| 00:07 - 00:16 | Pomak Leaks presents... |
| 00:18 - 00:29 | _ The Truth about Pomaks _ |
| 00:30 - 00:40 | In the last 150 years there have been put up many hypotheses about how Pomaks accepted Islam as their religion. |
| 00:41 - 00:52 | The Bulgarians claim that Pomaks have accepted Islam forcibly during the Ottoman regime. This version is fiercely disputed. |
| 00:53 - 01:03 | In 864 the bulgarian prince Boris accepted Christianity and in 866 the Bulgarians have been christianized upon his will. Those who opposed have been executed. |
| 01:04 - 01:15 | In 1912 the Bulgarians forcibly christianized Pomaks. Hundreds have been killed, many villages burned down. |
| 01:16 - 01:26 | The Bulgarians, who attempted to christianize the Pomaks, dare to claim that the Ottomans have forcibly islamized Pomaks! |
| 01:27 - 01:38 | Let us examine documents and facts, in order to be able to make our own conclusions. |
| 01:39 - 01:49 | Let's see first what the situation in the Rhodopes has been, before the Ottomans came. |
| 01:50 - 02:01 | Many self-called "historians" attempt to persuade us that in the 1st century St. Paulus christianized all thracians. This is not true. In the book "Churches and |
| 02:02 - 02:12 | "(In 6th century) the formation of the church organization on the Balkans continued, but this by far did not mean that the local population had been entirely ch |
| 02:13 - 02:24 | "Big damages due to barbarian attacks significantly reduced the abilities of the church organization to act." |
| 02:25 - 02:35 | "In the meantime, the local thracian population persistently kept their old customs and traditions, even then, when externally forced to accept Christianity." |
| 02:36 - 02:47 | The immigrated Slavs did not like the Christianity either: |
| 02:49 - 02:58 | "Indicative for the negative attitude of the Slavs towards Christianity are the words of the slavic prince Prebund, told in regard to the fifth siege of Thessal |
| 02:59 - 03:10 | "He threatened publicly to destroy all roman settlements, 'to fight constantly and to not leave alive any christian'." |
| 03:11 - 03:15 | Even after the christianization in Bulgaria in 9th century, large part of the population in the Rhodopes remained non-christian for years. The confirmations are |
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