The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5
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pancho
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- Tuesday, August 31 2010, 11:54:43 (UTC) from *** - *** -  Windows NT -  Internet ExplorerWebsite: Website title: |
What happened to the Armenians in 1915? "During the first world war, Armenians from the Caucasus formed volunteer battalions to help the Russian army against the Turks. Early in 1915, these battalions organised the recruiting of Turkish Armenians from behind Turkish lines. The Young Turk government reacted by ordering the deportation of the Armenian population to Syria and Palestine. About 1 million died from starvation or were killed by Arab or Kurdish tribes along the route. Many survivors fled to Russian Armenia where, in 1918, an independent Armenian republic was established". No one who accuses the Turks of genocide ever mentions this...or that Armenians held hostages at the central bank of Istanbul threatening to blow it up...and were allowed to leave on the yacht of the British ambassador. As usual for Christians, the Turks are made out to have killed all those people simply for being Christian....and we have to remind them again that the only people who have murdered innocent people for their religion are Christians...and that the Ottoman Empire was the only place on earth where Muslim, Christians and Jews lived side by side in peace for centuries...far more at people than Catholics and Protestants have done, right up to the modern era in Ireland. The trouble was brought to Turkey from outside, by the coalition of western Christian nations lining up to strip Turkey of the same oil-rich lands they are fighting for now...Turkish Armenians and assyrians too were actively recruited to fight agaiunst their own country in the pay of those attacking it. What would the United States do if a coalition of powerful Muslim nations, with atomic weapons and more, declared war against America and recruited Muslim Americans to fight against their country and neighbors? America has never faced defeat, has never faced overwhelming military might and has never had its citizens rescruited to betray it. Itīs good to walk a mile in the otherīs shoes. Turkey, unlike the United States in the Second World War, did not round up all its Christian citizens and place them in camps...as the United States did with its citizens of Japanese descent...Christians in the capital and in major cities away from the borders suffered no retribution...which was not the case with the Jews either who were actively hunted down and exterminated by German and other Christians regardless of how little Jewish "blood" was in them. In Turkey rather it was the Christians living on the borders who were marched away, so they would not betray the country by allowing the enemy to gain a foothold...a sound defensive measure any country would have taken under similar circumstances. This is not to defend any brutality anywhere in war...war is brutal, itīs meant to be and traitors are treated with little consideration. Group punishment is also something all sides have engaged in....so letīs stop aiming our indignation solely at the Turks...let us accept the fact that only Christi ans, in the modern era, have been guilty of true genocide and that the Holocaust is not a generic term but applies specifically to what the Christians did to Jews. Christians may well be chagrined to realize what they have done and, in shame and remorse, are eager to smear Islam with their crimes so they are not alone in committing true genocide. --------------------- |
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