I read - with tears in my eyes - historian and Islam expert @RaymondIbrahim5 article “The Armenian Genocide: A Warning Ignored, a Pattern Repeated” and have written a shorter summary here. Link to the article in the comments.
The image you see is not from a film. It is from reality.
From 1915 to 1917, the Ottoman Empire - what is today Turkey - carried out a systematic genocide. Not only against Armenians. But against Christians. All Christians.
Armenians. Greeks. Assyrians. Chaldeans. Maronites.
What they all had in common was not their nationality. Not their ethnicity.
It was their faith. They were Christians.
And that was enough to be exterminated.
And who was behind it?
The Ottoman Empire’s Muslim regime. Driven by pan-Islamism and religious fanaticism. Christians were kafir - infidels. Jihad was the religious mandate that justified the extermination.
This was not an ethnic conflict. It was a religious cleansing.
Over 1.5 million Armenians were massacred. 750,000 Greeks. 300,000 Assyrians. Half of the entire Assyrian population of 600,000 was killed.
In her memoir, survivor Aurora Mardiganian describes what she saw in the city of Malatia:
16 Christian girls. Crucified alive. Nails through their hands and feet. Only their hair moved in the wind.
The Turks and Kurds selected - town by town, village by village - the 18 most beautiful young girls. Dragged them into a local church. Raped them on top of the Holy Gospel.
Women were driven into harems. Sold for 80 cents each.
US Ambassador Henry Morgenthau, who witnessed it with his own eyes, said:
“I am confident that the whole history of the human race contains no such horrible episode as this.”
Winston Churchill called it an “administrative holocaust” - and noted that the First World War simply gave Turkey the necessary cover to do what they had apparently long wanted to do.
Talaat Pasha - the de facto leader of the Ottoman Empire - said it himself:
“Turkey is taking advantage of the war in order to thoroughly liquidate its internal foes - the indigenous Christians.”
This was not war. It was a planned extermination project against Christians - carried out in the name of Islam.
And today NATO ally Turkey has never been held accountable.
Not once.
This is the history they do not teach you in school.
But it is true. And it matters.
Those who do not know history - are already repeating it.❤️🔥✝️🪽 Thank you for your attention to this important matter.
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