Bob Katter (Kennedy, Katter's Australian Party) Share this | Hansard source

Ibn Khaldun, the eminent Arabian historian, said in 1365 that he was very surprised that Jerusalem was still predominantly, overwhelmingly, Christian, and that Palestine also was overwhelmingly Christian. How come it's not Christian now? What happened? Constantinople was the centre of the Orthodox Christian religion. About a third of Christians in the world, at the time, were under the auspices of the Christian church in Constantinople. It was the centre, the capital, of Christianity, outside of Rome. Why is it now a Muslim city? We must ask ourselves.

There is an historical constant here. These people come in, they take over and they completely destroy the faith and the values of the people that were there. Anyone can read the history books, if you doubt me for one moment. These people, for 600 or 700 years, took 50,000 Christian slaves a year. If you doubt me, I will say that, if you knew your history, you would know that Peter the Great and Suleiman the Magnificent were the predominant figures—the two outstanding figures—of the Dark Ages. Peter the Great's wife had been a Muslim Christian slave. Suleiman the Magnificent's main wife—

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