Turkish Leaders Invoke Crusades, Inquisition in Reaction to Pope’s Armenian ‘Genocide’ Comment

CNS News ^ | 4/17/15 | Patrick Goodenough

[Travis McGee]

[MrB]

Christian in the past may have done things contrary to their scriptures,
but Muslims NOW are performing atrocities IN CONFORMANCE WITH their scriptures.

Huge difference.

[Verginius Rufus]

Lots of more recent history involving the Turks. I think the last Turkish slave raid on Sardinia was 1815 or 1816. For centuries anyone sailing in the Mediterranean, or even in parts of the Atlantic Ocean, risked being captured by Turks and made a galley slave, or sold as a slave, and villagers living near the coast were also at risk.

The Western powers in the 19th century preferred to let the Ottoman Empire remain in control of the Balkans, but they were finally forced to take action in the case of Greece in the 1820s because of Turkish massacres, and then in the 1870s in Bulgaria and Bosnia because of Turkish atrocities.

In the 20th century the Armenians were only one of several Christian groups massacred by the Turks.