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Victor Davis Hanson: A Constantinople Initiative?
NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE ^ | August 16, 2010 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 08/16/2010 10:01:15 PM PDT by neverdem

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To: SunkenCiv

I will be very happy when one day those minarets are torn down and the Hagia Sophia is once again a Christian church.


21 posted on 08/19/2010 4:27:44 PM PDT by Mmogamer (I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

I have read someplace that part of the issue with long islamic memory for historical events comes from the nature of the Arabic language itself, because Arabic has no ~tenses~. There’s no past tense... no future tense... everything is written about in what amounts to the present tense.

An illuminating little factoid, that.


22 posted on 08/19/2010 4:55:34 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: SunkenCiv
I think that there should be an outcry from the Al-Hakam II Brigades regarding the new Greenwich Village mosque ...

It certainly has a strong historical precedent!

23 posted on 08/19/2010 5:07:08 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: neverdem

Some of Pope Urban II speeches should be required reading. We really need to take back Constantinople, which is the birthplace of Christianity as a united and stuctured religion (and I am Catholic, not Orthodox). Having that city in Muslim hands is a spit in the face, much worse than the ground zero mosque. If Westerners knew their history, we would not tolerate muslim control of Constantinople and the way the few Orthodox that remain their are treated.


24 posted on 08/20/2010 6:29:49 AM PDT by wolfman23601
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We really need to take back Constantinople....

Wow.... Wolfman's crusade to invade Turkey. How remarkably silly.

25 posted on 08/20/2010 6:34:56 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: r9etb

Not as remarkably silly as accepting the city as a part of Turkey.


26 posted on 08/20/2010 6:43:02 AM PDT by wolfman23601
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Or even sillier regarding Manhattan as part of the United States, rather than belonging to Native American tribes. Istanbul became part of Turkey the year after Columbus first sailed the oceans blue, and a century and a half before New Amsterdam was settled.


27 posted on 08/20/2010 8:31:19 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Ramius

Yes, quite illuminating indeed. Thanks for sharing.


28 posted on 08/20/2010 8:40:06 AM PDT by Vigilantcitizen
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To: neverdem

Interesting. I didn’t know that much of Cordoba’s “tolerant” reputation was largely a myth. VDH is indispensible.


29 posted on 08/20/2010 9:57:27 AM PDT by DesScorp
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