Thank you, Charles, for posting the May 29, 2008 excerpt from Spencer’s site, commemorating the anniversary of an event that occurred 555 years ago.

I consider myself as much aware of the dangers of Islam as any well-informed person who sees what’s going on in the world today can be. In fairness to Spencer, I read his May 29 2008 post as more of an elegy to the disastrous loss of Constantinople and the lessons today’s world can learn from it than a call for its return to Christianity.

But, frankly, anyone who, like the Anatolian Reconquista Group and, at least until he discovered the alleged evil hoax, Robert Spencer, who wants to turn back history 555 years reminds me very much of the insane Islamic factions who want to return to “Al-Andalus,” lost 517 years ago to Ferdinand and Isabella.

Another glaring oversight by the Anatolian Reconquista Group - the people they want to ethnically cleanse and sterilize are, for the most part, the direct descendants of the former Christians they claim to be wanting to save. While some Christians fled Asia Minor to get away from the Turks, and some Muslim immigrants moved into Asia Minor to replace them, I ‘m sure that most of the population at the time just stayed and converted to Islam, either out of apathy or through force. The reconquista group should be advocating for requiring Turkey to allow Christian missionaries into the country to try and convert them back. The fact that they instead want to ethnically cleanse and sterilize them tells me they are bad, bad, bad.

And Spencer has tarred his reputation greatly by consorting them, even if briefly and allegedly due to carelessness.