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You should look up "the Black Legend" of Spain. I'm almost certain you and I have had this exact conversation before, yet you're still putting forth this exact argument even though you know it isn't true.
And the Jannissaries were the product of a tribute paid from specifically christian lands. Boys who were deemed "pretty" enough were put into the Sultan's harem. I'm sure you know what that means.
I dont remember having this conversation. I am also strictly talking about the ottomans and Spanish comparatively. My question is how were the ottomans any worse? That is in totality. The Ottomans have also had their fair share of demonization. Harems just don't compare to wholesale expulsion and forced conversion and even the banning of a people's language/dress.
Here is crowley:
The Sultan regarded himself not only as a Muslim ruler but as the heir to the Roman Empire and set about reconstructing a multicultural capital in which all citizens would have certain rights. He forcibly resettled both Greek Christian and Turkish Muslims back into the city, guaranteed the safety of the Genoese enclave at Galata and forbade any Turks to live there. The monk Gennadios, who had so fiercely resisted attempts at union, was rescued from slavery in Edirne and restored to the capital as patriarch of the Orthodox community with the formula: 'Be Patriarch, with good fortune, and be assured of our friendship, keeping the privileges that the Patriarchs before you enjoyed'. The Christians were to live in their own neighbourhoods and to retain some of their churches, though under certain restrictions: they had to wear distinctive dress and were forbidden from bearing arms - within the context of the times it was a policy of remarkable tolerance. At the other end of the Mediterranean the final reconquest of Spain by the Catholic Kings in 1492 resulted in the forced conversion or expulsion of all the Muslims and Jews. The Spanish Jews themselves were encouraged to migrate to the Ottoman Empire - 'the refuge of the world' - where within the overall experience of Jewish exile, their reception was generally positive. 'Here in the land of the Turks we have nothing to complain of,' wrote one rabbi to his brethren in Europe. 'We possess great fortunes, much gold and silver in our hands. We are not oppressed with heavy taxes and our commerce is free and unhindered.'