Albuquerqe was planning on holding Mohammad's corpse for ransom and giving him back only when Muslims leave the holy land. He also was planning on cutting off the Nile from Egypt.
What would happen if he achieved both of those things?
... He doesn't have a corpse, because he ascended to heaven?
I supsect that those teeth are real, Buddha died 2000 years ago. Even if it real and was burned by portuguese, New teeth may not be actually real but just fabricated teeth forged in order to streghten buddhism in his island.The Buddha's tooth in Sri Lanka might be instructive. The Portuguese captured it in the 17th century and publicly ground the 'teeth idol' to dust. Miraculously, the Sri Lankan king discovered the teeth in his palace the next day. The Enlightened had shown his powers by saving the teeth from the European heretics, and wars between the Portuguese and the Sinhalese Buddhists grew only fiercer.
Very much the same thing would happen in the Islamic world, I imagine.
Heh. Reminds me of those saints who apparently had more teeth than a shark.The Buddha's tooth in Sri Lanka might be instructive. The Portuguese captured it in the 17th century and publicly ground the 'teeth idol' to dust. Miraculously, the Sri Lankan king discovered the teeth in his palace the next day. The Enlightened had shown his powers by saving the teeth from the European heretics, and wars between the Portuguese and the Sinhalese Buddhists grew only fiercer.
Very much the same thing would happen in the Islamic world, I imagine.
He also was planning on cutting off the Nile from Egypt.
How does one cut off the nile from egypt?? Doesn't the term "egypt" pretty much refer to whatever power controls the nile?? You might as well try to cut off london from the thames (by diverting the river via a massive canal perhaps????)