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Interesting note. It's a funny thing that in the current climate nobody mentions the underpinning of the conflict depicted in the article, hundred of years of s
by lucio 9y ago
Interesting note. It's a funny thing that in the current climate nobody mentions the underpinning of the conflict depicted in the article, hundred of years of struggle between Christianity and Islam.
Wikipedia:
>According to Ottoman understanding, the state's primary responsibility was to defend and extend the land of the Muslims and to ensure security and harmony within its borders within the overarching context of orthodox Islamic practice and dynastic sovereignty
- eternalban 9y agoThat's the state propaganda. Turkic people in that area are later arrivals, and the Ottoman Turks basically pinned their legitimacy on the religion of the region. Suleiman was "generous" because the state propaganda of the time was "Ottoman Justice". Consider a hypothetical history with Persian empire not falling to Muslims and Byzantine also enduring. Best buddies forever or likely the same pattern of pull-push on borders and a cultural clusters boundary condition? Geography is the key here, not people's misunderstanding regarding the meaning of it all.
- mda 9y agoAs if almost anything written about events in history is not propaganda. There is barely any complete truth. English Wikipedia in general just spews same thing western historians words, others do the same to fit their agenda. History is a joke.
- oblio 9y agoHistory is not a joke. Just use the scientific approach of comparing and contrasting various sources.
- eternalban 9y agoWell, not really what I was saying. More like 'geography is history' ala 'character is destiny'.