You're so right. What's the slaughter of a million and a half Christians by muslims have to do with anything going on in the world today./sarc
Under the millet system of Ottoman law, Armenians (as dhimmis, along with Greeks, Jews
and other ethnic and religious minorities) were subject to laws different from those applied
to Muslims. They had separate legal courts, although disputes involving a Muslim fell
under sharia-based law. Armenians were exempt from serving in the military and were instead
made to pay an exemption tax, the jizya; their testimony in Islamic courts was inadmissible
against Muslims; they were not allowed to bear arms, and they were heavily taxed,
although they were one of the largest minorities in the Ottoman Empire.