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reckon a lot of Sri Lankans would agree with Sonia Krugers sentiments right about now.
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Are leftists still trying to blame the latest Muslim terrorist attacks on Tamils?
Or any caliphate.Saudi Arabia is what ISIS would look like as an internationally recognised nation.
The Ottoman Empire was a caliphate (I don't think the Mughal Empire was) and it was more diverse and tolerant than Saudi Arabia so I disagree there.Or any caliphate.
Yes and no, it lasted a long time and did some pretty atrocious things, apart from subsisting on slavery.The Ottoman Empire was a caliphate (I don't think the Mughal Empire was) and it was more diverse and tolerant than Saudi Arabia so I disagree there.
Except for the whole three pashas thing.The Ottoman Empire was a caliphate (I don't think the Mughal Empire was) and it was more diverse and tolerant than Saudi Arabia so I disagree there.
I'm not really that keen on defending it but so did the other empires. The Spanish empire was still less diverse and less tolerant than the Ottoman empire over their entirety.Yes and no, it lasted a long time and did some pretty atrocious things, apart from subsisting on slavery.
Except for the whole three pashas thing.
As opposed to say, the Dutch or the Spanish or the French empires?I mean honestly, we hear so often about how Western imperialism and chauvinism ultimately manifests itself as Nazism if unrestrained.
But even the most tolerant version of Islam led to a genocide that set the template for the Nazis (the Nazis cited it!)
The religion is simply bad. Imagine Nazism as a religion. That’s Islam.
What was the worst the Spaniards did? Shut down the Aztec child sacrifice and slaughter the murderers? Imo: well played Cortes.As opposed to say, the Dutch or the Spanish or the French empires?
For example: 'The cruelty of the Spaniards [in the New World]," Kamen concludes, "was incontrovertible; it was pitiless, barbaric and never brought under control by the colonial regime." When, for instance, 15 colonists in the Yucatan were killed by the Maya in 1546, the Spaniards retaliated with the enslavement of 2,000 men, the hanging of their women, and the burning of six native priests.'What was the worst the Spaniards did? Shut down the Aztec child sacrifice and slaughter the murderers? Imo: well played Cortes.
The Native Americans deserved it. See above.For example: 'The cruelty of the Spaniards [in the New World]," Kamen concludes, "was incontrovertible; it was pitiless, barbaric and never brought under control by the colonial regime." When, for instance, 15 colonists in the Yucatan were killed by the Maya in 1546, the Spaniards retaliated with the enslavement of 2,000 men, the hanging of their women, and the burning of six native priests.'
By extension then the US deserved 9/11 for their past slavery. Well played, OBL.
It's honestly absurd to suggest they deserve to be enslaved and murdered any more than the way the US treated blacks deserves attacks from external forces.The Native Americans deserved it. See above.
When it comes to initial European colonization of the Americas, particularly from Iberia, both sides tend to be demonized and dehumanized to fit narrative and biases of the individual.For example: 'The cruelty of the Spaniards [in the New World]," Kamen concludes, "was incontrovertible; it was pitiless, barbaric and never brought under control by the colonial regime." When, for instance, 15 colonists in the Yucatan were killed by the Maya in 1546, the Spaniards retaliated with the enslavement of 2,000 men, the hanging of their women, and the burning of six native priests.'
By extension then the US deserved 9/11 for their past slavery. Well played, OBL.