If you dare, uncover and watch this video of a young girl facing extermination by the Muslim Turks during the Armenian Christian Genocide. Then read my commentary and tell me why the world is ignoring the current global Christian genocide. ANOTHER systematic slaughter by the Islamic State which has already claimed over one million Christian lives. Tell me how it can never happen again in Europe or America.
The Armenian Genocide, also known as the Armenian Holocaust, was the Muslim Ottoman Empire's systematic extermination of 1.5 million Armenian Christians from 1915-1922, mostly citizens within the Ottoman Empire and its successor state, the Republic of Turkey.
Islam was the official religion of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman rulers, like most of their subjects, were Muslim. They subjected Armenians, who they viewed as “infidels,” to unequal and unjust treatment. They forced Christians to pay higher taxes than Muslims, for example, and Christians had very few political and legal rights.
In spite of these obstacles, the Armenian community thrived under Ottoman rule. They tended to be better educated and wealthier than their Turkish neighbors, who in turn tended to resent their success. The Armenian Christians were accused of PRIVILEGE, the same way Jews were in WW2, the same way whites in America and South Africa are accused of today.
In 1908, a new government came to power in Turkey. A group of reformers who called themselves the “Young Turks” established a more modern constitutional government. At first, the Armenians were hopeful that they would have an equal place in this new state, but they soon learned that what the nationalistic Young Turks wanted most of all was to “Turkify” the empire.
In 1914, the Turks entered World War I on the side of Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. (At the same time, Ottoman religious authorities declared jihad, or holy war, against all Christians except their allies.) Military leaders began to argue that the Armenians were traitors. The Turkish government pushed for the “removal” of the Armenians from the war zones along the Eastern Front.
On April 24, 1915, the Armenian genocide began. That day, the Turkish government arrested and executed several hundred Armenian intellectuals. After that, ordinary Armenians were turned out of their homes and sent on death marches through the Mesopotamian desert without food or water. Frequently, the marchers were stripped naked and forced to walk under the scorching sun until they dropped dead. People who stopped to rest were shot.
At the same time, the Young Turks created a “Special Organization,” which in turn organized “killing squads” or “butcher battalions” to carry out, as one officer put it, “the liquidation of the Christian elements.” These killing squads were often made up of murderers and other ex-convicts. They drowned people in rivers, threw them off cliffs, crucified them and burned them alive. In short order, the Turkish countryside was littered with Armenian corpses.
Records show that during this “Turkification” campaign government squads also kidnapped children, converted them to Islam and gave them to Turkish families. In some places, they raped women and forced them to join Turkish “harems” or serve as slaves. Muslim families moved into the homes of deported Armenians and seized their property.
In 1922, when the genocide was over, there were just 388,000 Armenians remaining in the Ottoman Empire. After the Ottomans surrendered in 1918, the leaders of the Young Turks fled to Germany, which promised not to prosecute them for the genocide. Ever since then, the Turkish government has denied that a genocide took place. The Armenians were an enemy force, they argue, and their slaughter was a necessary war measure.
This is the Jihad they want you to forget.
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