My latest in PJ Media:
In reporting on the refusal of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Ankara) to vote for a House resolution condemning the Armenian Genocide, NBC News quoted Van Krikorian, the co-chair of the Armenian Assembly of America, saying that Omar’s “votes and actions…do not represent the best of American or Muslim values. Innocent people were and are being slaughtered, and there is a universal need to defend the victims of genocide and ethnic cleansing, not to stand with or defer to the murderers.”
Although his statement reflects the dominant view in the United States and all over the West about how Islam is really a cuddly religion of peace if you just get to know it, Van Krikorian is wrong. The Armenian Genocide was carried out in accord with “Muslim values,” and that may be why Ilhan Omar, who makes a public show of her devoutness in Islam by wearing the Sharia-mandated hijab, would not vote to condemn it. The History of Jihad from Muhammad to ISIS reveals the shocking truth about 1,400 years of jihad activity, including the genocide of Anatolia’s Christians.
In 1894, the Ottoman sultanate began massacring Armenians ruthlessly, committing mass rapes, killing even children, and burning Armenian villages. The chief dragoman (Turkish interpreter) of the British Embassy wrote that those who committed these atrocities were “guided in their general action by the prescriptions of Sheri [Sharia] Law. That law prescribes that if the ‘rayah’ [subject] Christian attempts, by having recourse to foreign powers, to overstep the limits of privileges allowed to them by their Mussulman masters, and free themselves from their bondage, their lives and property are to be forfeited, and are at the mercy of the Mussulmans. To the Turkish mind, the Armenians had tried to overstep these limits by appealing to foreign powers, especially England. They, therefore, considered it their religious duty and a righteous thing to destroy and seize the lives and property of the Armenians.”
The jihad against the Armenians went on even in Constantinople, after Armenian revolutionaries seized the Bank Ottoman in 1894. In retaliation, Muslim mobs for two days bludgeoned Armenians to death with cudgels wherever they found them. The British chargé in Constantinople wrote that the “Turkish mob” was aided by “a large number of softas [student of Islamic theology] and other fanatics…individuals wearing turbans and long linen robes rarely seen in this part of the town. They mostly carried clubs which had evidently been carefully shaped after a uniform pattern; some had, instead of these, iron bars…there is nothing improbable in the stories current that the clubs and bars…were furnished by the municipal authorities.”
There is much more. Read the rest here.
CogitoErgoSum says
The Armenians did not act the part of the good dhimmi, showing sufficient humble submission to the Muslims. Is this man saying that Koran 9:29 does not represent Muslim values? Huh?
william carr says
Excuse me but what are Muslim values again? Those enshrined in the sharia law perhaps? I will not bother to list them as everybody here knows them by now
Wellington says
Yes it does.
FYI says
omar’s beloved “prophet” muhammed was a self confessed
TERRORIST
“I have been made victorious through TERROR”
Sahih Bukhari 4:52:220
And a MASS MURDERER of Jews[ABU DAWUD 4390]as well as being an admitted LIAR[al tabari 6:111}
muslims are obliged to follow the sunnah of this “prophet”: a lying,mass-murdering terrorist.
muslim values are based on the immoral pagan Arab teachings of the ‘holy’ koran:murder,slavery,stealing,lying.
Omar subscribes to the koran,her pagan Arab god al LAH{“the BEST of deceivers” k3:54}and must follow the example of islam’s “prophet” so of course she could not denounce her own beliefs which would be the case if she acknowledged the Armenian Genocide.
omar’s “prophet” was a mass murderer.
somehistory says
I do not know Van Krikorian,. As far as I know, I have never heard of him before and never seen his photo. I knew nothing about the man until I read what he said about “moslim values.” The one thing I do know now is that he is a very foolish person.
He either does not “know” islam or he “knows” islam, but chooses to deny what he knows. Perhaps he just wanted to make points with moslims living in America…out of fear or something else. But, he showed either his ignorance of islam, or his willingness to lie for islam.
The Bible warns about “speaking about a matter” when one has “no knowledge” of it.
omar knows islam and its total lack of “values.” The creepy woman is a “rep” for islam and moslims and is not about to bring the wrath of her imam or family males down on herself by condemning something moslims have done. Esp when she would do the same things.
Roland says
Not only does his message misrepresent Islam, Mr. Krikorian’s appeasement will not work with Ilhan Omar. She must be condemned and forced out of office. Unfortunately, an Armenian spokesman must consider that many Armenian civilians still remain hostages in the Middle East.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Is Van Krikorian trying to ensure the safety of Armenians now living in Turkey – and Iran — by misrepresenting the faith? It is unlikely to work. He ought to have simply said: “We deplore Ilhan Omar’s vote, and the travesty of history it represents.”
Walter Sieruk says
About the Muslim politician ,Ilhan Omar , after her election to Congress she was thus was given a seat on the House of Foreign Affairs Committee where she has much influence to promote her Un-American Islamic ideas ,politics and polices upon America .
Omar with her foreign Islamic agenda she desire to impose on America which are in strong contrast to American ideas , values , politic and polices are a matter of concern .
With this type of insidious Islamic infiltration in the US government the wisdom of the former US President, Theodore Roosevelt, very much applies to this serious situation.
For in a speech President Roosevelt, rightly, declared “There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only one hundred percent Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.”
underbed cat says
This is the result of the promotion of fantasy Islam, taken as fact with no reality involved. This is very dangerous. Ignorance is deadly.
underbed cat says
Shift just had a clip on the tragedy of the Armenian genocide and gave a moving speech, but referred only to the Ottoman empire, it seems he was very moved, I wonder if he talked to Omar the expert of her religion? Stating we must not let this happen again nearly in tears…….so Mr. Schift why do you allow this build up and open borders in the U.S..? Was this a recognition of what has happened for years with no let up? Flipping the identity or are your eyes open, if so why the racist attacks against President Trump not also found erroneous.
Also note when Islamic ummah attempts to take over, they do always cause mischeivious disasters… it can be done with diversity like a cat looking innocent but with feathers all over it’s face. Can’ say anything,it is racist right? They like to hit economies and then spread stress….or compete with our banking systems, infiltrate government, educate our youth, “set up suicide prevention” but also may ease the drug cartels movements, pays for ads with a soft message, and align with the organizations who want limited free speech but special privelages with no facts. An would love to see an impeachment to speed up the process, just saying…and it would happen fast but hopefully the Republicans can stop this advance for a while. FBI or not quite.
gravenimage says
Armenian Assembly: Omar’s Refusal to Acknowledge Armenian Genocide Doesn’t Represent “Muslim Values”
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Isn’t this exactly the sort of thing Armenians said a hundred years ago, desperately hoping Muslims would not murder them?
Angemon says
NBC, 2018: “Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar make midterms history while complicating stereotypes of Muslim American women
NBC, 2019 – “Turns out she’s neither a good American nor muslim”
Yeah, no, there’s no such thing as a “universal need to defend the victims of genocide and ethic cleansing”. Sometimes, one man’s “ethnic cleansing” is another man’s “we’ll take back our lands and drive the invaders back to where they cam from”.
GreekEmpress says
+1
I don’t have as much Armenian ancestry as I do Greek, but I know from family history that it was indeed what they hoped. Then it was too late. I lost an Armenian ancestor to the Turks after a battle. He surrendered to them and they murdered him on the spot.
I imagine the Jewish people hoped the same thing in Germany before the Holocaust. Nazis learned a lot about genocide from the Ottoman Turks.
GreekEmpress says
I goofed—this was a post in response to one from gravenimage
elee says
Entire agreement with the substance of your post. The current generatilon needs lots of reminders about appeasement. Appeasing Hitler helped no one, appeasing Stalin helped no one, appeasing Erdogan helps no one Say nothing of constituting abetting humanitarian crimes.
gravenimage says
Horrible, GreekEmpress.
Jeddie says
She has dual loyalty- America and Islam. Or is it really reversed?
gravenimage says
I don’t think she has *any* loyalty to America. It is just a convenient place from which to wage stealth Jihad.
elee says
See K 3:155. A true Muslim can have no loyalty to any man-made government, only the al Lah, the Prophet and the ummah. A true Muslim doesnt get to deliberate on whether to give any fraction of his loyalty to any man-made government. K 33:37; 33:5; K 81:30
PRCS says
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Ankara)
Heh!
Good one, Robert.
gravenimage says
Yes–I was going to say how much I appreciate Robert Spencer’s humor here, as well!
abad says
I caught that, too. Touché, Robert!
PRCS says
“Ilhan Omar, who makes a public show of her devoutness in Islam by wearing the Sharia-mandated hijab”
Yes, per the ‘Holy Qur’an’, it is mandated.
When The Islamic Republic of Iran beats and jails Muslim women for casting their hijabs off, it does so in accordance with the Sharia (Islamic law).
Unlike them, Daisy Khan, Rashida Tlaib, Qanta Ahmed and other Western Muslim women are protected–by evil man made laws–from Islam’s ‘divine’ punishments.
Buzz says
Omar is an enemy and traitor to the United States, she should be deported back to the chit-hole Muslim country she came from.
A Muslim should NEVER be elected to public office in this country. Muslims are bound by Islam to follow Sharia law. Islam and Sharia law are not compatible with our Constitution, our freedoms and our way of life. We cannot assimilate people who are hostile to our government, our laws, our way of life, demanding and intent on conquering. Islam should be banned in this country for that very reason.
Kathy Shiplett says
Has anyone here read Ambassador Morganthau’s account of the genocide? He was America’s ambassador to Turkey in the run-up to WWI. Fascinating and undeniably truthful account of not only the genocide, but the true story of what the war was about.
You can read the account for free at http://www.gutenberg.org
Kathy Shiplett says
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/55343/55343-h/55343-h.htm
Lotus says
This is also available as an epub book from the Gutenberg site.
gravenimage says
Thanks for the link, Kathy.
Infidel says
They had nothing to say about guys like Mark Meadows who voted against the resolution?
OLD GUY says
NEVER elect a MUSLIM in AMERICA, they can not pledge allegiance to the American Constitution.
abad says
“In 1894, the Ottoman sultanate began massacring Armenians ruthlessly, committing mass rapes, killing even children, and burning Armenian villages.”
That would have been around the time Robert Kardashian’s great grandparents left that region for America.
Back to Ilhan Omar – her denial of acknowledging the Armenian Genocide is very telling and speaks volumes.
She does not belong in this country at all and needs to be deported back to Somalia.
Because before you know it she will declare war on infidels in the United States of America.
Izack says
Christians need to speak about Christian values, Buddhists need to speak about Buddhist values, Jews need to speak about Jewish values; And so it follows that Muslims need to speak about Muslim values. With all due respect, Armenians cannot speak about Muslim values.