More Islamic supremacist displacement of responsibility. If I ever meet an Islamic spokesmen who will acknowledge that Muslims have ever done anything wrong anywhere at any time or place, I will faint dead away. Once again here, Turkey is trying to make sure that the U.S. doesn't tell the truth about the Armenian genocide, which had numerous features of a classic jihad operation. And Obama, predictably, is carrying water for the Turks.
"Turkey warns US of Armenian resolution vote," from World Bulletin, December 21 (thanks to George):
Turkey's Embassy in Washington, D.C. has intensified lobbying efforts against a possible approval of an Armenian resolution at the U.S. House of Representatives that calls for the recognition of Armenian allegations over the the [sic] incidents of 1915 back in the Ottoman Empire.Diplomatic sources close to the ongoing efforts said Turkish Ambassador in Washington, D.C. Namik Tan personally telephoned Congress members to win their support against the resolution as the ambassador also called former U.S. secretaries of state and defense as well as national security advisors.
The Turkish Embassy also had contacted officials with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to have them exert pressure on Congress members and warn them over possible damage of the resolution on business relations between Turkey and the United States.
The resolution "H. Res. 252" --labelling the 1915 incidents which took place shortly before the fall of the Ottoman Empire as "genocide" -- was approved by the Foreign Relations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 23 against 22 last March.
The adoption of the resolution caused wide reaction in Turkey, which recalled its ambassador, who returned to Washington, D.C. a month later.
The resolution may come to the House floor on Tuesday on a call by Rep. Nancy Pelosi.
Actually, it didn't yesterday, but it may come to a vote today.
"Obama admin in touch with House"Meanwhile, Assistant Secretary of the U.S. State Department Philip Crowley said Monday that they were in touch with the U.S. House of Representatives regarding the Armenian resolution.
Speaking at a daily press briefing in Washington, D.C., Crowley said that the U.S. State Department had made their opposition to such a resolution clear in the past.
We are in touch with the House on the resolution, Crowley said....
I suppose that the arabs-pretending-that-they-are-not-arabs from the future sharia arab sultanate of Erdoganistan would be OK with a resolution acknowledging the Armenian Genocide, so long as it were based on a conspiracy theory blaming "da Joooooooz", and not a single Ottoman Turk, for it.
Of course Turkish muslims don't want the truth, they love lies. Their religion is one lies from the father of lies(SATAN)
One would think that the Turks would be boasting about the Armenian slaughter; Moslems generally do after they've killed a number of non-believers. Admitting to the genocide would give them tremendous status and bragging rights in the Moslem world. And it would comfort the present generation to know that their ancestors were in paradise, enjoying the 72 virgins (and the boys-like-pearls, mustn't forget them) because they had "killed in the name of Allah."
Of course, the only reason the Turks are trying to cover it up is because they want admission to the EU and they fear that greater public awareness of the genocide would reduce their chances. The rest of the Moslem world likely views such bowing and scraping before the infidels for the sake of material advantage as contemptible.
The koran teaches you nothing but lies how to lie, how to cheat, how to murder, how to treat women as chattel and how to say that a mass murderer pedophile is a prophet and a man of peace. No wonder the turks dont have the habit of listening to the truth, afterall the armenians were not muslims but infidel christians. Such a negation of history must be challenged.
I thought that foreign nations were to steer clear of Congressional and Senatorial influence
This attempt to deny the truth is a true disgrace
Notice how the government (and people) of Germany do not deny the Holocaust. But the Turks tie themselves in knots when anyone mentions "Armenian Genocide". For some reason, Islam has a great deal of trouble with the truth.
Wonder why?
Not to mention the period from 1894-96, when more than 100,000 Armenians were killed by the Ottomans. Additionally, another series of pogroms occurred in 1909.
It is believed that 1,500,000 Armenian people were killed
in the 1915 Genocide.
"The United States must recognize the events of 1915 to 1923, carried out by the Ottoman Empire, as genocide."
'The Bush Administration's refusal to do so is inexcusable."
-Barack Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcJjxOqgANM
[1] kowtowing to Moslems and Moslem countries,
[2] trying to quash any and all domestic criticism of Moslems and Moslem countries,
[3] fighting expensive wars to civilize Moslem countries,
[4] shoveling money at Moslem countries and domestic Moslem groups.
How strange that these policies of the Bush administration-- which could do nothing right according to the Leftist Dems -- have only been increased and intensified during BHO's reign.
I suppose if they pass this resolution, the US' use of their airbase in Turkey would be in jeopardy. Let's see if they do the right thing, or the convenient thing.
I seem to recollect the Herr Doktor Joseph Goebbels used to say," Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth" Bollox, it just becomes an even bigger lie.
The muslims in Turkey forever claiming it never happened cannot alter the fact that the genocide happened. Boy, are they stupid.
Wonder why Germans don't deny the Holocaust?
One reason: they lost the war and their crimes were documented for history. As I understand it, their children were taught what happened.
What history is taught in Turkic classrooms?
'What history is taught in Turkic classrooms?'
The history taught in Turkey sarts from somewhere around 200 BC (when the first Hun empire was founded in central Asia) and ends sharply at 1938 (Atatürk's death). The contemporary history is full of shames. As for the older part, only the victories and the virtues of the ancestors are told.
I have two comments.
First, we should stop using the strict figure of 1.5 million or so Armenians killed during the official Genocide, because if the Hamidian Massacres of 1894-96 and Adana Massacre of 1909 are added to the total, the number of Armenian dead approaches 2 million.
Second, it always confused me as to why Turkey should deny the Armenian Genocide. After all, no one alive today had anything to do with it. Then it hit me: it insults Islam. And Turkey wants to join the European Union. Everything is illuminated.
The Turkish Muslims in Australia also screeched and howled and leapt up and down to try to stop the construction - by members of the Assyrian Christian diaspora in Australia - of a memorial to the Assyrian Christians who in 1915 and also in the 1930s were mass-murdered by Muslims (that is, by Turkish Muslims, Kurdish Muslims, and Arab Muslims).
The Turkish government itself weighed in to threaten and bully the local municipal council which would approve or disapprove the building of the memorial.
To do them everlasting credit, neither the government of NSW (which, by the way, already has within the grounds of Parliament a memorial to the Armenians) nor the Fairfield City Council bowed to Muslim - including Turkish Muslim - threats.
The memorial was built.
And, this year, it was viciously vandalised by Turkish Muslims resident in Australia. Thus making plain exactly what kinds of people we have living among us.
For my Christian brothers and sisters of Armenia.
One of the most mesmerisingly beautiful songs ever written or sung on planet earth, and a song that I have loved ever since I first heard it, is a product of Armenian Christian culture. It is the traditional lullaby, chinar es, 'you are a plane tree'. Here it is, as performed by an Armenian opera singer...in Australia, in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, in Sydney.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHOJR2KdkWo
Whenever I hear it, I think that surely, sometimes, the women and children, the martyred saints of Armenia, stand before the throne of Heaven and sing it to the Lord, and all the hosts of heaven stand in silence to listen to them.
The Israeli lobby has helped their Turkish counterparts in blocking U.S Armenian Genocide recognition. I guess that must mean Israel lobbyists are Dhimmi enablers of Jihad.
Ebonystone wrote:
One would think that the Turks would be boasting about the Armenian slaughter; Moslems generally do after they've killed a number of non-believers.
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Well, of course. But as you note, Ebonystone, only if it is politic for Islam. It is still awkward for Turkey that so many Kaffirs are appalled by the Armenian genocide.
If—God forbid—Islam is ever in a position of global dominance, Turks will be crowing over the massacres of the Armenians, both for its own brutal sake, and as a warning to other Infidels.
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Mt. Davidson is the highest point of San Francisco, which is topped by a huge cross, which can be seen from most parts of the city when it is clear.
I don't believe this is widely known, but this cross is dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Armenian genocide:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2124/2173745802_f6afae416e.jpg
Here's the dedication plaque:
http://static.zooomr.com/images/7630983_4943ac026f_b.jpg
Here is a very foreshortened shot, with the hills of Marin beyond the Golden Gate in the background:
http://i.pbase.com/o4/03/15703/1/91871591.H3mCh3IY.davidson.jpg