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Erasmus stated that Muslims were originally semi-christians and it was Catholic leadership that stirred up hatred among Christians by making them pay for indulgences to finance the so called Holy War against the Muslim world.
— Dec 23, 2025 08:03PM
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Scythians (İskitler) were seen as the ancestors of the Turks in Renaissance era in Europe and it was accepted that Turkic "barbarians" had a different spirit from "servile" Arabs - (based on the idea first put forth in Ancient Greece by Aristotle according to which the peoples who live in cold and mountainous areas have a tougher and more "war-like" temperament than those who live in hot and dry areas).
— Dec 23, 2025 06:02PM
