Dead Emperor Apologizes to Muslims for Quote

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1. It appears “machinator’s” meds aren’t working or he/she forgot to take them.
   Some language is beyond all decency and spells the end of any dialogue.

2. “Machinator” if you were a Christian living in the Bysantine empire at the time of the Arab assault if you resisted you would be dead, if you resisted and hid your children would have ben enslaved.
   If you lived during the Turkish Moslem assault in half of the places your choice would be conversan or death. If you were where you were not forced to convert this would be for the simple reason that the Turks needed a slave system. Approximately 1.2 million children between 10 and 15 were taken over four centuries in this system. Athough the Ottomans apoogists like to harp on the 1% who were forcably converted, educated and became part of royal guard of jannisaries, the other 99% were a) placed in slave labor on farms, placed in cannon fodder units of the armed forces, and the girls and some of the boys sold a harem slaves.
   As far as the example of Hagia Sophia, Mehmet the conqueror, as well as his grandfather, had seen ther forces destroy totally the major large cities. Although a lot of air is expended over the desion to take Jewish refugees from Spain in the late 15th centruy, the fact is as many Jews were killed in Hadrianople, Thessalonica and a half dozen other cities in the area of Constantinople by the Turks in the 14th century.