Andrew Bostom on the Armenian Genocide

Dr. Andrew Bostom discussed the Armenian Genocide today on the Sam Sorbo radio show. As part of his discussion, Dr. Bostom pointed out the nature of the genocide as that of a jihad — that the Armenian Christians were massacred because they were gavurs, infidels.

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading this video:

3 thoughts on “Andrew Bostom on the Armenian Genocide

  1. Dr. Bostom has his usual fine analysis about this horror on his own website:

    http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2015/04/22/jihad-still-100-years-on-armenians-in-the-middle-east-are-still-on-the-run/

    He says:

    During a Fox News Hannity panel appearance on Friday September 12, 2014, I alluded to 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).

    NOTE that the person interviewing brings up Obama’s broken promise.

    • Here is the bill’s resolutions, complete with whereases. It is worth reading.

      The link from Nimrod also provides the list of sponsors to this bill. See if you can find your congressman in the list.

      RESOLUTION

      Calling on the President to work toward equitable, constructive,
      stable, and durable Armenian-Turkish relations based upon the Republic
      of Turkey’s full acknowledgment of the facts and ongoing consequences
      of the Armenian Genocide, and a fair, just, and comprehensive
      international resolution of this crime against humanity.

      Whereas the Obama Administration has, since early 2009, sought to improve
      Armenian-Turkish relations through diplomatic efforts to lift the
      Republic of Turkey’s blockade of Armenia and facilitate an end to
      Ankara’s refusal to establish diplomatic relations with Yerevan;
      Whereas at the start of this process, President Barack Obama had, on April 6,
      2009, voiced the United States Government’s expectation that Armenia-
      Turkey dialogue would “bear fruit very quickly”, but that, since then,
      the Obama Administration has commended Armenia’s participation in this
      dialogue while holding Turkey largely responsible for the lack of
      results from this process, with the Secretary of State noting, on June
      4, 2012, that, on this matter, “the ball remains in Turkey’s court.”;
      Whereas on April 24, 2013, President Barack Obama stated, “A full, frank, and
      just acknowledgment of the facts is in all of our interests. Nations
      grow stronger by acknowledging and reckoning with painful elements of
      the past, thereby building a foundation for a more just and tolerant
      future.”;
      Whereas the Republic of Turkey, rather than acknowledging and reckoning with
      painful elements of the past, has escalated its international campaign
      of Armenian Genocide denial, maintained its blockade of Armenia, and
      increased its pressure on the small but growing Turkish civil society
      movement acknowledging the Armenian Genocide and seeking justice for
      this systematic campaign of destruction of millions of Armenians,
      Greeks, Assyrians, Pontians, Syriacs, and other Christians upon their
      biblical-era homelands;
      Whereas the United States is on record as having officially recognized the
      Armenian Genocide, in the United States Government’s May 28, 1951,
      written statement to the International Court of Justice regarding the
      Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide,
      through President Ronald Reagan’s April 22, 1981, Proclamation No. 4838,
      and by Congressional legislation, including House Joint Resolution 148
      adopted on April 8, 1975, and House Joint Resolution 247 adopted on
      September 10, 1984;
      Whereas even prior to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the
      Crime of Genocide, the United States has a record of having sought to
      justly and constructively address the consequences of the Ottoman
      Empire’s intentional destruction of the Armenian people, including
      through Senate Concurrent Resolution 12 adopted on February 9, 1916,
      Senate Resolution 359 adopted on May 11, 1920, and President Woodrow
      Wilson’s Decision of the President of the United States of America
      Respecting the Frontier between Turkey and Armenia, Access for Armenia
      to the Sea, and the Demilitarization of Turkish Territory Adjacent to
      the Armenian Frontier, dated November 22, 1920;
      Whereas President Barack Obama entered office having stated his “firmly held
      conviction that the Armenian Genocide is not an allegation, a personal
      opinion, or a point of view, but rather a widely documented fact
      supported by an overwhelming body of historical evidence”, affirmed his
      record of “calling for Turkey’s acknowledgment of the Armenian
      Genocide”, and pledged that “as President I will recognize the
      Armenian Genocide”; and
      Whereas the United States national interests in the establishment of equitable,
      constructive, stable, and durable relations between Armenians and Turks
      cannot be meaningfully advanced by circumventing or otherwise seeking to
      avoid materially addressing the central political, legal, security, and
      moral issue between these two nations, Turkey’s denial of truth and
      justice for the Armenian Genocide: Now, therefore, be it
      Resolved, That the House of Representatives calls on the President
      to work toward equitable, constructive, stable, and durable Armenian-
      Turkish relations based upon the Republic of Turkey’s full
      acknowledgment of the facts and ongoing consequences of the Armenian
      Genocide, and a fair, just, and comprehensive international resolution
      of this crime against humanity.

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