What happened on this day in history?

[Swish]

14th November 1914

CONTEXT: The collapse of the Ottoman Empire is very close and they've looked like a rag tag bunch of cunts for years. Tanks are being used in the West and they aren't keeping up. Also the Armenian genocide is coming in 1915 (in about 6 months time).

On November 14, 1914, the religious leader Sheikh-ul-Islam declared an Islamic holy war in Constantinople (modern day Istanbul, Turkey) in the capitol of the Ottoman Empire on behalf of the Ottoman government. He compelled his Muslim followers to go to war against Britain, France, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro in World War I.

“Of those who go to the Jihad for the sake of happiness and salvation of the believers in God’s victory,” the sheik said in his declaration, “the lot of those who remain alive is felicity, while the rank of those who depart to the next world is martyrdom. In accordance with God’s beautiful promise, those who sacrifice their lives to give life to the truth will have honor in this world, and their latter end is paradise.”

Nice to see muslim culture has moved forward a century on...even though there was a global war on, they can draw one on religious lines