 The propaganda written by Ibn Hani attacked where he thought them most vulnerable.The Umayyads were chastised for cowardice, ostentatious luxury, questionable genealogy and ineptitude.The Abbasids, the weakest and most distant of the Fatimid adversaries, were seen as debauched people unworthy to rule, effeminate, indifferent to the Byzantine advances in Syria they were unable to check, and an old decrepit dynasty which should make room for new blood.