Posted on 01/25/2002 11:54:39 AM PST by Pericles
NOT TRUE! I know several Armenian-Americans whose grandparents and great-grandparents are survivors of the Armenian genocide, and there were also good American and German witnesses who published accounts of the whole thing. Whole villages of Armenian men, women, and children were driven into the Syrian desert to die, or slaughtered outright!!!
The Turk state slaughtered 1.5 million Armenian Christians!!! Then, after the war, they turned around and wiped out the great majority of Greek Christians in Asia Minor, whose communities were far older than any Turk occupation of what is now Turkey. Later "cleansings" and murders of Greeks continued at various times later in the 20th century, usually in conjunction with the conflict over Cyprus.
Denying these things is the equivalent of Holocaust denial!!! Many muslims these days are guilty of denying both the Jewish and Armenian and Greek genocides, because they want to finish the job on both Jews and Balkan and Middle Eastern Christians without any pangs of conscience whatsoever!!!
I find your neo-Confederate musings interesting,especially since there is a group of US pseudo-intellectual muslim shills that accuses Serbian and pro-Serbian Americans of being linked with neo-Confederate groups!!!! In your case, you claim that it is muslim separatists and expansionists that are linked with the neo-Confederate cause!!!
However, Confederate heroes such as Johnston, Lee, Stonewall Jackson, etc. should not be compared to mingy savages such as the UCK/KLA and the Chechen bandits. That dishonors BOTH the Confederate and Union causes!!!!
However, I do know, that despite the fact that Arabic-speaking Christians refer to God as "Allah", the Allah of the Quran does not have the same character as the God of the Bible.
The God of the Bible is a God who suffers, loves, and gets intimately involved with his people. This is true for BOTH the Old and New Testament--for a graphic Old Testament example, see the book of Hosea. Of course, the ultimate example of this is the birth, life, death on the cross, and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.
In contrast, the Quranic Allah is above suffering, does not love in a personal way, and MOST CERTAINLY never did anything like the Incarnation!! The Quran is also full of threats about hell, which are much, much rarer in the Bible!
I HIGHLY DOUBT that our God and the Quranic Allah are the same God. If "Allah" is not our one true God, then who is he? I'll let you draw your own conclusion.
The God of the Bible is a God who suffersThen read the old testament.
...see the book of Hosea.
There are many other examples of God's suffering in the Old Testament (and even God changing his mind), but Hosea is perhaps the most graphic.
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