Thread:Naiskandar/@comment-33911555-20180124092837/@comment-33914580-20180125103413

About the arabs and turks in WW1, the british didn’t tell lies to make arabs rebel against ottomans this is turkish propaganda, understand the situation in a clear way without propaganda, let me explain you: arabs were at least since the 19th century dissatisfied with the ottomans, several revolts had happened but no one could be victorious because the ottomans had more power (maybe the revolts in Egypt were a bit successful). The arabs were generally oppressed under ottoman rule, the turks treated us badly (mainly arab shiites and christians, I had members of my family that were killed by ottomans, understand now why I hate ottoman rule), then as a consequence arab nationalism began to grow very much in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as the way of liberation of the arab people from the ottoman imperialism, independent of the fact that they followed the same religion of us, they were harming us and it’s a fact, it’s imperialism and imperialism is bad in anyway. The british didn’t make the arabs fight against the turks, they betrayed the arabs later but they didn’t have to lie to arabs fight against ottomans, we were already fighting them long before the stupid british arrived in the region, what the british did was a political game that followed their interests exclusively, they supported the arabs against the ottomans for political issues involving the WW1 context. Even though the revolt was supposed to be a good thing for the arab people since we were rebelling against oppressors, it was a failure and here comes the bad part of the revolt, the bad part was not rebel against the ottomans, this was the good part (remember, ottomans were oppressive against arabs this is why people in Lebanon, Syria and other parts of the arab world really hate ottomans because people of our families were killed by them), the bad part comes now, because remember that the revolt was made by the british and the elites of the arab world and not with the popular participation of the people, then the british took advantage of the situation to take control of the arab world in a political form and to divide it according to their interests, they caught a conflict that already existed a long time (understand that they didn’t create the conflict) and took advantage of that, then they only made arabs more nationalists

Yes arabs and turks can be brothers in religion, but we will only be brothers if turks stop oppressing and taking advantage of us every time, we can be brothers as long as turks live in their country and don’t harm us, ottoman rule over arab world wasn’t a good thing as you may believe, it was really bad moment of oppression and many people died. The vision that you need to have of ottomans is the same vision you need to have of europeans, they were both imperialists and they both treated other people as colonies, isn’t just because that ottomans are muslims that I’m supposed to love them, they treated many people including lots of muslims as garbage. Europeans and americans did support the relative independence of their puppet states just as the story you quoted here, ottomans were an imperialist empire searching for influence and political support always remember it

Well you are free to like whatever you want, you can like ottomans, but please understand why people like arabs don’t like them in majority, they were bad for us, people of our families were killed by them only for defending the freedom of our people, we have reasons to hate them