Islamic jihadists want to destroy the artifacts of non-Muslim civilizations because doing so testifies to the truth of Islam, as the Qur’an suggests that the destroyed remnants of ancient non-Muslim civilizations are a sign of Allah’s punishment of those who rejected his truth: “Many were the ways of life that have passed away before you: travel through the earth, and see what was the end of those who rejected truth.” (Qur’an 3:137)
This is one of the foundations of the Islamic idea that pre-Islamic civilizations, and non-Islamic civilizations, are all jahiliyya — the society of unbelievers, which is worthless.
“Azeri Vandalism to Armenian Church Incites Plea for Protection,” International Christian Concern, March 29, 2021:
03/29/2021 Nagorno-Karabakh (International Christian Concern) – Recent satellite and video footage reveals the partial destruction of Shushi’s Armenian Kanach Zham Church. The city and church now remain under Azeri control. In light of the most recent damaged church, the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (IAO) called for the protection of Christian monuments in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Satellite photos taken four months apart, one in October 2020 and one in February 2021, show the church domes completely destroyed. Saint John the Baptist Church, also known as Kanach Zham, reportedly faced partial demolition by Azeri troops just days after Shushi came under their control.
This vandalism against Armenian Christian heritage sites adds to the list including Ghazanchetsots Cathedral of Shushi, St. Astvatsatsin Church of Mekhakavan, and others. President Alivey also identified a 12th-century Armenian church to be an Albanian church and expressed his intentions to renovate it….
Photo by Voskanyan – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=82463407
PRCS says
But, what about the Uighurs.
The poor, oppressed Uighurs.
Can we make the Communist Chinese government stop being mean to them, Mr. President?
Muslims–everywhere–are so victimized.
jirtu says
Uighurs are the cause of their troubles. In a country where organized religion, including religions of Chinese origin, are banned, Uighurs think they can get away practicing their arcane, mothballed, and politicized Islamist religion. They also make no secret their intention to separate from China. The latter shows how stupid their leadership is. They don’t realize that if China allows these backward people to separate then China will disintegrate because of historic, ethnic, cultural differences among the various parts of China.
Rob Porter says
jirtu – almost everyone in the West seems to forget or be ignorant of the fact that before Beijing turned on the Uighurs, Uighurs were stabbing non-Muslims to death on railway stations and at bus stops. I predicted that sooner or later Beijing would punish the Uighurs and sure enough it did. So, regardless of Western weeping and wailing, I couldn’t care less. The West couldn’t care less about Erdogan dragging Turkey down to levels of barbarism, or about Trudeau’s Canada training China’s troops at Canadian bases, training China’s 2 and 3-star generals in its military colleges and China’s police, so screw the West. For its stupidity and cowardice its screwing itself into a mess.
Rob Porter says
jirtu – almost everyone in the West seems to forget or be ignorant of the fact that before Beijing turned on the Uighurs, Uighurs were stabbing non-Muslims to death on railway stations and at bus stops. I predicted that sooner or later Beijing would punish the Uighurs and sure enough it did. So, regardless of Western weeping and wailing, I couldn’t care less. The West couldn’t care less about Erdogan dragging Turkey down to levels of barbarism, or about Trudeau’s Canada training China’s troops at Canadian bases, training China’s 2 and 3-star generals in its military colleges and China’s police, so screw the West. For its stupidity and cowardice its screwing itself into a mess.
gravenimage says
True, Rob. I am *no* can of Communist China, but Muslims there were regularly waging violent Jihad, stabbing civilians at train stations.
Infidel says
Honestly, there are parts of China that don’t belong in it. Tibet is one. Inner Mongolia is another: it should be a part of Mongolia. Manchuria, arguably is a third. China would still be a healthy country if it loses these, albeit not under the Chicom regime
Honestly, when the Soviet Union split up in 1991, instead of being 15 new countries, it should have been 12, w/ Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan becoming one country – Turkistan, and Russia taking the northern ethnic Russian part of Kazakhstan and annexing it to Russia. That would have been a single Turkic, muslim country w/ the oil wealth of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, along w/ the population of Uzbekistan, that would have made it a somewhat prosperous country. An Uyghurstan could then have become a part of this entity. Hopefully all under Karimov or Nazarbayev, both of whom kept islam under check
Brenda says
Then they will complain about Islamophobia and say that others are attacking their religion.
GreekEmpress says
If there’s any Armenians left in Artsakh, they’ll be next for destruction.
Boycott Turkey says
Greek Empress I don’t think there’s any Armenians left in Artaksh most left but the ones who wanted to stay where driven out by the NAZIbaijan Army the only Armenians left are in Artaksh are in Stepanakert which is controlled by the Russians
jirtu says
There is nothing barbaric that surprises Armenians about Turkish/Azeri crimes. Turks and Azeris are veterans of extreme brutality, racism, and religious fanaticism. While the Turkish Genocide of 1.5 million civilian Armenians is well known, many other facts about Turkish inhumanity towards Christian Armenians remain unmentioned. Armenians were subjected to slow and intermittent genocide during the 500 years Turks occupied Armenia. The second fact: Ninety percent of Armenia is occupied by Turkey. In the late 19th century, Turkey banned “Armenia” from the map and replaced it with “Kurdistan” as the first step in the final elimination of Armenians. What was the crime of Armenians? They were Christian. While long ago Arabs stopped using the word “kaffer” (infidel) to describe Christians, Turks still call Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians… “gavoor”, the Turkish equivalent of kaffer.
gravenimage says
Before the attacks from Azerbaijan there were about 145,000 Amenians there–I’m sure there are still some left, and that they are in grave danger.
Boycott Turkey says
This is systematic genocide but no mention of this in BB☪️ Or even RT All I hear about is the uighars Syrian refugees Rohinghars. NAZIbaijan and Turkey trying to finish of what they started in 1915 infact before 1915 Erdogan even praised Enver Pasha 1 of the architects of the Armenian Genocide NAZIbaijan won’t stop at Artaksh they want to destroy Armenia the world leaders are just usless pathetic Turkophiles and islamophiles
Rob Porter says
Boycott Turkey – You are right, the Western world leaders are gutless worms. Their selective concerns for human rights, their double standards and selective morality are pitiful and disgusting. No wonder they swallow the mentally retarded crap from poorly educated and ignorant Black Lives Matter morons. These fools come from a group that represents 13% 0f the U.S. population yet commits 52% of the murders. 90% 0f blacks murdered are murdered by other blacks, yet no protests over this, Why? Because it doesn’t make them money and because black lives don’t really matter to BLM.
Rob Porter says
Boycott Turkey – You are right, the Western world leaders are gutless worms. Their selective concerns for human rights, their double standards and selective morality are pitiful and disgusting. No wonder they swallow the mentally retarded crap from poorly educated and ignorant Black Lives Matter morons. These fools come from a group that represents 13% 0f the U.S. population yet commits 52% of the murders. 90% 0f blacks murdered are murdered by other blacks, yet no protests over this, Why? Because it doesn’t make them money and because black lives don’t really matter to BLM.
Boycott Turkey says
Rob Porter true BLM don’t care about blacks who die from knife crime or gangs also they don’t care about Africans dying in Nigeria from boko haram BLM is just a scam group
gravenimage says
Azerbaijan: Muslims partially destroy yet another Armenian church in occupied Artsakh
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Horrible–but grimly to be expected.
Raja says
Let the Muslims have all the church buildings, Christians should have house-congregations like in Iran, China etc, where ever there the persecution, be it in Islamic nations or Lefties’ nations.
God reigns and Christ has promised: the gates of Hades will not overpower His spiritual church. This too will pass like the USSR.
Wish there is a plan among the elites to eradicate the world of Islam and Leftism much before deadly diseases like covid, polio etc
gravenimage says
Raja, you do not explain why Christians should have to surrender their churches to Jihad terrorists.
And Christians are not safe in house churches, either–they are regyularly arrested and persecuted in China and Iran.
Miles M Schreiner says
Of course they destroy the works of other religions…but can someone please point out to me the great works, the amazing societal contributions, of Islam?
Crusades Were Right says
[President Alivey also identified a 12th-century Armenian church to be an Albanian church and expressed his intentions to renovate it]
“Azerbaijan” has been “identified” as pretty much eastern Armenia.
Maybe somebody will get around to “renovating” THAT one of these days.
Infidel says
Did Armenia have a Caspian coast? I thought that the bulk of Armenia was Eastern Anatolia – the area around Kars. Azerbaijan is an invented country: historically, it was always a part of Iran, even if its people were Turkic. And culturally, that was the birthplace of the Safavid dynasty, the dynasty that transformed Iran from a sunni to a Twelver shi’a country. It explains why Azerbaijan is pretty paranoid that Iran would be out to conquer it, just like they’re exerting their influence in the shi’a crescent – in places like Syria, Lebanon and Yemen
gravenimage says
I don’t think Armenia ever exteneded to the Caspian Sea.