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IS has Ottoman Turks as role models and heroes: The Daily Citizen
February 20, 2015 19:36
History sometimes has a cruel way of repeating its worst episodes. One
of the most horrendous that is happening now is the obliteration of
Christians, Yezidis, Shia Muslims and Alawites by the Islamic State.
STEPANAKERT, FEBRUARY 20, ARTSAKHPRESS: This is a repeat of what
happened a century ago, Ina Fay Manly said in an article published at
The Daily Citizen.
"Toward the end of the Ottoman caliphate (1299-1922), Muslims began a
systematic slaughter of Armenians, Syriac Orthodox Christians and
Assyrians with unspeakably cruel brutality, the worst carried out
against children. U.S. Ambassador Henry Morgenthau wrote in his
memoirs that Turkish officials bragged to him about their nightly
meetings where they would enthusiastically share their latest torture
techniques used on the Armenians. That Genocide (1915-1919) claimed
more than a million Armenians plus more than 250,000 others. By 1923
more than two million Armenians that once lived in the Turkish
caliphate were gone. Gruesome slaughter and forced evacuation marches
into the desert claimed many, but some survived to tell the story.
During the reign of Caliph Abdul Hamid II, ethnic cleansing was the
order of the day. At a meeting of Christian ministers, laymen and a
few of their wives, Turkish soldiers arrived and told them to convert
to Islam or die. After a brief discussion, all 70 refused so they were
murdered and their bodies dumped in a ravine. One miraculously
survived to describe the massacre," the article said.
"The jihad Genocide of the Armenians was carried out by Muslims. Not
all Muslim Turks and Arabs approved or participated, but the jihadists
who did were awarded all the property of their victims and took any
remaining women and children as slaves.
This may seem like ancient history, but there is a present-day
connection. A brief mention in a news article in The Daily Citizen
brings the story full circle. Recently, Islamic State fighters
destroyed the Armenian Genocide Memorial Church in Der Zor, Syria.
This church had sheltered the remains of Armenian genocide victims.
Andrew Bostom, a noted Islam scholar, wrote, "Modern genocide
historians ... often cite a comment by Hitler that the mass killings
of the Armenians served the Nazi leader as an 'inspirational'
precedent for predictable impunity." No one had gone to the aid of the
Armenians either.
The present Islamic State has role models and heroes - some
monstrously evil Ottoman Turkish Muslims of a century ago," the
article concludes.
http://www.daltondailycitizen.com/opinion/letter-not-ancient/article_606c54c0-b7e4-11e4-9917-53fc0b184f3a.html
http://artsakhpress.am/eng/news/12845/is-has-ottoman-turks-as-role-models-and-heroes-the-daily-citizen.html
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
February 20, 2015 19:36
History sometimes has a cruel way of repeating its worst episodes. One
of the most horrendous that is happening now is the obliteration of
Christians, Yezidis, Shia Muslims and Alawites by the Islamic State.
STEPANAKERT, FEBRUARY 20, ARTSAKHPRESS: This is a repeat of what
happened a century ago, Ina Fay Manly said in an article published at
The Daily Citizen.
"Toward the end of the Ottoman caliphate (1299-1922), Muslims began a
systematic slaughter of Armenians, Syriac Orthodox Christians and
Assyrians with unspeakably cruel brutality, the worst carried out
against children. U.S. Ambassador Henry Morgenthau wrote in his
memoirs that Turkish officials bragged to him about their nightly
meetings where they would enthusiastically share their latest torture
techniques used on the Armenians. That Genocide (1915-1919) claimed
more than a million Armenians plus more than 250,000 others. By 1923
more than two million Armenians that once lived in the Turkish
caliphate were gone. Gruesome slaughter and forced evacuation marches
into the desert claimed many, but some survived to tell the story.
During the reign of Caliph Abdul Hamid II, ethnic cleansing was the
order of the day. At a meeting of Christian ministers, laymen and a
few of their wives, Turkish soldiers arrived and told them to convert
to Islam or die. After a brief discussion, all 70 refused so they were
murdered and their bodies dumped in a ravine. One miraculously
survived to describe the massacre," the article said.
"The jihad Genocide of the Armenians was carried out by Muslims. Not
all Muslim Turks and Arabs approved or participated, but the jihadists
who did were awarded all the property of their victims and took any
remaining women and children as slaves.
This may seem like ancient history, but there is a present-day
connection. A brief mention in a news article in The Daily Citizen
brings the story full circle. Recently, Islamic State fighters
destroyed the Armenian Genocide Memorial Church in Der Zor, Syria.
This church had sheltered the remains of Armenian genocide victims.
Andrew Bostom, a noted Islam scholar, wrote, "Modern genocide
historians ... often cite a comment by Hitler that the mass killings
of the Armenians served the Nazi leader as an 'inspirational'
precedent for predictable impunity." No one had gone to the aid of the
Armenians either.
The present Islamic State has role models and heroes - some
monstrously evil Ottoman Turkish Muslims of a century ago," the
article concludes.
http://www.daltondailycitizen.com/opinion/letter-not-ancient/article_606c54c0-b7e4-11e4-9917-53fc0b184f3a.html
http://artsakhpress.am/eng/news/12845/is-has-ottoman-turks-as-role-models-and-heroes-the-daily-citizen.html
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress