a history lesson
Reader comment on item: Obama Supporters Criticize Administration's Muslim Brotherhood Policy
Submitted by mike, Apr 16, 2013 07:37
I have to agree with the previous writer who stated:
The comments by Zogby, Eposito, or Hanna are merely taqiyya posing as damage control. . As it stands, they're about as credible had Goebbels and Himmler hosted a panel discussion about the Nazis' "image" problem.
Zogby, Espisito and Hanna's comments reflect the profound stupidity of many Westerners when dealing with Islamic ideology. Of course that stupidity is not new and may actually reflect realpoltik values ...
In the 19th Century the European states propped up the Turkish Empire to the detriment of its Christian inhabitants. At that time too, there was some pressure for the Muslims to treat Christians as equals. In 1878, in order to prevent the expulsion of the Turks from Europe by the Russians (and to deny the Russians access to the Mediterranean) the Great Powers promoted the Treaty of San Stefano whereby Christians would have the same rights as Muslims in Turkey. Well, we know how that turned out...we had the pogroms against the Armenians in the 1890s, and final extermination of Christians throughout Turkey in the period 1915-1923. The treaty was neither signed nor honored, in part because it called for Muslims to ignore injunctions on how to treat dhimmis or infidels. The writers cited above make the same mistake, and as usual someone else will pay the blood price for their actions.
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