In Constantinople, the French academic doctor Pitton de Tournefort (18th century), witnessed the impalement of the Christian Greeks from the Muslims: "They lay the victim face down, after tying his hands behind his back, place a donkey saddle on his back, and two of the… pic.twitter.com/0DRo5fSJBd
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In Constantinople, the French academic doctor Pitton de Tournefort (18th century), witnessed the impalement of the Christian Greeks from the Muslims: "They lay the victim face down, after tying his hands behind his back, place a donkey saddle on his back, and two of the executioner's assistants sit on it to completely immobilize him. Another one holds his head pressed to the ground with both hands. A fourth assistant tears open the back of the victim's trousers with scissors. Then the executioner drives the stake, a wooden spit, as deep as possible. Next, he takes a wooden hammer and strikes the stake until the sharp end emerges at the chest. They then lift the stake upright and plant it in the ground. And as the poor wretch suffers, the Turks mock him, ridicule him, and call on him to convert to Islam and embrace the Muslim faith."
Pouqueville also recounts the tragic end of the Greek Thymios Vlachavas from Thessaly, following the uprising of 1808. He saw him in Ioannina, bound to a pole in Ali Pasha's courtyard: "calmer than the tyrant who was enjoying his torment, he looked at me with a serene gaze, as if wanting to make me a witness to the triumph of his supreme hour. He endured the executioner's blows without groaning or complaining. And the limbs dragged through the streets of Ioannina showed the terrified Greeks the remains of the last captain of Thessaly."
Kandyloros reports that the Muslim Kehaya-Bey "disembarked in Kalamata in 1805 carrying twenty thousand stakes for the impalement of the Greeks. He advanced inland, captured and impaled about six hundred of them."
Another form of torture was "the hooks." They consist of a scaffold erected at the entrance of cities. The executioner hoists the condemned man high on a pole using a pulley. Below the pole are fixed hooks. Then he suddenly releases the rope, and the condemned man falls with all his weight onto the hooks, impaling himself sometimes in the chest, sometimes in the armpits, or elsewhere on the body. And they leave him there to die. Often death comes after three days.
All these were inflicted on the Greeks who refused to embrace Islam and Muhammadanism.
It’s across the globe for 1400 years
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1. 7th–8th c. Arabia & Levant — After conquest, pagan Arabs faced convert-or-sword; Jews and Christians became dhimmis under jizya or were expelled (e.g. Banu Qurayza, later Najran/Hijaz restrictions).
2. North Africa — Christian and Berber…
It’s across the globe for 1400 years
1. 7th–8th c. Arabia & Levant — After conquest, pagan Arabs faced convert-or-sword; Jews and Christians became dhimmis under jizya or were expelled (e.g. Banu Qurayza, later Najran/Hijaz restrictions).
2. North Africa — Christian and Berber populations reduced over centuries by conquest, tax, and pressure; Maghreb Christianity almost vanished.
3. Sindh, 8th c. — Muhammad bin Qasim’s campaign: temples hit, captives, jizya; conversion followed rule.
4. Anatolia & Balkans — Byzantine and Balkan Christians under Ottoman rule: devshirme (Christian boys taken, converted, made Janissaries), jizya, village pressure.
5. Spain (Al-Andalus) — Conquest, then periodic forced conversion, pogroms (e.g. Granada 1066), and later Almohad demand: convert, leave, or die.
6. India, Ghaznavid–Ghurid raids — Mahmud of Ghazni and later sultans: temple destruction, captives, conversion of some prisoners and local elites under fear and patronage.
7. Delhi Sultanate & Mughal periods — Jizya, temple policies, documented forced conversions in campaigns; Aurangzeb’s reign cited for renewed jizya and pressure on Hindus.
8. Kashmir — Repeated phases of conversion under Sultanate rule; later Islamist violence against Pandits (1990s) emptied the Valley of most Hindus.
9. Iran — Zoroastrians reduced from majority to a remnant; later pressure on Baha’is and converts from Islam.
10. Armenian & Assyrian Christians — Centuries of dhimmi status; 1890s–1915 massacres and genocide under Ottoman/Young Turk rule (not only “conversion,” but Islamist-national destruction of Christian peoples).
11. Greece & Balkans, 19th c. — Massacres during Ottoman collapse; conversion used as a survival exit in some districts.
12. Pakistan after 1947 — Hindus and Christians squeezed by blasphemy law, kidnapping of girls, forced conversion in Sindh; temples attacked.
13. Bangladesh — 1971 killings of Hindus; later temple attacks and pressure on remaining Hindus.
14. Indonesia / Maluku / Sulawesi — Jihadist campaigns against Christians (late 1990s–2000s); conversion under threat in some conflict zones.
15. Nigeria — Boko Haram, ISWAP, Fulani militants: churches burned, girls seized (Chibok), “convert or die,” pastors and villagers murdered.
16. Egypt & Iraq — Copts and Assyrians: church bombings, jizya-style extortion by jihadists, girls abducted.
17. ISIS 2014–17 — Yazidis: convert, sex slavery, or death. Christians of Mosul: convert, pay, flee, or die. Marked houses with “N.”
18. Afghanistan — Taliban: apostates and converts from Islam killed; remaining Hindus/Sikhs fled.
19. Sahel (Mali, Burkina, Niger) — Jihadist belts: villages told to accept Islamic rule or be emptied
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