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Barbary Corsairs
DIR By: Prite
Date: September 2, 2020, 2:11 am
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@90sRetroFan
Is it true that Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya are filled
with Arab-Berber and they have their own version of "Islam"
(except late Muammar Gaddafi and others)?
Also, Barbary Corsairs were in this region with the support from
Ottoman Empire.
HTML https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_pirates
Arab-Berber and their habitats:
HTML https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab-Berber
Countries with Islam as the state religion:
HTML https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Islam_World.svg#mw-jump-to-license
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Re: Barbary Corsairs
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: November 12, 2020, 3:13 pm
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[member=10]Prite[/member]
"Is it true that Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya are filled
with Arab-Berber and they have their own version of "Islam""
Every country has its own version.
"Barbary Corsairs"
From your link:
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> the terms "Barbary pirates" and "Barbary corsairs" are
normally applied to the raiders active from the 16th century
onwards,
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It is possible to interpret them as anti-colonialist guerillas:
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> Sayyida al-Hurra was a female Muslim cleric, merchant,
governor of Tétouan, and later the wife of the sultan of
Morocco.[35][36] She was born around 1485 in the Emirate of
Granada, but was forced to flee to Morocco when she was very
young to escape the Reconquista. In Morocco, she gathered a crew
largely of exiled Moors, and launched pirate expeditions against
Spain and Portugal to avenge the Reconquista, protect Morocco
from Christian pirates, and seek riches and glory. She
co-founded the Barbary Corsairs with her allies the Barbarossa
brothers.
--- End Quote ---
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> on December 20, 1777, Sultan Mohammed III of Morocco issued a
declaration recognizing America as an independent country, and
stating that American merchant ships could enjoy safe passage
into the Mediterranean and along the coast.[7][8] The relations
were formalized with the Moroccan-American Treaty of Friendship
signed in 1786, which stands as the U.S.'s oldest non-broken
friendship treaty[9][10] with a foreign power.
--- End Quote ---
As such, we should be sceptical of their negative portrayals by
colonial-era Western historians.
Further reading:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayyida_al_Hurra
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> She was two years old when the Portuguese started their
colonial conquest by capturing some ports at the western coast
of Morocco starting the year 1487. A few years later, Granada
was falling into the hands of the Catholic Monarchs (los Reyes
Católicos) Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon
> ...
> Sayyida could neither forget nor forgive the humiliation of
being forced to flee Granada. In her wish to avenge herself on
the "Christian enemy", she turned to piracy.
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Moreover:
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> Sayyida al Hurra was born around 1485 (Hijri around 890) to a
prominent Muslim family of Andalusian nobles who fled to Morocco
after the fall of Grenada in 1492.[2][6] She is a descendant of
Sharif Abd as-Salam al-Alami,[3] who is a descendant of Hasan
ibn Ali[8].
--- End Quote ---
Let's finish the job:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/operation-gaddafi/
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Re: Barbary Corsairs
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: February 11, 2021, 11:03 pm
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Just found this:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_clothing#Ottoman_influence_on_Western_female_dress
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> Interactions between Ottomans and Britons occurred throughout
history, but in the 18th century, European visitors and
residents in the Ottoman Empire markedly increased, and exploded
in the 19th century.[1] As such, fashion is one method to gauge
the increased interactions. Historically, Europeans clothing was
more delineated between male and female dress. Hose and trousers
were reserved for men, and skirts were for women.[2] Conversely,
in the Ottoman Empire, the male and female dress was more
similar. A common item worn by both was the şalvar, a
voluminous undergarment in white fabric shaped like what is
today called "harem pants".[3] To British women traveling in the
Ottoman Empire, the şalvar quickly became a symbol of
freedom because they observed that Ottoman women had more rights
than British women did. Lady Mary Wortley Montague (1689–1762),
whose husband was the British Ambassador to Constantinople,
noted in her travels in her "Embassy Letters" that Ottoman women
"possessed legal property rights and protections that far
surpassed the rights of Western women".[4] These female
travelers often gained an intimate view of Ottoman culture,
since as women, they had easier access to the Muslim Elite
harems than did men.[5] Şalvar successfully spread into
Europe at the end of the 19th century as various female
suffragists and feminists used şalvar as a symbol of
emancipation. Other British women of distinction, such as Lady
(Janey) Archibald Campbell (1845–1923), and Lady Ottoline
(Violet Anne) Morrell (1873–1938) wore şalvar "in an
attempt to symbolize their refusal of traditional British
standards and sexual differences".[6] Şalvar also spread
beyond Europe when Amelia Jenks Bloomer modified these "Turkish
trousers" to create American "bloomers".[7]
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This is why anti-sexists should be anti-Western.
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Grace O’Malley, the Fearless 16th-Century Irish Pirate Queen Who
Stood Up to the English
DIR By: guest5
Date: March 10, 2021, 9:59 pm
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Grace O’Malley, the Fearless 16th-Century Irish Pirate Queen Who
Stood Up to the English
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> She debated with Queen Elizabeth I, sat at the head of a
prosperous pirate empire, and told the English where to go.
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> If asked to name a pirate from history, many people will
mention Blackbeard or Captain William Kidd. If pressed to name a
female pirate, they might mention Anne Bonny, who terrorized the
Caribbean alongside Captain "Calico" Jack Rackham in the early
18th century. Anne Bonny, however, was far from the only female
pirate to terrorize the seas. More than a century before Bonny's
birth, another woman ruled the waves, debated with Queen
Elizabeth I, and sat at the head of a prosperous pirate empire.
She was Grace O'Malley, Pirate Queen.
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HTML https://getpocket.com/explore/item/grace-o-malley-the-fearless-16th-century-irish-pirate-queen-who-stood-up-to-the-english?utm_source=pocket-newtab
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Re: The Difference between Islamic and Europe on Slave Treatment
DIR By: antihellenistic
Date: August 21, 2024, 9:10 am
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> Although Arabs first brought jihad to Europe, it was the Turks
who did the most damage to Christendom. The struggle began after
decades of Turkish settlement in Persia, the Middle East, and
the Caucasus. Under the Seljuk beys [Turkish rulers], Turks
established powerful states in eastern Asia Minor (today’s
Turkey). This was a threat to the West, for Asia Minor was the
ancient homeland of Greeks, Armenians, and Kurds, all of whom
are Indo-Europeans. Western Asia Minor was ruled by the Eastern
Roman (Byzantine) Empire, which was the direct descendant of the
Roman Empire that spread Christianity throughout Europe, North
Africa, and the eastern Mediterranean.
>
> ...
>
> Less than a hundred years after the fall of Constantinople,
Ottoman armies threatened Central Europe. They controlled the
old Eastern Roman lands of Greece, Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria,
Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, while parts of
Romania, Moldova, and Hungary were vassals of the sultan.
British historian Roger Crowley notes that by the 16th century,
for Christian Europe, the Ottoman Empire was the “cruelest enemy
of Christ’s name” [4]. For the Catholic Church and all Catholic
monarchs, the fight against the Ottomans was a fight for
survival [5]. Islam demanded that the Ottomans fight against
Christendom, and sultans legitimized their power through
conquest.
>
> As Crowley explains, the Ottoman decision to build a navy to
control the Mediterranean led to much horror for Europeans.
Ottoman pirates from North Africa began raiding Southern Europe
by the early 16th century. The most famous of these pirates was
Hayreddin Barbarossa, a corsair of mixed Albanian Muslim and
Greek Orthodox background. (A tragedy of the Ottoman war on
Europe was that many Ottoman soldiers, sailors, generals, and
admirals were Europeans by blood or birth, and the majority of
the sultans had European or Christian slaves for mothers.)
Barbarossa turned Algiers into an open-air slave market for
whites. During one raid in southern France, Barbarossa’s pirates
captured 632 Christians and beheaded all priests and civic
leaders [6].
>
> In 1571, the Ottomans invaded Cyprus, which was then
controlled by the Republic of Venice. After a prolonged siege,
on August 17, 1571, the captured Venetian general Marc’Antonio
Bragadin was asked if he would like to convert to Islam and thus
be spared death. He refused. He was tied to an ancient column
and skinned alive [7]. There were similar raids and massacres
until the early 19th century. Over one million European men and
women were taken as slaves by the Ottoman Turks and their Muslim
allies in North Africa and Crimea. Slavery badly depopulated
parts of Southern Europe for centuries.
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Source :
Posted on February 21, 2020 The Battle That Saved Christendom by
Sinclair Jenkins, American Renaissance, February 21, 2020
HTML https://www.amren.com/features/2020/02/the-battle-that-saved-christendom/
Hayreddin Barbarossa gave a fatal blow to Europe, that
historical facts remembering us how Hitler used the same
military codename operation to invade the entire Eastern Europe
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