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History of Jihad against the Greeks (1450-1853)

How the Greeks manfully resisted and rolled back the Turkish Jihadi onslaught on Greece?


Greece was the cradle of Western civilization. The Persians were the only non-Europeans to have set their foot on Greece as invaders. But they never succeeded. They were checked at Marathon and were repulsed at Salamis. Alexander the great son of Greece, reversed the Persian invasion and led the Greek armies right across the sprawling inter-continental Achamenian (Hakkamanishiya) Empire of the Persians.

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When the goddess of fortune no longer smiled on Greece, the Greeks lost their sovereignty to a foreign power - the Muslims for the first time in their history. But had not the Greeks (Byzantines) held back the Muslim hordes from the first attacks in 734 up to 1453, the future of Europe would have been in peril

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While it is true that the Romans did overrun, Greece, but then they came from the same Greco-Roman ethos and they extended the influence of Greco-Roman culture across all of Europe and into large parts of Asia and Africa. The Roman period was the pinnacle of ancient European culture and the age was known as Pax Romana.

The Greeks who carried on the Greco-Roman empire in the name of Byzantine, held off all invaders for nearly two thousand years since the 4th century B.C.E. (320 B.C.E.) when Alexander the Great of Macedon unified it under his empire, till it was overrun by the Ottoman Turkish Muslim hordes in 1453. This long innings of 2000 years was a Greek achievement.

But the goddess of fortune no longer smiled on Greece and the Greeks lost their sovereignty to a foreign power - the Muslims for the first time in their history in 1453.

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A Greek partisan fighter. Battalions made up of these hardy fighters harassed the Turkish occupiers and ultimately threw the Turks out of Greece.

Had the Greeks failed to resist the Turks, then Europe could have been Islamized, condemning the whole of European civilization to a perennial dark age. Imagine if today's Britons, Spaniards, Italians, Frenchmen, Germans had been all Muslims, then we would be no different from the Iranians or the Arabs! The stubborn Greek resistance to the Muslim menace, prevented that from happening and saved Europe.

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But had not the Greeks held back the Muslim hordes from the first attacks in 734 up to 1453, the future of Europe would have been in peril and had the Greek bastion of Byzantium fallen, then Europe could have been Islamized, condemning the whole of European civilization to a perennial dark age. Imagine if today?s Britons, Spaniards, Italians, Frenchmen, Germans had been all Muslims, then we would be no different from the Iranians or the Arabs! The stubborn Greek resistance to the Muslim menace, prevented that from happening and saved Europe.

But after eight centuries of warfare with the Muslims, the European resistance had begun to crumble. In the 14th century Turkey conquered Bulgaria, Macedonia, Romania, Hungary and parts of Poland and Russia. Turkey was stopped only as it lay siege to Vienna.

For a time it seemed that Europe would fall prey to the Muslim barbarians who were baying for the blood of all Christians. But that was not to happen. And the Greeks played a stellar role in preventing this calamity, along with the Serbs, Croats, Romanians, Hungarians, Austrians, Poles, Russians, Bulgars, to stem and finally reverse the tide of the Muslim invasion of Europe.

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As the Greek war of liberation unfurled the banner of independence, on 23 March 1821, three Greek partisan Generals Petrompeis Mavromichales, Kolokotronis, Papaflessas liberated the city of Kalamata. In the dark days of Muslim tyranny, the Parthenon in Athens was converted into a Mosque, as an ultimate humiliation of the Greeks. But this was not to remain so forever. After the victory over the Turks, the Greeks reconverted all the lost Churches and Basilicas to their original Christian status and wiped out all traces of Turkish and Muslim occupation that had been implanted in the four centuries of Muslim tyranny over Greece.

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The First Turkish Invasion Of Greece

Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, fell to Ottoman sultan Mehmet on a Tuesday in 1453. Ever since then, that day of the week has been considered of ill omen in the Greek world.

Those few Greek areas that had not already fallen to the Ottomans, principally the Pelop󮮩sos and the Aegean Islands, were invaded and occupied by the Ottoman Turks over the next two centuries.

The Parthenon in Athens was converted into a Mosque, as an ultimate humiliation of the Greeks. The last major conquest was the island of Crete, which the Ottomans captured in 1669 from the Venetians. The Ionian Islands remained under the rule of Venice and were only briefly part of the Ottoman Empire.

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The Pope succeeded in forming a league of maritime powers against Sultan Selim, and secured the co-operation of Philip II by granting him the right to tithes for this crusade, while he himself equipped some galleys. On 7 October, 1571, a Christian fleet of 200 galleys, carrying 50,000 men under the command of Don Juan of Austria, met the Ottoman fleet in the Straits of Lepanto, destroyed it completely, and liberated thousands of Christians, living in the islands off the Greek mainland.

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Ottoman rule was arbitrary and cruel. Muslim perfidy was seen in 1571, the Island of Cyprus was threatened by the Ottomans, who cruelly massacred the garrisons of Famagusta and Nicosia, in spite of these towns having surrendered on stipulated terms. At the end an exasperated Christian population appealed to Pope Pius V to intervene and save them from the Turks.

The Pope succeeded in forming a league of maritime powers against Sultan Selim, and secured the co-operation of Philip II by granting him the right to tithes for this crusade, while he himself equipped some galleys. On 7 October, 1571, a Christian fleet of 200 galleys, carrying 50,000 men under the command of Don Juan of Austria, met the Ottoman fleet in the Straits of Lepanto, destroyed it completely, and liberated thousands of Christians, living in the islands off the Greek mainland

But the Greek mainland remained chained to the Ottoman tyranny. As the population groaned under this repressive rule, the Greek Orthodox population began to increasingly look for their emancipation towards the only remaining Orthodox power - Russia. There were numerous revolts in which the Greeks rose up against Turkish tyranny with Russian help.

In 1770 Ottoman authorities brutally crushed a Greek revolt aided by a small Russian force led by count Alexey Grigoryevich Orlov.

Towards the end of the 18th century, a small group of Greek nationalists, inspired by the French Revolution and the ideas of the Enlightenment, came into being. Rich Greek merchants endowed schools and libraries, provided scholarships, and subsidized the printing of books.

Greek students studying in European universities became aware of the reverence with which the language and civilization of ancient Greece were looked upon in the West. This raised their self-confidence to fight for the liberation of their homeland.

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Gouras and Androutsos with 800 men destroyed the Turkish army of Behrem Pasha (4000 men) at Basilika. These revolts were often led by Greek students who had become aware of the greatness of their history after studying about it in Western Universities. The most important of these early nationalists was Rigas Velestinlis (Rigas Pheraios), who was executed by the Ottomans in 1798 after vainly attempting to launch a Balkan-wide revolt against Ottoman tyranny.

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These students returned to Greek lands and sought to instill a consciousness of their heroic Greek ancestry in their fellow Greeks. Some gave themselves or their children the names of the heroes of ancient Greece. The most important of these early nationalists was Rigas Velestinlis (Rigas Pheraios), who was executed by the Ottomans in 1798 after vainly attempting to launch a Balkan-wide revolt against Ottoman rule.

In 1814 a secret revolutionary society, the Philiki Etairia (Friendly Society), formed in the Russian city of Odesa (Odessa; in present-day Ukraine) to prepare for an armed revolt. The group enrolled members and collected funds and weapons in the Greek communities of the eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans. Alexandros Ypsilantis, a Greek general in the service of Russian emperor Alexander I, accepted leadership of the society.

Early in 1821 Ypsilantis launched an attack from Russian territory into Moldavia, then part of the Ottoman Empire. But the hoped for Russian assistance failed to materialize, and the attempt at liberation was defeated. Another uprising at about the same time in the Pelop󮮩sos, led by Archbishop Germanos of Pᴲai, met with greater success. All these revolts signaled that the Greek War of Independence had begun.

In the early stages of the war, the Greek insurgentsled by Theodoros Kolokotronis, Markos Botzaris, Alexandros Mavrokordatos, and othersachieved some striking successes. The Greeks had a strong nautical tradition, and their navy, under the command of Andreas Miaoulis, launched effective attacks on the Ottoman fleet. But the Great Powers of the time (Britain, France, Austria, Prussia, and Russia) were fearful of any threat to the established order and offered no help. So the Greeks had to rely on their own resources and the support of volunteer philhellenes (admirers of Greek culture and traditions) from Europe and the United States who raised money for the embattled Greeks.

But the wily Sultan Mahmud II enlisted the support of Egyptian viceroy Muhammad Ali, promising him the island of Crete. After this opportunistic alliance the military situation turned against the Greek freedom fighters, who were caught between two forces. Egyptian forces reoccupied the Pelop󮮩sos, and the military outlook for the Greek revolutionaries was grim.

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The Greek war of independence against Turkish Muslim tyranny was the first successful one in the Balkans. It was led by brave Greeks like Kolokotronis, Nikitaras, Papaflessas, and Ypsilantes. On 26 July 1822. Romaioi under the leadership of Kolokotronis, crushed the pasha's army of 30000 men at Dervenakia, near Argos.

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By this stage of the war, the Great Powers, alarmed by the continuing instability in the strategically important eastern Mediterranean and by the disruption of trade, decided to intervene. France joined Britain and Russia in sending a fleet, commanded by a British admiral, to mediate in the conflict.

In 1827 the powers destroyed the Ottoman-Egyptian fleet at the Battle of Navarino, the last great battle of the age of sailing ships. That year saw the birth of independent Greece. Count Ioᮮis Kapod��rias, a Greek who had served as the joint foreign minister for Emperor Alexander I, was elected president of Greece, and a new constitution, the third drafted for the still unofficial state, was proclaimed.

The Ottomans? defeat at Navarino and in a separate war with Russia in the late 1820s forced the sultan to accept the creation of an independent Greece in 1829. In 1830 Britain, France, and Russia issued the London Protocol, which proclaimed the new kingdom of Greece and placed it under their protection. The Great Powers also acknowledged Greece's independence in the London Protocol issued in 1828 and in the Treaty of Adrianople signed in 1829.

In 1832 the three powers decreed that Greece would be ruled by a monarch chosen from a European royal dynasty other than one of theirs. The new state consisted of the Pelop󮮩sos, a southern portion of mainland Greece, and a few of the islands. Its frontier extended from Arta in the west to V󬯳 in the east, and it included only one-third of the Greeks who had been under Ottoman rule.

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The Greek war of Independence claimed many martyrs among the freedom fighters. On 7 Aug 1822, Anagnostis Petimezas and his son (age 17), were killed while defending their positions at Vasilika near Kiato.

But these sacrifices were not in vain. The Ottomans? defeat at Navarino and in a separate war with Russia in the late 1820s forced the sultan to accept the creation of an independent Greece in 1829. In 1830 Britain, France, and Russia issued the London Protocol, which proclaimed the new kingdom of Greece and placed it under their protection.

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Kapod��rias sought with some success to equip Greece with the basic structures of a state following a decade of intermittent fighting. However after ruling for a brief period of four years, he passed away in 1831. In 1832 the Great Powers chose Otto of the Bavarian Wittelsbach dynasty to be king of Greece. He was crowned Otto I the following year. Athens was little more than a village at that time, but it contained the Parthenon and other associations with the glories of ancient times and so was chosen to be the capital of the new state. Handsome neoclassical buildings were erected in the city.

In 1864 Britain granted to Greece the rule of the Ionian Islands, over which the British had exercised a protectorate since 1815. These islands had earlier been under the Venetians. This marked the first addition of territory since Greece had become independent. Greek politicians and common people alike aspired to the Megali Idea (Great Idea) of uniting as many as possible of the Greeks of the Near and Middle East within the bounds of a single state, which would have as its capital Constantinople (Istanbul) rather than Athens. They cherished this aspiration even though it was bound to bring the small and weak Greek kingdom into confrontation with the Ottoman Empire.

After the Ottoman Empire lost the Russo-Turkish War of 1877 to 1878, the Ottomans were obliged by the Congress of Berlin to cede the rich agricultural province of Thessaly and part of Epirus to Greece in 1881. As part of the Berlin settlement, Britain acquired the right to administer the predominantly Greek-inhabited island of Cyprus.

In 1885 Greece sought to exploit the problems of the Ottoman Empire for more territorial gains, but the Great Powers blockaded the country.

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In 1896 a revolt against Ottoman rule began in Crete, where the majority of the population fervently sought union (Enosis) with the Greek kingdom. Volunteer forces arrived from Greece the following year. While Crete achieved union with Greece, the other island of Cyprus is still partially under Turkish Muslim occupation.

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By the end of the 19th century, Greece's nationalist ambitions were focused on the Ottoman territories of Macedonia (located to the north of Thessaly) and Crete. The Greeks founded, the Ethniki Hetairia (National Society), 1894, directed propaganda and the armed struggle.

In 1896 a revolt against Ottoman rule began in Crete, where the majority of the population fervently sought union with the Greek kingdom. Volunteer forces arrived from Greece the following year. But Greece suffered a crushing defeat in a short-lived war with the Ottomans, and the Great Powers forced it to pay compensation to the Ottomans and to accept small modifications to the Greek-Ottoman frontier.

In 1898 the powers granted Crete autonomy over domestic affairs, and Ottoman forces were obliged to withdraw from the island. Crete remained an Ottoman possession, but the Great Powers appointed Prince George, the second son of George I, to govern the island as an internationally sponsored high commissioner.

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All through the long struggle to win independence, the Greeks had to pay a very heavy price with blood and tears to make this possible. In the history of Islam, The Sword and The Prophet, Serge Trifkovic wrote about the history of the Turkish oppression of the Greek Orthodox Christians as follows: The burning of the Greek city of Smyrna and the massacre and scattering of its three hundred thousand Christian inhabitants is one of the most poignant ? among the vast outrages of the Muslim oppression of a subject Christian population. It is the bloodiest - crimes in all history. It marked the end of the Greek community in Asia Minor. On the eve of its destruction, Smyrna was a bustling port and commercial center.

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The Cretans? determination to join Greece was undiminished, and in 1908 the Cretan assembly proclaimed the union of Crete with Greece. Only Cyprus was lost to the Greeks and remains divided till today, with the Northern half occupied by the Turks. Still one day the Greeks hope to achieve Enosis (Unity) of Cyprus with Greece.

But all through the long struggle to win independence, the Greeks had to pay a very heavy price with blood and tears to make this possible.

In his history of Islam, The Sword and The Prophet, Serge Trifkovic wrote about the history of the Turkish oppression of the Greek Orthodox Christians as follows: The burning of the Greek city of Smyrna and the massacre and scattering of its three hundred thousand Christian inhabitants is one of the most poignant among the vast outrages of the Muslim oppression of a subject Christian population.

It is the bloodiest of other Muslim crimes in all history of Muslim oppression. It marked the end of the Greek community in Asia Minor. On the eve of its destruction, Smyrna was a bustling port and commercial center. It was a genuinely civilized place, in the old-world sense.

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Constantinopolitan (Romaios) Alexandros Ypsilantes enters Iasio-Moldavia, 22 Feb 1821, and starts Greek War of Independence.

When it seemed that Europe would fall prey to the Muslim barbarians who were baying for the blood of all Christians, the Greeks, along with the Serbs, Croats, Romanians, Hungarians, Austrians, Poles, Russians, Bulgars, fought and finally reversed the tide of the Muslim invasion of Europe.

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An American consul-general later remembered a busy social life that included dances, musical afternoons, games of tennis and bridge, and soirees given in the salons of the highly cultured Armenian and Greek bourgeoisie.

Turkish Muslims actually enjoyed massacring the Christians

When the Turks attacked, the Greek Orthodox Bishop Chrysostomos remained with his flock. "It is the tradition of the Greek Church and the duty of the priest to stay with his congregation," he replied to those begging him to flee. The Moslem mob fell upon him, uprooted his eyes and, as he was bleeding, dragged him by his beard through the streets of the Turkish quarter, beating and kicking him.

Every now and then, when he had the strength to do so, he would raise his right hand and blessed his persecutors. A Turk got so furious at this gesture that he cut off his hand with his sword. He fell to the ground, and was hacked to pieces by the savage mob. The carnage culminated in the burning of Smyrna, which started on September 13 when the Turks put the Christian quarter to torch and the conflagration engulfed the city.

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During the slaughter of the Christians, the Turkish women stimulated their heroes by raising a gutteral shriek of their war cry, the Zilghit, and deafening the hopeless despair of their victims by singing their nuptial songs. A kind of wild cannibal humour seized the crowd...the savage crew did not even spare the children."

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The remaining inhabitants were trapped at the seafront, from which there was no escaping the flames on one side, or Turkish bayonets on the other. This was the end of Christianity in Asia Minor, whose history goes back to events recorded in the New Testament itself."

Marjorie Housepian in her book The Smyrna Affair, quoted a missionary eyewitness who said the Turkish Muslims actually enjoyed massacring the Christians. He said:

?The slaughter of the Christians was a joy to the Turks, a massacre was heralded by the blowing of trumpets and concluded by a procession. Accompanied by the prayers of the mullahs and muezzins, who from the minarets implored the blessings of Allah, the slaughter was accomplished in admirable order according to a well arranged plan.

The crowd, supplied with arms by the authorities, joined most amicably with the soldiers and the Kurdish Hamidieh on these festive occasions. The Turkish women stimulated their heroes by raising a gutteral shriek of their war cry, the Zilghit, and deafening the hopeless despair of their victims by singing their nuptial songs. A kind of wild cannibal humour seized the crowd...the savage crew did not even spare the children."

The Turks have committed atrocities against other minorities as well, The Tower of skulls of Chele Kula, is a monument to the Turkish savagery against the Serbs in the early 1800s.

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When the Turks attacked, the Greek Orthodox Bishop Chrysostomos remained with his flock. "It is the tradition of the Greek Church and the duty of the priest to stay with his congregation," he replied to those begging him to flee. The Moslem mob fell upon him, uprooted his eyes and, as he was bleeding, dragged him by his beard through the streets of the Turkish quarter, beating and kicking him. Every now and then, when he had the strength to do so, he would raise his right hand and blessed his persecutors. A Turk got so furious at this gesture that he cut off his hand with his sword. He fell to the ground, and was hacked to pieces by the savage mob. The carnage culminated in the burning of Smyrna, which started on September 13 when the Turks put the Christian quarter to torch and the conflagration engulfed the city.

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Lest we think "Well that was ancient history", as recently as 1974 Turkey invaded Cyprus. The Turks have renamed all the cities and towns in Turkish occupied Cyprus. They have also destroyed concrete evidence of the Christian and Greek history of the area of Cyprus under their control. According to an article in the Guardian ('The Rape of northern Cyprus', 5.6.1976)

"...The vandalism and desecration are so methodical and so widespread that they amount to institutionalized obliteration of everything sacred to a Greek [...] In some instances, an entire graveyard of 50 or more tombs had been reduced to pieces or rubble no larger than a matchbox...

We found the chapel of Ayios Demetrios at Ardhana empty but for the remains of the altar plinth, and that was fouled with human excrement[...] At Syngrasis [...] the broken crucifix was drenched in urine.. At Lefkoniko [...the interior of Gaidhouras church...] was overlooked by an armless Christ on a smashed crucifix.. Tombs gaped open wherever we went... crosses bearing the pictures of those buried beneath [...] had been flattened and destroyed."

Even today, Cypriots who oppose the Turks are treated savagely; in 1996 the Greek Cypriot demonstrator, Anastasios (Tasos) Isaak, was beaten to death by the Turkish occupation forces. According to the Greek Cypriot Magazine Selides. August, 1996, one thousand six hundred and nineteen Greek Cypriots and Greeks who were taken as prisoners of war during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus are still missing.

The Turkish Heritage of Anti-Semitism.

?Like their Christian fellow subjects, the Jews were inferior citizens in the Muslim-Ottoman state which was based on the principle of Muslim superiority. They were regarded as state prot駩s (dhimmis) and had to pay a special poll tax (jizya) for that protection and as a sign of their inferior status.

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As the population groaned under this repressive rule, the Greek Orthodox population began to increasingly look for their emancipation towards the only remaining Orthodox power - Russia. There were numerous revolts in which the Greeks rose up against Turkish tyranny with Russian help.

In 1770 Ottoman authorities brutally crushed a Greek revolt aided by a small Russian force led by count Alexey Grigoryevich Orlov.

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Jewish testimony was not accepted in the courts of justice, and in cases of the murder of a Jew or Christian by a Muslim, the latter was usually not condemned to death. In addition, Jews as well as Christians were normally not acceptable for appointments to the highest administrative posts; they were forbidden to carry arms (thus, to serve in the army), to ride horses in towns or to wear Muslim dress. They were also not usually allowed to build or repair places of worship and were often subjected to oppression, extortion and violence by both the local authorities and the Muslim population."

Maltreatment of Jews and Christians by the Ottomans

Professor Tudor Parfitt in his comprehensive study of the Jews of Palestine during the 19th century wrote about the Turkish oppression of the Jews of Palestine as follows: "?Inside the towns, Jews and other dhimmis were frequently attacked, wounded, and even killed by local Muslims and Turkish soldiers.

Muslim attacks on Jews and Christians were frequently for trivial reasons: Wilson [in British Foreign Office correspondence] recalled having met a Jew who had been badly wounded by a Turkish soldier for not having instantly dismounted when ordered to give up his donkey to a soldier of the Sultan. Many Jews were killed for less.

On occasions the Turkish authorities themselves were sometimes responsible for beating Jews to death for some unproven charge. After one such occasion Young [the British Consul] remarked: ?I must say I am sorry and surprised that the Governor could have acted so savage a part- for certainly what I have seen of him I should have thought him superior to such wanton inhumanity- but it was a Jew- without friends or protection- it serves to show well that it is not without reason that the poor Jew, even in the nineteenth century, lives from day to day in terror of his life?."

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On 10 April 1826 hundreds of Greek women and children were killed. Mothers preferred death than slavery. ?The slaughter of the Christians was a joy to the Turks, a massacre was heralded by the blowing of trumpets and concluded by a procession. Accompanied by the prayers of the mullahs and muezzins, who from the minarets implored the blessings of Allah, the slaughter was accomplished in admirable order according to a well arranged plan. The crowd, supplied with arms by the authorities, joined most amicably with the soldiers and the Kurdish Hamidieh on these festive occasions.

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During World War I in Palestine, the embattled Young Turk government actually began deporting the Jews of Tel Aviv in the spring of 1917 - an ominous parallel to the genocidal deportations of the Armenian dhimmi communities throughout Anatolia.

With the track record of persecution should Turkey be Admitted into the European Union?

There is one overriding reason to be concerned about admitting Turkey into the European Union, and that is the potential effect of Turkish membership on the Muslim population of European countries which are already having serious problems as a result of their large Islamic populations. If Turkey joins the EU, a significant percentage of Turkey's over 60 million Muslims will migrate into Europe, as has happened on a lesser scale so far with Germany.

Turkey inside the EU will be a Trojan Horse that will Islamize Europe

Furthermore, many millions of Muslims from other Islamic countries are likely to use Turkey as their gateway to Europe. Once they attain legal status in Turkey, these Muslims from other Islamic countries will be free to go anywhere inside Europe, terrorize Europeans and finally make Europe a Muslim sphere. This is the declared aim of the Muslims to wage Jihad by the womb.

Is an Ideological war enough to ensure the decimation of Islam?

Some liberals in the West advocate that the conflict with Islam be limited to an ideological and information war only. A kind of Cold war to drill into the Muslim masses the advantages of democracy, liberalism and the separation of the Church (Mosque) from the state. This is similar to the tactics followed by the Western Democracies in the opening days of World War 2, when they air-dropped leaflets urging the German people to overthrow the Nazis. This did not happen, and the Nazis had to be annihilated through six years of ceaseless warfare. The Israelis are doing the same mistake today (July 2006) when they air-drop leaflets over Sidon asking the Lebanese to resist the Hezbollah. The Hezbollah are blood-thirsty maniacs who can be neutralized with neurons and nukes alone. After all the Muslims only understand the language of blood and death, the only way to a Muslim heart is to put a bullet into it after all the only good Muslim is a dead Muslim (this is stated in all seriousness).

But in spite of this harsh reality, the dyed in the wool communist fifth-columnists amongst us scream for the war to be stopped, while the wide eyed liberals pontificate that we need to strength moderate Muslims - as if there can ever be one like partially pregnant woman!

The dangers to civilization from the communist fifth-columnists amongst us

While to most innocent bystanders, their contrived rhetoric appears quite logical on the face of it, we fail to realize that all this is an eyewash meant to save our enemies, before these enemies develop the nuclear capability to do in the West. By raising the fiction of there being moderate Muslims, these communist fifth-columnists traitors amongst us deliberately confuse us about the dangers from Islam arising from the paranoid emotional clasp that Islam has on the minds of each and every Muslim across the length and breadth of our globe.

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Patriarch Gregorios was one of thousands of Orthodox Romioi who were massacred in Constantinople, Adrianople, Smyrne, Kydonies and elsewhere in Anatolia. Ottoman rule was arbitrary and cruel. Muslim perfidy was seen in 1571, the Island of Cyprus was threatened by the Ottomans, who cruelly massacred the garrisons of Famagusta and Nicosia, in spite of these towns having surrendered on the stipulated terms. Lesson: Never Trust a Muslim. The Quran calls on him to practice deception (Taqiya) against non-Muslims.

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For the sake of our own survival we need to wake up to the fact that the clasp of the murderous injunctions of the Quran cannot be broken by ideological warfare alone. The non-Muslim ancestors of the Muslims became Muslims in the first place due to physical coercion, at the point of the sword. Howsoever vehemently the Muslims of today may deny this, we can safely ignore their frothy fits of rage to make us swallow the canard that Islam was spread voluntarily amongst the ancestors of today's Muslims.

At its core, Islam is a murder cult organized in a paranoid way to ensure that no one ever leaves Islam.

A person leaving Islam is a Murtad (apostate) and has to be punished with death. For its followers, Islam makes compulsory congregational prayer five times a day. So a Muslim is never allowed to leave the flock, a membership that is enforced by constant brainwashing and a penalty of death for those risking to leave Islam openly.

With this kind of a paranoid system that traps Muslims into Islam, the only way to break the lock, is to inflict a crushing defeat on Islam at a global level. A defeat so utterly crushing that it would mangle the self-confidence and arrogance of the Muslims in the capacity of the Ummah to save them.

So while an ideological war to weaken the legitimacy of Islam in the minds of those trapped inside Islam is fine, it is hardly sufficient by itself to defeat Islam. The non-Muslim world need to undertake a united and determined stand against Islam and show zero tolerance of its creed. If we are to save ourselves and the civilized way of life, we may have to pay in their own coins as concerns Islam.

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On 23 Sept 1821, Hellenes (Romioi) conquer Tripolis, capital of Peloponessus, 32000 of Turkish population are massacred. The Greek war of Independence was inspired by a secret revolutionary society formed in 1814. This society was called the Philiki Etairia (Friendly Society), formed in the Russian city of Odesa (Odessa; in present-day Ukraine) to prepare for an armed revolt. The group enrolled members and collected funds and weapons in the Greek communities of the eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans.

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Name: Total defeat of Islam.
Date: Sunday September 28, 2008
Time: 03:10:14 -0700

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This is the best article for 2008. It writes below the picture after Muslims massacre Greeks "Lesson: Never Trust a Muslim. The Quran calls on him to practice deception (Taqiya) against non-Muslims."


Name: Only way to make shipping safe off Somali coast
Date: Sunday September 28, 2008
Time: 03:18:15 -0700

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Give the Muslims a taste of their very own medicine is the way to keep world shipping safe. There is a need to wipe out the Somalis pirates. The Somali pirates are now behaving like Mohammad when he raided caravans to rob, rape and kill innocent people.


Name: kmgy
Date: Sunday September 28, 2008
Time: 04:07:38 -0700

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That is why today all freedom-loving people must stand united regardless of race or color against this global Islamic menace and employ all legal means possible to defeat this serious threat to MANKIND!


Name: Great article .It shows well why and how jihad is dangerous to humanity
Date: Sunday September 28, 2008
Time: 04:28:30 -0700

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Great article .It shows well why and how jihad is dangerous to humanity. Greeks daringly rebelled saved thier own religion. The world has to learn a lot from this history anlysys.


Name: qwer
Date: Sunday September 28, 2008
Time: 06:20:03 -0700

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How idiot of their allah and Mo-Ham-Mad. This fact explain to us why moslems become the most stupid peoples in the world.


Name: once again history is repeating itself
Date: Sunday September 28, 2008
Time: 09:35:57 -0700

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I can only hope that England, that is also currently under going a similar, though less violent (unless you happen to be walking around alone) occupation where they have now parallel legal systems. History has shown over and over again that those that oppress people eventually fight back, but only after centuries of oppression. It is slowly happening today in Iran where thousand are converting to Christianity or the religion of the region originally Zoroastrianism.


Name: Screw turkey
Date: Monday September 29, 2008
Time: 00:46:56 -0700

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The turks should all be kicked out of greater anatolia with the territory being divided between the greeks, kurds and armenians


Name: Alexius
Date: Monday September 29, 2008
Time: 01:14:58 -0700

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"The Greeks who carried on the Greco-Roman empire in the name of Byzantine, held off all invaders for nearly two thousand years since the 4th century B.C.E. (320 B.C.E.) when Alexander the Great of Macedon unified it under his empire, till it was overrun by the Ottoman Turkish Muslim hordes in 1453." Sadly, not true. Constantinople/Byzantium was overrun and sacked by fellow Christians (so called Latins i.e. Roman Catholics) of the 4th Crusade in 1203, undoubtedly sowing the seeds of the fall of the Byzantine empire and then Constantinople 250 years later. One of Christendom's most shameful acts, with the repercussions still being felt today.


Name: Islamists are creating havoc!
Date: Monday September 29, 2008
Time: 02:28:50 -0700

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DAMASCUS, Syria - The attack that killed 17 people in Damascus this weekend was carried out by a suicide bomber who belonged to a Muslim extremist group, Syria's state-run media said Monday. It also follows a warning by President Bashar Assad that "extremist forces" were operating in northern Lebanon and looking to destabilize Syria. He apparently was referring to the Sunni militants who have clashed for months with pro-Syrian gunmen in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli. The Syrian government has been battling Muslim militants it blames for recent attacks. The militants often denounce Assad's regime for its secularism and have at times called for its overthrow.

ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopian police on Monday blamed an Islamist rebel group for a weekend explosion that killed four people and wounded 22 others in the country's eastern region. The government has also repeatedly blamed the Islamist group for earlier attacks in the capital, Addis Ababa.

MOGADISHU,- Somali Islamist insurgents attacked African Union peacekeepers and government forces in the capital Mogadishu, and at least four people were killed in the clashes, witnesses said Monday. Ethiopian troops intervened to prop up the feeble Somali government at the end of 2006 and eventually drove the Islamists from much of the country's southern and central regions, where they had established Sharia law. Since then, the Islamists have killed numerous government officials and vowed to fight until the Ethiopians, whom they regard as occupiers, withdraw.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistani forces seeking to conquer a Taliban and al-Qaida stronghold near the border with Afghanistan killed 15 insurgents in ongoing clashes, officials said Monday. Fazl Rabi, a local police official, said troops repelled an overnight attack by 50 militants against a camp about 6 miles north of Khar, Bajur's main town. He said militants also attacked paramilitary troops before dawn in the Tang Khata area of Bajur.

BEIRUT, Lebanon - A car bomb exploded near a military bus carrying troops to work in northern Lebanon on Monday, killing at least five people and wounding at least 21, Lebanese security officials said.


Name: Joshua
Date: Monday September 29, 2008
Time: 03:18:16 -0700

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Excellent article.


Name: Nuclear Iran - The Coming Doomsday!
Date: Monday September 29, 2008
Time: 09:55:53 -0700

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A passage from the Ayatollah Khomeini [the one who got all this state-sponsoring terrorism started] quoted in an 11th-grade Iranian schoolbook, is revealing. “I am decisively announcing to the whole world that if the world-devourers [i.e., the infidel powers] wish to stand against our religion, we will stand against their whole world and will not cease until the annihilation of all them. Either we all become free, or we will go to the greater freedom which is martyrdom. Either we shake one another’s hands in joy at the victory of Islam in the world, or all of us will turn to eternal life and martyrdom. In both cases, victory and success are ours.” Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s goal is to overthrow the current world order and create a world dominated by Iran’s version of Islam. His visions of global dominance and his hatred of the Jews make him very similar to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. Yet, in some ways he is more dangerous. Once Iran’s uranium enrichment program is complete, it will be a relatively simple matter to weaponize the resulting uranium stockpiles. It is time that world leaders started taking this threat a little more seriously.


Name:
Date: Monday September 29, 2008
Time: 17:50:33 -0700

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Let us hope history does not repeat itself


Name: olgac
Date: Wednesday October 01, 2008
Time: 17:40:37 -0700

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well im a turkish but im not muslim every one of my friends know that im an atheist but they dont try to blow me up or shoot me with an ak-47 .. im trying to say not all of the muslims are bad guys .. my mother is muslim also but she never talks about religions.. if u think all the muslims are bad that shows your stupidity. i think all religions are the same piece of cr*p.. non of them makes any sense.. so don't forget your holy crusades... crusades are same with jihads...


Name: Editor
Date: Wednesday October 01, 2008
Time: 19:19:35 -0700

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Olgac, we are former Muslims like you. we have family members like your brother and we know well your point.

This site is about Islam and Islam-inspired behavior and actions amongst Muslims. Everybody knows that all Muslims do not blow up. Very few Muslims know what is truly in the Quran. There are others who, inspired by a humanistic ideal, scrupulously disregard the violent things said in the Quran. Although Muhammad had inspired each of his disciples to those barbaric actions, demanded of them by the Quran---today some Muslims have been picking it up and causing mayhem around the world. That's our concern. A thousand nonviolent Muslims are no match to a single fanatic one, willing to blow up. He still causes havoc.


 
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