Brian Ross wrote on Jan 3
rd, 2015 at 9:00pm:
Conducting pogroms against all Muslims, razing Mosques, nuking all Muslims a bit more than a "tad", in the extreme department?
The thing is, there has never been a pogrom against Muslims, there has been no genocide against Muslims in the West. But Muslims have been committing genocide for a long time, the latest is by ISIL which very closely resembles the Ottoman Muslim genocide of Armenian Christians 100 years ago. If Muslims are victims it's only ever of other Muslims.
The common thread linking the Ottomans and ISIL is Islam:
At the time there were 15 million Turkish Muslims and about two million Christian Armenians in Turkey (or Anatolia as it was then). The Armenians were better educated and wealthier than most Turks and because of that were envied and hated, so much so that the government instituted a program of ethnic cleansing. The Turks had had practice runs before. Between 1894 and 1896, 200,000 Armenians were massacred by soldiers and armed mobs.
From May to September 1915, up to two million Armenians were killed or expelled from the Ottoman Empire. The adult men were massacred or sent to death camps, while their families were sent on death marches through the desert. They were murdered, raped, drowned, burned alive and left to die of hunger and thirst. Churches, monasteries and schools were destroyed. All material goods were confiscated. Girls were made sex slaves and forced to convert. Up to 1.5 million died.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/geoffrey-robertson-puts-the-case-aga...