Meanwhile, Christian leaders in the West pursue “dialogue” with Muslim leaders, who smilingly tell them that they condemn the Muslim persecution of Christians, and that is that. The Muslim leaders don’t actually do anything to stop their coreligionists from committing acts like these, but everyone has a nice dinner and some coffee, and goes home feeling great. Not a thing is accomplished, of course, except the complicity of those Christian leaders, who happily accept the line that to speak out against this jihadist savagery would be “Islamophobic” and harm the “dialogue.” And so they stay silent, and forbid any honest discussion of what leads to incidents like this, and to the Muslim persecution of Christians in general.
A great many bishops have a great deal to answer for. All too often in the Church in the West these days, many bishops and priests are coddled, cossetted boys who have never held a real job, never had any real responsibility, have no idea of hardship, and are interested above all not in truth or self-sacrifice but in maintaining their comfort and privileges. They are soft, cowardly, weak, ignorant, and regally immune from being challenged in any way. They are as far from the Christian leaders who became saints and martyrs in the times of persecution as it is humanly possible to be.
“Jabhat al-Nusra blows up Armenian church in Deir el-Zour: A savage blow that echoes through Armenian history,” by Robert Fisk, the Independent, November 10, 2014 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
In the most savage act of vandalism against Syria’s Christians, Islamists have blown up the great Armenian church in Deir el-Zour, which is dedicated to the one and a half million Armenians slaughtered by the Turks during the 1915 genocide. All of the church archives, dating back to 1841 and containing thousands of documents on the Armenian Holocaust, were burned to ashes, while the bones of hundreds of genocide victims, packed into the church’s crypt in memory of the mass killings 99 years ago, were thrown into the street beside the ruins.
This act of sacrilege will cause huge pain among the Armenians scattered across the world – as well as in the rump state of Armenia which emerged after the 1914-1918 war, not least because many hundreds of thousands of victims died in death camps around the very same city of Deir el-Zour. Jabhat al-Nusra rebels appear to have been the culprits this time, but since many Syrians believe that the group has received arms from Turkey, the destruction will be regarded by many Armenians as a further stage in their historical annihilation by the descendants of those who perpetrated the genocide 99 years ago.
Turkey, of course, miserably claims there was no genocide – the equivalent of modern day Germany denying the Jewish Holocaust – but hundreds of historians, including one prominent Turkish academic, have proved beyond any doubt that the Armenians were deliberately massacred on the orders of the Ottoman Turkish government across all of modern-day Turkey and inside the desert of what is now northern Syria – the very region where Isis and its kindred ideological armed groups now hold. Even Israelis refer to the Armenian genocide with the same Hebrew word they use for their own destruction by Nazi Germany: “Shoah”, which means “Holocaust”….
AnneM says
Not surprised at all. Stuff like this is going to happen against Christians. We are dealing with a spiritual war here folks.
noellsq says
It is a shame that the the west cannot get it thru their thick skulls that Muslims lie are deceitful and cannot be tolerated to live among civilized humans. To destroy churches and things of beauty because they are not Muslim. Please lets do to them as they do to us destroy their Mosques.
TNT says
They will have to answer to Almighty God for this Robert! What turns my stomach is how they publicly announce to their congregations how, Almighty God and allah are both the same without knowing that, to make such claim is to denounce the Holy Trinity’s existance in the Christian faith. Ignorance is a curse. But appeasing the liberal mindset by turning a blind eye must be a righteous act as they slap their full bellies.
Meanwhile those that need our help desperately go on suffering! And by choosing to ignore it, makes them aiders of the terrorist. How large of a noise needs to resonate for their deaf ears to hear it? Will a earthquake off the rector scale do it? Christians are becoming extinct In the Middle East , will they awake once these souls have disappeared and our faith in the west starting in Europe, faces the same savage elimation?
The bleeding heart liberals are our biggest enemy at this time! They need to start bleeding for the slaughtered ! Instead of protecting the slaughter houses.
This must be so hard for you at times , getting the truth out there, while foolish liberals cursed with ignorance continue to back you into a corner,and keep you quiet, like everyone else out there trying to break this iron curtain of ignorance . Your going to be a champion like Pamela, Mr Shoebat, Mr Bill Warner , and many others someday, well you already are it’s just that, the west don’t fully know it yet.
Mary George says
This is not the first time Turkey and Turkey’s VERY GOOD FRIENDS have attacked Armenians. Turkey is very aptly named. They certainly are turkeys.
Champ says
More spam rubbish from “Christy” …would someone *please* take out the garbage!
Darren says
Are you allowed to post Christy without being accompanied by your husband and covered in a veil, just wondering. I suggest you put your Burka back on, since I’m not sure women are allowed to type on forums according to islam. I know in Saudi Arabia they can’t drive, so it wouldn’t be far fetched to assume devout muslim women can’t post without permission from their husband. Does your protector know you are posting on infidel websites? We might taint you with our infidel rays.
gravenimage says
“Cristy” has been spamming this same cut-and-paste Muslim apologia for weeks now.
gravenimage says
Syria: Islamic jihadists blow up church dedicated to victims of Armenian Genocide
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Under dhimmitude, an Infidel is not only not allowed to resist Muslim savagery against them, but is not even allowed to memorialize it.
And Christianity has a long and storied history in Deir al-Zour—”Deir” itself means “monastery”.
During the Armenian Holocaust, many of the death marches ended in Deir, and anyone who had survived the grueling ordeal was slaughtered.
And now Deir al-Zour is reportedly part of the Islamic State.
I pray that all the remaining Christians have been able to flee.
eib says
You have no sense of proportion.
Papa Whiskey says
Be it noted that Deir el-Zour was where the columns of Armenians who had not been slaughtered in Anatolia or cast into the Black Sea to drown were driven. Once there, they were butchered by Arab and Kurdish tribesmen. That’s where the bones came from. See Bat Ye’or, Vahakn Dadrian, Rouben Adalian, et al. for details.
Western Canadian says
If you really want to piss off this muslim who continues to dump her garbage here……. offer to pray for her soul, to Christ.
Darren says
ridicule works well too. Ridiculing the death cult known as islam is one way to shed light on the truth, on the plus side it’s fun to do and funny as well. You mise well enjoy yourself while debating stealth jihadists and their dhimmi slaves.
John Stefan Obeda says
Yes, we pray for you Christy. God the Father Who sent the Word made flesh into the world to save your soul from sin and eternal damnation bless you as God blessed Saul who was on his way to persecute more followers of the Way that lived in Damascus. But Jesus appeared to him and Saul was converted in due time and trusted in Jesus that Jesus was truly come from heaven, the promised Messiah Who died and rose from the dead. As Paul the apostle was saved from sin by God’s grace through faith in Jesus, Paul repenting of his sins , may you too Christy and many others with you also repent of your sins and trust in Jesus Who has come from heaven and Who atoned for your sins too so that you too will finally end up in heaven.
albert says
If we continue as we are, allowing our leaders to give more and more credence and power to muslim focus groups, giving way to sharia, criminalising “Islamophobia” and on and on, one day this kind of thing will be happening in western Europe and north America , the bones will be those of our descendants and we will all be wiped from the muslim world history. The world will be a terrible place full of Islamic barbarity. In that case perhaps global warming will be a good thing and Mother nature will destroy the moon god Allah and the earth will be cleansed of his stench.