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:
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:
NOTE that the person interviewing brings up Obama’s broken promise.
People in the U.S. may want to take a second to write their representative in support of H Res 154
http://dyn.realclearpolitics.com/congressional_bill_tracker/bill/114/hres154/ih
Use your zip code here to get to your rep’s contact info: http://www.house.gov
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.