Showing posts with label Assyrian Genocide. Show all posts
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Video - Roasting Turkey: First Ever Hollywood Film About Armenian Genocide Debuts in Toronto.



Roasting Turkey: First Ever Hollywood Film About Armenian Genocide Debuts in Toronto. (Showbizz).

“Our revenge will be to survive, and have children,” rallies the mayor of an Ottoman city whose Armenian population is targeted for annihilation in Terry George’s “The Promise” — “…and one day, to make movies,” he might as well add, since that is ultimately what “The Promise” is about: Aiming to do for the 1915 Armenian Genocide what “Doctor Zhivago” did for the Russian Revolution, this sweeping romantic epic intends to dramatize a dark chapter so often denied and so seldom depicted onscreen — and yet, the events in question deserve better than a sloggy melodrama in which the tragedy is forced to take a backseat to a not especially compelling love triangle.

“The Promise”– the first ever Hollywood movie about the Armenian genocide of 1915-17– debuted last night in Toronto to standing ovation. Famed director Terry George made the film, funded by late billionaire Kirk Kerkorian– starring Christian Bale and Oscar Isaac. The sweeping epic is gorgeous, beautifully acted, and exacting in its laying blame on Turkey for exterminating 1.5 million Armenians.

The movie is notable because this week is the 100th anniversary of the genocide, the first Holocaust of the 20th century. “The Promise” also raises questions about the current waves of ethnic cleansing coming from Syria and the immigration of millions of refugees.

“The Promise” also serves as a counterpoint to the evacuation of millions of Jews from Russia around the same time, the story that most of us know from “Fiddler on the Roof.”

George, whose “Hotel Rwanda” is a modern classic, couldn’t film in Turkey as he once did in Africa. So he used Spain and Malta to re-create the Armenians’ tragedy, and the results are stunning. Read the full story here.
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Friday, April 22, 2016

Islamist Turkish State opens a case to 'recover' the lands returned to the Ecumenical Patriarchate in recent years.


Islamist Turkish State opens a case to steal 'recover' the lands returned to the Ecumenical Patriarchate in recent years. (Fides).

Turkey has opened a case against the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, to cancel the legal acts with which some land were returned to the Orthodox Patriarchal See, in compliance with the laws providing restitution to the minority religious communities of goods seized in the past by the Turkish authorities. 

This was reported by local sources, consulted by Agenzia Fides. In particular, the intent is to re-expropriate the Ecumenical Patriarchate of a plot of 98 acres (approximately 40 hectares) in the Goksu area, and another area in Umit Tepesi, adjacent the Institute of Orthodox theology in Halki.

The procedural initiative is yet another case of harassment for legal and administrative channels implemented by the Turkish institutions against the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.



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Turks in New York dance & "celebrate" 101 anniversary of slaughter, the Armenian Genocide.


Turks in New York dance & "celebrate" the 101 anniversary of slaughter the Armenian Genocide. (DM).
New Yorkers are left baffled as skywriters paint 'How happy is the one who says I am a Turk' in TURKISH in the sky above Manhattan - but Armenians are not amused.
New Yorkers gazed into the blue sky with bemusement as a skywriting plane carefully scribbled the phrase 'How happy Is the one who says, I am a Turk' in Turkish over Manhattan.



The phrase was coined by the founder of modern Turkey, Kemal Ataturk, in 1933 and was until recently an oath which every Turkish child was obliged to repeat twice a week at school.

But the plane then went on to scrawl more controversial slogans in the sky, including several which denied the Armenian genocide in 1915.

These included '101 years of geno-lie' and 'Truth=Peace' and the URL of a website which is designed to 'counter Armenian misinformation' about the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians during and just after World War I.



Luke O'Brien tweeted: 'Nothing screams 'we have nothing to hide' than a denial over Manhattan.


Last year Kim Kardashian launched an outspoken attack on President Obama for refusing to use the word 'genocide' as he marked the 100th anniversary of the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians.Read the full story here.

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Sunday, March 20, 2016

Turkey calls joint ‘genocide’ remarks by Armenian and Greek leaders ‘pathetic’.


As of 2015 [update], the governments of twenty-six countries, including Russia, France, and Germany, as well as forty-three states of the United States of America, have recognized the events as 'genocide'. The governments of Turkey and Azerbaijan deny the Armenian Genocide.


 Turkey calls joint ‘genocide’ remarks by Armenian and Greek leaders ‘pathetic’. (HD).

Armenian and Greek leaders’ joint portrayal of the events that took place in Anatolia during World War I as “genocide” has deeply angered Ankara, which labeled their statement as “the product of a pathetic mentality.”

Titled “Regarding the Statements of the Greek Prime Minister Mr. Alexis Tsipras, and President Mr. Prokopis Pavlopoulos on the Occasion of the Visit of the President of Armenia Mr. Serzh Sargsyan, Referring to Historical Events During the Disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and Containing Grave Allegations Against Turkey and the Turkish Identity,” the Turkish Foreign Ministry’s reaction came in the form of an official answer to a journalist’s question by Spokesperson Tanju Bilgiç late on March 17.

“The statements in question are the product of a pathetic mentality proving that the relations and solidarity between Greece and Armenia are built upon a joint hostility and slander language directed against the Turkish identity,” Bilgiç said.

“Turkey and the Turkish people will never give credit to those bringing to the fore at every opportunity a dictum of history which is unlawful, disconnected with realities, one-sided and obsessive,” he concluded.

Greece says thousands of ethnic Greeks who had been living on the southern shores of the Black Sea for centuries were massacred in Turkey during strife that accompanied the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the creation of the modern Turkish state.

Armenia charges that as many as 1.5 million of its kin were victims of genocide during World War I under the Ottoman Empire.

Ankara rejects the “genocide” charge, countering that 300,000 to 500,000 Armenians and at least as many Turks died in civil strife when Armenians rose up against their Ottoman rulers and sided with invading Russian forces.

Tsipras was meanwhile quoted in media as speaking of “Greeks’ and Armenians’ history of suffering and persecution,” on the same occasion.

Tsipras said that both peoples were “victims of genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Turks during World War I,” according to Massis Weekly, an official publication of the Armenian Social Democratic Hunchakian Party.


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Tuesday, August 11, 2015

'No Excuse' For Pres. Hussein Obama Failing to Protect Victims of ISIS's Christian Genocide.


'No Excuse' For Pres. Hussein Obama Failing to Protect Victims of ISIS's Christian Genocide. (AINA).By Samuel Smith Christian Post.

Democratic presidential candidate Martin O'Malley believes the U.S. government needs to be doing more to help protect the hundreds of thousands of victims of the Islamic State's "genocide" of Christians in Iraq and Syria.

At a time when President Barack Obama's State Department is doing very little to allow the scores of persecuted Iraqi and Syrian Christians to come and live legally and safely inside the United States, the 52-year-old former Maryland governor wrote in a Friday op-ed published by Detroit Free Press that there is "no excuse" for the United States' "inaction" on the issue of protecting the endangered Middle Eastern Christian and religious minority communities.

"'Genocide' is not a word to be used lightly. But it is not hyperbole to say Christians and other religious minorities in Iraq and Syria face genocide at the hands of ISIS today," O'Malley, a practicing Catholic, wrote. "In the face of unthinkable terrorism and bloodletting on the basis of religion and ethnicity alone, the U.S. must do more to protect the Middle East's religious minorities from extremists committed to their annihilation."

As over 500,000 Iraqi and Syrian Christians have fled from their homes to save themselves from being forced to convert to Islam or die at the hands of Islamic State, or "ISIS," militants, O'Malley recently had the opportunity to discuss the concerns of the Chaldean Christian community with Chaldean-Americans.

O'Malley wrote that the the Chaldeans told him about the struggles that their loved ones are having trying to get asylum status so they find safety in the United States. Although the Chaldean community has lined up thousands of sponsors willing to take in their persecuted brethren, many of them are still waiting for the federal government to take action.

"We agreed that the extraordinary threat facing religious minorities in Iraq and Syria requires an extraordinary effort on our part to protect them. The complexity and difficulty of the situation is no excuse for inaction," O'Malley asserted. "The Chaldean-American community has not only identified the locations of thousands of displaced Christians in Iraq, but has also organized thousands of sponsor families in the United States, ready to give them refuge if only they could get here."

O'Malley cited how 20 Chaldean Christians have been detained for over five months in a San Diego prison after they were caught sneaking across the U.S. southern border in an attempt to find refuge. Although the 20 Iraqi Christians have sponsor families willing to take them in, the Christians remain detained for unspecified reasons.

O'Malley condemned U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for not obeying a resolution passed in Congress last year.

"Last year, the U.S. House took the positive step of passing a resolution on the status of religious minorities in Iraq and Syria. The resolution specifically called on the State Department to 'help secure safe havens for those claiming amnesty,'" O'Malley wrote. "Unfortunately, we have fallen short of this goal here at home. Recently, I learned of the 20 Chaldean Christians who escaped ISIS in Iraq and have been detained in a San Diego immigration facility for five months. This is not the 'safe haven' that Congress intended. Barring a public safety threat, these refugees should be released to their families and given due process as the government considers their asylum cases."

"Protecting religious minorities against ISIS and facilitating the safe passage of those in the most precarious circumstances is a moral imperative," O'Malley continued. "We can and must do more."

O'Malley continued by explaining that the Middle East was once rich with religious diversity having been the birthplace of Christianity, Judaism and Islam. But thanks to the senseless violence waged toward religious minorities by militants advancing ISIS' distorted brand of Sunni Islam, Christianity in the region runs the risk of becoming extinct.

"ISIS' plan to destroy Christianity in the Middle East is more ambitious than simply wiping out the Christian population; it also aspires to erase any semblance that Christianity ever existed in the Middle East," O'Malley stated. "Last September, ISIS bombed the 7th-Century Green Church in Tikrit, one of the region's oldest churches. And when ISIS took over Mosul last June, it destroyed or occupied all of the city's 45 Christian institutions, converting one of its largest churches into a stated 'mosque of the mujahedeen.'"

O'Malley is one of five candidates running for the Democratic Party's primary nomination, including former first lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., former Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., and former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee. Hmmmm.....Compare to a real 'Mensch' Canadian PM Harper.
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Thursday, April 23, 2015

100 Years Armenian Genocide - Testimonies of survivors!


"It is not possible for those who belong to the Muslim faith to carry out genocide." Source









More testimonies can be read here at the USC Shoah Foundation
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Armenian Church to canonize 1.5 million genocide victims.


Armenian Church to canonize 1.5 million genocide victims. (DS).

YEREVAN, Armena: The Armenian Church prepares Thursday to canonize up to 1.5 million Armenians massacred in the Ottoman Empire amid tensions over Turkey's refusal to recognize the killings as genocide.

The ceremony - that could become the biggest canonization service in history - comes ahead of emotional commemorations expected to see millions including heads of state mark a hundred years since the start of the tragedy on Friday.

"On April 23... the canonization service for the Martyrs of the Armenian Genocide will be offered," said the Armenian Apostolic Church, calling on all Armenians for the "prayerful participation in this historic event."

The service will be held Thursday evening in Armenia's main church, Echmiadzin, an austere 4th-century edifice believed to be the Christian world's oldest cathedral.

After the ceremony to be led by Catholicos of All Armenians, Karekin II, bells will chime in Armenian churches across the world and a minute of silence will be observed.

In canonizing the genocide victims, "the Church only recognizes what happened: that is, the genocide", Karekin II said ahead of the event which Christian Today said could become "the biggest saint-making service in history."

Ex-Soviet Armenia and the huge Armenian diaspora worldwide have battled for decades to get the World War I massacres at the hands of the Ottoman forces between 1915 and 1917 recognised as a targeted genocide.

But modern Turkey - the successor to the Ottoman empire - has refused to do so.

Ankara says that 300,000 to 500,000 Armenians and at least as many Turks died in civil - rather than religious - strife when Armenians rose up against their Ottoman rulers and sided with invading Russian troops.

On Friday, hundreds of thousands are expected to join a procession to a hilltop memorial in the Armenian capital Yerevan carrying candles and flowers to lay at the eternal flame at the centre of a monument commemorating the mass murder.

In Paris, Los Angeles and other cities, members of the Armenian diaspora - that came to existence as a result of the slaughter - will also hold commemorations.

Russian strongman Vladimir Putin and French President Francois Hollande are expected to be among a handful of world leaders to travel to Armenia for the commemorations, but others are shying away for fear of upsetting Ankara.

In the run-up to the ceremonies Turkey kicked up a diplomatic storm, condemning growing "racism" in Europe.

On Wednesday Turkey recalled its ambassador to Vienna in protest against the Austrian parliament's decision to call the massacre "genocide."

Earlier this month Ankara recalled its envoy to Vatican after Pope Francis described the killings as "the first genocide of the 20th century."

More than 20 nations - including France and Russia - have so far recognized the Armenian genocide, a definition supported by numerous historian. Hmmm.....Only Erdogan's BFF Obama doesn't recognize it as genocide, i guess he follows his 'hero's' lead 'Muslims don't commit Genocide'.

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Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Turkish scholar claims Ottoman Armenians killed their own people


Turkish scholar claims Ottoman Armenians killed their own people. (HD).

A scholar from a university in central Turkey has claimed well-disguised Ottoman Armenians attacked their own villages in 1915 to win independence from the crumbling Ottoman Empire.

“According to our studies in the (Cleansed) Ottoman archives, Armenians wore the clothing of Kurdish, Laz, Circassian and Turkish peoples in Anatolia and raided their own villages, killing their own people for the sake of winning independence,” associate professor doctor Cevdet Kırpık from Erciyes University in the Kayseri province told the state-run Anadolu Agency on April 22.

As the only large non-Turkic, non-Muslim nation remaining in the Ottoman Empire during the 1870s, Kırpık suggested that Armenians decided to resort to “rebellion and terror” to secede like Serbia, Bulgaria and Montenegro had previously done.

“By raiding their villages in Turkish clothes, they were trying to provoke Armenians against the Ottomans,” he said, adding the Ottoman state caught and killed some assailants during their attacks on Armenian villages.

The Turkish scholar’s unconventional explanation for the many deaths of Ottoman Armenians came days before the tragedy’s centennial anniversary. Hmmm....Obama's Armenian genocide denial will only embolden his 'Islamist' BFF Erdogan.

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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Erdogan's BFF Obama again avoids calling 1915 Armenian killings 'genocide'.


Erdogan's BFF Obama again avoids calling 1915 Armenian killings 'genocide'. (AP).

President Hussein Obama will once again stop short of calling the 1915 massacre of Armenians a genocide, prompting anger and disappointment from those who have been pushing him to fulfill a campaign promise and use the politically fraught term on the 100th anniversary of the killings this week. Officials decided against it after opposition from some at the State Department and the Pentagon.

After more than a week of internal debate, top administration officials discussed the final decision with Armenian-American leaders Tuesday before making it public. The White House said the officials pledged that the U.S. would use Friday's centennial anniversary "to urge a full, frank and just acknowledgement of the facts." That language echoed the administration's five previous statements on the anniversary, as well as those of previous administrations. But it did not use the word "genocide," as many had hoped.

As a senator and presidential candidate, Obama did describe the killings of Armenians as "genocide" and said the U.S. government had a responsibility to recognize it as such. As a candidate in January 2008, Obama had pledged to recognize the genocide and at least one of his campaign surrogates, the current U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, recorded a nearly five-minute video at the time imploring Armenian-Americans to vote for Obama precisely because he would keep his word on the issue.

Other officials at the White House and State Department who deal more directly with human rights issues, including Power, wanted the president to use the word "genocide," the officials said.
Asked if there was an internal rift on the issue, one senior official involved in the discussion said simply "yes."

That official noted that alienating the Turks at this point in Obama's presidency would mean accepting that the U.S. investment in good relations with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had failed. That relationship has been fraught with difficulty in recent years over human rights concerns, among other issues.

Another senior U.S. official acknowledged the decision would be a disappointment to some who were "hoping to hear different language this year" and said the administration understood that perspective. But, the official also said the administration believed its approach is right "both for acknowledging the past, and for our ability to work with regional partners to save lives in the present."

Negative reaction to the announcement was intense from both the Armenian-American community and members of Congress who have championed the Armenian cause.

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said he was "deeply disappointed" by the president's decision.

"The United States has long prided itself for being a beacon of human rights, for speaking out against atrocity, for confronting painful chapters of its own past and that of others," said Schiff. "This cannot be squared with a policy of complicity in genocide denial by the president or Congress."

The head of one of the Armenian-American groups briefed on the decision by White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes went further.

"President Obama's surrender to Turkey represents a national disgrace," said Ken Hachikian, the chairman of the Armenian National Council of America. "It is, very simply, a betrayal of truth, a betrayal of trust." Hmmmmm.......Sorry but he's just a pathological liar, and won't upset his 'Islamist brother'.




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Video - Samantha Power on Obama and Armenian Genocide.



Pulitzer Prize winning author and renowned anti-genocide crusader Samantha Power has taped a powerful 5-minute video reviewing Presidential hopeful Barack Obama's support for Armenian issues, and encouraging Armenian Americans to vote for him in the upcoming primaries, reported the Armenian National Committee of America.

In the video, issued earlier today and circulated widely by the ANCA, Power praises Senator Obama's "willingness to challenge conventional wisdom and conventional Washington." She reminded viewers that the Armenian American community "knows better than anybody, business as usual in Washington leads to certain bad habits that are destructive for human rights and human dignity."

She recounted Senator Obama's record on issues of special concern to Armenian Americans, including his "very forthright statement on the Armenian Genocide; his support for the Senate Resolution acknowledging the Genocide; his willingness as President to commemorate it and call a 'spade a spade'; and to speak the truth about it..." as important considerations in the Armenian-American community's decision to vote for Sen. Obama on Feb. 5 and beyond.

Samantha Power, who won the Pulitzer Prize for her seminal work on U.S. response to genocide, titled "A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide" has been a leading activist working to end the ongoing genocide in Darfur and in building a stronger anti-genocide constituency in the United States. Source and HT to :

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Hmmmm.......2015:    "I Lied."


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Video - The Cry Unheard - Genocide of the Assyrian People.





October 1914 
Turkish troops and Kurdish tribesmen invade and plunder the villages of Urmia.
January 2-10, 1915
Plundering and destruction of seventy of Urmia's villages, massacres in the plains. Unknown number casualties. "There was absolutely no human power to protect these unhappy people from the savage onslaught of the invading hostile forces. It was an awful situation. At midnight the terrible exodus began; a concourse of 25,000 men, women, and children, Assyrians and Armenians, leaving cattle in the stables, all their household hoods and all the supply of food for winter, hurried, panic-stricken, on a long and painful journey to the Russian border, enduring the intense privations of a foot journey in the snow and mud, without any kind of preparation...It was a dreadful sight,...many of the old people and children died along the way." (The Death of a Nation, pp. 119-120)
Statement of German Missionaries
"The latest news is that four thousand Assyrians and one hundred Armenians have died of disease alone, at the mission, within the last five months. All villages in the surrounding district with two or three exceptions have been plundered and burnt; twenty thousand Christians have been slaughtered in Armenia and its environs. In Haftewan, a village of Salmas, 750 corpses without heads have been recovered from the wells and cisterns alone. Why? Because the commanding officer had put a price on every Christina head.... In Dilman crowds of Christians were thrown into prison and driven to accept Islam." (The Death of a Nation, pp. 126-127)
Urfa (Urhai)
Twenty years after the harsh memories of the New Years massacres, the new Assyrian inhabitants relived history when they were ordered to surrender their weapons to the Ottomans and Kurds. Cognizant of their recent history, they refused to comply with the Ottoman demand. The Ottoman army, under the leadership of two German officers and armed with heavy artillery, attacked and destroyed the fort (Qalaa) and its Assyrian and Armenian inhabitants. Fortunately, few did survive when the attack ceased at the government's behest to pardon the Christians.
February 23, 1915
More than sixty Assyrian notables were taken from the French mission and shot by Turkish troops. Among these was Mar Dinkha, a bishop of the Assyrian Church. "Here, then, in the ancient city of Tebarma, the scene of many previous martyrdoms, an Assyrian bishop is being led to be executed. He was not alone. He had a large company of his Christian brethren with him. What Mar Shimun Bar Sabaee, the first Assyrian Patriarch had done, during the persecution of Shapur the Magi, in the fourth century, was now to be gloriously repeated by another bishop of his church in the twentieth century. The Moslems had established a rule in asking of their victims to deny Christ and embrace Islam in order to save their lives. But weaker men and women than this body of prisoners had already chosen to be burned alive, and to be cut to pieces with aces, then deny their Redeemer! 'Be brave, take courage, be patient, falter not, be firm and look up. In a few moments we will be with Christ!' With such words he encouraged his companions in bonds, till they reached the end of their fatal journey, where they were all shot to death." (The Flickering Light of Asia, pp.49-51.)
February 25, 1915
Turkish and Kurdish troops attacked the village of Gulpashan, one of the most prosperous villages of Urmia. Almost all of the men ware shot, and most of the women were violated. March 5, 1915 About 800 Assyrians who remained in Salamas, most of whom were old people, with some of the poorer and younger women, were gathered together and killed. April, 1915 Massacre in Gawar and other districts in Turkey. The number of martyrs is unknown.
1915 Tel Mozilt
Twenty years later, the Turkish saviors of 1895 were now the attackers of the 600 Assyrian homes in cooperation with neighboring Kurdish tribes. After capturing the city, they took all the men they found between the ages of 12 and 70, a total of 475, and imprisoned them.
The next morning, the prisoners were taken out in rows of four and shot. After some arguments between the Kurds and the Turkish officials on what to do with the young boys and girls left behind, the army decided to slay them as well. Approximately 1,500 children, among them Reverend Gabrial (the red-bearded priest), were murdered. Agha Ayoob Hamzah personally butchered the Priest. (Gorgis, Deacon Asman Alkass, Jirah Fi Tarikh Al-syrian, Trans. Subhi Younan. 1980. pp. 24).
March 5, 1915
Turkish and Kurdish troops attacked their village of Gulpashan, one of the most prosperous villages of Urmia. Almost all of the men were shot, and most of the women were violated.
April 1915
Massacre in Gawar and other districts in Turkey. The number of martyrs is unknown.
June, 1915
The Vali of Mosul begins attacks on the highlanders and destroys lower Tyari. The number of martyrs is unknown.
Massacres at Sairt
Djeudet Bey, Military Governor of Van, upon entering Sairt with 8,000 soldiers whom he himself called the "The Butchers' Battalion" (Kassab Tabouri), gave orders for the massacre of the Assyrians. "The Chaldean-Assyrian diocese of Sairt comprises, exclusive of the Chaldean-Assyrians of the town, more than thirty villages, not to count a large number of other villages inhabited by Jacobite-Assyrians, of whose number we are ignorant. All these prosperous villages were pillaged, looted and burned, those who dwelt therein being put the sword." The following is an almost complete list with the number of Chaldean-Assyrians inhabitants who were massacred:
Sairt2000
Sadagh2000
Mar-Gourya1000
Guedianes500
Hadide1000
Redwan500
Dehok500
Ketmes1000
Der-Chemch200
Piros1000
Tentas500
Tellimchar1500
Telnevor500
Benkof200
Mar-Cmoune300
Harevena200
Der-Mar-Yacoub500
Bekend500
Ain-Dare200
Berke500
Archkanes500
Galwaye500
Goredj500
Artoun (Altaktanie)500
Der-Mazen300
Der-Rabban300
Charnakh200
Artoun1000
(Shall This Nation Die? pp. 122-123)
Eye-witness account of the Massacres: "A certain Youssouf, son of Kas Chaya, during this time had concealed himself in the Chaldean Cathedral. Driven out by hunger, the unfortunate man left his hiding place one night and came to a house, where his sister Marian was. That very night band of persecutors arrived. We all fled to the roof in terror. Youssouf, fearing for his life, hid himself under a mattress. One of the brigands, who was following us upstairs, discovered Youssouf. He pulled him from under the mattress, threatening him with death. Youssouf bravely make the sign of the cross and cried aloud: "Jesus, into you hands I commit my soul." He asked to see his little nephew, an only son among seven sisters, kissed him tearfully and bade us farewell. With us there was also a boy of twelve, called Fardjalla, who had escaped death on the first day, and whom we had hidden with our men. Worn out by the excessive heat he had come out and joined us. He. too, was seized and began to cry, screaming: "Oh, they are going to kill me." His sister called out to him: " Do not be frightened, dear, you will be happy in Heaven." The scoundrels then took the two poor Assyrian boys outside the house, and shot them before its very door." (Shall This Nation Die? pp. 133).
Winter 1915
It is estimated that during the winter of 1915, 4,000 Assyrians died from disease, hunger, and exposure, and about 1000 were killed in Urmia.


Much More can be read here
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Monday, April 18, 2011

MFS - The Other News


                       Afternoon Posting.


  • Live broadcast info from Japan directly ! Here.

  • Libya Live Blog - April 18. Here .(Al-Jazeera).

  • Updated !Earthquakes in the last 24 hours in the world low seismic activity in Japan  today between 4.5 and 4.7! More info here.


  • Japan - Latest official Situation Update No. 89..Source : Here .






  • Thousands attend Syria protesters' funerals.Mourners call for overthrow of President Assad a day after at least 30 demonstrators were killed by security forces.Tens of thousands of Syrians have attended the funerals for protesters killed in the central city of Homs, chanting slogans demanding the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad, the country's president.Rights activists say security forces killed at least 25 pro-democracy protesters in Homs on Sunday night as anti-government demonstrations flared across the country, claiming up to 30 lives.Witnesses said mourners chanted "From alleyway to alleyway, from house to house, we want to overthrow you, Bashar," and "Either freedom or death, the people want to topple this regime".The protest was the largest to hit the strategically important city, Syria's third largest, since protests in the country began one month ago.A protester told Al Jazeera that the first killing took place after evening prayers on Sunday when a group of around 40 demonstrators gathered outside the Bab al-Sibaa mosque chanting "freedom".The protester, who gave his name as Abu Haider, said seven cars pulled up to the protesters and men in civilian clothes jumped out and opened fire on the crowd without warning."First we were calling for reforms, now we're calling for regime change," he said. "No one will accept the death of the martyrs."Al Jazeera's correspondent Rula Amin, in Damascus, reported that the situation in Homs was very tense on Monday."People are complaining that many of the wounded are not going to the hospital, they fear that the security forces will pick them up from their hospital bed," she said."There is also a shortage of blood according to the people we have been talking to."People are concerned that clashes might erupt following the [funeral] processions."She said there was also tension in the nearby town of Talbiseh, where five of the deaths occurred."The government says that gunmen had been going near the highway blocking the road."When security forces went to control the situation, they were attacked by the gunmen. One policeman was killed and another one injured, and three gunmen were killed."The government and the opposition were trading blame over the heightened tensions and deadly clashes.The Damascus Declaration, an opposition umbrella group, called for peaceful protests in all cities and abroad to "bolster Syria's popular uprising and ensure its continuity".In a statement posted on its website, the Damascus Declaration said the government was responsible for killing and wounding hundreds of Syrians who have been exercising their legitimate rights in the past month."The regime alone stands fully responsible for the blood of martyrs and all that will happen next in the country,'' the statement said.Hmmmm.....And another one bites the dust?How long before Iran intervenes?Read the full story here.




  • "The War On Christianity".Muslim intimidation of Christians in Nazareth before Easter.(ElderofZion).This is Easter week, so the media is doing their annual stories about how Israel is supposedly restricting some Christians from coming to Jerusalem. I received an interesting email from commenter Womble last Tuesday. Here's what he wrote:
I’ve just returned from a trip to the north of Israel, focused mostly on Christian holy places, and I’ve taken some photos.This photo was taken in Nazareth this morning. It shows the banner which greets any Christian pilgrim or tourist who wants to visit the Christian places of worship in the city.If you want to get to the Church of the Annunciation or to the Synagogue Church, there’s literally no way to get there without being confronted with this warning to embrace Islam or else. (The building on the right is the Church of the Annunciation; this way you can see the proximity). My guess is that it is the work of the local branch of the Islamic Movement, whose offices are located nearby.However, I cannot identify the logo in the upper left corner of the banner, so I can’t be absolutely sure if it’s the Islamic Movement or some other, less known, organization doing it.I think that Womble is right and this is the Islamic Movement of Nazareth.Either way, here is a little seen side of how Muslims feel free to intimidate and bully Christians in the Middle East - and even in Israel.Hmmmm........Of course no word from the self confessed "Christian" President.Read and see the full story here.




  • GOP Rep. Tom Reed Wants Debt Clock Displayed in House Chamber: “We’re Borrowing $58,000 Per Second”. (TheHill).Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) last week introduced a resolution that would place a clock measuring the U.S. debt in the House chamber as a “visual gesture” that reminds members of the need to reduce spending.“We are currently borrowing $58,000 per second,” Reed said last week. “We borrow at least forty cents of each dollar we spend. That is unsustainable. The debt clock will be a distinct reminder that our national debt must always be our first consideration as we continue to spend money that we do not have.”Reed noted that the total U.S. debt reached $1.5 trillion in the U.S.’s first 193 years, but said the country will add that much in red ink in the current fiscal year.“The voters of the 29th district of New York elected me to get our spending and borrowing under control,” Reed said. “We must never lose sight of that fact that our children and grandchildren will quite literally pay tomorrow for the decisions made today.”Hmmmm......"Herr Obama" Doesn't care much about Congress their worries.Read the full story here.



  • China Is About to Suffer a Banking Crisis.It is ironic that China is demanding greater control of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, just as the nation’s banking system is about to be devastated by the white hot flames of inflation.From a distance, China’s economy seems to be the poster child of sustainable growth. Recent government reports show the economy expanding by 9.7%, retail sales up a blistering 17.4%, foreign reserves at $3 trillion, and inflation only 5.4%. But these statistics mask a dark side; Chinese communist authorities have been artificially holding down fierce inflationary pressures by subsidizing consumer prices.Over the last six months the government artificially restricted increases in retail food prices to 11%, while wholesale commodity food prices have jumped by 35%. In the last two months the government capped retail gasoline price increases at 10%, even as Middle East turmoil caused crude oil prices to leap by over 30%.Most Americans believe that the secret-weapon of the “China Economic Miracle” has been currency manipulation of Chinese yuan’s exchange rate with the U.S. dollar. In the past two years as Asian economies and foreign exchange reserves expanded dramatically, the yuan gained only 4.6% versus the dollar. This modest rise compares currency gains of 31% for the Indonesian rupiah, 22% for the South Korean won, and 21%for the Singapore dollar. China has subsidized its exporters by recycling its export earnings back into over-valued U.S. dollars. The strategy makes China’s exports more competitive, but at the cost of spiking inflation at home.The less known and far more important secret-weapon of the “China Economic Miracle” is the absolute control of the banking industry by China’s four largest state-owned banks (“SOB”); Industrial and Commercial Bank, Agricultural Bank, People’s Bank of China and Construction. Since the government does not provide adequate social welfare programs and restricts its citizen’s investment options to bank accounts, about 40% of Chinese household income is deposited in SOBs each month. The SOBs then leverage the deposits by ten times and loan 75% of this massive amount of cash at extremely low interest rates to state-owned-enterprises (“SOE”). The other 25% of lending is allocated to real estate development.China is no stranger to bankers making risky loans to communist party officials and their crony real estate developers. During the Asian Financial Crisis of the mid-1990s, it is estimated that 40% of all SOB loans were non-performing and most were written off. The Chinese paid for the SOB losses with a 76% devaluation of their currency that crushed the people’s buying-power by 76%. From 1997 to 2004 Chinese frivolous lending was somewhat restrained, but since 2003 the bureaucrats have mandated a massive expansion of lending. In comparison to the U.S. and Europe where bank lending is flat, SOBs have been expanding loans by 25% annually.The Chinese officials like to present an image of their population as very industrious, but also stoic and reserved. But with the real estate bubble bursting, banks stuffed with non-performing loans, interest rates rising and inflation raging, the flames of social protest may soon ignite. Fitch Ratings just lowered China’s AA- sovereign credit rating to “negative” from “stable”; citing a “high likelihood of a significant deterioration” in banks’ asset quality within three years. Credit rating agencies also like to present a stoic and reserved image; but this eloquent language is actually code words for “duck and cover”.China may have achieved the fastest economic growth in world history, but that growth has been powered by currency manipulation and an exponential growth of risky bank lending. The Chinese authorities have been shielding their citizens from the inflationary effect of their strategies through subsidies paid for with more bank lending. Now that inflation is out of control and the Chinese government to trying to shrink lending; the mother of all banking crisis is looming!Read the full story here.



  • Letter: Arabs brainwashed against Israel.Iraqi man sends letter to Foreign Ministry saying Hamas has made him ashamed of being Arab.The Foreign Ministry's Arabic-language website received a letter Saturday from a repentant Iraqi man who says he and his fellow citizens have been "brainwashed against Israel".The man added that Hamas's recent attacks on Israeli civilians have caused him "shame" for being an Arab and a Muslim. "For a long time we believed that Israelis are dangerous barbarians due to the brainwashing we underwent during Saddam (Hussein)'s rule but now I see (Arabs) being massacred in a wretched and shameful manner by Sunni and Shiite rulers," the letter says.The letter was published by the Foreign Ministry on its Arabic-language website, which is accessed by web users worldwide.The writer went on to say that his epiphany had come after he witnessed Israeli doctors treating a Palestinian girl. "What caught my attention was the Israeli hospital that treated the Palestinian girl who suffered from a cancerous growth. I also watched the movie about the Jewish pianist who suffered greatly in the time of Hitler," he wrote, apparently referring to 'The Pianist'.The man said he has begun to study Jewish history, and that he hopes to eventually be able to visit Israel "in order to defeat the fear instilled in me due to the brainwashing that Israelis are barbarians and their country a terror state"."After seeing the terror in Iraq and the terror Hamas and Palestinians are performing against you I have become ashamed of being an Arab and Muslim," the man wrote. "I would be honored to collaborate with your firms in Iraq."Hmmmm.......Jesus said "...you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." John 8:32.Read the full story here.




  • HT:VladtepesBlog.Two middle eastern men trashed bibles in ‘multifaith’ prayer rooms at Ottawa Airport Friday April 15 2011.Why am I posting this unsubstantiated story? Because all the mass media has abandoned its role as informants and purveyors of news and instead, has become fabricators of opinion, making sure that nothing bad Muslims do reaches our understanding while exagerating anything anyone else might do, especially if Muslims are made uncomfortable by it. So I am left with no choice. When someone claims something was done, I know for a fact that by the time the news reports it, if it ever reports it, that it is likely no longer relevant. So I have to take the word of people who say they have seen things.From the Lowel Green show, CFRA AM radio, Monday April 18 2011.Source.





  • Elie Wiesel resigns from the "Genocide Institute Canada," dissociates himself from Emir Ramic.(BalkanStudies).“Elie Wiesel cannot sit together with Emir Ramic in the same organization. He does hereby resign from the ‘International Team of Experts’ of the Institute for the Research of Genocide Canada. Thank you, and please do confirm receipt of this message.”This terse note, sent by the Elie Wiesel Foundation to the Bosnian-Muslim “Institute” on April 14, is a welcome and long overdue development. Professor Wiesel is to be commended for dissociating himself from Emir Ramic and all that he and his Jihadist cohorts stand for. This fraudulent disinformation outfit now stands unmasked for what it is and terminally discredited.

JULIA GORIN WRITES: Professor Wiesel and his foundation are to be commended for the integrity and courage they have demonstrated by this act. All the more since the political fallout and pressure against him now — including, potentially, by senior government officials and other prominent types around the world — may be immense. For background on the ghastly Emir Ramic and his Bosnian-Canadian “genocide institute,” please see the summary by Srdja Trifkovic, whose persecution and expulsion from Canada at the behest of Ramic’s institute prompted the latter’s own exposure by me and others.whether it was my Feb. 28th letter to the Wiesel Foundation’s director Daniel Schwartz that called their attention to what was going on and what the Institute was at its core, or whether Professor Wiesel and his staff found out about it from the above-linked articles.Elie Wiesel has shown character and taken a stand. As Stefan Karganovic, of the Srebrenica Historical Project wrote me upon hearing the news: “It was clear to me from the start that he was bamboozled by Bosnian Moslems and had no idea what they were doing and advocating over his name.”[The] Bosnian Muslim group “Institute for Research of Genocide of Canada” has hailed Canada’s decision to bar Dr Srdja Trifkovic from holding a lecture there, however, more evidence is emerging that this Bosnian Muslim group has ties with violent Jihad.…Some of the authors and “analysts” in [Korak] are former Bosnian Muslim officials that were instrumental in issuing citizenship to foreign-born al-Qaeda and in weapons smuggling from Iran into Bosnia which opened doors to infiltration of Iranian agents in the region.A notable figure in Ramic’s magazine is Enes Ljevakovic, whose brother Irfan Ljevakovic is on the supervisory board of the Third World Relief Agency (TWRA) that has been mentioned by the CIA Report on NGOs With Terror Links.Irfan Ljevakovic is wanted for questioning by the Austrian government for recruiting Jihadists in Austria to go fight in Bosnia. According to a Washington Post report “Bosnian sources said [Irfan] Ljevakovic is one of several influential officials protecting the Islamic fighters who remain in Bosnia in violation of the Dayton peace accord”.Now, Irfan Ljevakovic is the youngest among 5 Ljevakovic’s – oldest Zijad, then Ekrem, Advan, Enes and Irfan – and all of them have been instrumental in the formation of the Izetbegovic extremist government in some form or fashion. Politically managed by Zijad, Enes’s role in Jihad has been to provide intellectual foundation for worldwide “stealth” Jihad.Ramic, who is on the editorial board of Korak, had to have approved Enes’ declaration that “Jihad is a just and legitimate fight against aggression and a struggle in protection of human rights and freedoms”. (Džihad je ravedna i legitimna borba protiv agresije i ulaganje napora u zaštitii odbrani ljudskih prava i sloboda)Ramic also had to have approved a text posted on the “Institute” web site in which Ramic’s intellectual mate, Dr. Josip Pecaric, claims that the WWII genocide of Serbs, Jews and Roma in Croatia’s Jasenovac death camp is “Serbian propaganda“. Some of the Nazi guards were Bosnian Muslims at Jasenovac. On Facebook, Ramic is also a member of a group called “Thank Allah I’m not Serbian” which has a burning Serbian and Israeli flag as a group picture.The facebook group is no longer accessible and I was unable to find a cached version, but Trifkovic had confirmed its previous existence before mentioning it in his article. Indeed, a massive “clean-up” is underway at the Institute, which has also removed its libelous Muslim-rape testimonials about the respected Canadian former UN general Lewis MacKenzie.Hmmmm.......Erdogan"Muslims don't commit genocide".Read the full story here.





  • HT:GatesofVienna.“We Will Conquer The Netherlands” .On April 4, 2011, Sharia4Holland and Sharia4Belgium posted two videos threatening Geert Wilders. Or rather, according to the mujahid who gave the lecture, his statements were “warnings”. Even so, the example of Theo Van Gogh was invoked repeatedly as one that Mr. Wilders should remember.You’ll notice the striking resemblance between the unnamed Muslim in this video and the infamous Anjem Choudary. Since Sharia4Holland is a franchise of one of Mr. Choudary’s groups — now banned in the UK — perhaps the likeness is no accident.Our Dutch correspondent Penseur tells us that on the PVV website, a discussion about these videos included the following comment from a jihad expert (Penseur’s translation):
The invitation to convert is, according to a jihad expert in the intelligence world, a serious indication that there are plans to attack the politician (Geert Wilders):

“The Koran prescribes that before you are going to attack an individual, a country or a region, you should warn beforehand that you are going to attack, and that the target still gets some time to convert. Osama bin Laden did so two months before 9/11. Such a warning was also given two months before the attacks in London and Madrid, as well as two months before the German elections, but in that case an extensive terror group was arrested in time.”Hmmmm.....The Religion of peace.Read the full story here.




  • Obama, the Interpreter of the Message of Passover.Passover recalls the bondage and suffering of Jews in Egypt and the miracle of the Exodus, but U.S. President Barack Obama says its message is reflected in Muslim uprisings.In his annual message, prior to his third straight participation in the Passover Seder, President Obama stated, “The story of Passover…instructs each generation to remember its past, while appreciating the beauty of freedom and the responsibility it entails. This year that ancient instruction is reflected in the daily headlines as we see modern stories of social transformation and liberation unfolding in the Middle East and North Africa.”Having constructed a link between the Arab uprisings and Chosen People's experiencing the miracles of the Creator that led them out of Egypt and towards the receiving of the Ten Commandments, the President concluded, "As Jewish families gather for this joyous celebration of freedom, let us all be thankful for the gifts that have been bestowed upon us, and let us work to alleviate the suffering, poverty, injustice, and hunger of those who are not yet free.”For good measure, he also added the Hebrew term “Chag Samayach,” which means “Have a happy holiday.”Hmmmm......How deeply he must hate the Jews to connect their Passover to the Muslims..Read the full story here.





  • The Mystery of Barack Obama Continues.By Steve Baldwin.Most Americans don’t realize we have elected a president whom we know very little about.Researchers have discovered that Obama’s autobiographical books are little more than PR stunts, as they have little to do with the actual events of his life. The fact is we know less about President Obama than perhaps any other president in American history and much of this is due to actual efforts to hide his record. This should concern all Americans.A nation-wide network of researchers has sprung up to attempt to fill in the blanks, but at every opportunity Obama’s high-priced lawyers have built walls around various records or simply made them disappear. It is estimated that Obama’s legal team has now spent well over $1.4 million dollars blocking access to documents every American should have access to. The question is why would he spend so much money to do this?The president who campaigned for a more “open government” and “full disclosure” will not unseal his medical records, his school records, his birth records or his passport records. He will not release his Harvard records, his Columbia College records, or his Occidental College records—he will not even release his Columbia College thesis. All his legislative records from the Illinois State Senate are missing and he claims his scheduling records during those State Senate years are lost as well. In addition, no one can find his school records for the elite K-12 college prep school, Punahou School, he attended in Hawaii.What is he hiding? Well, for starters, some of these records will shed light on his citizenship and birth.More recently, it was discovered that Obama’s Selective Service card may have been doctored. Federal law requires all American males to register for the Selective Service (the draft) in case a major war broke out. Blogger Debbie Schlussel has discovered solid evidence that Obama’s Selective Service registration form was submitted not when he was younger as required, but rather in 2008 and then altered to look older. Indeed, the forgers forgot to alter the “Document Location Number” which shows that it is clearly a 2008 form. This is fraud and it’s a felony and Schlussel allegations are backed up by Stephen Coffman, a former high-ranking Federal agent. Moreover, the document shows a September 4th, 1980 date and the location of the transaction as Hawaii, but at that time Obama was thousands of miles away attending Occidental College in Los Angeles.The real reason why Obama probably did not submit this form as a teenager is that he assumed his Kenyan or Indonesian citizenship exempted him from this requirement. But clearly, as he grew older and entered politics, he saw that any documents revealing a foreign birth – Selective Service registration, birth certificate, school applications, etc – would be problematic if he ran for the presidency. Thus, it is not a coincidence that every document which contains information about his birth or citizenship is either missing, sealed, or has been altered.Indeed, everywhere one looks into Obama’s background, we find sealed records, scrubbed websites, altered documents, deception and unanswered questions. Can anyone imagine for a second if John McCain or George Bush had blocked access to his school, medical, and birth records? It would have been headlines but as with everything else concerning Obama, the media has given him a pass on this.Of all these marvels, the latest mystery and probably most perplexing is that of Obama’s social security number. It appears that Obama has multiple identities in term of possessing numerous social security numbers. Orly Taitz, an attorney who has filed numerous suits against Obama regarding his eligibility to serve as president, appears to be the first to discover this. In her suit, representing a number of military officers who are refusing to serve under an ineligible commander in chief, she hired private investigator Neil Sankey to conduct research on Obama’s prior addresses and Social Society numbers. Using Intelius, Lexis Nexis, Choice Point and other public records, Sankey found around 25 Social Security numbers connected with Obama’s name.In Obama’s home state, Illinois, Sankey tracked down 16 different addresses for a Barack Obama or a Barack H. Obama, of which all are addresses he was known to have lived at. Two Social Security numbers appear for these addresses, one beginning with 042 and one starting 364.In California, where Obama attended Occidental College, there are six addresses listed for him, all within easy driving distance of the college. However, there are three Social Security numbers connected to these addresses, 537 and two others, each beginning with 999.There are no addresses listed in New York where he attended Columbia University, but there is one listed for him in nearby Jackson, NJ, with a Social Security number beginning with 485.In Massachusetts – where Obama attended Harvard Law School – we find three addresses, all using the 042 Social Security number. After Obama was elected to the United States Senate in 2005, he moved into an apartment at 300 Massachusetts Ave NW; the Social Security number attached to that address is the 042 one. Yet, three years later, Obama used a different Social Security number for an address listed as: 713 Hart Senate Office Building. This was the address of his United States Senate office. This Social Security number began with 282 and was verified by the government in 2008.This mystery grows even stranger as other addresses and Social Security numbers for Barack Obama appear in a dozen other states not known to be connected to him. Again, I am excluding those records names not spelled exactly like his name.

Tennessee, one address with a Social Security number beginning with 427

Colorado, one address, with a Social Security number beginning with 456.

Utah, two addresses, with two Social Security numbers beginning with 901 and 799.

Missouri has one address and one Social Security number beginning with 999.

Florida has two addresses listed for his him, three if you count one listed as “Barry Obama.” One is connected to a Social Security number beginning with 762.

In Georgia there are three addresses listed for him, all with different Social Security numbers: 579, 420,and 423.

In Texas there are four different addresses listed for him, one is connected to Social Security number 675.

There are two addresses listed for Barack Obama in Oregon and one address listed for him in the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, South Carolina, and Pennsylvania.All told, there are 49 addresses and 16 different Social Security numbers listed for a person whose name is spelled “Barack Obama.” In some cases, the middle initial “H” is listed. If you were to expand the search to include closely related names such as: “Barac,” “Barak,” and “Barrack” Obama, you would find more than a dozen additional addresses and Social Security numbers.While the private investigator who compiled this list says multiple social security numbers does not automatically prove there’s criminal activity involved, he states that “having said that, I have personally experienced many, many cases where such information has led to subsequent exposure of fraud, deception, money laundering and other crimes.“What is interesting to note is that Obama’s grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, was a volunteer at the Oahu Circuit Court probate department and had access to the Social Security numbers of deceased people.Hmmmm....."We invented all kinds of ways to obtain false identity papers, and got busy building multiple sets of ID for each of us and for every contingency," writes Bill Ayers of his years in the Weather Underground. "We soon figured out that the deepest and most foolproof ID had a government-issued Social Security card at its heart."Read the full story here.




  • Freak mentality.(Hurriyetdailynews).The bold, bald and ever-angry tall man having absolute powers degreed while touring the city like the commander of an invading enemy: This freak monument must be removed!Who could dare to say a word and explain to the man with eagle-eyes the need to see a world further than his obsessive Islamist perspective?How could his most able advisors or the vizier for cultural and tourism affairs stop flattering the bold, bald and ever-angry tall man with absolute powers for his always wise decisions and say “Your Divine Highness, you rightly said that the monument is a freak one, but like colors or taste, art is relative as well. What you may perceive as “freak” might be a great work of art for someone else. As a country wishing to join in and indeed eventually capture that club of the infidels boasting with its democratic values and norms, perhaps we should talk less about the prohibitions of our religion regarding art… Look, immediately the club of the infidels and their collaborators at home has started reminding people what happened to the gigantic Buddha statues in Afghanistan during the Taliban rule…”But, was not Turkey a secular country?Yes, Turkey was a secular country but the monument that angered the bold, bald and ever-angry tall man with absolute powers was being erected at a location not only visible from almost at all corners of Kars, but indeed very close to an Islamist shrine. Furthermore, the construction of the “Humanity Monument” was originally planned to symbolize peace and brotherhood between Turkish and Armenian peoples. All such hopes for a quick fix in Turkish-Armenian relations started to fast fade. The monument was so huge that it indeed shadowed the nearby Islamist shrine, and thus was totally unacceptable for the bold, bald and ever-angry tall man with absolute powers.Come on, don’t raise eyebrows and question the place of shrines in Islam, a religion that strictly prohibited believers from seeking any divine help dead or alive from any other source than the almighty Allah. After all, religion is something, religious culture is something else. Turks of course have been predominantly Muslim for centuries but obviously they did not convert to Islam one day like moving from one house to another. They carried at least some of their shamanist beliefs, traditions, values, norms and symbols to their new religion and forged what we call today the Anatolian school of Muslim culture.Spitting in art or simply erasing art has become an expertise of this government of advanced democratic understanding. Naturally, getting millions of votes, winning an overwhelming majority of parliamentary seats and acquiring absolute powers, are just not enough to grasp the reality that what might be a freak for you, might be worth a standing ovation for others.Yesterday, the monument condemned by the bold, bald and ever-angry tall man with absolute powers of this advanced democracy started to be demolished.Hmmmm......Erdogan "Muslims don't commit Genocide".Read the full story here.




  • 'What about burning poppies?': Court outburst of man jailed 70 days for setting Koran alight.(DailyMail).A man has been jailed for 70 days today after he burnt a copy of the Koran just over a month after a Muslim got away with a paltry £50 fine for a similar offence.Andrew Ryan, 32, stole a copy of the holy book from Carlisle Library then set it on fire by a monument in the city of Carlisle.Last month Emdadur Choudhury was fined after he burned a poppy outside the Royal Albert Hall in London on Remembrance Day while shouting 'British soldiers burn in hell'.As he was led down to the cells, Ryan shouted at the judge at Carlisle Magistrates' Court today: 'What about burning poppies?'.Sentencing him at Carlisle Magistrates' Court, District Judge Gerald Chalk said: 'This is a case of theatrical bigotry. It was pre-planned by you as you stole the book deliberately. You went out to cause maximum publicity and to cause distress.'He told Ryan that people were entitled to protest but not in the manner he chose. The court heard the defendant had six public order convictions between 2002 and 2010 including racial chanting at a football match and assault with intent to resist arrest.Ryan pleaded guilty to religiously aggravated harassment and theft at an earlier hearing. Prior to the hearing, a Facebook page created by the 'English Defence League Carlisle Division' urged visitors to support 'Division Member' Ryan in his court appearance.Around 10 men sat in the public gallery but walked out when District Judge Chalk announced the sentence. Comments of 'what a joke' and 'call that justice' were made as they left the courtroom.'He wants to make it clear that it was directed towards radical Islam such as the burning of poppies and flags.'He would certainly not want Muslim people to think he had problems with their beliefs.'Mr Ryan was brought up to respect the Armed Forces. Some members of his family were in the Armed Forces and he himself served in the Army between the ages of 16 and 20 in Northern Ireland.'What caused him to 'lose it' on that day was that he had been looking at a website which had shown radical people burning poppies and abusing British troops returning from abroad.'The defendant joined the library with the intention of borrowing the Koran but instead stole it. His solicitor said the incident was relatively short and he acted alone.Unemployed Ryan was also sentenced to 30 days in jail for the theft of the book, to run concurrently. Following sentencing, Inspector Paul Marshall, of Carlisle CID, said: 'Today's result shows how seriously we take hate crime in the county'.Read the full story here.







  • Holocaust survivors flock to soup kitchen.Colel Chabad hands out 2,000 packages ahead of Passover. 'State doesn't help,' says coordinator.Soup kitchens owned by Colel Chabad have been busy these past few days, with a constant line of some 300 senior citizens – with an average age of 85 – forming outside its Jerusalem location. The clientele, mainly Holocaust survivors who come equipped with carts and baskets, help each other select products and then load them onto buses for the ride home. Most of the senior citizens are from the former Soviet Union, survivors of World War II who are accustomed to doing without life's luxuries. They receive a pension of around $670 per month plus social security benefits."It's hard to live off of this," says 85-year old Anna, from Belarus. "During the war I lost nine family members in concentration camps, and now I live here alone and make due with my pension. After rent and other expenses I have NIS 160 ($47) left over for food." Vina Burneska, a 75-year old woman who immigrated to Israel from the Ukraine, recounted her tale. "I was seven years old when we ran away from the war. I remember walking long distances and being swollen from hunger," she said. "In Israel things are good, but there is not enough money. After paying rent I have NIS 200 ($58) for food and it's difficult to get by." Israel Lazerovitch, 88, told Ynet that his main hardship is with loneliness. "During the war I was in a concentration camp in Poland, where I was forced to work hard labor. I came to Israel with my wife, who has already passed away. It's hard to be alone, to cook alone, to be home with just four walls. But you get used to it," he said."I've been in this business 17 years and it appears the need is growing, and needy people multiplying. I don't expect help from the state anymore. There are some countries where the state offers solutions, but on the matter of handing out food this state is nonexistent," he said. Colel Chabad handed out around 2,000 food packages to Holocaust survivors throughout Israel on Sunday, a day before Passover eve. The organization also invited a number of senior citizens to its Seder."They want company," Blau explains. "These are lonely and solitary souls who live alone in their apartments. That's why it's very difficult for them to go places where they can meet other people."Hmmmm......Havent these people suffered enough?Read the full story here.




  • S&P Cuts U.S. Credit Ratings to Negative.Standard & Poor’s cut its ratings outlook on the U.S. to negative from stable while keeping its Triple-A rating on the world’s largest economy. “More than two years after the beginning of the recent crisis, U.S. policymakers have still not agreed on how to reverse recent fiscal deterioration or address longer-term fiscal pressures,” said Standard & Poor’s credit analyst Nikola G. Swann. U.S. stock futures plunged on the news, with Dow industrial futures falling 167 points.Hmmmm......If he wanted to destroy America would he do anything different?Read the full story here.



  • The Assyrian Genocide: a Product of Ottoman Jihad.(Aina).Ladies and Gentlemen

I belong to the Seyfo Center. 95 years after the genocide, Seyfo or Sepa has become a topical issue in the international arena and it is making headlines. It is now becoming a salient point in international political agendas. Until recently only the Armenian aspect of the genocide was known and most people were not aware that the entire Christian population of the then Ottoman Empire was subjected and suffered under the same genocidal policies of the Young Turks. This is a recognisable difference that I am talking about: it is the recognition and inclusion of the Assyrian and Greek genocide as part of the earlier known Armenian genocide. However, this genocide is yet to be called by its proper name, "Seyfo," in which Western Assyrian dialect it means "the sword."Seyfo was carried out in a true jihadist strategy, ethnically annihilating all the non-Muslim citizens living under the Ottoman occupation, with the objective of homogenizing Turkey with a notion of creating 'one-Nation' and 'one-Religion.' Most of the victims were killed by swords and it is precisely due to this fact that this genocide is known among our people as "Seyfo." This is how it was known by its victims, and this is how they passed it on to us with their eye-witness accounts which have become part and parcel of our collective memory. I would also like to iterate certain beliefs of mine to avoid any confusion. My knowledge on the subject, which is the Assyrian Genocide, is after all not unlimited, but I was born in Turkey, Turkish language is one of the ten languages I speak, and I know the Turkish policy very well and the reality of the Turkish state. The Assyrian Genocide was organized by the Ottoman Turks, and this is the reason I speak mostly about Assyrians and Turkey. This is not because my people from Urmi, Iraq and the rest of the world are less important to me. This is absolutely not the case. What is happening to our people in today's Iraq is terrible. I am very grateful for the efforts of the Assyrian Aid Society and similar organizations in providing aid to our people in Iraq and making their voices heard in America and the rest of the civilized world.Hmmmm......Erdogan "Muslims don't commit Genocide".Read the full story here.




  • Trains with hundreds of North African immigrants from Italy blocked by France.(Pravda).France on Sunday temporarily closed its southern borders to trains carrying hundreds of North African immigrants from Italy, evoking a strong response from Rome.The French government's move to block the trains from entering France through Menton had led to the trains being held up at the Italian border station of Ventimiglia for hours on Sunday, infuriating the Italian government, RTTNews reports.Italian officially complained against France's move and called on the French envoy in Paris to communicate the Italian government's strong disapproval to Paris.During an interview on Sunday, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said that the Tunisians had proper paperwork to enter France, and that France's move was "illegitimate and in clear violation of general European principles."Italy has been issuing temporary residential permits to thousands of migrants, permitting them to travel more freely in European countries.However, France says it will only support the migrants' entry if they can provide evidence that they are able to financially support themselves, according to Press TV.Read the full story here.




  • Pakistan: 2010 Another deadly, lawless, dangerous year.(AhmadiyyaTimes).2010 was another deadly year in Pakistan, and this year is likely to be worse, according to a report from the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), the country’s principal human rights watchdog."Pakistan's biggest problem continues to be violence carried out militants," HRCP chairman Mehdi Hasan said."In 2010, 67 suicide attacks were carried out across the country in which 1,169 people were killed. At least 1,000 of those were civilians."Hasan added that 2,542 people were estimated to have been killed in militant attacks in the country last year.HRCP described 2010 as a “particularly bad one for religious freedoms” in Pakistan, and warned that “worse times are in store”.
Among other items in the report:

*As many as 12,580 people were murdered, while 581 kidnappings for ransom and 16,977 cases of abduction were also reported.
*There were 37,088 cases of vehicle theft or snatching. Police recovered 60,884 illegal weapons.
*338 people were killed in police encounters. Only 28 ‘suspects’ were injured and captured alive.
*At least 174 people were rescued from illegal police detention.
*237 political activists and 301 other civilians were killed in targeted killings in Karachi.
*118 people were killed and 40 injured in 117 targeted killings in Balochistan. They included 29 non-Baloch settlers and 17 members of the Shia Hazara community. Bodies of 59 missing persons were found in the province.
*NGOs and human rights defenders faced threats and attacks because of their work.
*The death row population has grown to around 8,000, with nearly 6,000 death penalty convicts in Punjab alone.
*The authorized capacity of the country’s 91 prisons was 42,617 persons but 75,586 prisoners are being detained.
*Of the 12,980 detainees in jails across Sindh, 10,306 were under trial, while 33,809 of the 51,902 detainees in the prisons of Punjab were under trial.
*There were 931 women and 1,154 juvenile detainees in prisons across the country, most of them under trial.
*72 prisoners died in prisons across the country and another 157 were injured.
*356 people were sentenced to death, including seven women and one juvenile.
*20 journalists and media workers lost their lives in attacks and targeted killings.
*Security forces personnel subjected journalists to physical attacks,intimidation and arbitrary detention. Extremist militants and criminals hired by private individuals also harassed and assaulted them.Hmmmm......The country the Obama regime gave tens of Billions of Dollars.Read the full story here.
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