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Islam: Another peaceful religion or a cult of terror? You decide.
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Mass murder and genocide have been things commonly associated with the Nazis or places like Rwanda (where one tribe killed one million members of another tribe right in front of the noses of the UN in 1994). However, not many people know that the people who were involved in 9/11, 3/11, 7/7, and other acts of terrorism have had a long history of genocide in the past 1400 years. During the First World War, over one and a half million people were killed in Armenia. The perpetrators of this genocide were none other than the followers of Islam.
Background Information
Armenia has a long and rich history, which dates back to earlier than 1500 B.C. The origin of the Armenian people is not exactly known, nor is the name "Armenia", as it was called "Hayastan" (Persian for Land of Haik) by its neighbors.
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Haik was the great-grandson of Noah (who is mentioned in the Biblical
story "Noah's Ark"). Apparently, Haik settled near Mount Ararat
and began the Armenian civilization. What is known for sure is
that the first Armenian Kingdom was founded around 200 B.C. By
95 B.C., Armenia was a flourishing kingdom which extended from
the eastern Caucasus to a huge portion of modern day eastern Turkey,
as well as parts of modern day Syria. However, in 66 B.C., much
of Armenia came under the rule of the Roman Empire. In 37 A.D.,
the Persians took over Armenia and remained in control for ten
years until the Romans retook it. Armenia became a focus of contention
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At its height, Armenia covered a huge portion of modern day eastern Turkey, as well as parts of modern day Syria. Check out the area in yellow: this is modern day Armenia! Now, check out who controls the other areas today: Muslims!
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for the next several hundred years that followed. In 428 A.D., the Byzantine (Eastern Roman Empire) and the Persian Empire split Armenia in two, with the Byzantine Empire receiving the Western part and the Persian Empire receiving the Eastern part. The Persians tried to convert the Armenians to Zoroastrianism; however, the Armenia, which had the pride of being the first country in the world that accepted Christianity (in 301 A.D., 12 years before Rome did), revolted. Their revolt ended Persian efforts to convert the Armenians.
The Start of Islamic Invasion
By 634, Armenia was virtually independent from Persia. However, after the Arabs conquered Persia and converted it to Islam, they proceeded to do the same with Armenia.
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Map of the Islamic Empire in its first 100 years. Check out how fast Islam has spread. Do you see how fast it spread all the way from Arabia to the world's first Christian nation, Armenia?.
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Only in 654 did they manage to conquer Armenia. However, the Armenians struggled for there independence and won it in 886. Armenian independence did not last long; however, as it was conquered by the Byzantine Empire in 1045.
Soon after, nomads from Central Asia known as the Turks began to attack the Byzantine Empire, slowly conquering parts of the Byzantine Empire. At the same time, the empire came under increasing attacks from Arabs to the south. This triggered the Crusades. After the Crusaders took over much of modern day
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Lebanon, Syria, and Israel, an Armenian noble started a small Armenian kingdom (called Cilicia or Little Armenia) in what is now part of modern Turkey and Syria. This kingdom continued to exist until 1375, when the Ottoman Turks and Arabs conquered it and divided it amongst themselves.
Turkish Rule
While Armenia was almost never independent and ruled by someone else,
its people were quite nationalistic and at the same time their culture,
as well as their own civilization, even under occupation, continued
to advance. In fact, Armenia was the tenth nation in the world to put
their language in print. In addition, Armenians had struggled for their
independence countless times and often times at least won it for several
years or a little longer; however, it would be under Islamic rule that
their very own existence would be put into question. By 1400, Armenia
had again been divided: this time between the Ottoman Turks and the
Persians. The Persians controlled the smaller portion of Armenia ("East
Armenia"), but lost control of it to the Russians in 1828. This allowed
for an Armenian Cultural Renaissance in "East Armenia".
Under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, Armenians were treated very poorly. They were subject to conversion, attacks, and murder by their Islamic rulers. While the Ottoman Empire introduced reforms, these reforms only applied to Constantinople, thus nothing changed for Armenians living elsewhere. By the 1870s, a so-called "Armenian Question" began to emerge for the Armenians living in the rest of the Ottoman Empire. After the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878, in which Eastern Armenians joined the Russians against the Ottoman Empire, the Russians insisted in the peace treaty that reforms be carried out for the Armenians living under Turkish rule.
Other European powers softened the Russian demand, and thus, the Turks
were able to continue their persecution of the Armenians. By the late
1800s, while they were not at all new, Turkish massacres of Armenians
became a common event. By the late 1890s and early 1900s, the Ottoman
Empire came up with an answer to their "Armenian Question": "No Armenians
- no Armenian Question." During the late 1800s alone, as many as 300,000
Armenians were killed in frequent massacres. The Turks knew; however,
that if they attempted to wipe out the entire, 3,500 year old Armenian
race in Turkey, they could face certain repercussions, especially from
the Russians, who had been pushing the Turks to pass reforms, which
would guarantee safety to the Armenians. Thus, they needed an event
in which the world wouldn't be watching so closely and wouldn't be able
to react.
The Armenian Genocide
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Turkish soldiers rejoice at the sight of beheaded Armenians. Does
this look familiar to anything we've been seeing recently in Iraq?
That's right, in Islam, brutality
is key to executing "Kafirs" (non-Muslims). |
World War I began
in 1914 and the attention of the world shifted to the war itself.
The Ottoman Empire joined the side of Germany and the Austro-Hungarian
Empire. The terrorists thugs that ruled the Ottoman Empire finally
had their chance to begin their "final resolution of the Armenian
question." In 1914, a boycott of Armenian businesses was imposed
by the Ottoman Empire. Then, the Turks began to vandalize Churches.
In early April of 1915, Armenian political leaders were arrested
and executed. On April 24, 1915, the Turks began to round up Armenian
intellectuals in Constantinople (of whom there were many) and
kill them, often by torture. Often times, the
most common Islamic style of murder was used against the Armenians:
beheading.
Soon afterwards, the Turks began disarming all Armenians, except those serving in the Turkish army. In 1916, the Turkish government ordered that all Armenians serving in the Turkish army be converted to Islam and circumcised. In 1918, the Turkish government ordered the murder of all Armenians serving in the Turkish army. In the summer of 1918, as allied troops were advancing from the south and capturing Arab territories of the Ottoman Empire, and even when the Hindenburg told the Turks to
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pull out of the Caucasus, the Turks not only refused, but massacred more of the Armenians there. By 1923, nearly all Armenian males between the ages of fifteen and sixty-two were rounded up, tortured, and brutally murdered.
Armenian women, children, and elders were marched or taken by train south to the Syrian desert. During the
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deportations, the
Turkish soldiers would torture and brutally execute some of the
Armenians. After they reached the Syrian desert, the remaining
Armenians were left for Arab nomads, which brutally murdered most
of the Armenians and possibly enslaved the rest. (For more on
torture and slavery in Islam, click here.)
During this genocide, whole villages and regions were massacred
and even after the end of World War I, there was no end. This
genocide lasted until 1923 and almost nobody successfully intervened
even after the First World War ended in 1918. The only reason
that the genocide ended was because there was no one left to kill.
In fact, the Turks managed to completely ethnically cleanse a
major part of rightfully Armenian land, thus, stealing it from
its rightful owners. Some of the Armenians that were deported
escaped being attacked and/or captured by the Arab nomads or Turkish
troops and were liberated when allied forces (mostly British and
French troops) advanced into the Syrian desert. Between 100,000
and 150,000 Armenians were rescued.
In 1918, "Eastern Armenia" declared its independence, as a result
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Heads of Armenians brutally murdered by the Turks. Only under Islam are people killed in such brutal ways. Nobody in the past 100 years has used beheading as a method of execution except Islamic countries and terrorists. This is the same way Western civilians are being killed in Iraq (only worse).
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Wilson drew boundaries for Armenia, which would make "Western Armenia" independent of the Ottoman Empire to give up some of its territory. The Ottoman Empire responded by massacring more cities in "Western Armenia" and
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 Bodies of Armenians brutally murdered by the Turks. This is just one of countless scenes like this. Now, where have we seen this before? Nazi Germany.
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deporting
those not killed to the Syrian desert. In 1920, Russian Communist
troops retook the independent nation of Armenia. In addition to
this, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin allowed and even aided the
neighboring Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan to forcibly remove Armenians
from the Nagorno-Karabakh regions of the Soviet Republic of Armenia
and populate them with Azeris (who were Muslim). This is seen
as an act of appeasement to Turkey.
By the end of the Armenian Genocide, 1.5 million Armenians were
killed (80% of the entire Armenian population in Turkey). The
survivors managed to either flee Turkey or were rescued by British
and French troops in Arabia in 1918. The area once called "Western
Armenia" was completely"de-Armenized" by 1923 and incorporated
into Turkey. Next to the Holocaust (where 12 million people died),
this was the worst genocide in the twentieth century. The Armenian
Genocide also served as an inspiration for Hitler. |
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While addressing his military commanders on the eve of the Invasion of Poland, on August 22, 1939, Hitler said, "Who still talks nowadays of the extermination of the Armenians?"
To this day, the Turkish government does not recognize the Armenian Genocide and denies any involvement in anything to do with the subject. It continues to occupy Armenian land, including Mount Ararat, which is according to some accounts, a center of Armenian civilization. Some Western countries, including America and Britain do not officially recognize the genocide either. The genocide is recognized by several countries, including Russia.
The Armenian-Azeri Conflict
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In 1922, Armenia became
a Soviet Republic. Only during the breakup of the Soviet Union
did Armenia receive its independence (in 1991). By the late 1980s,
tensions between Armenia and its neighbor, Azerbaijan (also a
Soviet Republic, which became an Islamic country after receiving
its independence in 1991) began to rise. During the 1920s, Azerbaijan
had managed to forcibly remove Armenians from the Nagorno-Karabakh
regions of southern Armenia. Azerbaijan eventually annexed all
of the region and received Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin's support
in doing so.
Even though some Armenians had been deported north to the remaining parts of the Soviet Republic of Armenia, there were still many Armenians to the south, in the Nagorno-Karabakh regions. In 1988, the Armenians of the Nagorno-Karabakh regions began to call for their independence from Azerbaijan. When Nagorno-Karabakh declared its independence from Azerbaijan in 1991 and even when the majority voted for it, Azerbaijan sent troops to the region and also began to persecute Armenians all over Azerbaijan. Some Armenians were murdered by the Azeri terrorists.
In 1991 and 1992, Armenia managed to drive the Azeris out of most
of Nagorno-Karabakh. During the war, there were some reports of
massacres against Armenians living in Azerbaijan. In 1994, a cease
fire was imposed. Today, Armenia continues to hold Nagorno-Karabakh,
but has not officially annexed it. Other parts of Azerbaijan that
were captured in the war were annexed by Armenia. In the years
following the 1994 cease fire, there was an escalation of clashes
between Armenian and Azeri forces. Today, while these clashes
are less frequent, Azeri terrorism continues and about one hundred
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This is how big Armenia is today! It's probably no more than 10% of the size of how big Armenia would have been, had it not been conquered by the Ottoman Empire. Take a look at Iran to the south, Azerbaijan to the east, and Turkey to the West. You can't even see where they end! Azerbaijan is more than three times the size of Armenia and because of Azeri imperialistic intentions even during Soviet rule, Armenia is even smaller than it was when it was independent from 1918-1920! Occasional terrorism against Armenians by Azeri terrorists still continues.
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Armenia is perhaps one of the best examples of how Islam spreads around the world. In the West, we are slowly being populated more and more by people from Islamic
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countries. In Armenia, nobody was strong enough to take a stand against the Turks, thus they had no need for quietly moving into Armenia. Instead, they started one of the most brutal acts of terrorism in the history of mankind. The fact that the governments of many Western countries like America and Britain have not recognized the
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Armenian Genocide, in which over 1.5 million people were killed makes one wonder if they are hiding something from the civilian population; perhaps things like these. Even
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today, those Armenians living in Islamic countries such as Azerbaijan live under constant fear, for the terrorism against them still continues. Armenia is one of a small handful of places in the history of the world where almost everyone that could be murdered was murdered. About 90+% of rightfully Armenian land was stolen from Armenia and Islamized in the most violent way possible.
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