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Originally Posted by phillip
Speaking of tolerance...wasn't St. Sophia, the Orthodox church in Constantinople made into a mosque. Is that what you mean by tolerance?
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Phillip, here's a list of books that show the truth about the Ottoman Empire.
"Byzantine: The Decline and Fall", by Norwich
"Ottoman Centuries", by Kinross
"Ordered to Die: A History of the Ottoman Army in the First World War", by Edward J. Erickson
"A Peace to End All Peace", by Fromkin
"Mehmed the Conqueror and his time", by Babinger
Also, if Big K and Neyzen are going to crow about that firman, you should know the truth.
"On the way
he provided the Franciscans of the monastery of Fojnica with a patent of liberty, alledgedly after a courageous monk by the name of Angelus Zvjezdovic had called his attention to the threatening depopulation of the recently acquired region. By the terms of this document the Christians(
Franciscan monks) were guaranteed the free exercise of their faith. Actually the bulk of the population, allegedly 100,000 souls, were carried off into Turkish captivity and settled partly in Istanbul and partly in the Asiatic provinces of the empire.", p223.