One hundred years have passed. One of history's worst genocides
still goes unrecognized. During a TV appearance on September 12, 2014, I
alluded to the timeless Koranic injunction to wage jihad war against Jews and
Christians, specifically, Koran 9:29, for the purpose of forcibly imposing a
Sharia-based Islamic order upon them. I then provided a graphic, modern
historical manifestation of this eternal Islamic "imperative": the
1915-19 jihad genocide of the Armenian, Assyro-Chaldean, and Syrian Orthodox
Christian communities of Anatolia, and northern “Mesopotamia,” i.e., modern
Iraq, by the last Caliphate - the Ottoman Caliphate.
Notwithstanding the recent horrific spate of atrocities committed
against the Christian communities of northern Iraq by the Islamic State (IS)
jihadists, the Ottoman jihad ravages were equally barbaric, depraved, and far
more extensive. Occurring, primarily between 1915-16 (although continuing
through at least 1918), some 1 to 1.5 million Armenian, and 250,000
Assyro-Chaldean and Syrian Orthodox Christians were brutally slaughtered, or
starved to death during forced deportations through desert wastelands. The
identical gruesome means used by IS to humiliate and massacre its hapless
Christian victims, were employed on a scale that was an order of magnitude
greater by the Ottoman Muslim Turks, often abetted by local Muslim
collaborators (the latter being another phenomenon which also happened during
the IS jihad campaign against Iraq’s Christians). I concluded my brief comments
September 12, 2014 by noting, "We
are only coming upon the 100th anniversary next year (i.e., 2015) of the
Armenian Jihad Genocide." [Go here for the complete story...]
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