (the civil rights campaign of the 1960s).


CHRISTIANS also used it against the ROMANS who used them for their ENTERTAINMENT inside of the COLISEUM where they were BURNED ALIVE and FED to TIGERS.

And ATHELSTAN also use it on FLOKI when he SNEAKS UP on him in the MIDDLE of the NIGHT and KILLED him.

JESUS also taught the SAME PHILOSOPHY to his FOLLOWERS as well.

Perhaps you've heard of TURNING the OTHER CHEEK???

And if they take your COAT, to also give them YOUR CLOAK as well???

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Dude you are looking way too deep into this. Remind me of me and my guys blowing grass on the rooftops in high schools wondering if cars would fly one day. That's how our there your post is

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No it wasn't passive resistance, in the real world they would have all been killed if they behaved like that. Actually in the real world they would have killed Floki as soon as they saw him.

The word you are looking for to describe the scene is Political Correctness.



Sometimes a movie or tv show plot is so stupid that only the stupid can understand it.

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I'm confused did the Muslims passively resist there way into conquering Spain?

THE FLOW of HISTORY

Hell if I KNOW.

Perhaps one of us needs to do a SEARCH and try to find out the answer to this question???

Here's a good link that gives you an OVERVIEW of what was happening back then:

http://www.flowofhistory.com/units/birth/5/FC42

http://www.flowofhistory.com/units/birth/5/FC41-2


Western Europe disintegrated into anarchy as local nobles rebelled against their kings and fought each other in their own private wars. This in turn would encourage raids and invasions by such peoples as Vikings from the north, Arabs from the south, and nomadic Magyars from the east. Such raids and invasions would only encourage more turmoil, which would bring in more invasions and so on. To aggravate matters even further, this cycle of anarchy and invasions would also feed back into the original cycle involving land as a source of wealth. And so it would go, as these mutually reinforcing cycles of decline, anarchy, and invasions would continue to feed into one another, dragging Western Europe down into further chaos. Not until money came back into circulation could the nobles' stranglehold be broken. This was because money did not regenerate itself, thus keeping nobles and officials constantly dependent on the king.


http://www.flowofhistory.com/units/birth/5/FC41-1


by 750, the Byzantines had weathered the worst of these troubles and would begin a prolonged period of recovery and expansion. By contrast, the economy of Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Persia prospered, since those areas fell rapidly to the Arabs with minimal material damage and disruption and seem to have suffered less from the Plague than the rest of the Mediterranean.

Therefore, this area entered upon a cultural golden age that also expanded across North Africa and into Spain. Italy and the frontier regions of the Roman Empire (Britain, Gaul, and Germany) would experience a brief revival under the Carolingian Franks, thanks largely to an influx of silver and trade from the Muslims via Russia and the Baltic.

However, overspending by the Caliphs in Baghdad would bring and end to this prosperity soon after 800, triggering new rounds of raids and invasions by the Arabs in the Mediterranean and Vikings in the North. Political order in Western Europe would then collapse, to be replaced by feudal anarchy for two centuries.







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Pay that dude no mind. That had nothing to do with anything. It's simple he saw one religion run and beg for their life at a place of worship. The other stood there and pray and ingore the threat as pleasing their God was more important. Fkoki being the overzealous religious guy he is actually respected that. It's that simple

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I had a feeling that someone was going to come out with that as a response, from reading the other thread on here calling Floki a hypocrite.

It just made me think "you often hear on the news about how the taliban bombed another mosque in Pakistan. When this happens, do you really think the muslims inside these mosques just keep on praying like nothing is going on outside, when bombs breach its walls and the ceiling starts caving in ect, or do they flee for their lives?".

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he saw one religion run and beg for their life at a place of worship.


On THE CONTRARY ...

what FLOKI ENCOUNTERS were HIGHLY EGOTISTICAL PRIEST who RESISTED HIM ...

which is also WHAT PISSED him off.

It was their LACK of HUMILITY.

NOTE the way ATHELSTAN also tries to WARN the one OLD PRIEST that they shot full of ARROWS to RUN AWAY.

But the OLD MAN refused to LISTEN to ATHELSTAN and had to LEARN the HARD WAY not to BULLY the BULLIES back again.

And that's also why JESUS taught his followers TO TURN the OTHER CHEEK rather than try to FIGHT BACK again which also only makes matters WORSE in the end.



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Not trying to promote but something clearly worked because although the Imam was killed, most men survived
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