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> As a Slav myself And in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18690617 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18690617 > As a German, I have to ask By the occasion, a Slav, or a German, interesting tendency in your replies, to point in them to what "you are." Still, "what you are" is not an argument for anything you write, but, if given honestly, can give the information about the possible biases. But even the known biases should not make the real arguments less worthy. One of my biases is: I am an atheist, and I'm particularly sensitive for all religions trying to present their worst acts as something "nice." But I've studied a lot of details from a lot of religions. Having said that, even the "worst" Islamists today consider the "blood tax" performed by the Ottomans as being against the very Sharia law, which does allow killing infidels, chopping the heads and limbs, and considering everyone by a Muslim male less worthy, but nevertheless doesn't allow forcing the "dhimmis" to serve military and even less enslaving them more than they are already dependent to the owner of the land on which they work (the dependency in the feudal system, in our parlance): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhimmi#The_dhimma_contract_and_sharia_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhimmi#The_dhimma_contract_and... Whereas the Ottoman military regularly went to the children enslavement "collecting" expeditions, year after year, for centuries, creating the military base which counted in at least some tens of thousands of soldiers. And these once "collected" fought the wars and killed for the Empire, including the very people from which they originated. In short, what the Ottomans did for centuries was even worse than what the Islamists of today would accept to be lawful.