Righteous Muslims: Paying the price for 1821
John 15:13 The conventional narrative on the Greek Revolution is generally dualistic to the point of being outright Manichaean. On the one side, representing the forces of light and goodness are the valiant, freedom-loving Greeks, nobly struggling to free themselves from the oppression of the forces of darkness, symbolised by the blood-thirsty Ottomans, on the other side, with their murderous ways and propensity to engage in the wholesale slaughter of their Christian subjects. When one reads the memoirs of revolutionary heroes, however, one often comes across situations where Greeks were tipp...