On the same year that millions around the world commemorated the centennial of the Armenian Genocide—or, more fundamentally, the Christian Genocide—Turkish authorities have started the demolition of Kamp Armen, an Armenian orphanage. Armenian sources reported in early May that bulldozers have begun to demolish the building located in the metropolitan district of Tuzla, despite attempts […]
Turkey: Muslims shoot 19-year-old woman in the head for appearing on a televised song contest
“The Posta newspaper reported on Sunday that Kaya had been threatened by relatives after travelling to Istanbul to take part in the contest.” By relatives. “Mutlu Kaya, 19, from the conservative region of Diyarbakir in the Kurdish-majority south-east of of the country…” By “conservative” AFP doesn’t mean “Reagan fans” or “supporters of free speech,” but […]
Turkey: Historic 12th-century church to be reopened as a mosque
Turkey’s rapid re-Islamization and assertion of Islamic supremacism continues. “Historic Hagia Sophia in a Turkish province to be re-opened as mosque,” by Serdar Korucu, Hürriyet Daily News, May 1, 2015: A ruined Hagia Sophia dating back to the 12th century in the western border province of Edirne will be renovated as a mosque, despite former […]
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 […]
Qur’an-shaped cake has Turks irked, say bakers should have shirked
Don’t smirk. Here come Görmez’s clerks. For these students, trouble lurks. “There is no fun in Islam.” — Ayatollah Khomeini “Turkey fumes over Quran-shaped cake,” by Judah Ari Gross, Times of Israel, April 21, 2015: Turkish religious authorities have opened an investigation against Anatolian students for baking a cake in the shape of the Quran, […]
Turkish cops detain UK Muslim family thought to be headed for Islamic State
This is not the family that tried to get there last week. This is a new one. They are coming all the time. Yet Western analysts still wave away the Islamic State’s appeal to Muslims worldwide by dismissing them as “un-Islamic.” “Turkish police detain British family thought to be headed for Syria,” Reuters, April 20, […]
Mufti of Ankara: Pope acknowledging Armenian Genocide will hasten Hagia Sophia’s becoming mosque again
Petulance and Islamic supremacist denial on a state level. The Pope, you see, should have known better: the dhimmi must know his place and keep silent about whatever is done to him by Muslims. And in response, the Christians must be punished further. “Armenian Genocide: Turkish politicians criticise the EU; Mufti reacts to pope’s words […]
Qur’an read inside Hagia Sophia for the first time in 85 years
It was once the grandest cathedral in the Christian world, surpassing anything in Rome or anywhere else — until the Muslim conquest of Constantinople on May 29, 1453. Then it was converted into a mosque. In the 1930s, the secular Turkish government made it into a museum. But now, with Turkish secularism breathing its dying […]
Turkey: Journalists face jail for publishing Charlie Hebdo Muhammad cartoon
The freedom of speech is everywhere under assault and everywhere in retreat. If we lose it, there will be nothing left of our free society — those in power will be able to work their will unopposed. That’s why our Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest is so important. Stand with us against violent intimidation: […]