Arabs, Turks and Africans should beg Europeans to forgive them for their atrocities in the very recent past.
In late June, vandals desecrated the monument to Miguel de Cervantes in San Francisco. Thus Cervantes was turned into a “slave owner.”
It is well known that this great writer and brave hidalgo was a slave of the Algerian corsairs for 5 years. They seized him on a ship sailing from Naples to Barcelona.
Cervantes became the property of the cruel Muslim Albanian Dali-Mami, who went by the nickname Lame. The rowers on his ship were white Christian slaves. Being shackled, they ate, slept, and defecated right where they sat. Many of them were missing ears, noses or eyes – the result of Dali-Mami’s outbursts of anger. Once he ordered that a guilty rower’s hand be cut off, and beat the whole team with this hand.
In Algeria, things were not much better. Slave auctions lasted from 8 am to 2 am. Miserable people were forced to run and jump to show their strength and endurance; overlookers cut off their hands for every stolen penny, as prescribed by Muslim laws. Executions, mutilations, torture of slaves were everyday fun for the Algerian Dey. You would see naked people dying in agony under the scorching sun near his house. Wall hooks outside the prison gates were “decorated” with the heads of Christian slaves, being pecked up by kites.
Belonging to a noble famous family saved the life of the writer Cervantes, but fortune was not so favorable to hundreds of thousands of other slaves.
During the four centuries of the Ottoman Empire, the life of white Christians in the coastal cities of Europe turned into a hell.
Pirates of Hayreddin Barbarossa (Hizir-reis), who was Sultan Suleiman’s vassal, freely reigned in the “Turkish lake” (the Mediterranean Sea). It is difficult to describe the horror in which the inhabitants of Spanish, Italian and Sicilian villages lived. Berbers usually came at night, when people were sleeping. Breaking into houses, they murdered old people and captured young men and women, girls and boys, who were valuable commodities at slave markets. As a rule, after a “successful” raid, the whole village or the entire city was burnt.
Women, teenagers and children were destined for the sexual pleasure of their captors. In the paintings of artists of the 17th-19th centuries, such as Jean-Leon Gerôme’s “The Slave Market” or Giulio Rosati’s “Inspection of the New Arrivals,” one can often see a wealthy sheikh examine and touch a European woman standing in front of him as his servant carefully measures her and the owner is bargaining briskly about the value of “live goods.”
Masses of white slaves entered gigantic slave markets of Algeria, Constantinople (Istanbul) and other large cities of the conquered Byzantine Empire. Those marketplaces (“Esir” or “Yesir”) were established by Sultan Mehmed II and were located in most towns and cities of the Ottoman Empire. The French traveler of the 16th century Nicolas de Nicolay described them as gigantic accumulations of naked, submissive and frightened people, who were mockingly touched, examined, patted on the stomach, back, sides and buttocks, like cattle, by visiting merchants and local wealthy townspeople.
According to a professor of history from Ohio State University, Robert Davis, from the beginning of the 16th century to the middle of the 18th century, they enslaved up to 1.25 million Europeans in North Africa.
The raids and captures of white slaves were well-planned military operations. In 1544, Hayreddin captured the island of Ischia, having taken 4,000 prisoners. After that he enslaved about 5,000 inhabitants of Lipari. In 1551 Turgut Reis, yet another barber corsair, enslaved the entire population of the Maltese island of Gozo, about 6,000 people. All of them were sent to Ottoman Tripolitania. In 1554, he destroyed the town Vieste in the Apulia region. 5,000 of its inhabitants were beheaded, ISIS-style (Islam is a religion of peace, isn’t it?), and 6,000 (mostly women and children) were turned into slaves. In the next year, he burnt Bastia in the north of Corsica and enslaved 6,000 locals. Today you can see the majestic monument of Turgut Reis and Barbarossa in Istanbul. Why is that one not being targeted by those who are pulling down statues?
Aeolian Islands, Amalfi, Massa Lubrense, Cantone and Sorrento, Torre del Greco, the coasts of Tuscany, Piombino — there was practically no place on the coast of Italy where the earth was not saturated with the blood and tears of victims of the corsairs.
Many coastal regions of Europe were completely depopulated. Not a single European country, even the most remote ones, felt any safety. In June 1631, Murat Reis captured Baltimore in Ireland: all the people there were taken to North Africa. Men were turned into galley slaves; women became sex slaves of sheikh and emirs. For the Berbers, red-haired Celtic girls were an exotic delicacy.
Even Iceland was plundered: İzlanda seferi was a series of raids into this country in July 1627. Since old or sick people had no value in the states of the Barbarian Coast, they were locked in churches and set on fire. One of the few who managed to return from captivity — the priest Olaf Egilsson — later wrote a book about these events.
In 1886 (back then, fortunately, the world didn’t yet know about political correctness), the New York Times described the trafficking of girls and women from the Caucasus, Syria and Nubia. Caucasian Christian girls were considered especially beautiful — fair-skinned and therefore expensive. They cost up to 500 lira and were often bought as gifts for Ottoman nobles or officials.
For centuries, the Crimean Khanate (vassal of the Ottoman Empire) raided the territory of Russia, the Balkans and Eastern Europe. This was known in history as “harvesting of the steppe.” On average, the Crimean Tatars took into slavery 10 thousand people per year from these lands. From 1468 to 1694, about two million Russians, Ukrainians and Poles were driven into “jasyr.” The slave trade in Kaffa (now Feodosia) stopped only after the Crimea was conquered by Catherine II in 1783. That was only 250 years ago.
Isn’t it time now to erect monuments to these millions of unfortunate people?
And the last, but most important thing. The Ottomans, Arabs and Berbers renounced slavery not by their own good will, but under the guns of American, British and Dutch frigates. It was one of the most glorious human rights victories in the world history.
Alexander Maistrovoy is the author of “Agony of Hercules or a Farewell to Democracy (Notes of a Stranger),” available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
mortimer says
Miguel Cervantes wrote Don Quixote largely in protest of Muslim slavery and all other forms of human bondage. Don Quixote’s self-assigned mission was to liberate those in unjust oppression.
Cervantes fought the Muslims at the Battle of Lepanto in which he was badly wounded and four years later he was captured by MUSLIM pirates, enslaved and held for a rich ransom because they presumed he was an aristocrat. After five years in captivity, he was ransomed, and returned to Madrid.
Cervantes is my inspiration in fighting the evils of Islam. Everyone should read Don Quixote. It will make you a better human being. Let us all free the slaves of Islam and those nations they oppress and ruin.
Eur says
I am Spanish (I was a student at the time when we were forced to read Don Quixote de la Mancha ..). A few years ago I saw an interview with a Magrebi Muslim who lives in Spain talking about Cervantes and Quixote. According to them, even Cervantes converted to Islam in Algeria and the Don Quixote book is full of insinuations and clues about it. The proselytizing that this rabble does is incredible. Personally, I don’t know what happened during his captivity (he tried to escape several times with the help of his brother), but daring to say atrocious about his supposed conversion when Cervantes was taken prisoner and enslaved is amazing. All Muslims are religious supremacists. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was probably not an old Christian, he came from a converted Jewish family.Nothing in his life nor in his life makes one suspect that he accepted Islam, simply in his work there is a Moorish person, a Jew is mentioned … In a way that is mentioned Vizcainos, Sevillians,from La Mancha … and no one would say that Cervantes was Sevillian or Vizcaino. But Muslims yes, they dare to say that he converted to Islam after enslaving him for being a Christian. It’s amazing.
gravenimage says
Disgusting to hear this, Eur.
maria says
Of course he didn´t convert. It is as usual, muslim lie. They lie all the time, because according to Quran they must lie and ignore the truth. They are the worst scumbag , murderers who should be deported from Euroep, the US and all non muslim countries.
J D S says
We all know the lies of the muslim…so… ANYTHING THEY SAY should not be considered accurate when it comes to conversion. We all know that if there were no FORCED CONVERSIONS…islam would no longer exist….Force and Fear are the tools of the Muslims from the 1400’s till the present days…and…THE WORLD STANDS STILL and does nothing. Satan is alive and doing very well in Islam. WHY??? Simple answer…we have forgotten and turned our backs on GOD!…Even if one does not believe there is GOD.. If the principles set forth in Christianity were put into practice. islam could not exist.
UVG says
Always baffling to learn about facts of Islamic depravity.
gravenimage says
+1
Dude says
MUSLIM LIVES MATTER.
Everyone else can be killed, robbed, raped, enslaved. They are cattle, chattel born simply to serve the muslim.
EVIL IDIOCY akbhar!!!
EVIL IDIOCY akbhar!!!
EVIL IDIOCY akbhar!!!
Quazgaa says
Allahu fubar!
UVG says
Inshalullu
mortimer says
Thanks to Mr. Maistrovoy for this enlightenment on the Muslims depredations in Russia and the Ukraine. Blonds from these regions were sold into Turkish harems resulting in the large R1a genetic percentage in modern Turkey.
Turks cannot be proud they are descended from raped Christian women. Turkey is a nation created by slavery and shame. There are no ‘genetic Turks’ because they are descended from slaves from all over the world. Wicked. Evil culture.
SAFI says
R1a is a “Y” chromosome haplogroup which means it can only be passed down patrilineally (from father to son) so if the Turks have it in large amounts (I did not bother to check) they could not have gotten it from their harem slave grandma. Maybe they got it from (male) east european converts/ janissaries though I think it’s even possible that it existed in the original Turk population since R1a is found all over north-central Asia as well as Eastern Europe from Poland to Afghanistan…
Rarely says
It is possible to justify any horrid action today if one is selective enough in choosing which History to rely upon for that justification. The argument that “their ancestors were worse than our ancestors” is pretty hollow to justify avoiding current injustices.
Westman says
Rarely, could you name the current injustice that is directly affecting you?
6woods says
Rarely loves to wallow in the idea of his own victimhood. His (her) victimhood trumps everyone else’s.
Prince Eugene says
The indiscriminate modern liberal view is that Islam is at least the equal of Christianity. Their reality is that the Muslim agenda, to destroy and replace Western civilization, is a lie told by racist conservatives to spread hate on a minority. Liberals don’t bother to think about intrinsically evil Islam as evil, because when your belief is political foes are racist, you don’t ever have to think about it. You don’t debate Hitler. You just fight Hitler.
anonymous says
You’re mostly right. Except that liberals don’t believe in intrinsic (or any kind of) evil. They believe in the concept or Tabula Rasa (blank slate) – everybody is born good. Circumstances cause people to chose wrong sometimes. Thus, people should not be held responsible for wrong actions. Instead, society needs to be fixed and everyone will automatically do the right thing.
Socialism (forced, if need be) comes into play since, in their view, inequality causes people to make the wrong choices.
Don’t underestimate the power of this philosophy, or the religious zeal of its proponents. It is on display every day – especially in Europe. But it’s taken root in the USA as well.
gravenimage says
Rarely, you do know that slavery was *abolished* in the West, don’t you?
TruthWFree says
Islamic nations have been violent since the beginning when Muhammad took over Medina and started robbing caravans heading for Mecca. The teachings of the Quran are supposed to be revelations from their allah god and that gives more impetus to Islamic violence than any other violence perpetrated by non Muslims. When you have your allah god exhorting you to fight and kill and enslave unbelievers, there are no bounds to the actions Muslims take…rape, murder, beheading, etc., all supported by their allah god. Mankind has shown he can be violent without the urging of his god.
elee says
Did the trope about lonely places by the seaside arise because if one ventured there he might spend the rest of his life as a Muslim captive slave? I’ve always wondered…….
gravenimage says
Yes, elee. Notice that the seaside did not become a place where people vacationed until the 19th century, after Muslim pirates had been largely eradicated. Before that they were places largely frequented just by fishermen and smugglers.
Michael Copeland says
“Slavery is a part of Islam” – Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan, Saudi scholar
“Slavery is one of the virtues of Islam” – Kuwaiti cleric
“It is allowed to take women as slaves” – Abubakar Shekau, Boko Haram
“The …spoils …includes men, women, children, wealth” – Sheikh Huwayni
“When I want a sex slave I go to the market and choose….” Sheikh Huwayni
https://gatesofvienna.net/2020/02/islams-agenda-muslims-speak/
Michael Copeland says
The abolition of slavery in the Islamic world is lip-service only, PR for the West.
In Colorado in 2006 a Saudi national was found guilty of keeping a woman as a slave housekeeper for four years while repeatedly raping her. He argued that the United States was attacking Islamic customs such as not paying your slave and controlling her life: “We are Muslim”, he complained, “We are different. The state has criminalized these basic Muslim behaviors.”
https://gatesofvienna.net/2019/04/islams-sex-slaves-in-britain/
Keith O says
MC,
“the state has criminalized these basic Muslim behaviors”.
NO
Humanity has criminalized abhorrent behavior which Muslims view as part of their normal lives.
gravenimage says
True, Michael. Saudi Arabia still had open slave markets in Riyadh when I was a toddler.
Horace Jeffery Hodges says
I deal with some of these queries about Cervantes in an article published in 2009:
Hodges, Horace Jeffery. “Holy Moley: Don Quijote’s significant senal.” Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America, vol. 29, no. 2, 2009, p. 173+.
The article is available on the internet, as I noticed when I checked recently and saw at least one pdf.
Jeffery Hodges
gravenimage says
Thank you, Mr. Hodges. I will look for your article.
Keith O says
Why do I get the impression that Muslims view this disgusting part of human history as a rehearsal for what they have been planning for centuries?
Prince Eugene says
Cervantes, a hero of Lepanto, gave up an arm fighting Muslims.
gravenimage says
Which Lives Matter?
………………..
Good article from Alexander Maistrovoy–slavery has never ended in the Muslim world to this day.
And Cervantes–a man who was enslaved–being implicated as a “slave owner” could not be more perversely false. And this vandalism happened during the day, with the police looking on and doing nothing to stop it.
Ewanda says
This European history should be required learning for “BLACK LIVES MATTER”. Maybe then they would have a shared history with North Americans instead of this toxic disparaging, destructive attitude towards everything “NOT BLACK’. We should all be united as allies against the common enemy of creeping Islam.
Actually it should be required learning for everyone and taught in high school – not elementary schools – because the information and visuals are just so horrific that it would scar young minds for life. But not Muslim children – they learn to be desensitized from a very early age by watching live animal sacrifices …. and that’s how you have Islam’s torturous, heartless atrocities throughout their history. Amen.
Thank you for your effort in posting that little known history, Alexander.
Otis says
At the Kenyan coast Arabs captured Africans and took them to Zanzibar island the biggest slave market in East Africa by that time.The captives were later transported to Muscat in the Arab world using dhows.We Africans should appreciate Europeans more than anything.Right now many kenyans are being killed in Saudi Arabia Kuwait UAE Bahrain and others reason? Going there to work as a domestic worker and this is the new slavery.I’ll rather die here in Kenya than to look for greener pastures in Islamic nations.My fellow Africans, were it not the white pple, our continent could still be in darkness.It’s only Europeans and Indians who will help us rid ourselves of Islamic hegemony.
I love Iblis says
I agree with every word you say. Every anti-islamic groups should unite against islam and its puppets. You’re right Europeans, Indians and Africans will help us to defeat islam. India is doing so good for granting citizenship to persecuted non-muslim minorities from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh. They care Christians more than the man made poop fake Francis islamophile he will eventually understand when muslims crucify him on the doors of Vatican.
LB says
Unfortunately, many of your fellow black Africans would just rather blame all their ills on the “white devils” and hunt them down wherever they can as a form of “liberation” of some sorts. Just look at Zimbabwe–formerly known as Rhodesia, the “Bread Basket of Africa”–which is now starving to death after killing off their entire white population, and South Africa (soon to be Zimbabwe 2.0) where white farmers are slowly being murdered and forced out of their lands, as two most recent examples. The only black Africans who have it good today are your leaders (most of whom adopt a form of communism) who take all the wealth for themselves. It’s sad, really.
Idol and Icon says
Yes its very sad and also revealing. A report I read several years ago, can’t remember the link, gave figures that indicated up to 95% of black Africans don’t takeover former farms to work them, they claim “compensation” that is spent on drugs and prostitutes.
Idol and Icon says
Excellent article. This is just what we need, detailed history of Islams practice of slavery from its beginnings until present. We need a Spencer style book on it to fight and refute Islams ignorant lies.
Otis says
LB I agree with your post.Our rulers are our worst enemies but the new generation of young africans are coming into terms with their lies.Some of these elites are also responsible for the jihad that is rocking our beloved continent.Young africans who aren’t indoctrinated don’t have any problem with white people.Some of these grievances against Whites are caused by cunning elites who are scrambling for meager resources and ravenous Muslims who are alluring naive individuals but many pple are waking up.If their is any black man holding grudge against a white man in this age after listening to lies being peddled for something u never saw or read from history then it making a fool of yourself.
Walter Sieruk says
In this great conflict since September 11, 2001 between the Christian West and the Islamic East.
On an aspect which has been, very much, overlooked regarding the history of Islam. Nevertheless something important had been explained and exposed by the Christian authors and scholars Craig A. Even and Jeremiah J. Johnson in their book which is entitled JESUS AND THE JIHADIS .Which on page 125 informs the reader that “Islam is enslaved more people than any other culture. …A little known fact is that the highest priced slave was always a white woman. The Sunna reads that Muhammad’s favorite sex-slave was a white Christian woman.”
gravenimage says
The Jihad is 1400 years old–it dates back even further than 9/11.
OLD GUY says
Islam the slave owner trading center of the world for centuries. You can’t give islam a pass on their SLAVERY practices that they continue to this day.
I wonder if BLM will ever figure that out?
Henricus says
I have worked in two North African countries. The neglect and cruel treatment of their animals appalled me. I soon came to the conclusion that if they had absolute power over me I might fare no better.
gravenimage says
So true.
Henricus. says
Where is there a present day Cervantes, or Charles Martel?
Carol J Byers says
My book, “What Is TRUTH? The Bible vs. The Koran,” explains the doctrinal differences between The Bible and the Koran. It took 7 years to write and edit as I was still working full-time. I retired last June 2019, and the book just published in June 2020, after 6 more months of editing by me. It’s available on Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble.com, and Apple iCloud.com. I compare what the Bible says and what the Koran says to make this point: you can’t have 2 opposing doctrines from the same God, either one is right and the other wrong, or both are wrong. On Amazon, you can download a portion of the book without paying. Review the Table of Contents and choose whatever you’d like to know that the Koran says about it as compared to the Holy Bible, the Word of God. It corroborates the history of Islam as practiced by Muhammad and Muslim ideology that has not changed in 14 centuries. These people are captives to heinous religious beliefs that says you can work your way to heaven, most certainly by jihad! It’s a call to witness and pray for the salvation of these people who follow a god who hates.
TruthWFree says
I totally agree with you! I have studied Islam since 9/11/2001. Before that I was clueless on Islam. There is no way the allah god of Islam can be the same God as Christians and Jews worship. The Quran, as you know, is supposed to be the allah god’s revelation to Muhammad and in the Quran he denies Jesus divinity and death on the cross and calls for fighting and subjugating Christians and Jews, Sura 9-29. I have had discussions with several Catholic priests who quoted the “same God” mantra and from Pope Francis outreach to Islam, it appears he believes the “same God” mantra…blind guide! I have come to believe the being who supposedly gave revelations to Muhammad was Satan. In Robert Spencer’s, The Truth About Muhammad”, he states that Muhammad at first thought he was possessed by a demon but his wife convinced him it was from God. This smacks of Eve getting Adam to eat of the fruit in the Garden. Another point is that a Muslim is allowed to lie to further Islam. Jesus says in John 8:44 that Satan is the father of all lies. The logical conclusion that the allah god is Satan is perfectly clear to me. Some think Muhammad made it all up but that would make him the greatest LIAR in all history. One more point I like to make to Muslims on blogs…in a court of law, Muhammad’s unwitnessed revelations and NO miracles would have no standing against the three eye witnessed Gospel writers and Paul’s testimony in Acts of the Apostles. I’ll take a look at your book but I have read the Quran and over 30 books on the subject of Islam. I believe we need an all out effort to discredit the Quran and Islam with genuine facts to try to get Muslims to leave their false evil religion and come to faith in Jesus Christ, the Son of God….I pray for this daily.
Carol Byers says
Thank you for responding to my comment!
Everything you have said is in my book. There are many statements in the Koran that speak of the deity of Jesus and just as many that deny Jesus is God’s Son. I recommend that you read one of the last chapters about What is Right and What is Wrong with the Koran. I didn’t want to mock the Koran/Qu’ran bc I want it to appeal to ppl that are Muslims who have not read the Koran, which is about 95% of Muslims.
I’ve read about 12-15 books on Islam by former Islamists and students of Islam as well as hundreds of articles on Islam. None of them go into depth of comparing the Bible with the Koran. The Koran is difficult to read, no order, abrogation, no history of Israel, just touches upon a battle or two of Muhammad, etc. As I was reading it, I asked the Lord who inspired it. The Lord told me it was inspired by Satan. It took 7 years to write bc the Koran is difficult to get through. I was called to write it, or otherwise I would not have done it.
Tony Naim says
The million dollar question, what is the solution ?
Any proposals from the writer while mosques are growing like mushrooms in the homeland.
TruthWFree says
The solution is to educate all good people on the evils of Islam. Unfortunately, Satan, the Antichrist, takes over the world before the coming of Christ. That does not mean we should let it happen in my opinion. I feel i am driven by the Holy Spirit of God to educate all who will listen on the evils of Islam and use my knowledge of Islam to convince Muslims it is a FALSE religion.
Dr. Bukk says
Liberals and atheists believe all religions are morally equivalent nonsense. They need to be reminded that some religions have died for being hideously bloody & cruel, such as Aztecs. When a stranger showed up, they would be skinned alive and the priest would wear their skin for days. Christianity ended that religion. It can end Islam if our politically correct society and muslim Pope were to rediscover truth.
Carol J Byers says
You’re right!
Idol and Icon says
Well said, but as an atheist I don’t believe all religions are morally equivalent. Islam is not even a religion, but even if is it argued it is a religion I would say it is the worst and morally depraved. It is also the modern equivalent of human sacrifice. Its savagery is self evident.
TruthWFree says
Please read the Gospels of Jesus Christ, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John and Acts of the Apostles. If yu are still an atheist, so be it, but knowledge of the eye witnessed testimony of the Gospel writers on the teachings and statements of Jesus Christ is why I am not an atheist. May the Spirit of God be with you!
TruthWFree says
It is difficult for me to understand how Francis/Bergoglio does not understand Islam considering the Catholic Church’s history in fighting Islam. If as I believe, Francis is not ignorant, then he is diabolical….and that may well be the case. Islam is much worse that the other religions you mention as it has over a billion people fooled by its Satanic foundation and the glue that holds Muslims in Islam is the death for apostasy fatwa. I believe Islam could likely be the religion of the end times. Islam has so many of our Western leaders and secularists fooled into thinking it is a peaceful religion…GW Bush for one, European leaders Merkel and Macron and the Pope…but as I said, “Is he fooled?” or part of the demonic plot? I have had non Muslims get upset at me for speaking the TRUTH about Islam…all due to ignorance.
barbaracvm1 says
THE MYTH OF THE ANDALUSIAN PARADISE by Dario Fernandez Morera explains the mind set of the Muslims. He explains how the Moors destroyed Spain. His book does not allow the politically correct attitude to force him to white wash the truth.
The Moors were cruel then and as they are today. Morera explains how the Muslims force the intellects of Greek to translate algebra into Arabic. Some of the math terms are in Greek because there is no word in Arabic that equates.