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The Battle of Lepanto: When Turks Skinned Christians Alive for Refusing Islam
American Thinker.com ^
| October 7, 2020
| Raymond Ibrahim
Posted on 10/07/2020 5:56:10 AM PDT by 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.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: cyprus; erdogan; famagusta; godsgravesglyphs; kurdistan; lepanto; middleages; receptayyiperdogan; renaissance; turkey
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posted on
10/07/2020 5:56:10 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
To: Kaslin
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posted on
10/07/2020 5:59:02 AM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
To: Kaslin
I always like to celebrate the great Muslim ass-whippings of history. Lepanto was a good one.
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posted on
10/07/2020 6:08:05 AM PDT
by
Sans-Culotte
(Does the left like anything about America?)
To: Kaslin
Ah well, Vlad impaled the Turks, so it washes out.
To: Kaslin
I want northern Cyprus back.
I want Constantinople back.
I want Erdogan’s head on a pike.
To: hal ogen
Meh....nothing Romans (pre-Christian Rome) didn’t do to Jews, et al. Ain’t humanity grand?
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posted on
10/07/2020 6:19:58 AM PDT
by
Phinneous
(By the way, there are Seven Laws for you too! Noahide.org)
To: Kaslin
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.
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posted on
10/07/2020 7:25:12 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
To: headsonpikes
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posted on
10/07/2020 7:43:40 AM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: hal ogen
Still the same things that Islamists say today, anything to conquer. Kinda like democrats.
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posted on
10/07/2020 8:06:21 AM PDT
by
drSteve78
(Je suis deplorable. WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE)
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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posted on
10/07/2020 8:16:36 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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]
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posted on
10/07/2020 8:27:33 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: DuncanWaring
You can’t keep a good meme down!
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posted on
10/07/2020 8:35:24 AM PDT
by
headsonpikes
(Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
To: SunkenCiv
Battle of Lepanto links bump.
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
10/07/2020 8:56:11 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: Kaslin
And islamic jihadis are still doing the same thing today.
JoMa
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posted on
10/07/2020 5:08:05 PM PDT
by
joma89
(Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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