Have Yourself a Very Jihad Christmas

The precipitating event for all the Crusades was the Battle of Manzikert in 1071 wherein the Seljuk Turks, a new element in the Islamic Jihad, broke a 300 year stalemate between Islam and Christendom. For those who don't know, the Seljug Turks were a Central Asian group, who represented the first wave of the Mongol horse warriors that would plague the world for the next 3 centuries

Following their victory, the Turks initiated a genocical cleansing of the interior of the peninsula that was so thorough that nobody even remebers any more that Turkey was once called Anatolia and was an epicenter of Christianity. It's remarkable how little curiosity there is about how Turkey went from being 100% Christian to almost 100% Muslim. It...