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Remembering the Armenian Genocide

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Today is the one hundredth anniversary of April 24, 1915, which is generally considered to mark the beginning of the genocide against the Armenian people carried out by the Ottoman Turks. The greatest massacres occurred during 1915, but the killing went on for years. The slaughter even continued after the end of the Great War, during the euphemistically described period of “population transfers”, notably the massacres of Greeks and surviving Armenians during the Great Fire of Smyrna in 1922.

For the past few weeks the Turks have been ratcheting up their usual rhetoric in advance of the anniversary, decrying the “racism” of anyone who refers to the events of 1915 as a genocide, and charging those Turks who so characterize the actions of the Ottoman State with “insulting Turkishness”, the all-purpose crime used to silence discussion of Turkish atrocities past and present.

Surprisingly, some of the European countries that have formerly held their tongues are now breaking ranks and declaring publicly that the massacre of Armenians during the Great War was a genocide. In the past week Germany, Austria, and the European Parliament have become “insulters of Turkishness”, and Pope Francis has made headlines and angered the Turkish government with his public utterances about the genocide.

The following is a brief documentary by the Genocide Education Project about what happened to the Armenians in 1915. Warning: some of the images and descriptions in this clip are disturbing:

Below are excerpts from a series of recent news stories that discuss the Armenian Genocide. First, from France24:

Turkish PM Says Genocide Recognition is ‘European Racism’

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Friday angrily condemned the European Parliament for adopting a resolution urging Turkey to recognise the mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide, saying it was a sign of growing “racism” in Europe.

Speaking to reporters in Ankara, Davutoglu said such statement ignored the suffering of Muslim Turks in World War I and risked inciting hatred towards other non-Christian religious groups.

The European Parliament on Wednesday agreed a resolution urging Turkey to use the centenary of the 1915 tragedy to “recognise the Armenian genocide” and help promote reconciliation between the two peoples.

From Jihad Watch:

Mufti of Ankara: Pope Acknowledging Armenian Genocide Will Hasten Hagia Sophia’s Becoming Mosque Again

Turkish political parties (with one exception) released a joint statement against the European Parliament’s ‘genocide’ vote on the mass killings of Anatolian Armenians during World War I.

At the same time, Mefail Hizli, the mufti of Ankara, spoke out against Pope Francis for his use of the word ‘genocide’ in connection with the mass slaughter of Armenians, saying that the pontiff’s remarks will accelerate the rededication of Istanbul’s Saint Sophia Basilica as a mosque.

From Asia News:

Armenian Genocide: Turkish Politicians Criticise the EU; Mufti Reacts to Pope’s Words Threatening to Turn Saint Sophia Into a Mosque

Erdogan’s moderate Islamist party as well as the Kemalist and right wing nationalist parties issue a statement slamming the European parliament as “partial” and “intolerant”. For the mufti of Ankara, Pope Francis’ statement was “extremely spectacular.” For the first time in 85 years, a passage from the Qur’an was recited at Saint Sophia. A symposium during Holy Birth Week was held in Istanbul on “The Prophet and Cohabitation Ethics and Law”.

Ankara (AsiaNews) – Turkish political parties (with one exception) released a joint statement against the European Parliament’s ‘genocide’ vote on the mass killings of Anatolian Armenians during World War I.

At the same time, Mefail Hizli, the mufti of Ankara, spoke out against Pope Francis for his use of the word ‘genocide’ in connection with the mass slaughter of Armenians, saying that the pontiff’s remarks will accelerate the rededication of Istanbul’s Saint Sophia Basilica as a mosque.

On Wednesday, the European parliament passed the motion on the Armenian genocide. Calling on Ankara to acknowledge the event, it urged Turkey and Armenia to use the occasion of the centenary of the genocide to establish diplomatic relations.

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), as well as the main opposition parties, the Republican People’s Party (CHP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), yesterday released a joint statement “harshly condemning the partial approach” of the European Parliament, which backed a motion calling the mass killings of Anatolian Armenians during World War I a “genocide.”

The statement condemned the parliament’s “partial” approach as against “the idea of peace, toleration and building of a common future.”

“Despite our objections, the European Parliament prefers to deepen the problem and gap between our two societies . . . and prevent impartial and scientific research of the issue,” said the joint statement.

Only the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) abstained from signing the declaration, calling the reaction against the pope by Erdogan and the other parties as childish. Instead, “The government should found a truth and reconciliation commission in order to face the past,” HDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtas.

For his part, the Mufti of Ankara Hizli Mefail said, “The statement that the Catholic world’s spiritual leader pope delivered three days ago, saying Armenians had been subjected to a genocide, is extremely spectacular”.

In his view, the pope’s statement reflects “a modern colour of the crusader wars launched in these lands for centuries.”

“Frankly, I believe that the pope’s remarks will only accelerate the process for Hagia Sophia to be re-opened for [Muslim] worship”.

The latter echoes other voices who, in recent years, have called for Saint Sophia Basilica to be turned into a mosque.

Following the city’s conquest by the Ottomans in 1453, the church was used as a mosque. This lasted until the authorities of Turkey’s new Republic reopened it in 1935 as a museum.

Last Friday, for the first time in 85 years, a Muslim cleric recited the Qur’an in Hagia Sophia.

A passage from the Qur’an was recited late on April 10 at a ceremony at the basilica to mark the opening of a new exhibition titled ‘Love of the Prophet’ as part of this year’s Holy Birth Week. This includes a symposium that opened today on “The Prophet and Cohabitation Ethics and Law”.

From ANSAmed:

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On Rome, Russia and Multiculturalism

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Our Colombian correspondent Diego returns with some reflections on Multiculturalism and empires.

On Rome, Russia and Multiculturalism
by Diego

I once engaged in an attempt to debate with some multiculturalists. Here in Colombia there are not many, at least not in the open, and I must admit that, until a dark day in 2011 I shared some of their views… However, I am derailing myself from why I am writing this.

During our debate they claimed that both Rome and Romanov Russia are bright examples of Multiculturalism working. I will do my best now to debunk this.

Rome: Multicultural or Adapting?

Rome, the great empire that ruled over the Mediterranean and absorbed so many elements of other cultures, at first glance seems to represent Multiculturalism gone right. But, please: look deeper.

Why do you think Spanish, Romanian, Portuguese and French share a Latin base? One clue: they were all part of the Roman Empire.

The Roman Empire is probably the most successful example of how to defeat the woes of the Multiculturalism that the EU preaches. Let’s take a look at it.

As a first step, Rome conquered a region. This region would then receive Roman colonists. Additionally, for those natives who adapted to the new ruling culture, juicy incentives would be offered, such as citizenship, which meant full political rights, the impossibility of being sold into slavery, and the possibility of holding public office.

We can say that a lot of their technology was copied, and that their philosophy was originated by Greeks living in Rome. Even in law, many innovations attributed to Rome are in fact Egyptian, Punic or Greek.

But the Punic language did not survive Rome. Egyptian became the second language in its own homeland, and Greek survived because it was already established as the tongue of trade, and because it was the language of philosophy and science. In everyday use, those three language were at least partly supplanted by Latin, even more so in Spain, or in Gallia, where most local Celtic languages died out on a few generations.

So Rome simply took a rather proactive stance that Europe should have taken. It did not seek to bring a Multicultural Paradise. Instead, in order to gain the benefits from other cultures, it decided to make good Romans out of the rest of the Mediterranean. And it worked really well.

So well, that by the early 3rd century, everyone in the Empire was, in the end, as Roman as the Old Romans, and the incentives were dropped because they were redundant.

Now, do you want to know what broke Rome’s unity?

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What If These Lone Wolves Weren’t Moderate Muslims?

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A Gates of Vienna reader poses an if/then conjecture for your consideration:

What if …

  • the 12 journalists murdered in Paris in today’s massacre had been murdered in the name of Christianity instead of Islam, and…
  • the December 2014 execution of 150 women had been for refusing to marry Christian crusaders instead of Islamic fighters, and…
  • the 500 school girls kidnapped, raped, and sold into slavery by Boko Haram in Nigeria in 2014 had been raped and enslaved in the name of Christianity instead of Islam, and…
  • the 121 people murdered in the 2014 Borno massacre had been murdered in the name of Christianity instead of Islam, and…
  • the 2014 shootings at Parliament Hill, Ottawa had been carried out in the name of Christianity instead of Islam, and…
  • the 2014 stabbings in Endeavour Hills, Australia had been in the name of Christianity instead of Islam, and…
  • the 59 people murdered by the 2013 shooters at the Westgate Mall had been murdered in the name of Christianity instead of Islam, and…
  • the 127 people murdered during a worship service at the church in Peshawar in 2013 had been murdered as “enemies of Christianity” instead of “enemies of Islam,” and…
  • the 3 people murdered by the 2013 Boston bombers had been murdered in the name of Christianity instead of Islam, and…
  • the two men who killed British soldier Lee Rigby with cleavers in Woolwich, England, had been shouting “Jesus akbar!” instead of “Allahu akbar!”, and…
  • the 2012 murder of the US Ambassador in Benghazi had been in the name of Christianity instead of Islam, and…
  • the 2012 Toulouse and Montauban (France) shootings had been carried out by someone describing himself as a “crusader” (as opposed to a “mujahid”), and…
  • the 2011 Christmas Day bombings of 4 churches in Nigeria, leaving 41 dead, had instead been bombings of mosques during Ramadan, and…
  • the 2011 knife attacks in Hotan, China, had been carried out instead by 18 Christian men shouting Christian slogans instead of Muslim men shouting Islamic slogans, and…
  • the 2011 firebombing of the French newspaper Charlie Hebdo had been in response to an insult against Jesus instead of Mohammed, and…
  • the 2011 Frankfurt Airport (Germany) shooting, which killed two US airmen, had been carried out by someone shouting “Jesus akbar” instead of “Allahu akbar!”, and…
  • the 2010 Times Square bomber had been acting in the name of Christianity instead of Islam, and…
  • the 2010 Stockholm, Sweden bombings had been in the name of Christianity instead of Islam, and…
  • Christians, rather than Muslims, had claimed responsibility for the 2010 Varanasi, India bombings, and…
  • the 2009 Ft. Hood shooter had been acting in the name of Christianity instead of Islam, and…
  • the 2009 bombing of the Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in Jakarta had been for the purposes of establishing a “Christian state” instead of an “Islamic state,” and…
  • the 2006 murder of 209 people on the train in Mumbai had been in the name of Christianity instead of Islam, and…
  • the 52 people murdered by the 2005 London subway bombers had been murdered in the name of Christianity instead of Islam, and…
  • the 2005 plots to kill the Danish cartoonist Jyllands-Postern were because he had drawn a picture of Jesus instead of Mohammed, and…
  • the 385 school children murdered in Beslan in 2004 had been murdered in the name of Christianity instead of Islam, and…
  • the 191 people murdered by the 2004 Madrid train bombers had been murdered in the name of Christianity instead of Islam, and…
  • the 2004 Uzbekistan Embassy bombers had been acting in the name of Christianity instead of Islam, and…
  • the 2004 massacre in the US diplomatic compound in Saudi Arabia had been in the name of Christianity instead of Islam, and…
  • the 2004 murder of Dutch film director Theo van Gogh had been by a Christian in response to a film criticizing the treatment of women in Christianity (instead of Islam), and…
  • the 2004 bombing of the Australian Embassy in Jakarta had been, as claimed in a confession by the perpetrators, to “settle accounts with Australia, one of the worst enemies of Jesus and Christianity” (as opposed to “one of the worst enemies of God and Islam”), and…

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Detonation in Grozny

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Earlier today a suicide bomber in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, experienced a premature detonation, killing himself and five policemen while wounding a number of others. The alert policemen who stopped the mujahid for questioning may have saved the lives of many other people who crowded the city’s center for a holiday event.

The tragedy had nothing to do with Islam.

Many thanks to DarLink for translating, and to Vlad Tepes for subtitling this Russian news video.

WARNING: Although the most horrific images in this video have been blurred out, sensitive viewers may find some of the footage of the carnage disturbing:

Below is an English-language article from Itar-Tass that gives a different body count:

Man Who Blew Himself Up in Grozny Identified

The explosion killed four police officers and injured four more

MOSCOW, October 5. /TASS/. A man who blew himself up in the Chechen capital city of Grozny on Sunday has been identified, a spokesman for the Russian interior ministry told TASS.

“The man has been identified as a resident of the Staropromyslovsky district who has been missing since he left home two months ago,” the spokesman said.

An investigation is underway.

Earlier on Sunday, the press centre of the Russian interior ministry said that that a major terrorist attack had been prevented by the police in Grozny.

“A concert on the occasion of the City Day was planned for Sunday evening in Grozny,” the press centre said. “Police officers who were on duty at walk-through metal detectors near the concert hall saw a suspicious-looking young man. When the police officers moved towards him, the man blew himself up.”

The explosion killed four police officers and injured four more, the press centre said, adding that there was no information about casualties among civilians.

Video transcript:

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Politicians Shill for Azerbaijan in Nashville

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We’ve posted quite a bit recently about Islam in Tennessee, with a special focus on the Nashville area. Those posts have generally dealt with the actions of various organizations and individuals associated with the Muslim Brotherhood. The following reports also come out of Nashville, but they lead back to a different source: the Turkish Islamic leader Fethullah Gülen.

Both investigative reports in the following video uncovered Azerbaijani influence-peddling in the Tennessee legislature and state government.

Azerbaijan boasts a rather unsavory form of “democracy”, in which the results of elections are sometimes announced before the votes are even cast. The current president of Azerbaijan is Ilham Aliyev, the son of Geydar Aliyev. I remember Aliyev père from the later years of the Cold War; he was boss of the Azerbaijani SSR until Yuri Andropov elevated him to the Politburo in the early 1980s.

Azerbaijan is a Turkic-speaking country. It is Islamic, and very much in Turkey’s orbit. Just before the breakup of the Soviet Union, after Moscow lost control of parts of the imperial periphery, a war broke out between the Armenian SSR and its Azerbaijani neighbor over an Armenian-majority enclave within Azerbaijan known as the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast. The Armenian Christians in Nagorno-Karabakh had endured centuries of oppression under various Islamic states before being incorporated into the Russian Empire in the early 19th century. After the Soviet Union fell apart, they were determined not to remain under Islamic control, and fought Azerbaijan until a negotiated cease-fire was reached in 1994. Although technically still part of Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh now functions effectively as an independent state.

The above thumbnail account provides some background for the animosity between Armenia and Azerbaijan that has surfaced twenty years later in Nashville. Agents of Azerbaijan seem to have adopted the time-honored American tradition of buying up selected state politicians. In return, the bespoke pols help whiten the Azerbaijani political sepulcher by lauding its president and telling the world what a wonderful and important place Azerbaijan is.

The shenanigans in Tennessee were enough to make Armenian-Americans sit up and take notice, and they did some of their own lobbying. You can hear one of them interviewed in the following video.

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for processing and editing these two clips:

One thing that bothers me about the second report is the characterization of Fethullah Gülen as a “moderate Muslim”. He is at least as dangerous as Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan; he is just more subtle and patient in his dealings with infidels. He has spent decades burnishing his suave persona and building his lucrative empire of charter schools in the United States.

Below are excerpts from the two articles accompanying the TV reports. From the News Channel 5 website:

Lawmaker Says $10K Contribution, Resolution Just ‘Coincidence’

by Phil Williams
Chief Investigative Reporter

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A lawmaker’s $10,000 campaign contribution and a resolution he introduced this year in the legislature are reviving questions about foreign influences on Tennessee’s Capitol Hill.

Last year, NewsChannel 5 Investigates first revealed how advocates for foreign countries were taking your lawmakers on expensive junkets.

Now, we’ve discovered a case of mysterious donors handing out money for a legislative campaign.

During a hurried legislative session dominated by all sorts of contentious issues, state Rep. Joe Towns found time to introduce a House resolution — HR 145 [pdf] — calling for national support for the country of Azerbaijan.

“Let me tell you where it came from — it actually came from friends that I know that are from Azerbaijan,” the Memphis Democrat told NewsChannel 5 Investigates.

An oil-rich, predominantly Muslim country — where Eastern Europe meets western Asia — Azerbaijan has been involved in a decades-old dispute with the predominantly Christian country of Armenia over territory that both countries claim.

Towns said he agreed to introduce the resolution because Azerbaijan is a U.S. ally.

“You did not just come up with this one your own?” we asked.

“No, no, no,” Towns answered.

“And you knew nothing about the conflict between these two countries?”

“No, I did not.”

But Armenian immigrant Barry Barsoumian said, “Those brutal people, they are trying to change history by going around different states in the United States passing resolutions.”

Barsoumian discovered Towns’ resolution and could not believe anyone would ask a Tennessee lawmaker to help a country known for its human rights abuses and whose leader is seen as one of the world’s most corrupt.

“I asked him if it was Azerbaijani Embassy. He denied it,” Barsoumian recalled. “But he wouldn’t name or tell me what organization was behind it.”

But NewsChannel 5 Investigates looked at Towns’ campaign reports and discovered he introduced the resolution just two weeks after he got a total of $10,000 in campaign contributions from people out of Texas with ties to the Azerbaijani community.

“This one was probably in Texas, Houston,” Towns said, looking at his campaign disclosure.

“You had a fundraiser in Houston?” we asked.

“Uh-huh. I’ve had fundraisers in other places before. That’s true.”

“Who hosted that fundraiser?”

“Well, my friends. Friends of mine.”

NewsChannel 5 Investigates asked, “Who in particular?”

“Well, I don’t want to get involved in their names because this is about me,” Towns answered. “I don’t want to talk about their names and who they were.”

Still, our investigation discovered that a Turkish-Azerbaijani cultural center in Houston appears to be the common connection for all seven of the contributors, who reportedly gave either $1,000 or $1,500 each to Towns’ campaign.

“Did the people who gave you the $10,000 ask you to introduce this resolution?” NewsChannel 5 Investigates asked Towns.

“No, they didn’t. Did not,” he responded.

“It’s purely coincidental?”

“Oh, of course.”

But Barsoumian called it “suspicious [that] somebody in Tennessee would introduce a bill for Azerbaijan and then those organizations funnel money to his campaign.”

One of the contributors listed on Towns’ campaign report as having given a thousand dollars first told us, “That’s wrong information. I don’t know anyone from Tennessee.”

Later he changed his story, saying “I remember something like that. I never met him. I did it through my friends, my community.”

Adding to the mystery: almost a third of the money supposedly came from two people who live in an apartment in one of Houston’s roughest neighborhoods.

[…]

NewsChannel 5 Investigates asked Towns, “You attend a fundraiser and then suddenly you are introducing this resolution. Do you understand why someone might be suspicious?”

“I can’t deal with people’s suspicion,” he said. “I don’t address their suspicion. The fact is that it happens all the time.”

[…]

So why would Azerbaijan care about what the Tennessee House thinks about world affairs?

It appears to be part of an orchestrated PR campaign to show that world opinion is on their side.

Towns said that he hopes it leads to better understanding of all the countries in that region.

And again, from News Channel 5:

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A Black Widow Comes to Sochi

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The other day a jihad group in the Caucasus posted a video warning the Russian government to expect terror attacks against the upcoming Winter Olympics in Sochi. Today the threat to the Olympics has acquired a face: that of the “Black Widow” mujahidette Salima Ibragimova.

This young woman has a distinctive appearance, and it’s hard to see how she could move around the Sochi area without being detected. She can cover her facial scar, but even a burka can’t conceal the lameness in one leg.

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading this video:

Below are excerpts from the accompanying CNN article:

Police Warn Sochi Hotels of Terror Suspect as Olympics Near

(CNN) — New details fueled debate Monday over security at the upcoming Winter Olympic Games in Sochi: Wanted posters of a terrorism suspect on the loose, warships at the ready and a video threat from beyond the grave.

Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed that his country has stepped up security and is prepared to handle any threats.

But some U.S. lawmakers — and at least one Olympic athlete — have said they’re worried about the situation.

Hotels warned about terror suspect

Police in Sochi have handed out fliers at area hotels warning of a woman they believe could be a terrorist and who may currently be in the city.

One flier, obtained by CNN, asks workers to be on the lookout for Ruzanna “ Salima” Ibragimova, described as the widow of a member of a militant group from the Caucasus region.

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The Caucasus Emirate Declares War on Russia

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The mujahideen of the Caucasus have put Russia on official notice that they will do whatever it takes to stop the Winter Olympics from being held in Sochi. They consider the games a satanic ritual that profanes sacred ground belonging to Caucasian Muslims.

Many thanks to DarLink for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Transcript:

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The Lessons of Beslan

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The following video shows Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking last February to the Ministry of the Interior about the urgency of the fight against terrorism in Russia. He doesn’t mention JIM, but the examples he cites leave his audience in no doubt about what he’s describing.

Many thanks to Nina L for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

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Is This a Religion?

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Bob Smith’s excellent three-part essay “Islam is Fear”, adapted from Islam’s Fatal Flaw, appeared here a couple of years ago (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3).

Mr. Smith’s latest essay lists the overwhelming evidence that Islam is neither peaceful nor (mostly) a religion.

Islam is no more a “religion of peace” than “Jack the Ripper” is just another neighbor

by Bob Smith

I believe it is fair to say that before 9/11 most people in the US had little or any knowledge of Islam. If you had asked the average American anything about Islam, he would have responded in a positive manner. That’s because most Americans are fair-minded. Additionally, most Americans try to believe the best about something they are unfamiliar with.

But the 9/11 terrorist attack changed all of that. Suddenly there was a reason to look into Islam. Along with thousands of other Americans, I began reading about Islam. And what did I, and others, find?

The truth about Islam is not politically correct. But here it is.

Islam’s claim to be a religion seriously confuses the casual observer.

Yes, Islam does have some religious components. But the majority of Islam is a perverted totalitarian/political ideology that dictates almost all aspects of Muslim life.

Islam as a whole discriminates against, women, homosexuals, blacks, non-Arabs, non-Muslims and especially Jews. Islam has a “legal system” called Sharia. Sharia is a barbaric code that today, in the 21st century, dictates stoning of women for the “crime” of being raped. It also mandates amputation of hands and feet for thievery, and execution for anyone who tries to criticize, change or leave Islam. To make matters worse, significant portions of Islam’s theological texts incite its followers to commit horrendous acts of violence while enforcing religious law (Sharia) and “spreading the faith”.

Muhammad — Islam’s founder — is revered by Muslims (like a cult leader) as the perfect human. Muslims are supposed to make every effort to live lives similar to Muhammad’s. But Muhammad — according to Muslim sources — was a pedophile, a rapist, and a murdering thug.

Don’t be misled by PC talk of “cultural sensitivity”, “coexist” signs, and “interfaith dialog”. Below is a short list (this list can easily be expanded) of global violence driven by Islam. Ask yourself: Is Islam really like Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism and other religions? If you think so, prove it — send me an equivalent list:

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“Who Today Remembers the Annihilation of the Armenians?”

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As we approach the centenary of the Armenian Genocide — the major portion of which began in 1915, during the Great War — the history of those awful events is being largely ignored by the media and Western public officials. The facts of the Ottoman atrocities are not hidden, but neither are they publicly recalled in any meaningful fashion. There is no indication that there will be any significant official commemoration outside of Armenian circles of what happened in Anatolia and Syria a hundred years ago.

The following text was translated by JLH from German-language material at the Armenia portal. The translator includes this introduction:

These translated pieces are the longest of a number of statements on a commemorative site, which also includes this quote from Theodore Roosevelt in a letter in 1918:

“…the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey is to condone it… the failure to deal radically with the Turkish horror means that all talk of guaranteeing the future peace of the world is mischievous nonsense…”

Unless I missed it, there has been very little commemoration anywhere of this anniversary. The Germans — while they were not financially punished as they had been after WWI — were not allowed to simply forget what had happened in the Holocaust. However imperfect and corrupt, there were efforts — at least in the Federal Republic — to cleanse society of the worst remnants. And for every German who beat his breast in repentance, there was probably another who thought resurgent Nazi thoughts. But the folk in between those extremes had to find a way of fitting into the morality of the post-war West, as it was.

The Turks have had no such experience and now are capable of throwing a tantrum worthy of Hillary testifying on Benghazi, just to make us shut up. And the PC press, already manufacturing excuses for the butchers of Boston, is not interested an any further indictments of their Islamist pets.

We cannot afford to be shut up. This atrocity is a touchstone of twentieth century evil. And it lives on in the twenty-first.

The translated text:

“Who today still talks about the annihilation of the Armenians?” asked Hitler on August 22, 1939, as he announced before high military officers and commanders of the SS death squadrons that the coming war signified the merciless annihilation of the enemy — man, woman and child. The first European genocide, of 1915-1916, had been perpetrated on the Armenians by the Turks beginning exactly 24 years before. Is it a forgotten and denied genocide even today? A cooperative seminar of the Memorial House of the Wannsee Conference with the Bochum Institute for Diaspora and Genocide Research confronted the structural questions of this genocide on April 24th of this year [probably 2007].

The date was not chosen at random — it is the Armenian memorial day. On April 24, 1915, the Young Turk regime which had come to power in 1908 initiated the arrest, deportation and murder of Armenian intellectuals in Constantinople and therewith set in motion the murder of 1.5 million Armenians — two-thirds of those Christian folk who had been living in the Ottoman Empire for centuries.

Deir-es-Zor, the death camp in the desert, has the same awful resonance for Armenians that Auschwitz holds for the Jews. “There are many parallels between the genocide perpetrated on the Jews and the one perpetrated on the Armenians. Both mass murders occurred during a war. The Young Turks, too, had an ethnic, racial concept of nation and dreamed of Turan — a mega-empire stretching from Thrace to Central Asia,” explains Dr. Mihran Dabag, the director of the Bochum Institute, whose founding joined Germany to the international comparative study of genocide.

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Who’s the More Foolish?

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…The fool, or the fool who follows him?

Ibrahim Hooper is the spokesman for the Council for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). In other words, he publicly represents an organization that serves as a front to the Muslim Brotherhood and was an unindicted co-conspirator in the covert funding of Hamas in the Holy Land Foundation trial in 2008.

Yet the American media consider Mr. Hooper a talking head for “moderate Islam”, the go-to guy for all their questions on burning issues involving Islam. He is always ready to tell them exactly what they want to hear, reassuring them that Muslims are average, normal, regular people, just like other Americans, except for a few thousand terrorist incidents, but, hey, these aren’t the droids you’re looking for.

Needless to say, Ibrahim Hooper has been much in demand since last Monday’s events on Boylston Street in Boston. Vlad Tepes has augmented a video clip of one of his appearances with some “compare and contrast” material concerning Islam.

It’s time to provide some of that much-needed context:

From Chechnya to Boylston

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It took so long to find the perpetrators of the Boston Marathon bombing that I was certain they must be devotees of the Religion of Peace — if they had been white supremacists, or Christian extremists, or Buddhist terrorists, they would have tracked down and perp-walked in front of the flashbulbs days ago.

And sure enough, it turns out that at least two of the suspects are brothers from Chechnya. One is still at large, and the other (now dead) was named, of all things, “Tamerlan”, i.e. Tamerlane or Timur — a murderous Mongol marauder in the Middle Ages, but nowadays a hero to Muslims in the Caucasus and the “Stans”.

One of the two young culture enrichers is said to have expressed his devotion to Allah online. You won’t read much about that in the MSM — they’re avoiding JIM like the plague — but if you chase down the links on Drudge, you’ll find it.

This story is ongoing, and I won’t be live-blogging it. Live feeds are available on the FOX and Guardian websites. I’m keeping the headphones on waiting for the dénouement.

Whoops! I just heard the word “Islamic” on the My FOX Boston live feed. The ice is beginning to melt…

Hat tip for the Guardian feed: AC.