Demos Sharkarian (sp) was the founder of Full Gospel Business Mens something or other...
He was born in CA but his folks were Armenian...
In his great litle book “The Happiest People on Earth” Demos tells the story of this massacre and how his family were saved and escaped to America...
(I used to have a copy but i may have given it to someone)
He tells of a young boy who warned them in prophecy to flee...
The Armenians were divided some refused to believe it could happen...
Those who left were saved those who stayed were all slaughtered...
and guess what religion the murdered people were ???
Christians...
and their murderers ???
Moslems and Turks...
Oh noes Nana...
You iz jest a bigotted old woman...
The Armenians have been fighting for years to get this slaughter declared a genocide, and rightly so. It was genocide. Hitler used it as justification for killing the jews...figured Turkey got away with it, so why not him. I will admit the timing is strange.
I apologize—I shouldn’t have used the term “bone-headed issue” since some people might construe this issue as being about genocide. I’m just at a complete loss as to why the fact of a genocide needs to be declared. More importantly, I’ll never forget clenching my stomach in disgust in Spring ‘07 when we were getting our first glimmers of hope in Iraq—and Congress DID THIS only weeks after Turkish incursions into Northern Iraq. Is the “declaration of genocide” important enough that we should do it, even if this declaration can increase the risk of a new genocide? Because if the stability in Iraq had not taken hold....my goodness....
Muslim Turks—all Turks are Muslims aside from some few - who have converted.
And it was not a massacre— it was a genocide— planned and carried out to eliminate every last vestige of Christianity except just enough to make the
“west” happy and to say - well we in Turkey we have Christians left. Sick joke since they are constantly harrassed and often brutally murdered.