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Originally Posted by Jamo
You folks seem to forget...there was a "bad guy" at the time: the Ottoman Empire.
Waddaya talking about. The ottoman empire was the only "enlightened" "progressive" islamic rule that these people ever had. The O empire was an asset to these people.
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I presume you jest. If not...a few hundred years earlier, I would agree with you. But at the time of which we speak...hardly. It had become the very definition of a corrupt system during the 19th century, thereby earning the title "Sick Man of Europe" and universally hated by everyone. They were not Arabic, but leftovers of Central Asian hords pushed west by successive Khans.
Arabs, Jews, Greeks and of course Armenians suffered at their hand.