Posted on 07/25/2010 12:23:24 AM PDT by casuist
[...] Though it had been convulsed by internal disputes, the Ottoman Empire was still a formidable power in 1914. But, as so often happens in history, a wrong bet had profound historical consequences. That bet was the alliance with Germany that brought the Turks into the war on the side of the Central Powers. It was a fateful decision. Prodded by the Kaiser (the allure of German marks also helped) the Turkish regime went to war against its historical enemy, Russia. This, in itself, was not an absurd wager. However, the German end of the bargain was an altogether different proposition: taking aim at the British empire and its 100 million Muslim subjects, Wilhelm II cooked up a breathtaking plan to unleash the furies of an Islamic power on the British Raj and Egypt and harness the glories of the Near East to German imperial interests [...]
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I don’t know that I by this. I don’t think KW ever planned anything like this. Besides, one of the reasons for WWI was that the parties involved thought the Ottoman Empire was on their last legs, and wanted a finger in the pie. You can’t ascribe modern feelings about, “the Muslim world,” to a time they didn’t apply.
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“No mistakes but the biggest..”
I don’t see the profound revelation here.
It’s the same thing that went on in colonial america. European powers battled each other on american soil and enlisted native american allies for assistance. The one with the most “natives” had a distinct advantage. The one with the most knowledge of his natives was most able to persuade his natives to carry out his orders.
Same strategery as was applied to the various muslim tribes, but with less impressive finesse.
True, and it didn’t work that well with Muslims because Islam doesn’t work the same way Native American religions do.
It, by default, establishes non-Muslims as inferior and marks them for extermination, and regards all forms of collaborations outside of faith as blasphemy, unless the co-operation involves a bigger gain (Taquiyyah).
“It, by default, establishes non-Muslims as inferior and marks them for extermination”
Not the islam Turks spread. Inferior yes, paid a tax yes but you lived, at a time when even Christians didn’t get along (to say the least) among different churches.
By ‘extermination’ I didn’t mean slaughter, but rather, elimination of the faiths outside of Islam.
Things like converting the Hagia Sofia into a mosque, etc.
James Buchan's classic wartime novel Greenmantle
On secret service east of Constantinople by Peter Hopkirk
From the "cover" text:
Under the banner of Holy War, masterminded in Berlin and unleashed from Constantinople, the Germans and the Turks set out in 1914 to foment violent revolutionary uprisings against the British in India and the Russians in Central Asia. It was a new and more sinister version of the Great Game, with world domination as its ultimate aim.
Lenin was also an agent sent to Moscow by the Kaiser some 3 years later.
Yes, almost all misfortunes during the bloody 20th century can be traced back to WW I. Even the EU did have its ideological origins NOT in the aftermath of WW II but in WW I:
The Great Deception by Richard North and Christopher Booker.
A Protestant emperor wanted to start a Muslim jihad. that seems very telling.
"US should seize assets of Billionaires who support zionist crimes"
This seems to be an Amazon discussion with more than 2000 posts.
You can't escape the jihad by minding your own business, and it will come to a shooting war right there in the US.
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"Kaiser Wilhelm’s plan was to unleash the furies of Islamic power, a jihad, on the British Raj"
did not match the linked article you posted, nor did the date of the published article.
Instead of pulling this thread, we replaced your made up title with the published title and then changed the date to match the date of publication of the article.
Please do not alter any published titles nor create your own title. Just copy and paste the title found above the article, and use the date of the article's publication.
Since this was a book review, that was added to the source along with the location of the publication.
Thanks.
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Turk Muslims spread the most evil form of destruction in annals of history. They are truly perverted. Devshirme, enslavement, asiatic tortures...you name it they did it.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2005/10/ottoman_dhimmitude.html
Also, please keep in mind that the post WW2 German left-wing terrorist group Red Army Faction (Baader-Meinhoff Gang) obtained funding and logistics support not only from left-wing Communist East Germany (Stasi police), but also from Baghdad and Gaza.
The Berlin-Baghdad Express was still running in 1967. Still running in 1990. Gulf War 1. Still running in 1998. RAF Baader-Meinhoff “dissolved” after 1998, but Fischer of this terrorist group won control of Germany’s Prime Minister and used his power to have Germany oppose the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.
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