1 posted on
06/08/2015 11:28:47 AM PDT by
SJackson
To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume
If youd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
..................
2 posted on
06/08/2015 11:29:11 AM PDT by
SJackson
(an emotional nation, not a rational nation. You work from your gut and not your mind, BHO on Israel)
To: SJackson
demanding that the site be turned back into a mosqueThat's interesting -- because actually those minarets there should be demolished. And it returned to being a church.
3 posted on
06/08/2015 11:33:26 AM PDT by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: SJackson
The same people who whine incessantly about the Crusades.
4 posted on
06/08/2015 11:33:52 AM PDT by
skeeter
To: SJackson
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.
6 posted on
06/08/2015 11:35:40 AM PDT by
The Toll
To: SJackson
To: SJackson
“but, but my muslim friends....”
9 posted on
06/08/2015 11:45:41 AM PDT by
rrrod
(Just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.)
To: SJackson
That’s what makes the reptile brain savages proud.
10 posted on
06/08/2015 11:46:26 AM PDT by
I want the USA back
(Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
To: SJackson
11 posted on
06/08/2015 11:48:10 AM PDT by
McGruff
(Never Forget)
To: SJackson
I like turkey - eat it every Thanksgiving and many other times during the year.
Their country is appropriately named....
12 posted on
06/08/2015 11:55:42 AM PDT by
illiac
(If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
To: SJackson
Plus the blind-eye that the Enightenedof 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.
13 posted on
06/08/2015 11:56:49 AM PDT by
RobbyS
(quotes)
To: SJackson
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.
To: SJackson
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.
To: SJackson
18 posted on
06/08/2015 2:50:28 PM PDT by
Eleutheria5
(End the occupation. Annex today.)
To: SJackson
19 posted on
06/08/2015 3:49:43 PM PDT by
CPT Clay
To: SJackson
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.
20 posted on
06/08/2015 3:58:04 PM PDT by
Clemenza
(Lurking)
To: SJackson
24 posted on
06/08/2015 6:53:46 PM PDT by
King Moonracer
(Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson