Very interesting piece, and it’s obvious you put some pretty serious research into this.
Because they backed the Kaiser in WWI, the Ottoman Empire forfeited everything when they lost, leaving the French and the British to divvy up the spoils. The Ottomans were a brutal bunch and they deserved to lose it all. The relationship between the Ottomans and the Germans goes back almost a century before WWI, and the notorious German arms firm Krupp made much of the family fortune in selling the Ottomans the latest version of the Der Kanonenkönig’s latest wares, ensuring that the Ottomans were always armed to the teeth.
It’s also interesting to point out that there was another major jihad that took place during the American Civil War. “The Mahdi” arose in what was then called the Soudan, and his jihadis rampaged all the way down the Nile River Valley into the heart of Africa, slaughtering anyone that would not convert to Islam, and thousands more they didn’t bother to ask.
Sir Henry Stanley was contracted by the King Leopold of Belgium to lead a couple of major 18 month long relief expeditions on foot up the Congo River and it’s many tributaries to try and rescue the leader of the Belgian Congo. (”In Darkest Africa” was Stanley’s account of two of those expeditions, and it is excellent reading and a very good account of some of the Muslim extremism that infected Africa at that time.)
Even Ayatollah Khomeni didn’t object if his followers called him “Imam”, which is an allusion to the 12th Imam.
The coming of a Mahdi is a constant theme in Islam, and it regularly results in some very mortal (but extremely ambitious) Muslim Cleric who convinces himself that he is the “The One” and launches his own version of Jihad against the rest of the world. The cycle will never stop as long as there are fanatics who follow this “religion”.
Wow. No one talks about the persecution of the Greek millet in writing anymore. I had friends prevented from communicating with me because of my study of the Ottomans, due to said persecution.
http://www.reference.com/browse/djebel+druze
Thanks so much for your insight. Now, with the modern Turks going towards Islamism, there’s more than one reason (or shall I say millions of reasons as in victims of Jihadi-genocide?) to expose the Jihadism within their fabric.
As to MAHDISM, there’s no argument against the fact that Islamic supremacy, war-towards-Islamic-Caliphate are all tied together.