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Erasmus stated that Muslims were originally semi-christians and it was Catholic leadership that stirred up hatred among Christians by making them pay for indulgences to finance the so called Holy War against the Muslim world.

Scythians (İskitler) were seen as the ancestors of the Turks in Renaissance era in Europe and it was accepted that Turkic "barbarians" had a different spirit from "servile" Arabs - (based on the idea first put forth in Ancient Greece by Aristotle according to which the peoples who live in cold and mountainous areas have a tougher and more "war-like" temperament than those who live in hot and dry areas).