For years, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been running around like a headless chicken clucking about the glories of Ottoman Empire and the benefits, to Islam, of its revival. While he doesn’t say who would become the first Sultan 2.0, it’s obvious the former Istanbul football player believes he would make a perfect sultan. But before he gets too excited about his fantasy, he and his deluded fascist followers should consider these thirty-three facts—picked at random from countless others–about the “glory” that was the Ottoman Empire.
–There were 27 sultans between 1520 and 1915. Twelve were deposed and two were killed.
—The harem of Suleiman the Magnificent (militarily the most successful sultan) had 300 concubines. Over the centuries, the monotonous life in the harem and the absence of male companionship led many to aberrant sexual indulgences.
—Sultan Mustapha III (1717-1774) was the father of 582 sons. Voltaire called him “That Great Pig Mustapha.”
—Sultan Murad IV inherited 240 wives when he assumed the throne. To make room for his “fresh” concubines, he dispensed with the previous lodgers by putting each in a sack and tossing them one by one into the Bosporus.
—Sultan Abdul Hamid II had a “Yes Man” to nod in approval of everything the sultan said.
—“May you be vizier (prime minister) to Sultan Selim!” was a popular way of cursing someone in the Ottoman Empire because the sultan had seven of his viziers executed.
—Of the thousands of eunuchs who supervised the sultans’ harems, the most famous was Kislar Agha (literally ‘Master of the Girls’). He dressed in colorful robes of flowered silk and broad sash. Castrated in Africa, he was taken to Constantinople where he eventually became the head of the sultan’s harem. The sultan trusted his household to the grotesque man who was crude, cruel, corrupt, and capricious.
—Fratricide was endemic in the palace. In “The Sultans,” author Noel Barber says newly-enthroned sultans killed all their brothers—no matter how young–to prevent succession wars. To prevent the spilling of blood on the expensive carpets, the preferred method of killing was strangulation.
—Gentile Bellini, the Italian painter, was hired to paint Sultan Mehmet II’s portrait. Bellini left the court after an episode that must have tested his nerves. One day, while Bellini was discussing the “Beheading of John the Baptist”, the sultan said some of the anatomical details in the painting were incorrect. To prove it, he had a slave executed in the painter’s presence. After Mehmet’s death, his son sold the painting in the bazaar: he rejected all Western influence. A Venetian merchant bought the painting which showed the sultan smelling a red rose.
–The law required the sultan to remove his father’s concubines from the Seraglio/castle to join the concubines of previous sultans in monastic seclusion for life. Sultan Murad was so prolific that when he died it took a whole day and all the carriages, coaches, mules and horses of the court to evacuate his concubines. However, seven pregnant widows were not among the evacuees. They were tied up in sacks and flung into the Bosporus.
—More than once, early sultans jailed enemy’s ambassadors if they didn’t like what the diplomat had said.
—Some 30,000 of the “Glorious” Ottoman Empire’s soldiers were defeated by 6,000 of Napoleon’s soldiers near Mt. Tabor in Acre, Palestine. Ottoman soldiers dead? 6,000; French dead? 2. Ottoman captives? 500. French captives? 0.
—Suleiman the “Magnificent” attacked the tiny island of Rhodes without provocation. He succeeded in capturing it after a siege of 145 days but he lost ten times more soldiers than the defending islanders.
—In the Battle of Mohacs (1526) against the Hungarians, the Turks took no prisoners, enabling Sultan Suleiman to note in his diary that he had massacred 2,000 prisoners. Eventually, 200,000 Hungarians were massacred and 100,000 were taken to Constantinople as slaves.
—Suleiman failed to take Vienna although he had nearly a quarter of a million troops and 300 guns while the city was defended by 16,000 troops and 72 guns. Although his troops kept attacking for three weeks, Suleiman withdrew because he couldn’t feed his army: Ottoman troops had denuded the countryside of food. A bad loser, when he withdrew he burned an enormous amount of booty plundered from the countryside. The good-looking women his army had captured were taken to Constantinople as slaves. The rest—mostly peasant women who had nothing to do with the war—were hurled into the raging pyre in full view of the Viennese.
—Sultan Abdul Hamid II banned the word “Armenian” in all newspapers, even school text-books, which in many cases had to be reprinted. He also ordered “Armenia” to be removed from maps. This, too, resulted in reprinting new maps.
—For nearly three centuries—15th to 17th—Ottoman fleets and armies plundered and slaughtered their way through Southern Europe. For centuries after, Italian mothers would warn their children that if they didn’t behave, the “Turks will get you.”
—Sultan Suleiman drank wine—a taboo for a Muslim—from a goblet cut out of single piece of turquoise.
—Suleiman had his lifelong friend Ibrahim strangled because of a minor slight by his friend. He had his eldest son (Mustafa) strangled while he watched from behind a curtain. Mustafa had to be killed because Suleiman’s new favorite wife (Roxelana) wanted her own son to succeed to the throne. Following Mustafa’s slaying by five people, Suleiman ordered three days of mourning.
—Suleiman had 300 odalisques (women of the harem). The odalisques were slave or abducted girls. Thus, most sultans had non-Turkish mothers.
—When Sultan Abdul Hamid II was deposed, he was replaced by his brother Mohammed V. He had at least one qualification: he had not read a newspaper for twenty years.
—“Tractacus”—a book published in Europe in the 15th century—said: “Ottoman Turks come together for war as though they had been invited to a wedding.”
—The twenty-five sultans who followed Suleiman were, without exception, totally lacking in any of the qualities needed to rule. Enervated and enfeebled by seclusion and idleness filled with ennui, they sought pleasure and diversion in eerie and traditional forms of extravagance, self-indulgence, and vice,” wrote Prof. Barnette Miller in “Beyond the Sublime Porte”.
—The fleet of Sultan Selim attacked Cyprus because he liked Cypriot wine. In Nicosia they massacred 30,000 people. In Famagusta they flayed alive the leader of the defenders. They also massacred the survivors although they had promised to set them free. Selim got his wine. After ruling for only eight years, Selim died in a manner not unfitting to his life. After drinking a bottle of Cyprus wine, he decided to take a bath. While teetering on the marble floor, he slipped and cracked his skull.
—When Sultan Abdul Hamid II was deposed, the revolutionaries found in the Yildiz Palace cellars eleven sacks of gold coins, and boxes crammed with precious gems, plus a book which listed the sultan’s foreign holdings and money secretly deposited in the Deutsche Bank and with American oil companies. An immense cupboard contained thousands of shirts. One drawer contained two hundred medals mixed up with rubies and railway shares and bookcases filled with five-pound notes.
—The biggest sea battle the Ottomans engaged in was the Battle of Lepanto (1571) against European states. The Europeans had 200 galleys and the Ottomans 300. Some 260 of the Ottoman ships were either captured or sunk. Five-thousand Ottomans died and 15,000 Christian galley-slaves were freed.
—Life for Christians living in 16th century Constantinople was subject to many humiliating restrictions. Armenians had to wear deep crimson shoes, Greeks black, Jews pale blue. They had to paint their houses black and wear black clothes. They had to dismount whenever they met a Muslim.
—The 700-year misrule of the Ottomans was characterized by corruption, violence, usurious taxation, authoritarianism, racism, a violent brand of Islam; plunder, slavery, sloth, unqualified rulers and the oppression of minorities. Other than the work of Armenian architect Moamer Sinan, in 700 years the Ottomans made no significant contribution to the arts or sciences.
—Sultan Ibrahim was probably the most detestable and debauched of the sultans. When his mother complained that the harem was too cold because there wasn’t sufficient firewood, the sultan executed the Grand Vizier. When he was told one of the concubines was caught in a compromising situation with a man, Ibrahim murdered all 280 concubines in batches, tied up in sacks weighted with stones and dropped in the Bosporus.
—Sultan Abdul Mejid commissioned the famous Balian family to build a palace which “must surpass any other palace of any potentiate anywhere in the world.” The result was the Palace of Dolmabahche. Its marble terrace stretched half a mile. More than fourteen tons of gold leaf was used in decoration. The throne room was 150 feet long. The palace had the world’s largest ballroom and mirrors. The central chandelier weighed three tons. Mejid’s bed was of solid silver. The 300 rooms included twenty-five ornate salons. Sultan Abdul Aziz’ insane extravagance (he spent 40 million francs for his daughter’s trousseau when she married), raised the Ottoman debt to foreign bankers to 200 million British sterling.
—Putting aside the frequent pre-1820 massacres, the Ottomans launched seventeen documented massacres between 1820 and 1923. The victims were Arabs, Armenians, Assyrians, Bulgarians, Greeks, and Kurds. The total count of the massacred was over 3 million, more than half of them Armenian.
—The idea of his assassination haunted Sultan Abdul Hamid II so much that the newspapers attributed the assassinations of King Aleksandr and Queen Draga of Serbia, Empress Elizabeth of Austria, President Sadi Carnot of France, and President William McKinley respectively to indigestion, pneumonia, apoplexy, and anthrax.
Sultan also exhibited his paranoia by deleting the formula for water—H20–from high school and university text books. He believed the formula was a code indicating Hamid the Second is Zero.
Turkey has a big airline (THY) now, thanks to the tutorials of Lufthansa German Airlines and the support of Germany. But even then, the 50 percent government-owned airline loses money. Thanks to NATO support for nearly 70 years and billions of dollars in U.S. and European economic and military aid, it has a huge army which has invaded four countries in the past few years. Thanks to a dozen European and North American companies, it makes deadly drones which killed young Armenians defending their land. A murderous government–with no pride or dignity—went on a genocidal spree against a country which has a population 26 times smaller than Turkey, not to mention Turkey’s war criminal allies…barbarian mercenaries, hate-filled Azeri troops, and religion-crazed Pakistani volunteers.
Things haven’t changed much in Erdogan’s Turkey more than a century after Abdul Hamid’s H20 farce. Several years ago Turkey’s education minister banned the equation P=2K because he said it was a secret symbol of PKK, the Kurdish freedom fighters.
mortimer says
No Muslims outside of Turks believe that Turks should dominate the Muslim world.
They are delusional. Most Muslims HATE the Turks and Turkey for their previous violent history against Muslims.
Turks are the descendants of women slaves from every country raped and impregnated by their Turkish masters. Turks are shamed by their very origins.
Onesaffronladoftherisingsun says
Well many porkystanis believe that roaches should replace the arabs. Especially after gulf and arabs decided to recognize israel and ban porky imams from their mosques. Almost 50k porkies lost their job in gulf recently . Seems like arabs have finally realized that inbred porkies belong to a very bastard stock polluting their sunnah. Inbred porkies keep long grown beards to larp as arabs but this tactic too has failed now . So porkys officially changed their shitlamic brother cuntry from arab sheiks to roaches’s err dog un.Also inbred porkys have a huge identity crisis, one day they larp as Arabs, the other day as Persians, and now as roaches . Roaches were happy about their new porky pet .
Fun fact ,Porkys love ertugrul the roach show , and they go ape for roaches, but then they harass the lead actress for wearing a revealing dress on instagram , and harass the lead actor for having a pet dog.
Porkys cant comprehend the fact that roaches are more modern and not backward like them in comparision.Now Roaches and Arabs in turn think porkys as condom cucks of kuffar chinese.
The absolute fucking state of shariah shithole politics ^^^
ElderlyZionist says
George Takei? Hey, why didn’t Starfleet ever give you command of a capitol ship?
gravenimage says
True, Mortimer–but, alas, non-Turkisn Muslims still don’t reject the dream of the Caliphate-t-hey just want their own faction in charge.
Emilie Green says
Yep, a religion of peace.
Onesaffronladoftherisingsun says
Russia will eat roaches for Dinner. Bastard ErDogan Should go back to the history books and learn how Russia beat the Shit out of his Ottoman faggots in war more than 8 times. Turkey has only defeated Russia ones and that was an allied victory with France and UK supporting the Ottomans and fighting the majority of the battles for Turkey Monkeys after there ass was wooped by Russia in the opening battles of the war.
Turkey and Russia would never be friends. Turkey (Ottoman) and Russia were enemies from Ancient Times. I am sure Russia regrets selling turkey the S-400 even if they were downgraded. Turkey and Russia have mutiple areas were they contest against each other like Syria, Iraq, Libya, Caucasus Region and Black Sea oil reserves and access to the mediterranean Sea.
gravenimage says
I’m afraid that Putin is playing footsie with Erdogan right now,
Onesaffronladoftherisingsun says
Remember Hagia Sophia is a symbol of Orthodox christianity which has a membership of around 250 million. The main orthodox country is Russia. Many Russians visit Turkey to see Orthodox sites.
Putin will use this to fuel and create Anti-Turkic sentiments in Russia which will help him wage war against Turks both in Libya and Syria. This event will help Putin and many other nationalist leaders in the orthodox Christian world consolidate there support base against the new Turkic Islamic enemy. Majority of Putin ‘s supporters are Conservative and Nationalist orthodox Russians. They see russia as the Third Rome. So turkey is trying to challenge Russia ‘s dominance by changing the status of the Haga Sofia church. Erdogan is going to get a lot more than what he asked for lol ?. This is going to be great
Ofcourse there is a historical context behind…
Byzantine Empire gave roach Invaders there greatest and biggest middle finger which is called Russia. Byzantines made sure even in there final days that they convert the Kieven Rus which would later turn into Russia (Eastern Slavs) to the Eastern Orthodox Sect of christianity. In the end Byzantines did go out but they had the last laugh. Russia made sure they dismantled every last Ottoman Province in the region until only thing left for these so called “roaches” is anatolia itself.
gravenimage says
Actually, Onesaffronladoftherisingsun, Putin has been building Mosques in Russia and inviting Erdogan to the openings. He’s also been selling Erdogan weapons.
The claim that he is only doing this in order to go to war with Turkey makes little sense.
Then. much of the Christianization of Russia took place well before the Byzantine Empire was seriously threatened by Muslim invasion.
The Kievan Rus converted to Christianity in the 9th and 10th centuries–the Muslim hordes did not finally conquer the Byzantine Empire until 1453.
Russia *was* instrumental in freeing the Balkans from the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century though, which was an excellent thing.
Onesaffronladoftherisingsun says
Well I dont think russians have forgiven roaches .Infact they hav been bullying roaches and Americans especially in Syria. In fact Russia took control of large parts of Syria. Recently Russia bombed a Turkish backed militant camp in de fact Turkish controlled Syria and the then posted images to piss off Turkey. Russia has also recently delivered weapons to Armenia (drones, ew, ect) which corresponds to massive Azerbaijani losses about 17 armored vehicles and 5 drones in a week. Azeris have been exhausted and suffering high attrition ever since.
Recently 40+ Turkey rats killed and 60+ Severely Injured. The Russians Bombed a roach Army Command HQ in Idlib Front. Many Senior Officers are thought to have been killed. Recently Turkey-Russia dialogue has broken down and Pisslamic Terrorist Erdogan claimed he will attack Syria, Russia and Kurds. This is the Russian way of punishing the roachfucks and Erdogan.
On weapons sell to roach-
Everything started when Turkey downed a Russian jet, Su-24 in Nov 2015 for violating its airspace. Russians were repeatedly bombarding Turkman-led rebel groups by using Turkish airspace. Ankara issued several warnings. Then downed a jet.
What was american reaction?Its officials, on the record, initially supported roaches ’s arguments. But had different talking points while briefing reporters on background. The defense officials undermined Turkey’s claim and said Russian jet was in Syrian airspace when it was hit. So much for NATO solidarity lmfao
What else americans thought of Turkey’s downing the Russian jet? They thought it was an overreaction to “a minor violation of its airspace”.Next, Germany/Luxembourg declared that Turkey cannot count on nato support if there is a conflict with Russia in Syria. “NATO cannot allow itself to be pulled into a military escalation with Russia as a result of tensions between the two”.Because Russians were threatening Turkish jets. In fear of an emerging PKK state in its borders, Turkey decides to sign a reconciliation deal with Russia, in order to operate freely and seize the territory.
As far as what gathered from roach sources, Russians had a condition for the reconciliation deal: • Turkey would need to make a major Russian arms purchase as compensation for the downed jet and the killed pilot. Roaches takes the deal. End of story …..
Boycott Turkey says
Unfortunately Putin betrayed its Allie Armenia and allowed Turkey and Azerbaijan to ethnically cleansed and genocide Armenians from Artaksh Russia seems to be Pro Turk to me also he allowed the conversion of Agia Sophia to a mosque Putin is a traitor and Turkophile
Onesaffronladoftherisingsun says
You don’t understand the situation. Russia let Armenia down because Nagorny Karabakh has no value at all for Moscow. The only important thing for Putin is to keep good relationship with Baku and , even more importantly, to get rid of Armenia’s current government , who is pro-Western and with some elements linked to Soros’ Open Society.
Honestly Armenia should have continued the fight instead of signing this Disgusting and humiliating treaty with Betrayers and filthy roach Terrorists. Armenia’s survival depends on its merger with Russia. The Caucasus is a very hostile place.
gravenimage says
Armenia is a small country and Azxerbaijan is backed by Turkey. Sadly, without outside support Armenia could not hope to win or even hold her ground.
Onesaffronladoftherisingsun says
Well gravenimage , most of Armenian land is already gobbled up by roaches. The city of Trabzon is on Armenian land. The current borders of Armenia is only 30% of what Armenia should be. A landlocked country with few natural resources cannot hope to stand up to the barbaric jihadis. It is a hopeless situation for Armenia. It is a country of less than three million people situated in one of the most volatile area of the world.
The fate of Orthodox christianity is with Russia now. The Constantinople is under jihadi boot. Both Armenia and Georgia need to realize this. america cannot bail them out.
Boycott Turkey says
I agree that the current Armenian Goverment was To anti Russian and dealing with George soros wasn’t a good move as George Soros has evil agendas and plans but Armenia is still a Allie to Russia and has a Russian base there it wasn’t like they kicked the Russian military out I guess Russias oil deals with Azerbaijan and Turkey is more important then Armenia to Russia.
by the way for Armenians to continue to fight wasn’t a good idea to many young men where dying they had no choice but to sign this treaty as painful as it was Armenians didn’t have the weapons also Azerbaiajan was helped by Turkey and Israel with drones I don’t think this is over I think Armenia needs to get a nuclear weapon to protect it self from Turkey and Azerbaijan.
clive delmonte says
I think resurrecting the Ottoman Empire is a great idea. It would give the Iranian mullahs something to think about apart from getting an atom bomb and trying to dominate everybody themselves!
born saturday says
turkey has similar retoric and behaviour as iran and is as dangerous as it is ready to aquire nuclear weapons as well…. in fact turkey is receiving chinese missile and nuclear technology through pakistan with whom they have agreed to develop nuclear warheads to arm the already in the borders up and running bora missiles which turkey has manufactured likewise…..
Walter Sieruk says
Concerning strong spiritual/Islamic desire and drive for restoration of the Ottoman empire, this might be more than just the daydream of President Erdogan .
This might be the fulfilment of prophecy from the Bible about the comming of the Antichrist along with the resurrection of a long dead empire.
This will be explained in this three ways yet not providing much detail.
First , many Christian scholars in American when studying Bible prophecy have for many years wondered ,for many years, the the great and powerful nation United States of America was not mentioned in Bible prophecy ?
They had speculated that some terrible disaster would happen to the USA put to knock this great country from the world’s stage to make the USA a dismal third power is that America has no power will to become involved in any overseas violent and terrible conflict the lead the greatest war that has ever occurred on the stage of the world before .the last and for many the most awful and tragic and for other the most victorious grandest largest war of earth that ever happened and will never happen again.
Second, it seems now very more clear than the coming casa catastrophe that will wreck and ruin this nation is the Presidency ofthe Biden /Harris administration. Those such an administration with it’s socialist agenda as well as it’s policies and politics that has completely totally embraced the Red /Green alliance.
Third, this seems very much to relate to .that awful and terrible conflict in the twenty -first century is part of the war between the Judo- Christian West and the Islamic East. The Mahdi will arise in the Middle East he will appear a wonderful man to many people, in reality he will be wicked man and will be so very deceitful and lying to he will seem, very much, like a good righteous and rightly guided man who will make a short and false “peace” in the Middle East. The Mahdi with have a partner who will be the false “jesus” of Islam. This Islamic ”jesus” will give Christian’s a choice , which is convert to Islam or die by beheading, this is the Koranic way to killing non-Muslims, as in 47:4. Those vicious murders of Christians in the future are predicted in the Bible. As seen in Revelation 20:4.
Furthermore in Israel the Mahdi “shall divide the land” Daniel 11:39. [K.J.V.] between the Jews and Muslims and the Mahdi will also by many deceiving lying signs and wonders, will unify Shi ‘ite and Sunni Islam together common goal destroying the State of Israel ,once and for all. The Mahdi will then take the all the military force of Islam with Satanic intention of totally destroying the Jewish State, one and for all. The when the Second Coming of real Jesus will occur .This is at the Battle of Armageddon where the final and complete defeat of the Mahdi, along with false ”jesus,” and his Islamic military forces. After the great Victory there will be then the total destruction of Islam. As found in the Bible in, for example, Ezekiel chapter 37 and 38. Zechariah Chapter 12 and then 14:9-21 well as in Revelation 19:11-21.
There is an Christian Arab pastor ,Michael Youssef who had written two well researched and informative books about the Islamic messiah called the Mahdi the are END TIMES AND THE SECRET OF THE MAHDI also the book entitled JESUS , JIHAD AND PEACE Furthermore, another Christian author on the topic of the Mahdi and prophecy is other than pastor Youssef is Joel Richardson who wrote THE ISLAMIC ANTICHRIST :THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE BEAST and the other book entitled THE MIDEAST BEAST : THE SCRIPTURAL CASE FOR THE ISLAMIC ANTICHRIST.
john smith says
Walter, as you are well aware prophecy was not just a priestly pastime, these prophets could actually for see the future, as they have proven themselves time and time again.
Walid Shoebat is an ex-muslim and an expert in Biblical prophecy, he was also brought up in the Gaza Strip and he has been saying for decades that the islamic antichrist will come from Turkey.
He reads in to prophecy through the eyes of someone that was brought up in that part of the world only can, and I find some things he has come out with fascinating.
If there ever was a candidate for the antichrist it has to be Erdogan.
Walter Sieruk says
To John Smith, thank you for your reply to my posting I have read the books written by Walid Shoebat about Bible prophecy concerning the coming Mahdi .
During the early second decade of this twenty -first century I attended a three day lecture given by Mr, Shoebat a church . Each lecture were about three hours long.
The police officer with his police car was stationed just outside the church building when entering the church lobby they has large Christian security men standing next a two
through magmetomers,also they had held and walk had hand magmetomer to screen out ,as to discover, any people who might be Muslim terrorists No jihad terror attacks had occurred for those three days.
Those long lectures were very interesting and informative.It was worth the time spend there to learn more.
john smith says
Walter, I can see now how you are so knowledge on this subject, you have obviously done a lot of studying, and it certainly reflects in your posts. Keep on doing what your doing, as the truth has to get out there, and thank you for your reply.
Infidel says
Has anyone seen or played that app store game ‘Game of Sultans’? It’s actually a Chinese app, but similar to other lust driven Chinese games, where the sultan/ruler – be it Turkish or Chinese – just lusts for an endless number of women, who he can impregnate no more than twice, and when he’s sick of her, he can demote her to a maid, and take on fresher samples
They’re both pretty disgusting cultures, and it’s appalling that they’re favorites from the App and Play stores
Boycott Turkey says
Infidel yes I seen the ads for those games I was shocked that theres such a sick app game where raping and enslaving women is entertaining the harems where rape factories and prisons it was sex slavery and those game apps are turning it to entertainment in reality those women where separated from there families and never saw them again and waited for the sultan to rape them and also black eunuchs where enslaved and castrated there to I wonder why there is no outrage from feminist about this
Infidel says
I had actually downloaded and played game of sultans for a few games before deleting it from my tablet. Aside from its disgusting fetish for young women, it was really slow in opening up new levels
GreekEmpress says
Erdogan would fit right in with the long line of sultans—another madman.
john smith says
I like you GreekEmpress, you Know exactly what you are talking about.
GreekEmpress says
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gravenimage says
Spot on, GreekEmpress.
And I had meant to wish you a Merry Christmas yesterday, if you celebrate then.
GreekEmpress says
Thanks gravenimage! With my friends and family, we celebrate both days as some are Orthodox and some are Byzantine.
gravenimage says
I hope you had wonderful holidays!
Boycott Turkey says
Well said Erdogan is a very sick sadistic madman
gravenimage says
Why Revive a Nightmare?
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Good questions from Jirair Tutunjian.
The last Caliphate–the Ottoman Empire–was indeed a nightmare of oppression, persecution, and murder. But this or something like it is what all pious Muslims want to see imposed.