They were secular Turkish Nationalists
They were brought up in Islamic cultural traditions in the Muslim Ottoman Empire, and explicitly appealed to the general Muslim population and local tribes with
religious rhetoric urging them to view the massacres as a religious duty.
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Yes, as per usual the Muslims found a way to blame the Jews. In this case setting upon the Dönme. And of course later your far-right extremism factions also fell upon the theory too. - The usual secret "global Jewish and Freemasonic plot", crypto-Jewish Dönme infiltrators, etc.
So the Muslims! The Muslims!
You know it's kind of wild that there isn't even a trace of cognitive dissonance over this in you racists and antisemites (purporting Christianity).
Like during the Gaza so called "genocide" (where the population of Gaza actually increased) you had at the same time Al Fashir and Sudan's Muslim Brotherhood lead army torturing people to death, wiping out 99% of Christians in the north of Sudan, purging all non-Arab Africans, abusing women, kidnapping children, had killed 150,000, and caused
actual famine for 25 million people.
But no one noticed that, they only noticed "The Jews".
Of course it has been going on a long time. Here's the archbishop Rowan Williams speaking about it on radio a number of years ago, for instance.
Speaking during an interview with Martha Kearney on BBC Radio 4's "World at One" programme,...
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"... Speaking during an interview with Martha Kearney on BBC Radio 4's "World at One" programme, the Archbishop expressed his continuing concerns about the fragile situation of Christian minority populations across the Middle East where in places life for Christians was "becoming unsustainable...".
No one noticed the Iraqi Christian population went from around 1.5 million to under 120,000, no, they only noticed "The Jews".
Or that Syria’s Christian population went from 1.5 million to under 500,000.
Recalling in the likes of Lebanon not too long ago, Christians fell from around 50% in the 1930s to 27% today.
Right now there are thousands of Christians currently languishing inside de facto concentration camps in northern Nigeria.
That's not to mention the Yazidis, Druzes and other minorities, rapidly disappearing from the region.
No, it's "The Jews, the Jews...".
These chickens will eventually come home to roost, you know.