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Where do you propose that we find these Ottomans, to bring them to justice?
After 93 years, the perpetrators are long since dead. What will you do? Punish their grandchildren?
Consider what has happened to be a warning about the dangers of Islamofacism. All that is needed is accepting what has happened and not deny history.
I actually had the pleasure of being in an Armenian Apostolic wedding a few years back. I gained a tremendous amount of respect for their faith and unique traditions. Their genocide is arguably the most under-taught period of world history in schools today.
The Armenian genocide is an important historical event. It was tragic in it's own right. It also points to Islamic mass murder in the present and, if we don't stop them, the future.
Rudolph Rummel has coined the term “Democide” to capture all instances of government mass murder. It is a broader term than genocide. The distinction can be seen in the the following case. Stalin murdered somewhere between 5 million and ten million Ukrainians in 1931-2. He did this as to exterminate the independent farmer and collectize agriculture. Since the purpose wasn't to eliminate Ukrainians because they were Ukrainians, someone can say this was not genocide. But government mass murder is murder regardless of the intent. It is the objective fact of murder that counts, not the reason provided.
Democide generally excludes war time death. Soldiers shooting soldiers is a tragic consequence of conflict between nations and is not democide. Government sanctioned military killings of unarmed, non-hostile, unthreatening civilians is democide.
Some barbaric people try to rig events so that American soldiers kill civilians by mistake. Our enemies do this for its propaganda benefit. Our liberal press eagerly falls for it. It is important to note that uniforms are worn by those who want to spare innocent civilians. Those fighting out of uniform often want the death of innocent civilians.
Here's a table developed by Dr. Rummel on 20th century Democide:
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM
The 20th century was especially bad.
The Clinton administration became embroiled in the former Yugoslavia because Muslims claimed that Christians were engaged in their mass murder. Even conservatives wanted Clinton to act. But America may have fallen for a false claim. Since that time false massacres have been unearthed. Jenin and Haditha come to mind. The Srebrenica massacre may have been a hoax also. It may be time for a national reappraisal of our policies in that region.
I have a different take on the Armenian genocide. That is, one story of what happened in America, and how liberal scoundrels haven’t changed.
I knew a man who had been a college student at the time. He had come from a poor family and had worked very hard to put himself through college.
The dean of men was a prominent liberal, who prided himself on his “vocal” support of liberal causes. When word of the Armenian “crisis” made it to the US, he knew what he was going to do.
He decided that students should fast one day each week, and that the money they had already paid for food be diverted for “the starving Armenians”.
And as you might guess, every penny just went into the pocket of the dean, because he didn’t give two hoots for the Armenians, whoever they were. Typical liberal.
Well, the college student discovered the dean’s racket, and he wasn’t going to let the dean get away with it. He decided to connive some of the dean’s chickens, so that he and his friends could have the food they had paid for.
He knew that the dean’s wife was a none-too-bright squishy liberal trophy wife. So he paid a visit to her when he knew the dean was out of town for the week. He claimed to be a seminary student taking up a collection for the local orphanage.
She was in tears as he described the sob story of the poor, deprived orphans dressed in rags like the little match girl.
And she was so impressed that she not only gave him several of the dean’s chicken, but wrote a large check of the dean’s money as a donation to the orphanage.
This also shows the nobility of conservatives, as though the student and his friends feasted on the dean’s chickens, he very honorably presented the check, in the name of the dean’s wife, to the orphanage.
When to his horror, the dean learned that some of his hard stolen money was going to be given to *charity*, he screamed and ranted at her, and damned the orphans, right in front of a visitor, who turned out to be the Reverend director of the orphanage who had stopped by to personally thank her for her donation.
She did not appreciate this for a long time thereafter.
Oh Look!
The Muslims are still at it!
What a peaceful religion...