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Note, Muslims kill Muslims too, out of jihad against those perceived as the wrong kind or not enough Islamic.
See Alewite, Sunni in Syryan genocide of 620,000 since 2011, ir Suni-Shiite: 1 million Iraqis/Iranians
Posted on 11/12/2025 7:20:11 PM PST by Milagros
It's often whispered in historical footnotes that Adolf Hitler drew grim inspiration from the world's indifference to mass atrocities committed under the banner of political Islam. "Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?" he reportedly mused, highlighting the chilling silence surrounding the Ottoman Empire's systematic extermination of its Christian minorities. This wasn't mere conquest or war—it was political Islam in action, weaponizing religious doctrines like jihad and dhimmi status to justify the erasure of entire communities. While the world looked away, political Islam's toxic blend of faith and power claimed millions of lives, a pattern that persists to this day.
Take the testimony of Henry Morgenthau, the Jewish-American ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Stationed in Constantinople from 1913 to 1916, Morgenthau repeatedly confronted Ottoman leaders like Talaat Pasha over the unfolding horrors against Armenians. In his memoirs, he described the genocide as unparalleled in human history:
“I am confident that the whole history of the human race contains no such horrible episode as this. The greatest massacres and persecutions of the past seem almost insignificant when compared with the sufferings of the Armenian race in 1915.”
Source: U.S. Ambassador Henry Morgenthau's Protests and Reports
This wasn't an isolated incident but part of a broader, deliberate campaign spanning decades. As detailed in Benny Morris and Dror Ze’evi's The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924, the Ottoman Turks orchestrated three waves of violence against Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks from 1894 to 1924. Far from random acts, these were a unified effort to purge Anatolia of Christians, reducing their population from nearly a quarter to just 2 percent. The methods? Mass killings, forced deportations, conversions, and rapes, all fueled by calls to jihad aimed at forging a "pure" Muslim nation.
The authors estimate that between 1.5 and 2.5 million Christians were murdered in this period alone, a staggering toll that exposes political Islam's genocidal underbelly.[1]
Richard L. Rubenstein's Jihad and Genocide delves deeper into the religious motivations, arguing that the atrocities were seen as "legitimate defensive methods" against dhimmis—non-Muslims under Islamic rule—who were deemed outlaws. In 1914, as the Ottoman Empire entered World War I, the sultan-caliph issued a call for jihad against "infidels," followed by the Sheikh-ul-Islam's inflammatory declaration. This wasn't empty rhetoric; it mobilized killing squads influenced by jihad ideology and pan-Turkism.
Beyond outright slaughter, the regime forced conversions on 100,000 to 200,000 Armenians, mostly women and children, absorbing them into Muslim households to eliminate the Christian demographic presence. Rubenstein notes that these "absorptions" were part of the same "genocidal calculus" as murder, with deportations designed to isolate and terrorize victims.
In places like Trebizond, thousands of children were drowned or distributed to Muslim families, swiftly assimilated as part of the extermination program (Rubenstein, 2010, pp. 54–55).[2]
This historical bloodshed is just the tip of political Islam's deadly iceberg. From 1894 to 2024, the toll of victims—those killed in jihads, genocides, and Islamist terror—stands at a conservative minimum of over 18 million, potentially exceeding 24 million.[3] The breakdown is harrowing:
These aren't coincidences; they're the fruits of an ideology that politicizes religion to sanction violence, supremacy, and erasure.
Political Islam's defenders might claim these are distortions or historical anomalies, but the pattern is undeniable: from the caliph's jihad fatwas to modern Islamist militias, the fusion of faith and state power breeds intolerance and death. The world's continued silence—much like in Hitler's era—only emboldens it. If we fail to confront this ideology head-on, the victim count will keep climbing. History demands we break the cycle, rejecting political Islam's grip on power before it claims millions more.
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No protests on campus for real genocides, such as: Christians in Africa...
islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.
Rummel put the numbers at 1.88 million.
https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM
FWIW. Useful source.
See tagline.
Not sure that can be attributed to Islam. West Pakistanis, mostly Punjabis, were killing their fellow Muslim Bengalis.
I now see it. Kudos.
He just makes statistics of ANY fatalities. Not related to anything religious or anything ideological.
That’s an absurd statement. You’ve never talked to any Armenians, have you?
Not sure what November has to do with it. Their Jihad against anyone but them has been going on for centuries.
I understand, buy I quoted that a highlight that began on Nov 2.
Here is the Nov 2 highlight
https://books.google.com/books?id=UyNR4AAevwIC&pg=PA54#v=onepage&q&f=false
Fromm AI:
Declaration of Jihad (November 1914): On November 11 and 14, 1914, the Ottoman Empire, as part of the Central Powers in World War I, officially declared a jihad (holy war) against the Entente powers (Britain, France, and Russia). The goal was to encourage Muslims under Entente colonial rule to rise up and support the Ottoman war effort.
Context of Violence: This period is associated with intense conflict and subsequent events that critics and historians have described as genocidal, particularly the Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian genocides, which saw the extermination of a majority of Ottoman Christians during the late Ottoman era and its aftermath (roughly 1894-1924).
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