Yes and so ended the last Muslim Empire on Earth ! It would have been better if the Ottoman Empire was purged of her decadence, corruption and nepotism instead of being scrapped altogether as a bad dream ! Imagine what a democratic Ottoman Empire with the Sultan having the same position as the Queen of England and all powers devolved to the Parliament, would have looked like ! A Muslim Superpower of our own to stand up for the rest of us ! An entity that embodied the very best traditions of Islamic Scholarship and did what we haven't been able to for the past 70-80 years - Bring about a Renaissance in the Muslim World and show the world through practical, working models the alternative paradigm that we claim Islam provides us ! Ahhh...wouldn't that be something worth fighting for ? Too bad...we the Muslims ourselves, like always, were our biggest enemies and we turned on each other before any foreign enemy could !