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I checked the linked source in the article and saw this:

"A positive feature in Ottoman administration was the religious toleration generally extended to all non-Muslims. This, however, did not prevent occasional massacres ..."

Religious toleration, Ottoman style - What a hoot.

I have seen a trend among Neo-Cons and interventionist Liberals, now that the NATO option of intervention is dead to try and make Turkey the new force of the Globalist hegemonists agenda. Use Turks to control oil and the natural resources of others, let them do the dorty work for us?

Are the Turks to become the West's version of the Janissaries? or are they Sepoys?

The Raj system for the new millenium.

A positive feature in Ottoman administration was the religious toleration generally extended to all non-Muslims

If you consult the source -- the Koran -- you will find that Christians and Jews are referred to as the "People of the Book." As monotheists, they were only a step away from accepting Islam. Muslims share Moses (Musa) and Jesus, as prophets recognized by Mohammad. So, technically speaking, the Jews and Christians are "on their way" but are somewhat "myopic" more than anything. They are only a step away from recognizing that the last prophet in the series is Mohammad.

Little good did Ottoman's "tolerance" do for the Armenians, Serbs and rebelious Greeks. The sad legacy of that "tolerance" was what drove Serbs to resist living in a Muslim-dominated Bosnia headed by a Muslim fundamentalist, Alija Izetbegovic (America's friend and ally) and his imported mujaheddin cohorts.

The same goes for Kosovo. At the root of all these problems, including Macedonia, and much more, is the Ottoman Turkish Imperium and the legacy of an evil and destructive empire that it was.