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The Forgotten Genocide: Why It Matters Today
FrontPage Magazine ^ | April 25, 2013 | Raymond Ibrahim

Posted on 04/25/2013 5:16:46 AM PDT by SJackson

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1 posted on 04/25/2013 5:16:46 AM PDT by SJackson
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
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2 posted on 04/25/2013 5:17:33 AM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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more p.c. b.s. from the media and academia, denying the islamic terror that is islam....


3 posted on 04/25/2013 6:37:51 AM PDT by raygunfan
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To: SJackson; dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; ...
Franz Werfel wrote an epic (and best-selling) novel based on true events in 1915,

"40 Days on Musa Dagh"

As apt a subject for a movie as "Lawrence of Arabia," it has been optioned many times as the basis of a blockbuster script. But, each time the really big movie project surfaces, the State Department at the urging of our Turkish allies, has quashed it. Several lo-bux minor films have been produced, but went nowhere.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forty_Days_of_Musa_Dagh

www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2V4Ti0RetA

Read it or watch the video for a true appreciation of what Muslims have in mind for all of us.

4 posted on 04/25/2013 7:46:04 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (The Obama Molecule: Teflon binds with Melanin = No Criminal Charges Stick)
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Had an Armenian roommate in collage who told me about this. Years later I found a copy of “40 Days on Musa Dagh”. It's a compelling read.
5 posted on 04/25/2013 8:19:21 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again,")
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To: SJackson

Wait a minute. They didn’t have TV in those days, so it didn’t happen on TV. Therefore, it didn’t happen. Neither did the Holocaust of the Jooos! nor Genghis Khan’s campaign of conquest, rape, pillage and plunder. Nothing happened before the invention of TV. That’s why Islam is the Religion of Peace./s


6 posted on 04/25/2013 8:25:57 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: SJackson

I wish people who use the word “decimated” would bother to learn the TRUE meaning of the word.


7 posted on 04/25/2013 11:04:52 AM PDT by RipSawyer (I was born on Earth, what planet is this?)
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8 posted on 04/25/2013 12:36:45 PM PDT by ZULU ((See: http://gatesofvienna.net/))
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To: RipSawyer

True. My math tells me the Turk Pig Butchers killed 3/4 of the Armenian population in the Ottoman Empire.

Muslims are swine - all of them. I wish they all had only one neck.


9 posted on 04/25/2013 12:38:31 PM PDT by ZULU ((See: http://gatesofvienna.net/))
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I'm embarrassed to admit that just last year was the first time I realized the Armenian genocide was a Muslim on Christian slaughter.

Before that, I assumed the Armenians were a separate Muslim group.

Only a couple years before that was the first time I realized that the Biafra genocide in Nigeria during the 1960’s was also largely a Muslim on Christian slaughter.

I read history almost every day.

The only explanation I can think of for my not understanding the religious basis of those two genocides is that historians deliberately obfuscate the religious facts.

10 posted on 04/25/2013 1:09:01 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: SJackson

Somewhere I have a pic of myself with an Armenian in Tbilisi outside of an Armenian church. Even the Georgians have not been overly kind to the Armenians.


11 posted on 04/25/2013 2:05:33 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: ZULU

Why the ?’s


12 posted on 04/25/2013 3:43:42 PM PDT by raygunfan
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You’re right. It was a quote, and I suspect most people understand it as a serious act of killing. But genocide would be the appropriate term, also misunderstood. Beyond the dead, Christian culture no longer exists in the region as it did for millenia. A grave loss. IMO the most successful genocide, Muslim ejection of Jews from North Africa to Iran. Millenia old communities, engaged in the secular life of their nations. Gone, without a peep from the post Hitler world. How would the world look if the Islamic nations from Morroco to Iran still had politically and economically significant Jewish and Christian populations. Minority populations, but by their existance significant.


13 posted on 04/25/2013 4:11:06 PM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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To: zeestephen

Why would you, it’s not discussed that way. They’re killing Christians all over Africa as we speak, few care, few discuss it, rarely is it reported in the press as Muslim on Christian violance.


14 posted on 04/25/2013 4:12:42 PM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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Meant to include you in post 13.


15 posted on 04/25/2013 4:13:13 PM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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16 posted on 04/25/2013 4:57:20 PM PDT by Popman (Godlessness is always the first step to the concentration camp.)
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I consider myself a fairly well informed student of history as well, any further info on Biafra welcome. I'm just a very busy person dealing with the realities of our time in history, and my own business.
God Bless.
17 posted on 04/25/2013 5:15:56 PM PDT by WhoisAlanGreenspan?
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Thank you for posting that, I’ve seen it but couldn’t find the link. It’s relevance is obvious.


18 posted on 04/25/2013 5:31:06 PM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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To: WhoisAlanGreenspan?
Thanks for your note.

I came of age in the 1960’s and the Biafra genocide was a major news story for about two years.

From memory.....

A large share of the 3 million dead were from starvation and child disease deaths caused by refugee issues and systematic terror and the extreme logistic difficulties in Africa.

As I recall, the UK was the Nigerian colonial power, and violence started almost immediately after Independence and the UK presence disappeared.

The Muslims were in the north part of Nigeria, and were much poorer and less Westernized.

In the south, and especially along the coast, people were much more prosperous and Westernized and many were Christian.

The port cities, as I recall, were actually in the slave trade for close to 300 years.

It would be an error to claim that this war was strictly Muslim versus Christian.

It's more accurate to say it was a Muslim war against non-Muslims.

Southern Nigeria has many ethnic groups and many religions.

But it's possible that Christians had the highest death toll.

I have no recollection of how or when this was all resolved.

I really hadn't thought about Biafra for years until Muslims and others recently started attacking Nigeria's oil industry, which I think is almost completely offshore.

I read a summary of the Biafra conflict at one of the Conservative blogs, and I realized for the first time that much of it was Muslims slaughtering Christians, something completely absent from the news reports 40 years ago.

19 posted on 04/25/2013 8:55:09 PM PDT by zeestephen
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Don’t understand comment.


20 posted on 04/25/2013 8:55:12 PM PDT by ZULU ((See: http://gatesofvienna.net/))
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