Why does Obama continue to support the killing of thousands of Christians around the world? Friday marked the 100th anniversary of the Armenian
Genocide, and President Obama, despite his prior promises to recognize the
Armenian Genocide, failed to do so for the seventh straight year.
Once you study the Armenian Genocide you see the true picture of current events in Syria, Iran, Iraq and other places of evil. You must wonder why Barack Obama does nothing to stop the killing. The cold truth is that Obama is a Muslim believer and had gained power in America by corruption and support of others.
The same week, the Turkish government announced
that Obama would join the Turkish government, led by Islamist President Recep
Tayyip Erdogan, in opening the Turkish-American Culture and Civilization Center
in Maryland. Mevlut Cavusoglu, visiting Washington in advance of the
commemoration of the Genocide, said, “During a phone call, President Erdogan
asked President Obama to accompany him in opening the center together and
President Obama accepted his offer in principle.” Cavusoglu then talked about
the dangers of Islamophobia.
This is a remarkable slap in the face to Armenians,
marking the centennial of the Genocide by radical Muslims against Christians.
That is the untold story of the Genocide, a story conveniently ignored by the
media and forgotten by world governments similarly ignoring atrocities by
Muslims against Christians the world over.
To understand the Armenian Genocide, one must first
understand the history of Turkey, which for centuries was a Christian country;
its capital, now named Istanbul by Muslims, was originally named Constantinople
after Emperor Constantine and was the most powerful Christian city in on the
planet for several centuries. In 1453, the city was conquered by Muslims and
became Istanbul and the capital of the Ottoman Empire. Armenia remained
Christian, however. As the Ottoman Empire crumbled, despite the fact that other
territories gained their independence, Armenia did not.
In 1876, Sultan Abdul Hamid II took over
dictatorship of the Empire. By 1878, he had signed away Romania, Serbia, and
Montenegro; the Balkans were essentially freed of the Ottomans; he lost Egypt
and Sudan to the British. By the 1890s, Armenians began demanding reforms. In
response, the Sultan gave free reign to Kurdish groups to begin targeting
Armenians, and when Armenians responded, the Sultan unleashed the Muslim
military against the Armenians. Some 300,000 Armenians were killed.
In 1908, under pressure from reformers known as the
Young Turks, the Sultan gave up power. But the movement for liberalism lasted
only a few years before three Islamist leaders of the Young Turks seized power
for themselves, then joined World War I on the side of the Germans. The Three
Pashas, as they became known, decided to reconstitute the Empire, freeing it of
Christian influence. In precursors to the Genocide, as the Young Turks took
power, Islamists began massacring Christian Armenians. At the time, The New
York Times reported that the Turks had endorsed a “policy of extermination
directed against the Christians of Asia Minor.”
Once World War I broke out, the government began
openly targeting Armenian Christians under the pretense that they would side
with the Russian Christians to the north. As the Times states:
The Young Turks, who called themselves the
Committee of Unity and Progress, launched a set of measures against the
Armenians, including a law authorizing the military and government to deport
anyone they “sensed” was a security threat. A later law allowed the
confiscation of abandoned Armenian property. Armenians were ordered to turn in
any weapons that they owned to the authorities. Those in the army were disarmed
and transferred into labor battalions where they were either killed or worked
to death.
Those policies of disarmament then led to
wholescale slaughter, as Turkish troops drove Armenians into the desert to
starve – over one million of them, by reports. Children were thrown into rivers
to drown; in Trabzond, the US consul, Ascar Heizer, reported:
Nearly 3,000 children were installed in empty
houses, of which there were many…This plan did not suit Nail Bey, and in about
ten days he advertised that any Mahommedan, who wanted to take girls or boys,
could apply to these homes and a great many children were taken. He himself
chose ten of the best-looking girls and kept them in a house for his own
pleasure, and the amusement of his friends. Many of the children were loaded
into boats and taken out to sea and thrown overboard. I myself saw where 16
were washed ashore.
Villages were burned with residents still inside.
Just before the advent of the invasion of Poland,
Hitler told his troops, “Go, kill without mercy… who, after all, speaks today
of the annihilation of the Armenians?”
And who, today, speaks of the genocidal attempts of
radical Muslims in the Middle East? A world that has deliberately ignored the
genocide by radical Muslims against Armenian Christians for a full century
continues to ignore attempted mass murder by radical Muslims against Christians
in Syria, Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, and Nigeria, among other
countries. The Armenian Genocide has been forgotten because genocide against
Christians must be ignored; to ignore history is to repeat it. And thus we
repeat, and Christians in the Middle East die.
