An Islamic apology to Armenians.

An Islamic apology to Armenians.(HD).On April 24, the day that Armenians all around the world remember their Great Catastrophe – or their ethnic cleansing from Anatolia in 1915 – a very interesting piece appeared in Turkish daily Star. Its writer was Hakan Albayrak, a committed Muslim, even an “Islamist,” and a veteran of the Gaza Flotilla of 2010. And his headline was simple and blunt enough: “We have to apologize to the Armenians.”

“Bismillahirrahmanirrahim,” was the opening line of the piece, a customary Islamic motto which means, “In the name of Allah, the compassionate, the merciful.” Then Albayrak, with my translation, wrote the following:

“Today is April 24. The day of mourning for our Armenian compatriots. The day they remember the cruelty of 1915.

We should share their pain, without asking, ‘Do they share ours?’ Everybody is responsible for his own humanity.

We cannot make excuses for the violent murders of thousands, tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of Armenians by Muslims. We should not see this as excusable. It would not be fair for the umma [faith community] of the Prophet of Mercy [Muhammad].

This is a shameful page in history. I wish we could tear it apart. We cannot tear it apart, but we can perhaps put a note under it: ‘The grandsons of the people who committed those unspeakable crimes against the Armenians apologized and refused to honor their past.’”

In the rest of his piece, Hakan Albayrak continued to argue that Turks should apologize to Armenians, rather than launching counterpropaganda campaigns against the “Armenian lobby.” He even argued that the Turkish government needs to pay compensation to the “representatives of the Armenian people.” It could even be paid to the Armenian Republic, “if it accepted to withdraw from the Azeri territories that it occupies.”

The piece created some controversy in Turkey, especially on the Internet, as some sympathized with its content, while other Turks, especially secular nationalists, condemned it as high treason.Hmmmm......I can't imagine Erdogan apologizing for the Armenian Genocide, he even Demolished the Turkish-Armenian ‘Friendship’ Statue......Nice try but it doesn't work........Al- taqiyya 101.Read the full story here.