Today in History: Christian Albania Prevails over the Jihad

October 26, 2022  By Raymond Ibrahim

Today in history witnessed one of the greatest defenses by a small Christian force against Islamic invaders, the relief of the siege of Croya (Krujë), Albania, in 1450.

Nearly four decades earlier, the leader of the Albanian forces, George Kastrioti -- better known as Skanderbeg (“Lord Alexander”) -- was taken captive as a child by the Ottoman Turks, and trained to be a janissary, a Christian slave turned Muslim soldier.  Excelling at war, he quickly rose among the Ottoman ranks until he became a renowned general, with thousands of Turks under his command.

Despite all the honors showered on him, once the opportunity appeared, he showed where his true allegiance lay: he broke free of the Ottomans and fled to his native and continuously harried Albania.  There, after openly reclaiming his Christian faith, he “abjured the prophet and the sultan, and proclaimed himself the avenger of his family and country,” to quote Edward Gibbon...........To Read More....

 

Why the Church Bells Ring at Noon

July 22, 2022 By Raymond Ibrahim

Today in history, on July 22, 1456, the West scored one of its greatest victories over jihad — and, in so doing, inaugurated the ringing of church bells at noon.

Three years after conquering Constantinople, the Ottoman sultan, Muhammad II, at the head of over 100,000 Turks, marched toward the strategic fortress town of Belgrade, key to Western Europe, in the spring of 1456.

Cognizant of all the death, destruction, and mind-boggling atrocities this massive Muslim march presaged — memory of the sack of Constantinople was still fresh — a great panic swept through the Danube region.  Even Hungarian king Ladislaus V fled his capital to Vienna (on the pretext that he was going "hunting").

Only one stood his ground: John Hunyadi, the Transylvanian voivode who had long been a thorn in the Turks' side.  Even as the king fled west, Hunyadi raced to the eastern frontier — toward, not away from the Turkish army.  He immediately manned the fortress of Belgrade with 6,000 veteran fighters at his own expense.  Although he implored the higher nobles for aid, few were responsive........To Read More....

 

Erdogan and the Ottoman Caliphate

By IQ al-Rassooli, Scholar andTerrorism Analyst 2019-10-14T15:50:02-04:00October 14th, 2019

 

The peninsula that is called Turkey today, was originally called Anatolia. For centuries before the Turkeyfication of Anatolia starting with the Sunni Muslim Seljuks, it was almost totally occupied by the Byzantine Christians from the Mediterranean to Armenia.

 

It is best to enlighten the readers with the background that leads to modern Turkey without which it would be impossible to understand the mind-set of the dictator of Turkey; Recep Tayyib Erdogan.

From their homeland in Central Asia (near the Aral Sea), under their leader Tughril Beg (990), the Seljuks first conquered Khorasan (mainland Persia) and then subjugated most of Anatolia from the Byzantine Empire in 1071.

The Seljuk Empire declined over the next two centuries until they were completely taken over by the Ottoman Turks by the Oghuz Turkish tribal leader Osman I (Othman/ Uthman; from which the name Ottoman is derived).

What we call the Turkish people since the 1920’s, are those descendants of the Muslim Ottoman Turkic tribes..........

As you are reading this article, there are 57 Muslim majority states comprising 1,500,000,000 Muslims that are among the most Dysfunctional, Totalitarian, Theocratic or Despotic in the world.
Although the Muslims represent 20% of current humanity, they have managed Only FOUR Nobel laureates (not including for Peace) while the Jews (0.2% of current humanity) have been able to garner Two Hundred and Four (not including for Peace); yet no one has the backbone and or the knowledge to explain such an incredible anomaly although the Common Denominator fills the room.

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The Turkish Ottoman Empire Really Did Perpetrate Genocide Against Armenians

 Turkish official teasing starving Armenian children with food in 1915. 

 

Yes....the Turks deliberately perpetrated genocide against the Armenia people.  Armenians were Christians, well educated, successful and resented for it by the Turks.  "The genocide was carried out during and after World War I and implemented in two phases: the wholesale killing of the able-bodied male population through massacre and subjection of army conscripts to forced labour, followed by the deportation of women, children, the elderly and infirm on death marches leading to the Syrian desert. Driven forward by military escorts, the deportees were deprived of food and water and subjected to periodic robbery, rape, and massacre."  "Turks created a “Special Organization,” which in turn organized “killing squads” or “butcher battalions” to carry out, as one officer put it, “the liquidation of the Christian elements.” 

"Records show that during this “Turkification”campaign government squads also kidnapped children, converted them to Islam and gave them to Turkish families. In some places, they raped women and forced them to join Turkish “harems” or serve as slaves. Muslim families moved into the homes of deported Armenians and seized their property".  In 1922, when the genocide was over, there were just 388,000 Armenians remaining in the Ottoman Empire."

"Despite pressure from Armenians and social justice advocates throughout the world, it is still illegal in Turkey to talk about what happened to Armenians during this era."

Read More...Much More....@ Wikipedia and especially @ History