@feraljokes Oh, I thought everything would be free on day one in dystopian NYC. My bad.
To repent, Iโll recite land acknowledgments, or should I start with Quranic ayat first?
Oh yes, the most heartbreaking thing the Ottoman overlords did was forcefully take healthy firstborn sons (sometimes the only child) at age 7, put them into the emperor's service, erase their national identity and family memories, and create an army of converts without home or country, blindly loyal to the emperor and empire.
Parents often mutilated children to avoid their kidnapping.