Reply #57: No Need, Sir, To Confine Consideration So Closely

[The Magistrate]

In the period between the fifteenth and eighteenth century, several million Europeans were yaken into slavery off the Mediterranean coast, and off its waters, by Turk and Arab raiders. The earlier conquest of Anatolia by the Turks was conquest of a Christian region, and signally bloody. This continued well into the modern era, with the Armenian genocide, and the expulsion of the remnant Greek population of western Anatolia after the Great War, accomplished with much slaughter. There is a great deal of naivite concerning history outside the West in some quarters....