Tuesday, August 18, 2020

The occasional act of Islamic terrorism is nothing to lose your head over

 Enh, maybe I'd better rephrase that: "When Turkey’s ‘Hero’ Beheaded 800 Christians for Refusing Islam".

6 comments:

bruce said...

The Turks ended up executing the Albanian Pasha whose troops did the massacre though. They didn't trust him. Converting a town on mainland Italy would have been a feather in his cap but he failed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_invasion_of_Otranto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedik_Ahmed_Pasha

Also, the Pope called the British cowards for not running to his defence in 1565 - in the chaos after the death of Henry VIII? Hmmm.

Spiny Norman said...

Well, that was a interesting browse. For an online magazine created by a Jew, the Frontpagemag comments are curiously brimming with angry anti-Semites.

bruce said...

Hadn't looked at the comments until you mentioned it Spiny, but that is sure one of the weirdest of those types of brawls I've seen online - it goes into the gutter right away. When The Federalist ditched its comments I thought it was probably a good thing in the long run.

Horowitz is very much a proponent of free speech and has such well informed views but it may be better if he ditches comments too if that's an example. So hard to find civilised debate on the 'net these days.

Spiny Norman said...

They "Christian" anti-Semites are telling me I "need Christ". Whoa boy! I was raised by a devoutly Christian mother, and the "theology" those assholes are promoting sounds nothing like the Christianity I grew up with.

Did you know the Jews were behind ALL the Roman persecutions of Christians and Jews? That's a new one. The people the Romans set out to destroy because they defied them were actually pulling the strings behind the scenes. Yeah. I think the Caesars would have been surprised to hear that. Nero was a puppet of the Joooz...

Paco said...

Very strange exchanges. Frankly, I almost never read the comments sections of other blogs and online magazines, except occasionally for Ace of Spades (and a little of that goes a long way) and Instapundit (mostly just to see the commenters rag on Ed Driscoll for yet another link to Jonah Goldberg or Kevin Williamson or some other NeverTrumper).

Spiny Norman said...

I love the commentary at AoSHQ, but gawd, it can take half an hour or more just to read the comments for one post - and it is virtually impossible to keep up if I try to get involved.

I regularly (obsessively?) read the comments at sites linked here or elsewhere, especially if they are something I don't read often, and even wade into the Twitter threads I see at linked Twitchy. These little adventures of mine more often than not leave me frustrated, or even angry, at the shear idiocy on display - even by people allegedly on my side of the political divide.

I was hopelessly spoiled by the funny and engaging conversations I first encountered in the "blog-world" almost 20 years ago. I really miss Tim Blair's old blog.