Obama Won't Call Armenian Massacre 'Genocide'

by JASmius



Here is the summary of what the last "Caliphate" did to Armenian and other Christians beginning a century ago today:

The Armenian Genocide (Armenian: Հայոց ցեղասպանություն Hayots tseghaspanutyun), also known as the Armenian Holocaust, the Armenian Massacres and, traditionally by Armenians, as Medz Yeghern (Armenian: Մեծ Եղեռն, "Great Crime"), was the Ottoman government's systematic extermination of its minority Armenian subjects inside their historic homeland, which lies within the territory constituting the present-day Republic of Turkey. The total number of people killed as a result has been estimated at between 800,000 to 1.5 million. The starting date is conventionally held to be 24 April 1915, the day Ottoman authorities rounded up and arrested, subsequently executing, some 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople.

The genocide was carried out during and after World War I and implemented in two phases: the wholesale killing of the able-bodied male population through massacre and subjection of army conscripts to forced labour, followed by the deportation of women, children, the elderly and infirm on death marches leading to the Syrian desert. Driven forward by military escorts, the deportees were deprived of food and water and subjected to periodic robbery, rape, and massacre.  Other indigenous and Christian ethnic groups such as the Assyrians and the Ottoman Greeks were similarly targeted for extermination by the Ottoman government, and their treatment is considered by many historians to be part of the same genocidal policy. The majority of Armenian diaspora communities around the world came into being as a direct result of the genocide.

Raphael Lemkin was explicitly moved by the Armenian annihilation to coin the word genocide in 1943 or 1944 and define systematic and premeditated exterminations within legal parameters. The Armenian Genocide is acknowledged to have been one of the first modern genocides, because scholars point to the organized manner in which the killings were carried out in order to eliminate the Armenians, and it is the second most-studied case of genocide after the Holocaust.

Turkey, the successor state of the Ottoman Empire, denies the word genocide is an accurate term for the mass killings of Armenians that began under Ottoman rule in 1915. It has in recent years been faced with repeated calls to recognize them as genocide. To date, twenty-three countries have officially recognized the mass killings as genocide, a view which is shared by most genocide scholars and historians.

Okay, since there are still Armenians today - in fact, there is an Armenia, at least for the time being - I suppose the argument can be made that it wasn't a completely successful genocide.  But was certainly an attempted genocide.  That is established, objective fact, not subjective opinion, and should be stated as such, including to the Turks' swarthy faces.  Indeed, they should be required to acknowledge it, and should have the shame to willingly own it and condemn their forebears for their mind-boggling atrocities, the better for them to never be repeated.

Instead, the self-proclaimed Islamist Erdogan regime defiantly practices the Christian equivalent of Holocaust denial, which strongly suggests that "President" Erdogan would like to pick up where his Ottoman predecessors left off.

And who is "Caliph" Erdogan's biggest cheerleader, bowing with all his might and waving his poms poms maniacally at the same time?

Barack Obama is pledging solidarity with Armenians but isn't calling what happened to them [a century] ago "genocide."

Obama says the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks is "a solemn moment that calls for reflection on the importance of historical remembrance and the work of reckoning with the past."

And the cause of that "solemnity"?  That Erdogan's Islamic Fundie antecedents tried, with malice aforethought, to wipe out every last Armenian Christian to the last man, woman, and child.  It's of a mealy-mouthed, dhimmi piece with O's stubbornly obsequious refusal to call present-day Islamic atrocities "Islamic," but referring to them as "violent extremism" instead, which is an adverb and an adjective and doesn't mention the cause of that "extremism" - as in, "extreme WHAT?"

Barack Obama is a jihadi-symp, a jihad-enabler, and as this latest despicable omission yet again demonstrates, a jihad-apologist.

And the worst is most definitely yet to come.