This picture taken on October 8, 2020 shows the damaged Ghazanchetsots (Holy Saviour) Cathedral in the historic city of Shusha,...
Posted on 11/16/2020 12:36:38 AM PST by xomething
Turkey-backed Azeri forces have been accused of inflicting heavy damage on the Armenian Apostolic Church’s Holy Saviour Cathedral in the historic city of Shusha (Shushi).
Images shared by the Armenian government and journalists on the ground show that the 19th-century church, known locally as Ghazanchetsots Cathedral, appears to have been bombarded by artillery, with holes blown in its roof.
The interior of the Christian place of worship has also suffered heavy damage, with pews smashed to splinters and Bibles scattered amidst the rubble.
The cathedral is located in the autonomous Nagorno-Karabakh province of Muslim-majority Azerbaijan, populated largely by ethnically Armenian Christians who declared independence as the Republic of Artsakh in the 1990s.
The bloody war sparked by that declaration of independence ended in something of a stalemate, with Artsakh receiving no international recognition but the tacit support of Armenia and, somewhat less stridently, Russia, while the Azeri government maintained its claims of sovereignty.
That semi-frozen conflict has now once again erupted into violence, with the Turkey-backed Azeris making significant inroads in the province — but Armenians believe that the attack on Ghazanchetsots was punitive in nature, rather than serving any legitimate military purpose.
“There is no military, nothing strategic here, how can you target a church?” a local resident told AFP....
This picture taken on October 8, 2020 shows the damaged Ghazanchetsots (Holy Saviour) Cathedral in the historic city of Shusha,...
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Jihadists regularly targeted churches at the height of the many-sided conflict in Syria, killing or displacing local, often historic Christian populations in large numbers.
... Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sent around 1,200 Syrian fighters ...
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More evil from the usual suspects.
...and those that apologize for islam will say that they pray to the same god as we do - they believe JESUS is a holy man, etc etc etc...
The Strategy of Islam to Infiltrate and Dominate a Host Population
- They seek out nations that have basic social freedoms or areas that our depressed or void of law
- They immigrate to these areas using the laws of freedom or take advantage of those in depressed areas by offering the basic essentials of life
- Once they have merged in the host country, Islam demands respect for its customs by the host population
- They immediately begin to import their own laws into the host population
- They use the âminorityâ radicals to spread fear among the host population and enforce Islamâs code
- They begin to populate large numbers of Muslims through immigration and birth in the host nation
- They do a show of force through large gatherings when outnumbered by the host population and center themselves in urban areas
- When outnumbered, they will appear as the victim. When they obtain the majority, they become the aggressor
- Once they gain the majority, they strike down the host population or drive them out by use of the âminorityâ radicals and seize what were the host population properties
- Once Muslims move into an area, they spread into the social fabric through the establishment of mosques, by the economic through stores in every part of the city to bring Muslims into areas once dominated by only the host population, the use the political sphere to get Muslims elected into local, then state, then federal offices by sheer numbers in order to take over the entire social, economic, and political host through the protection of what is defined as a religion
It more commonly fits the definition of a virus: a small infectious agent that can replicate only inside the living cells of organisms. Most viruses are too small to be seen directly with a light microscope. Viruses infect all types of organisms...
Turkey used to be our ally in NATO, now you can see what happens when muslims take over a country
It’s a mess over there.
Armenian (Christian) villagers set torch to their homes rather than leave them to the Azeries (Muslim) on a forced evacuation following a Russia mediated cease-fire and ‘peace’ agreement.
https://news.yahoo.com/armenian-villagers-burn-houses-ahead-092048291.html
How quickly we forget.
...Waiting for the shills from the last few threads to show up, and say how all of this could have prevented if those recalcitrant Armenians would have just shut up once and for all about their so-called “Genocide” lie, and have just simply withdrawn from the land that they stole from Azerbaijan back in 1994, blah blah blah...
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