May 29 was the anniversary of the conquering and desolation of the great Christian city of Constantinople by the forces of Islam in 1453. The below historical descriptions of the pillaging and destruction by the Muslim invaders is remarkable for its similarity to the actions of the Islamic State and other jihadi groups today, and vividly illustrates […]
Will fall of Constantinople resonate again? It was the greatest defeat in the history of Christianity – and according to several Christian authors, history is repeating itself. On May 29, 1453, the Ottoman empire under Sultan Mehmed II achieved the dream of Muslims for centuries and conquered Constantinople, proud capital of the Eastern Roman Empire […]
By Dean Smith Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been president of Turkey for 13 years. In a recent speech to admiring supporters in the Turkish city of Erzincan, Erdogan called for Muslims to invade and conquer Jerusalem. In his speech, reported by the Anadolu Agency, Erdogan said: “We Muslims have lost our way toward Jerusalem. The […]
By Raymond Ibrahim Last Friday, April 24, we remembered how exactly 100 years ago the last historic Muslim caliphate, the Ottoman Empire, tried to cleanse its empire of Christian minorities—Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks—even as we stand by watching as the new caliphate, the Islamic State, resumes the genocide. And in both cases, the atrocities were […]
By Jeff Jacoby UNLIKE SOME of Pope Francis’s other headline-generating pronouncements, his description of Turkey’s mass murder of 1.5 million Armenians during World War I as “genocide” was anything but inadvertent. Speaking at the Vatican during a Sunday Mass to mark the centenary of the slaughter, the pope said it is “widely considered the first […]
(CNSNews.com) – Dozens of U.S. lawmakers are calling on President Obama to honor a campaign promise to formally recognize the mass killings of Armenian Christians in Ottoman Turkey a century ago as a “genocide.” Turkey, a NATO ally with an Islamist-leaning government, is highly sensitive about the issue, and previous congressional initiatives have triggered a […]
Turkey considered to be a “moderate” Islamic country by western powers, well is about as Moderate as one would expect from Islam. While the websites of atheist, the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a Kurdish separatist organization are blocked to Turkish Internet users b the government. Sites that promote extreme Islamist messages — even […]
Cuba has reportedly rejected Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s offer to build the country’s first mosque. Erdogan’s offer came during a speech in Istanbul to Muslim leaders from Latin America, in which he made the bizarre claim that Muslims discovered America nearly three centuries before Christopher Columbus. “Muslim sailors arrived in America from 1178,” Erdogan […]
News that three teen-age schoolgirls from the Denver area skipped class and headed off to join the Islamic State terrorist group in Syria isn’t as surprising as it first appears, a national security expert says. “This is something law enforcement officials are going to have to be on 24/7,” James Carafano, vice president of foreign […]
As some have said in the West, in fact, the Armenian, Assyrian, Chaldean, Nestorian and Pontian Greek genocides were “Christian genocides”. On the other side were Muslim Turks and Kurds. The basis in society and justification in conscience of these genocides were Islamic rules. Islam gives permission to all Muslims to kill and rape every […]
