The Battle of Lepanto: When Turks Skinned Christians Alive for Refusing Islam

American Thinker.com ^ | October 7, 2020 | Raymond Ibrahim

[Kaslin]

Today in history, on October 7, 1571, one of the most cataclysmic clashes between Islam and the West — one where the latter for once crushed and humiliated the former — took place.

In 1570, Muslim Turks — in the guise of the Ottoman Empire — invaded the island of Cyprus, prompting Pope Pius V to call for and form a "Holy League" of maritime Catholic nation-states, spearheaded by the Spanish Empire, in 1571. Before they could reach and relieve Cyprus, its last stronghold at Famagusta was taken through treachery.

After promising the defenders safe passage if they surrendered, Ottoman commander Ali Pasha — known as Müezzinzade ("son of a muezzin") due to his pious background — had reneged and launched a wholesale slaughter. He ordered the nose and ears of Marco Antonio Bragadin, the fort commander, hacked off. Ali then invited the mutilated infidel to Islam and life: "I am a Christian and thus I want to live and die," Bragadin responded. "My body is yours. Torture it as you will."

So he was tied to a chair, repeatedly hoisted up the mast of a galley, and dropped into the sea, to taunts: "Look if you can see your fleet, great Christian, if you can see succor coming to Famagusta!" The mutilated and half-drowned man was then carried near to St. Nicholas Church — by now a mosque — and tied to a column, where he was slowly flayed alive. The skin was afterward stuffed with straw, sown back into a macabre effigy of the dead commander, and paraded in mockery before the jeering Muslims.

News of this and other ongoing atrocities and desecrations of churches in Cyprus and Corfu enraged the Holy League as it sailed east.

[hal ogen]

moozlums being moozlums.

[Sans-Culotte]

I always like to celebrate the great Muslim ass-whippings of history. Lepanto was a good one.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Ah well, Vlad impaled the Turks, so it washes out.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

I want northern Cyprus back.

I want Constantinople back.

I want Erdogan’s head on a pike.

[Phinneous]

Meh....nothing Romans (pre-Christian Rome) didn’t do to Jews, et al. Ain’t humanity grand?

[Rummyfan]

A great victory for The West and Christendom. Followed roughly one hundred years later by the defeat of the Ottomans at Vienna. But the remnants of the empire remain today - modern Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia etc.

[DuncanWaring]

Ping.

[drSteve78]

Still the same things that Islamists say today, anything to conquer. Kinda like democrats.

[SunkenCiv]

[SunkenCiv]

The rest of the Lepanto keyword, chrono:

• De Mattei: Lepanto: October 7th 1571-2020: The Opening of the Jubilee Year [2020]
• The Victory of Lepanto and the most Holy Rosary [2020]
• Bishop Schneider: Catholics must be 'militant Christians', unafraid to shine like bright stars [2020]
• Spanish Tercios: One Of The Greatest Infantry Forces In European History [2019]
• Catholic Caucus: The Pope, the Rosary and the Battle of Lepanto [2019]
• [Catholic Caucus] LEPANTO! "The highest moment that the centuries ever witnessed." [2018]
• POLAND: Millions of Poles prayed Rosary on the borders to save Christianity, Oct.7,2017 [2017]
• POLAND. Hundreds of thousands of Catholics pray Rosary at the borders (The Battle of Lepanto, 1571) [2017]
• The Battle that Saved the Christian West [2017]
• NEW BLOG: Top ten Battles in history (EVENTS IN HUMAN HISTORY) [2016]
• The Battle Of Lepanto, The Feast of our lady of the Rosary Oct 7 1571 [2016]
• Former Swiss Guard: My Most Powerful Weapon [2016]
• October 7, 1571 [2016]
• On This Day in 1571 [2015]
• Our Lady Conqueror of Muslim Hearts: The Virgin Mary's Coming Conquest Of Islam [2015]
• Where was Secular Humanism at Lepanto? [2015]
• Lessons From Lepanto (Ecumenical) [2014]
• October 7: The Feast of Our Lady of Victory -- How the 1571 Battle of Lepanto saved Europe. [2014]
• Our Lady of the Rosary: Freedom and Joy [2014]
• September 11th Battles of Malta-1565; Vienna-1683; Zenta-1697; and attack on WTC/Pentagon [2014]
• Battle of Lepanto [2014]
• While America Weeps On September 11th, Malta Celebrates [Defeating the Muslims 9/11, 1565] [2013]
• Catholic Word of the Day: HELP OF CHRISTIANS, 12-12-12 [2012]
• The Battle that Saved the Christian West (October 7, 1571: Battle of Lepanto) [2010]
• The Heavy Hitters [2009]
• Battle of Lepanto: Armada of the Cross [2009]
• Remember Lepanto [2009]
• How Europe Escaped Speaking Arabic [2009]
• Archbishop Sheen Today! -- Mary and the Moslems [2008]
• Bishop compares election to Battle of Lepanto [2008]
• Bishop compares election to Battle of Lepanto [2008]
• The Battle of Lepanto [2008]
• Civilization in the Balance: The Battle of Lepanto and Election '08 [2008]
• A Call To Prayer: This Lepanto Moment [Repost] [2008]
• LEPANTO [2008]
• Fourteen Centuries of War Against European Civilization [2008]
• Catholic History Restored [2008]
• This Day in History-The Battle of Lepanto [2007]
• Lepanto, 1571: The Battle That Saved Europe [2006]
• Holy Hombres [Catholicism & Just War) [2006]
• Former Terrorist, Nazi to Speak At Columbia [2006]
• Our Lady of Victory (HLI Page) [2006]
• Celebrating the Battle of Lepanto [2006]
• Clash of civilizations: Battle of Lepanto revisited [2006]
• L*E*P*A*N*T*O [2006]
• Holy War: The Year the Muslims Took Rome [2006]
• Christianity and Islam in History [2006]
• LEPANTO, 7 OCTOBER 1571: The Defense of Europe [2005]
• Remember Lepanto! [2004]
• The Battle of Lepanto [2003]
• Chesterton's Lepanto [2003]
• The Miracle At Lepanto... [2002]

[headsonpikes]

You can’t keep a good meme down!

[Freee-dame]

Battle of Lepanto links bump.

[BenLurkin]

[joma89]

And islamic jihadis are still doing the same thing today.

JoMa