Brian Benjamin Bærentsen

[Brian Benjamin Bærentsen @bbbaerentsen73]

@Lars___Dalgaard Har du svært ved at erkende venstrefløjen er voldelig

[Brian Benjamin Bærentsen @bbbaerentsen73]

@KarlBilleskov Karl Prøv at forklare Hvorfor du hader jøden.

[Brian Benjamin Bærentsen @bbbaerentsen73]

@Jullemand007 Et bud er misforstået tolerance og visse mennesker der gerne vil være gode..

[Brian Benjamin Bærentsen @bbbaerentsen73]

@MortenWilder Er du imod at folk værner sig og beskytter Danmark imod en kultur som ikke ligger skjul på de ikke respektere grundloven. Og er det ok at begå vold i det godes tjeneste..antifa og andre venst4gøjere har vist de er meget voldsparate.og er det ok at møde vold med vold..

[Brian Benjamin Bærentsen @bbbaerentsen73]

Kun meget specielle mennesker støtter dette samfund...

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Children in Gaza calls to kill Jews with Hamas terrorists.

[Brian Benjamin Bærentsen @bbbaerentsen73]

@AlexDenStoerste Respekt for iniativet..måske daneren skulle rejse sig fra sofaen i stedet for.,eller venter vi på Holger.

[Brian Benjamin Bærentsen @bbbaerentsen73]

@FrFrederikke Medbring egen sovepose så går det nok

[Brian Benjamin Bærentsen @bbbaerentsen73]

@Kap10Haddock @EU_Commission Jeg nævnte ikke krigen i Ukraine..den er en naturlig reaktion på vores expansion.jeg siger bare at vi kunne have grebet tingene anderledes af..tingene ændre sig ikke på en dag

[Brian Benjamin Bærentsen @bbbaerentsen73]

@KarlBilleskov @xiaxexin Nej problemet er de ikke lægger op knl for geundloven

[Brian Benjamin Bærentsen @bbbaerentsen73]

@KKrogsb Tænker der er mange med samme holdning.

[Brian Benjamin Bærentsen @bbbaerentsen73]

@MasterMaliq None.

[Brian Benjamin Bærentsen @bbbaerentsen73]

@thorborg Man er ikke racist fordi man påtaler et problem der omhandler andre med anden hudfarve end en selv.og man er ikke islamofob fordi man taler om en ideologi og påpeger ting man er uenig med..men syntes da man skal sætte sig ind i tingene og angribe med fact i stedet for følelser.

[Brian Benjamin Bærentsen @bbbaerentsen73]

@Mikkel_Bjorn Bare en af mange sager.måske det tiden at Morten melder sig som leder af blå blok..

[Homer Pavlos @HomerPavlos]

On March 30, 1822, when the massacre in Chios began, the Muslim Turks had clear orders. The Sultan had commanded that all Greek Christians be slaughtered, except for boys aged 3-12 and women from 12 to 40. These would be captured and destined for the slave markets.

Young girls were raped publicly in the streets, and newlyweds in front of their husbands, who were then slaughtered. Others were raped in front of their parents, after which the men's genitals were cut off. Women over 40 were set on fire and left to burn alive. Pregnant women had their bellies ripped open and their fetuses pulled out, while small children were thrown forcefully against rocks. The frenzy of the Muslims was unprecedented.

Many Turkish soldiers cut off the heads of Greek Christians and then licked their swords. With this act, they believed they would earn a place in paradise. Others were hanged from the island's trees for deterrence. Severed human limbs and corpses were scattered on the streets, while the sea had turned red from the blood. The smoke from the burning houses had covered all of Chios, while the flames made the night look like day.Several women from Chios preferred death over dishonor and slavery.

They committed suicide by jumping off cliffs. Some were killed while defending their children, siblings, and husbands. Even among those who were captured, some died on hunger strike.Destitute women and children from the island were crammed into ships and transported to the markets of Smyrna and Constantinople, where they were sold as slaves at humiliating prices.

By May 1, 1822, over 41.000 slave ownership documents, known as "teskerés", had been issued in Chios. According to the French-language newspaper of Smyrna, Spectateur Oriental, by May 10, duties had been paid at the Smyrna customs for 40,000 slaves. The priest Welsh from the English embassy in Constantinople recorded what he saw in those days at the city's slave market:

"The Turks treated the women from Chios with utmost contempt. They examined them, groped them like butchers do lambs, and bought them for 100 grosia to 3 pounds per head. About 500 women from Chios were sold in the fish market."

The tragic events of Chios shocked Europe and America. For many weeks, the European press reported daily information and descriptions about the fate of the inhabitants, the massacres, the plunder, and the sale of women and children in the slave markets.

Korais writes in a letter to Varvakis:

"Imagine that you see Christ on the Cross, drenched in His blood, and calling out to you these paternal words: My son Varvakis, many thousands of captives baptized in my name are in danger at this hour of renouncing me and embracing the abominable religion of Mohammed. Behold the time, baptized in my name, beloved son, to save your baptized brothers from the Turkish defilement."

The horrific images of the crimes of the Muslims against the Greek Christians were never erased from the collective memory of Europeans. Great European artists were so shocked by the descriptions that they created important works inspired by Chios.

The famous painting by Delacroix is exhibited to this day in a prominent position at the Louvre. Victor Hugo's poem titled "The Greek Child" is a moving record. But the most famous sculpture of 19th-century America also stands out, named: the "Greek Slave." The sculptor Hiram Powers began carving it about twenty years after the tragic events. The statue depicts a young woman, nude, bound with chains. In one hand, she holds a small cross on a chain.

Powers himself describes the subject of his work as follows:

"The Slave has been abducted by the Turks from one of the Greek Islands during the Greek Revolution, the history of which is known to all. Her father and mother, and perhaps all her relatives, have been exterminated by her enemies, and she alone was kept alive, as a treasure that could not be thrown away. Now she is among barbarian strangers, under the pressure of the full recollection of the catastrophic events that led her to this state. She stands exposed to the gaze of people she abhors, and awaits her fate with intense anxiety, which is mitigated by her trust in the goodness of God. Gather all these sufferings together, and add to them the strength and resignation of a Christian, and there is no room left for shame."

As a Greek, I will use my weapon, the knowledge of my history, to warn as many as I can about the violent and barbaric invasion of Islam and the war we are experiencing today.

You might wonder why I repost the same stories once in a while. Repetition is the mother of learning. The only reason I have X is to educate people about Greek history. My purpose is to keep barbarians away.

- Homer Pavlos

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[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Today's Suicidal Empathy Lesson:

Islamism is different from Islam.
Political Islam is different from Islam.
Jihadism is different from Islam.
Wahhabism is different from Islam.
Radical Islam is different from Islam.
Extremist Islam is different from Islam.
Self-radicalized Islam is different from Islam.
Militant Islam is different from Islam.
Violent extremist Islamist is different from Islamic.
50,000+ Islamic terror attacks since 9/11 alone is different from Islam.
Erasure of Christianity by Islam in the Middle East is different from Islam.
Islamismism is really different from Islam.
Islamismismism is really really different from Islam.

Anything good stems from Islam.
Anything bad done in the name of Islam is not of Islam.

Questions?

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

The Ottoman official arrived with armed men and an order from the sultan. Christian families were commanded to bring out their sons.

The boys were made to stand in a line while the officials moved among them, examining their faces, teeth, limbs, and bodies. Priests were forced to produce baptismal records. Fathers watched as strangers decided which children were strong enough, handsome enough, and intelligent enough to be taken.

The chosen boys were registered by name. Their height, complexion, scars, and other features were recorded so they could be identified if they escaped.

Then they were led away.

Some mothers followed the columns, weeping and calling after their sons, until the guards forced them back. The boys were bound together or marched under armed watch toward Constantinople.

Many would never see their families again.

. . .

The Ottomans called it the devşirme, meaning “collection.” The Christians of southeastern Europe called it the blood tax.

Beginning in the late fourteenth century, Ottoman officials periodically entered Christian villages and took their boys for the service of the sultan. Greeks, Bulgarians, Serbs, Albanians, Bosnians, Armenians, and other conquered Christians were subjected to the levy.

Parents hid their sons, falsified their ages, married them early, or scarred their bodies in hopes that the collectors would reject them. Some boys fled into forests or escaped from the columns carrying them away.

Resistance could bring beatings, imprisonment, or worse.

Once taken, the boys became the sultan’s slaves. They were circumcised and forced to convert to Islam. Their Christian names were replaced with Muslim ones. They were forbidden to practice the faith of their parents and separated from the language, customs, and people that might remind them who they had been.

Many were sent to farms in Anatolia, where they performed hard labor while learning Turkish and Islamic practice. Others entered palace schools.

Their training was deliberately merciless. Contemporary observers described hunger, exhaustion, savage beatings, and punishments intended to break disobedience. Enslaved palace boys were also vulnerable to sexual exploitation by powerful men. We cannot know how many suffered it, but their isolation and legal powerlessness left them with little protection from those who owned and supervised them.

The empire did not merely want their service. It wanted to erase the Christian child and construct an Ottoman servant in his place.

Many of the boys eventually entered the Janissaries, the elite infantry of the Ottoman army. They became disciplined archers, musketeers, palace guards, and assault troops. They stormed breached walls, defended the sultan, and formed the iron center of Ottoman armies.

Janissaries helped capture Constantinople in 1453. They fought at Kosovo, Varna, Mohács, Malta, and Vienna. Boys taken from Christian villages were transformed into soldiers of Islam and sometimes sent to conquer or kill people who spoke the languages of their childhood.

The system made conquered Christians surrender the children who would help conquer still more Christians.

In one documented levy beginning in 1603, Ottoman officials collected 2,604 boys.

That was one collection.

The levies continued across generations. No complete total survives, but tens of thousands of boys were taken, and probably far more, over nearly three centuries.

The devşirme declined during the seventeenth century as Janissary positions became increasingly hereditary and Muslims gained admission to the corps. The systematic taking of Christian boys finally disappeared in the early eighteenth century.

For nearly three hundred years, however, Christian parents lived with the knowledge that an Ottoman official might appear, inspect their children, and choose which son they would lose.

© Tony Valerino

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