Turks Boast of Historic Slaughter and Rape of Christians

FrontPage Magazine ^ | June 8, 2015 | Raymond Ibrahim

[SJackson]

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[BenLurkin]

demanding that the site be turned back into a mosque

That's interesting -- because actually those minarets there should be demolished. And it returned to being a church.

[skeeter]

The same people who whine incessantly about the Crusades.

[Chuckster]

Did not the Turks just repudiate the Muslim Brother hood in a recent election?

[The Toll]

I re-read Seasons In Hell this weekend. Amazing how this time around I could not have cared less how brutally the Serbs treated their Muslim problem. I was cheering them on.

[Scrambler Bob]

M4L

[Snickering Hound]

[rrrod]

“but, but my muslim friends....”

[I want the USA back]

That’s what makes the reptile brain savages proud.

[McGruff]

Turkey Won't Help The Kurds Under ISIS Siege Right Next To Them

[illiac]

I like turkey - eat it every Thanksgiving and many other times during the year.

Their country is appropriately named....

[RobbyS]

Plus the blind-eye that the “Enightened”of the West turn toward any atrocity to Christians in the 3rd world committed by Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists because they also hate Christianity. All religion is superstition, they think, but Christianity stands directly in their way.

[Sherman Logan]

IOW, the Turks, when they took Constantinople, behaved pretty much as other armies of the time did when they captured a city after an arduous siege. Much as the Crusaders did when they captured Jerusalem, by their own account.

The author is correct that ISIS behaves pretty much as Islam did in its heyday. The difference being that was pretty much how all armies behaved back then. Read about the Sack of Rome or Magdeburg, for instance.

I would also note that it is possible to take pride in the deeds of one’s ancestors without necessarily approving of their methods. Much as I am proud of the Founders without approving of the fact that many of them were slavemasters.

[Sherman Logan]

he had the fallen corpse of the Christian emperor, Constantine, who refused to forsake his besieged city, beheaded, mutilated, and mocked.

Probably not. Constantine disappeared in the final struggle. Mehmet had a body treated this way, but it probably wasn't the emperor, who took off his regalia and died fighting hand to hand as a common soldier. A remarkably noble end to the long line of Roman emperors.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Putin, invade Turkey—turn Hagia Sopia back into the Orthodox Cathederal it was built to be—Bring the Turks to Christ—at the point of a sword. Stop Turkey from becoming IS.

[Mi-kha-el]

Putin prefers to fight against Christian countries.

[Eleutheria5]

Get off your high horse.

[CPT Clay]

Well written article.

[Clemenza]

I had my honeymoon in Turkey in 2011. Wonderful country full of friendly people where it was easier to buy alcohol than in New Jersey. The only country where I root for the left to win (as they did yesterday, sort of). Turks tend to be either anti-religious or hardcore religious, but the latter are rarely of the ISIS variety, and even the mosque attendees enjoy some Efes beer every now and then.

Take Armenian and Greek propaganda with a grain of salt, but a bit of sympathy as well. This is more of an ethnic conflict than a religious one. Let us also not forget that the Armenians were major beneficiaries and supporters of the Soviet Union.