[Armenian]

Originally Posted by sailormoon

Not only 1,5 M Armenians were massacred but also 750,000 Assyro-Chaldeans, Syriacs and 200,000 Greeks. To be more accurate we should call it the Genocide of the Christians minorities in Turkey rather than "Armenian Genocide" since it was obviously a calculated plan by the Ottoman autorities to erase Turkey from its Christian presence. If the west calls it "Armenian Genocide" it s because that appellation hides the sectarian nature of the massacre, which will contradicts the propaganda that we hear in Europe saying that Turks and Arabs were tolerant with the other religions etc...
At the end Armenians were not slaughtered just because they re Armenians but because of their faith , the 1914-1922 massacres are an episode from a long phenomena wich began in the 6 th century and consists in Islamizing the east and erase its Christian presence/roots. A phenomena which continues in our modern times with the Lebanese civil war, the intimidation and marginalisation of the Copts, the massacres against the Christians in Iraq during the 20 s and their actual persecution, current massacres in Darfur etc...

Originally Posted by Saladin

I'm not quite familiar with Armenian dispute with Turkey over the recognition of the massacres, and I'm not willing to dwell in it. However your post holds fallacies and Ignorance that I shall not allow to pass.

Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) and the Muslims from the 6th century down to our current time have never used the sword or any form of ethnic cleansing as a mean for spreading Islam. Sure history has witnessed wars between Muslims and Christians during the past 14 centuries, however none of them witnessed Muslims forcing Christians to convert to Islam or even to leave the Middle East, and Saladins' Liberation of Jerusalem and the way he treated the Christians after his prevalence is one proof of that. And the recent examples you've mentioned are mostly due to political reasons and purposes.

Islam is a religion of peace and acceptance. And if there is any reason for one to believe otherwise, it is merely due to his complete ignorance of this divine message.

The Armenian Genocide was not driven by the religious causes rather than an act against minorities in the Ottoman empire...

Let me tell you briefly what really happened...

Beginning of 20th century Turkey had a big problem... How to restore the Turkish indentity, and they came out with the best idea( for them): Turkification, and in order to do that they used state terrorism, racism and hate propaganda.

Let's state everything that happened that proves that my arguments is correct:

1915 --> Armenian Genocide (1.5 Million Killed)

1923 --> Expulsion of 1.5 Million Greeks from Anatolia

1927 --> 120 000 Jews Deported from Istanbul

1933 --> KristallNacht in Turkey

1940 --> Special Tax on Minorities

1955 --> Istanbul Pogrom

1964 --> Forced Deportation of Greeks


YEAR % Of Non-Muslim Minorities

1914 ---------- 20 %
1918 ---------- 2.5 %
1935 ---------- 1.98 %
1945 ---------- 1.56 %
1955 ---------- 1.08 %
1980 ---------- 0.1 %

But this is not over, after the non Muslim minorities it was the turn of the muslim minorities... Kurds ( after 1980)

All these facts and numbers are taken from Turkish books. I can tell you about each fact for hours, so if anyone wants to know anything about the facts i stated, please ask and i'll explain briefly...

Thank you!!