Well, it was the epicenter of Islam for over 600 years before the Saudies sort of inherited the mantle owing to being parked around Mecca and Medina so color me ,,NOT Surprised.
Paging Turtler on the actual age of the ottoman empire Please!
Oh - OCM - if only that could be true. I just do not know in this age of cell phones, tv and the internet why any young person, woman or child buys into this bs at all.
Ignorance is an expensive thing, indeed.
Ward,As the Jesuits said many eons ago:"Give me a child at birth and by the age of Seven I will have them for Life”.