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[AlanwithoneL]

Get Real, I don't even know what a mosque looks like, I have no interest in religion whatsoever. As far as I'm concerned religion is the cause of most unrest on our planet.

I'm now in the UK and have plans of repatriating sometime soon, please try and get used to the idea that you will have to learn to live with me whether you like it or not.

I've concluded that most TCs aren't really interested in Islam, or religion generally, because most TCs are actually descended from indigenous Cypriots with few religious (or other) convictions. They simply "converted" during the arduous years of Ottoman rule to avoid tax and persecution. It's why they were spread so evenly all over the island rather than being focused in certain Ottoman strongholds. So there's nothing really very "T" about most TCs. Sad really, because the "T" bit is what's enabled Turkey to screw the island over in the modern era...

Cant really argue much with this. We are paying the for the mistakes of our ancestors.

[Daniella]

I answer to Bananiot that posed the question on the crimes committed by Christians because he “strangely” do not remember that Europe has been harassed by Muslims since the early years following the death of Muhammad.

The first Crusade began in 1095:
- 460 years after the first Christian city was overrun by Muslim armies,
- 457 years after Jerusalem was conquered by Islamic armies.
- 443 years after Muslims first plundered Italy
- 250 years after Rome itself was sacked by a Muslim army, and only after centuries of churches burned, killed, enslaved, forced conversions of Christians!!!

The Crusades were a lot more than just military expeditions: the first were pilgrimages, pilgrimages armed.
This was necessary to free the Holy Places by the Turkish occupation.
Because that occupation had made it impossible to hold a fact that throughout the Christian Middle Ages was a normal experience, but exhausting routine: the pilgrimage to the Holy Land to visit the places where Jesus lived.
So dear turcologist of my boots refresh your memory because by the time that started the Crusades, Muslim armies had conquered two thirds of the Christian world.

[Malapapa]

Get Real, I don't even know what a mosque looks like, I have no interest in religion whatsoever. As far as I'm concerned religion is the cause of most unrest on our planet.

I'm now in the UK and have plans of repatriating sometime soon, please try and get used to the idea that you will have to learn to live with me whether you like it or not.

I've concluded that most TCs aren't really interested in Islam, or religion generally, because most TCs are actually descended from indigenous Cypriots with few religious (or other) convictions. They simply "converted" during the arduous years of Ottoman rule to avoid tax and persecution. It's why they were spread so evenly all over the island rather than being focused in certain Ottoman strongholds. So there's nothing really very "T" about most TCs. Sad really, because the "T" bit is what's enabled Turkey to screw the island over in the modern era...

Cant really argue much with this. We are paying the for the mistakes of our ancestors.

Cheers. You'll find most of what I have to say is unarguable...

[BirKibrisli]

Your world is my world,dear Bananiot....A world of empathy,compassion and understanding...Those who cannot bring themselves to show one iota of empathy or sympathy for this individual and his suffering have the same mentality as those who have committed the unthinkable attrocities in the first place...They will use anything to justify the hatred and the bitterness in their minds and hearts...

As VP so rightly points out,these creatures,reminds us every day why we are in the mess we are in,and why we can never live in a united country...Thank you for flushing them out ,once again...Keep up the good work,dear friend...[b]Some of us appreciate what you are doing...[/b]

.... But of course you do ....... Trouble with people like Banana and your lot is you only look at your own side, whilst all the while you criticise the otherside of the same. In my book that makes you hypocrits.

Welcome back all the same.

Thanks for the welcome,B25...But I am not really back...I have given up on CF...I will just pop in every now and then to remind those who think like me that they are not alone...

[BirKibrisli]

Hello Birkibrisli gardash. Just a word of advice. These people may make a lot of noise here but in reality they are like empty tin cans rolling down a hill. Bir, you are not in Brisbane by any chance?

No,I am in Sydney,Bananiot...Why???

[Get Real!]

Get Real, I don't even know what a mosque looks like, I have no interest in religion whatsoever. As far as I'm concerned religion is the cause of most unrest on our planet.

I'm now in the UK and have plans of repatriating sometime soon, please try and get used to the idea that you will have to learn to live with me whether you like it or not.

I've concluded that most TCs aren't really interested in Islam, or religion generally, because most TCs are actually descended from indigenous Cypriots with few religious (or other) convictions. They simply "converted" during the arduous years of Ottoman rule to avoid tax and persecution. It's why they were spread so evenly all over the island rather than being focused in certain Ottoman strongholds. So there's nothing really very "T" about most TCs. Sad really, because the "T" bit is what's enabled Turkey to screw the island over in the modern era...

Cant really argue much with this. We are paying the for the mistakes of our ancestors.

Cheers. You'll find most of what I have to say is unarguable...

Haven't you got some more designs to do...

[Malapapa]

Get Real, I don't even know what a mosque looks like, I have no interest in religion whatsoever. As far as I'm concerned religion is the cause of most unrest on our planet.

I'm now in the UK and have plans of repatriating sometime soon, please try and get used to the idea that you will have to learn to live with me whether you like it or not.

I've concluded that most TCs aren't really interested in Islam, or religion generally, because most TCs are actually descended from indigenous Cypriots with few religious (or other) convictions. They simply "converted" during the arduous years of Ottoman rule to avoid tax and persecution. It's why they were spread so evenly all over the island rather than being focused in certain Ottoman strongholds. So there's nothing really very "T" about most TCs. Sad really, because the "T" bit is what's enabled Turkey to screw the island over in the modern era...

Cant really argue much with this. We are paying the for the mistakes of our ancestors.

Cheers. You'll find most of what I have to say is unarguable...

Haven't you got some more designs to do...

I am responding to specific requests/ideas...

[Malapapa]

Your world is my world,dear Bananiot....A world of empathy,compassion and understanding...Those who cannot bring themselves to show one iota of empathy or sympathy for this individual and his suffering have the same mentality as those who have committed the unthinkable attrocities in the first place...They will use anything to justify the hatred and the bitterness in their minds and hearts...

As VP so rightly points out,these creatures,reminds us every day why we are in the mess we are in,and why we can never live in a united country...Thank you for flushing them out ,once again...Keep up the good work,dear friend...[b]Some of us appreciate what you are doing...[/b]

.... But of course you do ....... Trouble with people like Banana and your lot is you only look at your own side, whilst all the while you criticise the otherside of the same. In my book that makes you hypocrits.

Welcome back all the same.

Thanks for the welcome,B25...But I am not really back...I have given up on CF...

Yes but, to be fair, CF gave up on you first.

[Get Real!]

Your world is my world,dear Bananiot....A world of empathy,compassion and understanding...

Now that we've got that one sorted out when do you both fly out to Turkey for the happy marriage ceremony?

[Bananiot]

Bir, a very good friend of mine (from our world) who came over for a holiday suffered a stroke and if you were in Brisbane I thought you could give him a call.