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Onward Christian soldiers (Janissaries. Christian boys were forced to fight for Islam)
world net daily
SATURDAYMAY 262001
Anthony C. LoBaido
Posted on 08/02/2003 6:06:26 PM EDT by dennisw

Yes, it is the Muslims – not the white Europeans who were the first and greatest slave traders – and it was the Janissaries, Christian boys sold into Islamic slavery, who forged the expansion of the Islamic Empire in the 14th century,"

It was in Kosovo that the Serbs made their last stand. But an Ottoman victory was inevitable. The sultan ordered a tax to be paid by every Christian family: a son. The sons that would go on to form the elite unit known as the Janissaries.

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Jordanian Christian Killed in Lebanon Attack
Crosswalk
Istanbul
May 7, 2003
Barbara G. Baker
Compass Direct
Posted on 05/08/2003 4:26:46 PM EDT by miltonim

An Arab convert to Christianity was killed in a bomb blast last night outside his Tripoli apartment, adjacent to the home of a European missionary family thought to have been targeted in the attack. Jamil Ahmed al-Rifai, 28, died instantly...

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Persecutions of Muslim converts to Christianity continue
Egypt February 2004
Excerpt: According to the Shariah, a Christian man must first convert to Islam before marrying a Muslim woman. To do otherwise is punishable by death. Children of mixed marriages are Muslim by law.