Are Christians more tolerant than Muslims

Originally posted by The Chargemaster Well, bg_turk, do you think, that your beloved turkish rulers, would return the freedom of the balkan countries, without the actions these "christian terorists" ?!?

The collapse of Turkish rule was not due to these terrorists but the interests of the Great Powers. The Balkan people were powerless to confront the Ottoman Empire alone, and the actions of these terrorists only served as a provocation to the Muslims and as a pretext for their subsequent reprisals against the Christians, which in turn created public outrage in the Christian superpowers and simply accelerated the inevitable - the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, which would have sooner or later happened anyway.

It it weren't for the Russians in the case of Bulgarians, and the Brittish in the case of Greeks I do not believe you would have been able to establish and sustain your own states simply as a result of the actions of a few hayduks and chetniks, especially having in mind that the populations were mixed and there were many Muslims who were supportive of the Ottoman Empire on those same lands on which the Christians wanted to establish their own seperates states.



Edited by bg_turk - 05-Jun-2006 at 14:01

The collapse of Turkish rule was not due to these terrorists but the interests of the Great Powers.

Whose main army?

at 1926(If I dont remember wrong, one year before greek independence) ottomans killed all jeniserries. Infact That army was already non-effective before 1926 too. Ottomans army even bombed istanbul at 1908.(From sea)

Edited by Mortaza - 05-Jun-2006 at 15:56

christian tolerant yes we see what happened in iraq

Originally posted by akritas Originally posted by bleda christian tolerant yes we see what happened in iraq THe Iraq conflict is not a Christian-Muslim war. Is an Dispenser of Oil war

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And there is the problem summed up in its entirety. Any act that a muslim commits must be because of Islam, but any act a Christian commits probably has nothing to with Christainity.

EDIT: Someone really needs to look at this quote formatting. Its impossible to press the quote button anymore


Edited by Omar al Hashim - 05-Jun-2006 at 20:50

I havn't thought this topic could turn to a conflict between Christianity and Islam.

Ok, let me make clear my point, perhaps you guys stop talking about religions, but talk about Muslim Society and Christian Society. I mean i like to talk about the Muslim and Christ people.

Edited by Maziar - 05-Jun-2006 at 22:14

has he really? in what context...where did you hear/read that?

still, it does seem like an isolated case, to my knowledge.

Originally posted by bg_turk Originally posted by mamikon That is a good point Omar. However, when a Christian nation attacks it doesnt say "in the name of Jesus", while most muslim "forces", wage a "holy"war againt their enemies...even Azerbaijan (just out of the "godless" USSR) declared a holy war on Armenia during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Azerbaijan is probably as muslim-moderate as you can get. Have you forgotten already what Bush called the invasion of Iraq?  A CRUSADE ... which is precisely the christian version of jihad.

Originally posted by Genghis Originally posted by bg_turk Originally posted by mamikon That is a good point Omar. However, when a Christian nation attacks it doesnt say "in the name of Jesus", while most muslim "forces", wage a "holy"war againt their enemies...even Azerbaijan (just out of the "godless" USSR) declared a holy war on Armenia during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Azerbaijan is probably as muslim-moderate as you can get. Have you forgotten already what Bush called the invasion of Iraq?  A CRUSADE ... which is precisely the christian version of jihad.   The word crusade is often used without a religious connotation in the United States at least.  If you take up any sort of struggle for what you believe is a noble cause, you could call it a crusade.