isabelberners, sorry again darling, why would i read a book written by a left wing academic? i didn't even read your article, the first 2 paragraphs showed me "where you are coming from" flipped forward to the last paragraph without even knowing it was based on a book written by yet another left wing academic. "repeat the big lie, until it becomes the truth" Lenin.

My grandfather was an RSM in WW1 leading an Indian regiment on the Eastern front darling. Whose recollections do you think i will listen to?

My response, as ever is so what?
The wider Turkish campaign during the great war was an old school Islamic Jihad complete with Fatwah's, Shahadas, mass executions of religious and ethnic minorities and the now familiar war cry Allahu Akbar!
We have Muslim allies in the counter Jihad now as we did then, though under Islamic doctrine those gunners and lancers on the peninsula in 1915 were apostates so the term Muslim doesn't really apply anyway.
There's a difference between allies and comrades too, but being a woman Helen you wouldn't understand such masculine concepts.

In "Giving Mark Latham a history lesson" Helen Pringle comments that there was mutual friendship between Australian and Indian soldiers in World War I. One point which illustrates this is that Douglas Grant of the Australian 13th Battalion, after being captured at Bellecourt, was interred with Arab, Senegalese, Indian and French-Chinese troops near Berlin in 1917. da Cruz (p. 14, 2015) points out that Grant was elected to the prisoners Help Committee and wrote to the Red Cross asking for spices suitable for a non-European palate. Da Cruz suggests that the resulting combination of spice with German sausage could be the origin of Berlin's "curry wurst".

Reference

da Cruz, Marghanita (2015). Annandale's Great War : a short walk (Second edition). [Annandale, New South Wales] [Marghanita da Cruz]
URL http://amzn.to/1O4KfOg

It's easy to hate Islam, it hates you. Get real for the hundreds of Westerners killed annually there are thousands of co-religionists slaughtered