“Christianity in the Middle East is shattered,” Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, Nebraska Republican, told the IDC [In Defense of Christians] conference on Sept. 9. “The ancient faith tradition lies beaten, broken and dying. Yet Christians in Iraq and Syria are hanging on in the face of the Islamic State’s barbarous onslaught. This is genocide.” Yes. And […]
The Fall of Constantinople and Islam’s Treatment of Christians
May 29 was the anniversary of the conquering and desolation of the great Christian city of Constantinople by the forces of Islam in 1453. The below historical descriptions of the pillaging and destruction by the Muslim invaders is remarkable for its similarity to the actions of the Islamic State and other jihadi groups today, and vividly illustrates […]
The Islamic Genocide of Christians: Past and Present
Last Friday, April 24, we remembered how exactly 100 years ago the last historic Muslim caliphate, the Ottoman Empire, tried to cleanse its empire of Christian minorities — Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks — even as we stand by watching as the new caliphate, the Islamic State, resumes the genocide. And in both cases, the atrocities […]
Obama Breaks Promise on 100th Anniversary of Armenian Genocide
As the world continues to look on in dismay at the barbaric atrocities committed against Christian minorities by the Islamic State—the self-proclaimed new “caliphate”—today, April 24, marks the genocide of Armenian and other Christian minorities by Turkey’s Islamic Ottoman Empire—the last caliphate. Most American historians who have examined the question agree that what the Armenians experienced was […]
Turkey: Armenian church daubed with pro-genocide graffiti
The position of all too many Turks regarding the Armenian Genocide is that it never happened, and they’re glad it did. “İstanbul-based Armenian church daubed with hate messages,” Today’s Zaman, March 25, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): The Surp Astuanzazh Armenian Church in İstanbul’s Bakırköy neighborhood was daubed with hate speech on Tuesday […]
Syria: Islamic jihadists blow up church dedicated to victims of Armenian Genocide
Meanwhile, Christian leaders in the West pursue “dialogue” with Muslim leaders, who smilingly tell them that they condemn the Muslim persecution of Christians, and that is that. The Muslim leaders don’t actually do anything to stop their coreligionists from committing acts like these, but everyone has a nice dinner and some coffee, and goes home […]
Why does no one remember the Assyrian victims of Turkey’s Christian holocaust?
Islamic supremacist never acknowledge responsibility for any wrongdoing. The Erdogan government is energetic in working to silence and discredit anyone and everyone who tells the truth about these mass murders. “Why Does No-one Remember the Assyrian Victims of Turkey’s Christian Holocaust?,” by Uzay Bulut, International Business Times, October 28, 2014: You may have heard of […]
Islamic State destroys Armenian Genocide Memorial Church in Syria
Will Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Ahmet Davutoglu send a bouquet of flowers to the caliph Ibrahim, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi? “ISIS Destroys Armenian Genocide Memorial Church in Der Zor,” Armenian Weekly, September 21, 2014: DER ZOR, Syria (A.W.)—The Islamic State (also known as ISIS) destroyed the Armenian Genocide Memorial Church in Der Zor, Syria—considered the Auschwitz […]
Islam and Christian genocides in Turkey
Islam and Christian Genocides in Turkey by Serkan Engin As some have said in the West, in fact, the Armenian, Assyrian, Chaldean, Nestorian and Pontian Greek genocides were “Christian genocides”. On the other side were Muslim Turks and Kurds. The basis in society and justification in conscience of these genocides were Islamic rules. Islam gives […]
99 Years of Turkish Genocide
In the declining days of the Ottoman Empire and the time of the birth of the secular Turkish republic, Christians in Anatolia were seen either as kuffar harbi, Infidels at war with Islam, and/or enemies of the Turkish state, for seeking political union with Greece and independence for Armenia. They were massacred and exiled wholesale. […]