[Texas Fossil]

Abdul Hamid II was the Sultan of the Ottoman empire who ordered the first of the great massacres that lead up to the Armenian Genocide after WWI. He died on February 10, 1918. 100 years ago this month. 100-300,000 Armenians are estimated to have died in the Massacre.

Now in Turkey: "To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II, Ankara provincial directorate of education ordered school principals to organize events which all students will join in."

Source: https://twitter.com/UzayB/status/967471550256558081

Does this celebration by Turkey under Erdogan the Islamist surprise you?

Should we celebrate the Death of the Sultan and always remember the first of the Great Massacres?

Please read the short but very concise article at the link.

[marron]

I don’t think anyone understood the Armenian and Assyrian genocides until we finally wrapped our heads around “jihad”.

But people, I think, are finally starting to get it.

[Buttons12]

1890s. And a few decades earlier it was the Zoroastrians, while a few decades later it was the Greeks. You would think extermination is the national game of Turkey.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM

[Rurudyne]

Islam is, times of spectacular defeats aside, nothing but a sequence of massacres and terrorism interrupted by periods spent rearming and rearing the next army to march.