Posted on 04/24/2016 11:24:11 AM PDT by george76
My pleasure.
bfl
The Turks proved that you don't even need dogs and barbed wire. All you need is a disarmed populace. And a desolate area you can march them into until they all drop dead.
We must, however, go back to an older time, if we want to appreciate what uncontrolled Turkish rule meant, alike to Armenians and to Greeks. It did not mean religious persecution; it meant unutterable contempt ... They were dogs and pigs; and their nature was to be Christians, to be spat upon, if their shadow darkened a Turk, to be outraged, to be the mats on which he wiped the mud from his feet. Conceive the inevitable result of centuries of slavery, of subjection to insult and scorn, centuries in which nothing that belonged to the Armenian, neither his property, his house, his life, his person, nor his family, was sacred or safe from violence – capricious, unprovoked violence – to resist which by violence meant death![37]
In addition to other legal limitations, Christians were not considered equals to Muslims and several prohibitions were placed on them. Their testimony against Muslims by Christians and Jews was inadmissible in courts of law wherein a Muslim could be punished; this meant that their testimony could only be considered in commercial cases. They were forbidden to carry weapons or ride atop horses and camels. Their houses could not overlook those of Muslims; and their religious practices were severely circumscribed (e.g., the ringing of church bells was strictly forbidden).[35][38]
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Islam/sharia IS Genocide. You can't separate them. The objective is always to cleanse the world of all those who do not submit to allah.
THE PACT OF UMAR:
... In it, those Christian subjects gratefully receive the protection of their Muslim masters and in return agree to certain religious and social strictures:
"We shall not build, in our cities or in their neighborhood, new monasteries, churches, convents, or monks' cells, nor shall we repair, by day or by night, such of them as fall in ruins or are situated in the quarters of the Muslims.
"We shall keep our gates wide open for passersby and travelers. We shall give board and lodging to all Muslims who pass our way for three days. …
"We shall not manifest our religion publicly nor convert anyone to it. We shall not prevent any of our kin from entering Islam if they wish it.
"We shall show respect toward the Muslims, and we shall rise from our seats when they wish to sit.
"We shall not seek to resemble the Muslims by imitating any of their garments, the cap, the turban, footwear, or the parting of the hair. We shall not speak as they do, nor shall we adopt their surnames.
"We shall not mount on saddles, nor shall we gird swords nor bear any kind of arms nor carry them on our persons. …
"We shall not sell fermented drinks.
"We shall shave the fronts of our heads. …
"We shall not display our crosses or our books in the roads or markets of the Muslims. We shall use only clappers [wooden noisemakers used to call people to worship] in our churches very softly.
"We shall not raise our voices when following our dead. We shall not carry lighted candles on any of the roads of the Muslims or in their markets. We shall not bury our dead near the Muslims."
http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/issues/issue-74/pact-of-umar.html
The Pact of Umar
Islamic protection came with a price.
The Pact of Umar, a document purportedly signed by the second caliph, Umar I (634-44), is the source of the restrictive regulations on non-Muslims embedded in the shari’a or Islamic law. In 1983, Sudan’s northern Muslim government took a fundamentalist turn and imposed the shari’a on the Christian south. This triggered the warfare that has since killed more than 2 million Sudanese and displaced millions more...
Thank you for the heads-up. I did not know that. Wow.
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