[2banana]

Rather ironic coming out of a city that was Christian for 1000 years and conquered by islamic armies that killed every man, took all the women as sex slaves and sold the all the children into slavery (or gave them as gift to other islamic leaders). Every Church was destroyed or converted into a mosque...

[MeanWestTexan]

"Every Church was destroyed or converted into a mosque.."

Yep. Apologize for the Crusades? For what, exactly?!

Daring to defend Christians against an invading force of muslims?!

How DARE we defend ourselves before the moon cult!

[colorado tanker]

They trashed the Hagia Sophia, the most beautiful church in Christendom and destroyed its priceless mosaics, turning it into a mosque. I've never heard an apology for that.

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

Every Church was destroyed or converted into a mosque...

Hagia Sophia (Saint Sophia) was built as a Constantinian Church by the emperor Justinian I, between A.D. 532 and 537. Four minarets were added to St.Sophia (Hagia Sophia), after Ottomans captured Constantinople at 1453. Today Saint Sophia is neither a Church nor a Mosque but it is a museum. Maybe it should be returned to the Christians.

The Ottoman Empire - the greatest empire in the world in the 1500s - was ruled by sultans, and a sultan was commander-in-chief of the military and a member of the Janissaries. The sultans looked upon their male subjects as soldiers of Islam. The Ottoman Empire was a theocracy, with the sultans dedicated to the advance of Islam - the Sunni branch of Islam - through military means.

[RobbyS]

Until thr 20th Century, the city was still half Christian. That ended when the Greeks were driven out by Ataturk. Now the Christians are one percent and in hiding.