To: 2banana
"Just when did that happen to the Ottoman empire?"
When Kemal Ataturk came to power in 1921 and rigorously secularized Turkish society: converting to a Roman script, banning beards and fezzes, compelling Western dress, and so forth. The Turkish Army to this day reminds the governments there is only so far you can go with Islamicization before the Army will step in.
10 posted on
06/20/2006 7:14:44 AM PDT by
GAB-1955
(being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the Kingdom of Heaven....)
To: GAB-1955
Minds, they never changed their minds...
11 posted on
06/20/2006 7:17:47 AM PDT by
kronos77
(www.savekosovo.org say NO to Al-Qaeda new sanctuary)
To: GAB-1955
And to this day they still deny their roll in the massacre of a million Armenians.
13 posted on
06/20/2006 7:19:08 AM PDT by
montyspython
(Love that chicken from Popeye's)
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