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So, this new Assassin's Creed: Origins game is set in Ptolemaic Egypt.

 

But it's about Assassins, i.e. an esoteric cultic group of Ismaili Shia Muslims from ten centuries after the absorption of Ptolemaic Egypt by the Roman Empire.  And I'm not saying that to be cute, the first game makes it very explicit that the Assassins it's talking about are the historical Hashashin.

 

The only way this makes sense is if the Hashashin cult or indeed all of Shia Islam predates Mohammad by several centuries.  As people who follow the war in Syria know, this assertion is actually a fairly common slander by radical Islamist groups seeking to justify the genocide of Shiites.

 

 

 

Ubisoft confirmed for Islamic State.

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