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To: NonZeroSum
"Arguably, we treated the Indians worse than the Turks did the Armenians--at least the Armenians still have their own independent nation. We thoroughly decimated the native American population, through slaughter, disease and destruction of their food supplies."

You are d**n right it's arguably but you again mistate the facts. Sure, the Armenians have their own homeland no thanks to the Turks. The remnants of refugees who made it out alive and then had to live under Soviet oppression...gee whiz those lucky Armenians...From the beginning, North America witnessed battle after battle, war after war with the natives who were fighting amongst themselves too. There was never -I repeat never -an official policy of extermination of any people in the US. There were declared Indian Wars yes, but at no time did you see hordes of Americans/Euros rushing into indian villages and slaughtering men, women, and children like the Turks hace done for generations. In fact. as many Euro Americans died over the past several hundreds years at the hands of Native people as the other way around. To the contrary, there was an official policy developed by the ottoman Turks and then the Kemalist Turks to eradicate the "yiaours", the Christians etc.

Today there are millions of native aborignals living on the North american continent. Where are the Christians (Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians, etc) in Asia Minor? Answer that!

24 posted on 10/26/2001 1:09:04 PM PDT by eleni121
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To: eleni121
None of this is relevant to the original point (which you continue to ignore), that it is possible to have separation of church and state in an Islamic country, and Turkey is an existence proof.
25 posted on 10/26/2001 2:26:53 PM PDT by NonZeroSum
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