[Perseverando]

Re: Quite right. However, I think it’s entirely reasonable to note that Islam posed little threat to the rest of the world for about 200 years prior to 1979 and the Iranian Revolution, which revitalized Islam as a political movement.

I guess, if we exclude about a few Armenians butchered by the Ottoman Turks about 100 years ago.

[windsorknot]

This is the ugly, unmasked face of Mohammedanism.

[Sherman Logan]

You may notice I referred to “the rest of the world.’ Muslim atrocities continued in the areas under Muslim rule. Due to their military weakness, however, and more particularly the civilizational self-confidence of Christians of the time, they didn’t bother people outside those areas, for the most part.

Some points about the Armenian genocide:

There is not much evidence that religious motivations were all that important to the planners of the genocide. The Young Turks were not a particularly devout bunch. Greeks and other Christians in the Empire weren’t attacked at this time. The motivations were probably more ethnic and political than religious.

Most of the actual killing was probably done by local Muslim gangs, many of whom probably did have Islam as motivation, along with of course blood lust and looting. Most of them were Kurds, who are now our BFFs in the area.

Your number of 2M is probably high. It’s unlikely there were 2M Armenians in the area for the Turks to kill. Probably more accurate estimates range from 600,000 to 1,500,000. Some accounts have the total number of Armenians in Turkey prior to the War as about 1.25M.