The House may vote next week on a measure that could damage U.S. relations with critical ally Turkey: a resolution declaring the World War I-era killings of Armenians a genocide.
Historians estimate that up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks around the time of World War I, an event widely viewed by scholars as the first genocide of the 20th century. Turkey denies that the deaths constituted genocide, saying the toll has been inflated and those killed were victims of civil war and unrest.
The issue is awkward for Obama, who pledged as a presidential candidate to recognize the Armenian deaths as genocide. The administration reversed course, as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton acknowledged Thursday.
The Foreign Affairs Committee approved a similar genocide measure in 2007, but it was not brought to the House floor for a vote following intensive pressure by then-President George W. Bush.
Source: AP
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UPDATE: The House predictably and unfortunately has decided not to vote on the measure.
See the following story.
Democrat controlled US House of Representatives ended session without acknowledging Armenian Genocide. Obama and leader of incoming Republican House majority also opposed it to appease Turkey
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Comments: The Associated Press bureau chief in Berlin, Louis Lochner, received reports in August 22, 1939 that Hitler said, in a command to exterminate Men, Women and children of Polish origin that
Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?Hitler didn't know that only Muslim atrocities gets forgotten. Silly Hitler!
As he isn't a non-Muslim un-orthodox left-winger (he is a National Socialist or Nazi and not international socialist like the Communists), his crimes don't get forgotten.
The AP report on the possible US House vote did not mention at all the fact that Muslims were the perpetrators of the Genocide and that Christians were the victims.
Seems its not important to mention it if the victims are Christians, especially if the killers are Muslims. (See the rape of white girls by mostly Muslim men in England that authorities won't publicly say.)
Just shows how powerful this false taboo about criticizing Islam and Muslims is, even today.
Christian and Westerners on the other hand gets put under the microscope, magnified millions of times and are forced to feel evil, inferior, ashamed and beg forever for forgiveness.
The defensive war of Crusades (after centuries of Muslim jihad aggression and conquest) against Muslim occupation of Christian holy lands that happened hundreds of years ago, for example, is being portrayed as a war of aggression with Muslims feelings still hurt and Christians still demonized by both atheists and Muslims. [Maybe they are scared that Christians might do something to defend themselves.]
Muslims on the other hand are given billions in aid (at least 7.5 billion in aid from the US alone to Pakistan), and are treated as a "key" group that gets "top priority" and are pampered and told how wonderful they are (See WikiLeaked UK cable), not for any great achievement they made (The billions of petrol dollars some have isn't any achievement. They didn't do anything, its just oil in the ground.), but so that some of them don't go out and barbarically kill innocent civilians in terrorist attacks over some distorted view of the world (see the same WikiLeaked UK cable again).
Turkey engaging in denial and politically correct elites (both left and right, including George Bush, who also supported Kosovo Muslim Albanians against the Christian Serbs and handed the heartland of Serbian civilization to the Muslims.) colluding with it is nothing new and is as expected.
The democrats pushing this measure might be due to them trying to undermine the war effort against terror under the guise of caring for the Armenians. They probably only want to create friction between Turkey and the US so that it will undermine the war effort. Unlikely that they would give a damn about the Armenians.
Having said that, the resolution should nevertheless be passed, despite Turkish blackmail.
But there is an ongoing Muslim-on-Muslim genocide (including rapes) in Darfur but nothing is being done about it, so people will care even less (to the point of not remembering) about a Muslim-on-Christian genocide that happened nearly a hundred years ago.
Some previous similar or related stories:
Turky's Islamist PM Erdogan 'hates' Israel on religious grounds, Foreign Minister Davutoglu wants influence in Balkans like in Ottoman empire days [Turkish PM want to be like in the good old days when Muslim Imperialists ruled over Christians.]
Turkey hands back orphanage in Constantinople to Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople after being ordered by European Court of Human Rights [Most of what is now Turkey used to be the Christian Byzantine Empire before being invaded and overrun and now inhabited by the Ottoman Muslim Turks]
Spurious legal challenges & small scale attacks before Souther Sudan Independence referendum in January – Brief Sudan history included [At least 2 million Christians and animists dead as a result of war with the Muslim North]
Genocide in Darfur continuing with “silent” rape and fear says UN prosecutor Ocampo – 300,000 dead and 2.7 million displaced in seven years [Who cares about a genocide nearly a hundred years ago. Here is a genocide going on right now and nobody is doing anything about it.]
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