Tonight (Saturday, Aug. 9), cable channel BBC World News premieres the three-part series The Ottomans: Europe's Muslim Emperors, which aired last fall in the U.K.
While it's not exactly a whitewash of the invasion into Europe of Muslims from Turkey, and the subsequent centuries-long occupation, it's not a condemnation either.
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At one point, a British historian states that Europe is "richer for" the Ottoman Empire, but the documentary never really explains how, except to say there was a lot of "multiculturalism" and trade (which one supposes would have gone on anyway). It does go to great pains to talk about how "tolerant" the Ottomans were of Christians and Jews, so long as they peacefully accepted their Muslim overlords, their second-class dhimmi status, and dutifully paid their extra taxes (oh, and if they were Christians, tithed their sons and daughters).
Yes it was so wonderful to live under the Empire at that time.