Posted on 09/16/2014 12:45:44 PM PDT by george76
Sold to an ISIS leader and held captive for a month, Amsha Alyas tells the story of her escape. DUHOK, Iraq — When the young woman who had been taken as war treasure by an Islamic State leader returned to her family after a harrowing escape, it was as if she had risen from the dead.
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“We knew thousands of women had been sold.”
His daughter, Amsha Ali Alyas, a 19-year-old with a voice as soft as her features, wasn't actually sold but rather hand-picked by an ISIS leader who was so enamored with her that he was willing to overlook her pregnancy and take her one-year-old son as “his own.”
Alyas, who spent a month in captivity with her young son, is one of the fortunate few who escaped. Many girls and women are still living as prisoners in the homes of fighters, deep inside ISIS-held territory.
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After the celebrations, the trading of slaves began.
Men perused the captive women and placed their offers, buying women for as little as $15. Among the buyers were both foreign and local men—she recognized several people from Sinjar. The men who didn't want to take children separated them from their mothers, leaving them in Mosul, where they would be educated at an ISIS-run school, the women overheard.
As the days dragged on, several women attempted suicide, creating nooses from their headscarves. At least four women were successful. Alyas, too, was in despair. But because of her son, she decided to live.
For 10 days, the slave market went on before Alyas was claimed.
Instead of being sold, however, she was taken by the man who appeared to be in charge.
“No one touch her,” he declared. “This woman is for me.”
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No matter HOW MANY of those dirty Muslim Yahoo dogs we kill, it can and will NEVER be ENOUGH!!
Yes. It will never be enough.
The silence of NOW and the feminist is deafening...
I wonder who is making all the flags and clothing for ISIS. Find them and kill them.
I don’t hear much from the black community (i.e., the non-Islamic black community) about Muslim slavery. As long as its whites or browns being enslaved, they don’t seem to care. Hell, if we raise our taxes another 20 or 30 percent, the whites will be effectively enslaved here! /S
NOW and the feminoids are SVARED sh-tless of the Muzzies!!
ISLAM IS TODAY THE SAME SINCE MUHAMMAD’S TIMES.
ISLAM IS NOT, AND NEVER HAS BEEN, A RELIGION OF PEACE.
OTRANTO 1480 - MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS BY MUSLIMS
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF
“Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” George Santayana
800 Italians Men Beheaded in Otranto in 1480 for Refusing Islam, by the Turks, with the Approval of Sultan Mehmet II
On August 14, 1480, a massacre happened on a hill outside the city of Otranto, in southern Italy, here 800 of the town’s men were taken to a place called the Hill of the Minerva, and, one by one, beheaded in full view of their fellow prisoners. It became known as the Hill of the Martyrs. They died because they refused to convert to Islam. The 800 men of Otranto were martyrs. But due to their sacrifice, however, the Ottoman invasion was slowed and Rome was spared the same fate that had befallen Constantinople only 27 years before.
The city of Constantinople had been taken in 1453 and for 3 days its people were made slaves or killed or raped and the city was looted, all with the permission of the Sultan, Mehmet (Muhammad) II,who was then 21.Mehmet is the Turkish way of saying Muhammad.
The people of Otranto knew of the siege of Constantinople and that when that city fell the Muslims pillaged the city, but the key moment came when they reached Hagia Sophia.
After breaking down the church’s bronze gates, they found inside a huge throng of Byzantines who had taken refuge and who were praying that the city might be delivered by some miracle. The Christians were seized and separated according to age and gender. The infants and elderly were brutally murdered; the men, including some of the city’s most prominent senators, were carted off to the slave markets; and the women and girls were taken by soldiers to be raped or sent into a life of slavery.
At Otranto, the terms of the Muslims were ostensibly generous. If the town surrendered, the defenders would be permitted to live. They said no, it was repeated and again it was no. It was the city against 18,000 Muslims and it lasted 2 weeks.
Slaughter, Sacrilege, and Slavery
Turkish troops entered and killed anyone in their path. They made their way to the cathedral. As in the Hagia Sophia, the invaders found the church filled with people praying with Archbishop Stefano Agricoli, Bishop Stephen Pendinelli, and Count Largo, the commander of the soldiers. The Ottomans commanded:
1.The archbishop to throw away his crucifix, abjure the Christian faith, and embrace Islam. When he refused, his head was cut off before the weeping congregation.
2.Bishop Pendinelli and Count Largo likewise would not convert and were also put to death, reportedly by being slowly sawed in half.
3.As was the custom, the priests were murdered and the cathedral was stripped of all Christian symbols and turned into a stable for the horses. The Ottomans then gathered up the surviving people of Otranto and took them as captives.
The people of Otranto faced the same end as the Christians of Constantinople. All of the men over the age of 50 were slaughtered; the women and children under the age of 15 were either slain or sent away to Albania to be slaves. According to some contemporary sources, the total number of dead was as high as 12,000, with another 5,000 pressed into slavery.
800 Men who Survived told to Convert to Islam or Die
The Muslim commander ordered the men of Otranto, 800 survivors of the battle, those who were not over 50 and had not been already killed in battle or later, or were not children and had not be killed or enslaved, to be brought before him. He gave them one chance to convert to Islam or die. To convince them, he instructed an Italian apostate priest named Giovanni to preach. The former priest called on the men of Otranto to abandon the Christian faith, and they would get many benefits.
One of the men of Otranto, a tailor named Antonio Primaldi (he is also named Antonio Pezzulla in some sources), came forward to speak to the survivors. He called out that he was ready to die for Christ a thousand times. He then added, according to the chronicler Giovanni Laggetto in the Historia della guerra di Otranto del 1480:
“My brothers, till today we have fought in defense of our country, to save our lives, and for our lords; now it is time that we fight to save our souls for our Lord, so that having died on the cross for us, it is good that we should die for him, standing firm and constant in the faith, and with this earthly death we will win eternal life and the glory of martyrs.”
At this, the men of Otranto cried out with one voice that they too were willing to die a thousand times for Christ.
The Execution
The next morning, August 14, the 800 prisoners were bound together with ropes. The victims repeated their pledge to be faithful to Christ, and the Ottomans chose the courageous Antonio Primaldi as the first to be executed.
The old tailor gave one final exhortation to his fellow prisoners and knelt before the executioner. The blade fell and decapitated him, but then, as the chronicler Saverio de Marco claimed in the Compendiosa istoria degli ottocento martiri otrantini (“The Brief History of the 800 Martyrs of Otranto”), the headless corpse stood back upright. The body supposedly proved unmovable, so it remained standing for the entire duration of the gruesome executions.
Stunned by this apparent miracle, one of the executioners converted on the spot and was immediately killed. The executioners then returned to their horrendous business. The bodies were placed into a mass grave, and the Turks prepared to begin their march to Rome.
The rest of the history
ISLAM IN 1570
BEHEADING IS THE TRADITIONAL M.O. UNDER ISLAM..
THE CONQUEST OF CYPRUS AND THE HEROES AND MARTYRS OF FAMAGUSTA
The Turks came on with 70,000 men, including their shock troops, the praetorian guard of the sultan, the Janissaries — Christian youths taken as taxation from their families, trained up in the art of war, converted to Islam, and given the power of the sword and the possibility of advancement.
The Catholic defenders of Cyprus were frightfully outnumbered — by about 7 to 1 — but then again, the Knights of Malta had faced even stiffer odds. The two key points in Cyprus were Nicosia and Famagusta. The city of Nicosia held out for nearly seven weeks. Finally, reduced to 500 soldiers, it surrendered, expecting the civilians to be spared, even as the Christian troops were enslaved.
Instead, the Muslim attackers butchered every Christian they could find — 20,000 victims, murdered regardless of rank, sex, or age, save perhaps for 1,000 women and children who would be sold as slaves. The Muslims knew something about commerce, too, and those with an eye for harem-flesh tried to spare the most valuable Europeans.
That left the former Crusader fortress of Famagusta as the only defensible point on the island. Inspired by the Turks’ display of severed Venetian heads from Nicosia, the Christian soldiers put up a stiff defense and were at one point resupplied by gallant Venetian sailors.
The Muslim Ottomans have conquered Cyprus, an Island that belonged to the Republic of Venice, but the second most important city, Famagusta, resisted the brutal siege by the Turks. Men, women and children fought valiantly.
In August 1571, after ten months of resistance, the Venetian commander Marco Antonio Bragadino, forced by hunger, enter negotiations with the Turks. Terms were agreed: The garrison would be exiled, the people spared. The troops were disarmed and boarded transports — and then they and their commanders were slaughtered. But for Marco Antonio, the Mohammedans reserved a special torture. He was not killed immediately. Instead, his nose and ears were severed, and, as T. C. F. Hopkins has it in Confrontation at Lepanto:
He was pilloried in Famagusta and dragged around the Ottoman camp in nothing but a loincloth and a donkey’s saddle and made to kiss the ground in front of Lala Mustapha’s tent. The Ottoman soldiers were encouraged to throw garbage and excrement on him, and to mock his misery, and to pull hairs from his beard . . . Lala Mustapha himself came out to spit on the Venetian and to empty his chamber pot over the old man’s head . . .
And even that was not the end of it. Marco Antonio — still, for the moment, alive — was flayed, skinned like a trophy, and then his corpse was stuffed and sent to the sultan, who had the prize stored in a warehouse of other human trophies — a slave prison.
ISLAM IN THE XXI CENTURY -
THE ISLAMIC STATE IN IRAQ
Islam is as much a religion of peace and tolerance today as it has been since its foundation by Muhammad in the 8th century.
MUSLIMS MASSACRE CHRISTIANS IN NIGERIA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ahz3BEhkyho
WHO ARE NIGERIA’S BOKO HARAM?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VN_7A3mNKg&feature=player_detailpage
“Those who maintain that understanding jihad as a holy war constitutes a sort of deviation from the true Islamic tradition are therefore not telling the truth, and history sadly demonstrates that violence has characterized Islam since its origin, and that Mohammed himself systematically. We must also recognize the natural right of every society to defend its own cultural, religious, and political identity. It seems to me that this is precisely what Pius V did.”(Christianity and Islam in History by Monsignor Walter Brandmüller, president of the Vatican Pontifical Committee for Historical )
Do you have a link to a description of what happened to Constantinople after it fell in 1453? How the people were treated, how many killed, women taken as slaves or concubines, etc.
The Quran contains at least 109 verses that call Muslims to war with nonbelievers for the sake of Islamic rule. Some are quite graphic, with commands to chop off heads and fingers and kill infidels wherever they may be hiding.
Muslims who do not join the fight are called ‘hypocrites’ and warned that Allah will send them to Hell if they do not join the slaughter.
http://www.usc.edu/org/cmje/religious-texts/quran/verses/003-qmt.php#003.167
Reminds me of the Armenian genocide.
THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE
http://www.helleniccomserve.com/fallofconstantinoplefinaltragey.html
In 1451, Sultan Mehmet came to the Ottoman throne upon the passing of his father who had signed a treaty of peace with the Greeks in 1444. Mehmed was well known as a drunkard and pedophile.
On the day after Orthodox Easter in 1453, the Ottoman siege began. The Sultan had offered the Emperor and his people safety if they willingly surrendered, otherwise he warned Constantinople would be subject to the fate of all infidel Cities that resisted conquest by the Muslims. The people of Constantinople backed the Emperor in his defiance of the aggressors. The Christians of Constantinople held out with great devotion and enthusiasm for fifty seven days. Monks, elderly people, children and women brought food and water to the soldiers who were at the walls defending the City.
At one point, a procession carrying an Icon of the Theotokos resulted in the Icon falling to the ground and being smashed. This was considered a terrible sign.
The Emperor himself remained positive as much as he could. Before the end came, his Italian ally the General Giustiniani sustained serious injuries and withdrew from the fight. There were seven thousand men fighting in defense of Constantinople. Five thousand were Greek, and two thousand were from Venice and Genoa.
The Sultan in contrast, had under arms eighty thousand soldiers including unscrupulous “Christian” mercenaries of Greek, Serbian, and Hungarian background. There were also Turks fighting on the side of the Emperor. Prince Orhan had been used by the Greeks in a failed effort to blackmail the Sultan since Orhan himself had a claim to the Ottoman throne. Now Orhan knew Mehmeds ruthlessness and he and his followers recognized that their lives depended on a successful defense of Constantinople.
“The Christian troops had been waiting silently; but when the watchmen on the towers gave the alarm the Churches near the wall began to ring their bells, and Church after Church throughout the City took up the warning sound until every belfry was clanging. Three miles away, in the Church of the Holy Wisdom the worshippers knew that the battle had begun.
Every man of fighting age returned to his post; and women, nuns amongst them hurried to the walls to help bring up stones and beams to strengthen the defenses and pails of water to strengthen the defenses. Old folk and children came out of their houses and crowded into the Churches, trusting that the Saints and Angels would protect them.”
The Fall of Constantinople 1453 by Sir Steven Runciman
Emperor Constantinos XI Dragases Palaeologos, loyal servant of Christ humbled himself in his final hours. He asked forgiveness from all those whom he may have offended at any time. Up to the end, he encouraged his soldiers to fight and not to be afraid. During the siege, he had been encouraged by the Church to choose exile to ensure the Palaeologan line would survive, and perhaps one day an heir might liberate the City. His response was simple, “As my City falls, I shall fall with it”. And so he did.
Constantinos XI Dragases Palaelogos last successor to Constantine the Great, weakest of all Emperors politically but just as great in terms of his dedication and bravery fell defending the holy and imperial City of Constantinople against the Turkish Jihad.
The horror of the fall of the City is best described by the following two citations. The first is an eyewitness account from George Sphrantzes, a close friend of the Emperor Constantine and one of his ministers.
“As soon as the Turks were inside the City, they began to seize and enslave every person who came their way, all those who tried to offer resistance were put to the sword.
In many places the ground could not be seen, as it was covered by heaps of corpses. There were unprecedented events: all sorts of lamentations, countless rows of slaves consisting of noble ladies, virgins, and nuns, who were being dragged by the Turks by their headgear, hair, and braids out of the shelter of Churches, to the acompaniment of mourning. There was the crying of children, the looting of our sacred and holy buildings. What horror can such sounds cause! The Turks did not hesitate to trample over the body and blood of Christ poured all over the ground and were passing his precious vessels from hand to hand;
“Christ our Lord, how inscrutable and incomprehensible your wise judgements! Our greatest and holiest Church of Saint Sophia, the earthly heaven, the throne of God’s glory, the vehicle of the cherubim and second firmament, God’s creation, such edifice and monument, the joy of all earth, the beautiful and more beautiful than the beautiful, became a place of feasting; its inner sanctum was turned into a dining room; its holy altars supported food and wine, and were also employed in the enactment of their perversions with our women, virgins, and children. Who could have been so insensitive as not to wail Holy Church?
The above account comes from “The Fall of the Byzantine Empire A Chronicle by George Sphrantzes 1401-1477 Translated by Marios Phillipides
The following passage pertains to the horrible fate suffered by the Grand Duke Lukas Notaras and his family. The quote comes from Franz Babinger’s Mehmed the Conqueror and his Time:
” the Sultan prepared a great banquet near the imperial Palace. Drunk with wine, he ordered the chief of the black eunuchs to go to the grand duke’s home and bring back his youngest son, a handsome lad of fourteen. When the order was transmitted to the boy’s father, he refused to comply, saying he would rather be beheaded than allow his son to be dishonored. With this reply, the eunuch returned to the sultan, who sent the executioner to bring him the duke and his sons. Notaras took leave of his wife and accompanied by his eldest son and his son in law Cantacuzenos, followed the executioner. The sultan ordered all three beheaded. The three heads were brought to the Sultan; the bodies remained unburied. Notaras, popularly known as the “pillar of the Rhomaioi (Romans) had once declared “Rather the Turkish Turban in the City than the Roman miteir”. His wish had been fulfilled”.
During the siege of Constantinople in 1453, there were two different parties advising the Sultan. One was represented by Halil, who was working for the Greeks and tried to discourage Mehmed’s ambitions to conquer the City. The other party was represented by the views put forward by a General named Zaganos Pasha who was reportedly a Greek that had converted to Islam. Zaganos Pasha took a hard line and encouraged the Sultan to move against Constantinople, and encouraged Mehmed’s view that it was his destiny to capture Constantinople for Islam.
How the 800 Martyrs of Otranto Saved Rome
By: Matthew E. Bunson
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http://www.catholic.com/magazine/articles/how-the-800-martyrs-of-otranto-saved-rome
Thank you.
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