Plato , I wish you were Thucydides !

Submitted by Ianus (Poland), Feb 22, 2007 at 18:22

Dear Plato ,

I must admit I read your historical essay -if I may call it so- with deep scepticism and disbelief . To point out all its flaws would take too much time . I agree with the negative assessment by Noah Wilk and dhimmi-no-more. There was one sentence though I couldn't leave without a short comment. You wrote :

> The demise of the Ottoman empire saw the emasculation of whatever military vigor the Muslims had.

Between 1919-1922 the Moslem Turks fought a ruthless and fateful war against the Greeks. The result of this war the tragic death of Hellenism in Asia Minor. The Greeks that had been living for 3 000 years in the places that gave birth to Homer and Heraclitus , had been exterminated and expelled . C. 1 500 000 Greeks fled to Greece while the number of those that managed to escape to Russia (mainly from Pontus) is not known. The number of those massacred by the savage Moslem hordes amounts to many hundred thousands at least. In Smyrna in Spetember 1922 the Turks burned the Armenians and Greeks alive in their churches after raping and torturing the women and children. Archbishop Chrysostomos died a martyr's death. The Turks cut off his hands and legs and derided him as he was bleeding to death. He is one of the saints of the Greek Orthodox Church. Sufferings and agonies that the Moslem Turks inflicted on the Greeks wherever they got hold of them, although described by many Greek and foreign eye-witnesses and writers, still await their Homer or Aeschylus. For all that genocide Mustafa Kemal - the alleged secularist - greatly deserved the religious title of ghazi - "the Destroyer of Christians" accorded to him by the Grand Assembly. He can stand as equal to another big ghazi - Mehmed II , the "porthitis" as the Greeks call him - another great Destroyer of Christians.

I wonder how all of that squares with your authoritative statement " The demise of the Ottoman empire saw the emasculation of whatever military vigor the Muslims had." ? Would you mind elucidating that ?

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