The root cause here is the Turkish-Azeri desire to establish a Turkish-dominated region from Central Asia to Anatolia. Armenia, and Artsakh, are Christian entities that are in the way. The blockade and the possible genocide to come in Artsakh have numerous parallels in history. If you ever wonder what ever happened to the Christians of North Africa and other regions of what is now known as the Islamic world, the short answer is that what happened to them was something like this.
“Tens of Thousands of Armenian Christians Persecuted in Nagorno-Karabakh,” NRB, August 24, 2023:
As the contested region of Nagorno-Karabakh grapples with an enduring military blockade, 120,000 Armenian Christians have been left bereft of vital necessities with the threat of genocide to one of the world’s oldest Christian communities hanging in the balance.
Nestled within the Muslim nation of Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh, also known as Artsakh, stands as a predominantly Armenian enclave in the South Caucasus. Essential provisions like food, medicine, and fuel were traditionally transported via truck from the Armenian capital, Yerevan. This journey required a rugged five-hour drive through the mountainous and scenic Lachin corridor, the sole route linking inhabitants of the region to the rest of the world. Since December 2022, the Lachin Corridor has been deliberately obstructed by the Azerbaijan dictatorship, and on July 26, the flow of humanitarian aid was completely halted, with 19 trucks and 400 tons of resources confined at a checkpoint.
The repercussions of this blockade have led to acute shortages of vital resources as well as electricity and water outages, rendering life unsustainable for the affected population.
“This project of ethnic/religious cleansing has not come out of the blue. It represents the latest wave of a centuries-long genocide process,” said Dr. John Eibner, president of Christian Solidarity International, a Christian human rights organization promoting religious liberty and human dignity. “Will we turn a blind eye to the destruction of yet another Christian community at the hands of an aggressive Islamic power? Or will we stand in spiritual, material, and political solidarity with this persecuted part of the Body of Christ?”
On June 21, former U.S. Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback called for a bi-partisan Nagorno-Karabakh human rights act as a witness in a Congressional hearing on “Safeguarding the People of Nagorno-Karabakh.”
For nearly eight months, the Christians of Nagorno-Karabakh have endured this blockade orchestrated by the Azerbaijani regime, led by Azerbaijani’s president Ilham Aliyev. This humanitarian crisis is born from political tensions and efforts to drive ethnic and religious groups from their ancestral homeland. The Armenian Christian heritage traces back to the apostles Thaddeus and Bartholomew, who introduced the Gospel leading to Armenia’s distinction as the first nation to officially embrace Christianity as the state religion in 301 A.D….
tim gallagher says
islam’s followers behaving in their usual, oh so “peaceful” way yet again. How we still have so many brain dead idiots, when it comes to islam, including the present Pope, telling us that islam, the murderously violent sataincally evil religious ideology, is basically peaceful is beyond my comprehension. islam has invaded and destroyed so many pleasant and civilised non-Muslim countries over its stinking 1400 year history. islam is an evil menace to all civilised human life.
Fitna says
Fully agree Tim…I hope the West doesn’t stand quietly by while Muslims genocide non-Muslims once again.
They were sure quick to jump in on the Muslim side when they were attacking Christians in Serbia…the only difference was that the Serbs fought back and were winning…they should’ve let them, rather than allow another cancerous Islamic state to be formed in Europe.
We can end Islam and in theory we can do it without harming a single Muslim. All we need is the will to tell them no more Islam, convert to whatever else you like. If you fight us, we either expel or defeat you.
I think most sensible Muslims would convert, it’d be better than a terrible war, but I’m not against warfare if it comes to that.
The problem in the West is that we lack unity and there are still many who don’t realize that Islam is today’s Nazism.
Nick says
Can you refute the arguments of muslim apologist Shahid bolsen
Michael Copeland says
Shahid Bolsen, in his “Excerpted: The short version of my revert story” on X, formerly Twitter, says that he looked into Christianity and soon concluded (with no evidence explained) that it was false. Christianity is based on records from eyewitnesses and writers who spoke to eyewitnesses. Some surviving manuscripts are second century.
Bolsen explains that before converting to Islam he read the Koran. There he is told that the earth is flat, the sun sets in a muddy pool, the mountains were brought down (from space) and set down on earth, semen comes from the backbone, life begins as a clot of blood, the Christian Trinity includes Mary, and that the Jews say Ezra is the son of Allah. All these are demonstrably false.
The earliest source texts of Islam date from some 200 years after Mohammed is supposed to have existed. There is no contemporary record of Mohammed, Islam, or Muslims from his alleged lifetime. The earliest mosques face Petra.
All that is fine with Bolsen.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Michael.
tim gallagher says
That is the big question, Fitna. Will we, in western non-Muslim countries ever get our act together and wake up and get really tough with Muslims? Hungary, Poland, the Czech republic and Slovakia have done it. The majority in those countries have woken up to islam’s vile nature and told Muslims that they are not getting into those countries. All our countries should say the same. i agree with you that a huge number of Muslims might then ditch the barbaric load of crap, islam. I agree with you that islam is every bit as evil as Nazism. Maybe the western world is now too soft to cope with islam whereas it once did fight successfully against Nazism
Fitna says
Indeed Tim…I’m guessing that the Visegrad nations must’ve had some historical experience with Islamic invasions and a long memory so they were able to avoid this current disaster playing out in Europe.
Islam to a nation is like a virulent flu (covid could apply)…it’ll either kill you or if your ‘body’ is strong enough to fight it off and you don’t die…you’ll become immunized for a short while.
I think the immunity wore off for France/Spain and other nations that had dealt with Islamic invaders before…so now they’re being attacked again as if for the first time.
Which means they’re probably about to experience a lot more pain and suffering than they already have. What will be critical is how they respond to it.
Will these nations rise up and fight back or will they give in? Time will tell and I think the next 10-20 years will be pivotal.
I’ve always been a staunch advocate of western freedom and I hope in the end we win…but ofc this problem won’t be solved on an individual level, it’ll take large groups and the gov’t to defeat.
Hopefully I’ll be around to see Europe and the West save itself (and that it happens sooner rather than decades from now)…watching it fall would be devastating.
If Europe is conquered, I think Muslims will probably get their goal of Islamifying the planet and that’s a world no decent person would want to live in.
GreekEmpress says
Turks and Azerbaijanis want the Armenian genocide 100% complete.
Any questions?
gravenimage says
Grimly true, GreekEmpress.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
So which of the GOP candidates is willing to be as forceful in opposing Turkey the way they are in opposing Russia?
Graeme Howarth says
Good question. I bet they won’t even entertain the idea of an air drop of humanitarian supplies.
born saturday says
FREEDOM TO ARMENIA!!!!!
Walter Sieruk says
As in the days of Nehemiah when he and his men were busy in the reconstruction of the walls around Jerusalem and the Arab became furious and indigent at this at this grand project of the rebuilding of the walls. Neh 4:1 and they thus despised the Jews , Neh. 4:4 ,and schemed terrorist attacks against them.
So the Jewish men set up watch for such attacks, Neh 4:8, therefore ,on this watch they set up guards to be ready for those terrorists attacks , Neh 4;16.
Likewise, in this twenty –first century in areas of the world, as the Islamic nations , Christians need to be “on watch and stand firm” First Corinthians 16:13.,as to be on guard from jihad-minded Muslim terrorist attacks against Christians .
For Christians together compose the symbolic body of Christ, Ephesians 1:13. 5:30.
Furthermore, it should be made known that the Muslim terrorists who engage in the persecution of Christians will not get away from the punishment of God for their wicked actions. As seen in Romans 14: 12. First Corinthians 3: 16, 17. Galatians 6:7.
Christians are instructed to “Watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong.”
First Corinthians 16:13. [N.K.J.V.]
Walter Sieruk says
There are many Muslims who strongly dislike Christians. Some Muslims even hate Christians so much that they even become violence against them and burn their Bibles. One reason for this is that in the mosques and madrasas the Muslim clerics, as the imams who speak many awful and unproven terrible things against Christians and Christian doctrine. So much so the many Muslims get all worked up against Christians and Christian teachings and some those Muslims commit violent actions against Christians. Such false religious teachers, as those Muslim clerics, who speak to people unfounded and invalid evil things about Christians and Christian doctrines have been described in the Bible. For the Bible informs the reader in Second Peter 2:12. “They speak evil of things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption.” [N.K.J.V.]
It also should be make clear that in this specific above Bible verse, as well as in John 3:16. The word “Perish” does not mean loss of being but loss of well-being. As in going to ruin by ending up in languishing in torment in a terrible place of suffering that the Bible calls hell. Luke 16:19-31.
gravenimage says
Artsakh: Tens of Thousands of Armenian Christians face persecution, new genocide
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Most in the West, even if they have heard of this conflict, have no idea that it is a Jihad against Christians, and a continuation of the Armenian genocide.