Report From Washington - April 26, 2013

Editor: William J. Murray

Join me in a fact finding mission to Israel - A once in a lifetime mission led by William J. Murray, William Federer and Frank Gaffney, all three experts on Israel and Islamic affairs. Not a standard "tour," the mission includes visits to settlements and military bases plus evening panels. Read more

In this issue: Obama nightmare: Boston bombers not in Tea Party / Obama's FBI not allowed to ask if terror suspect is Muslim / No remembrance of genocide of Armenian Christians / Congressman questions Saudi's on Christian arrests / Congressman exposes plight of Middle Eastern Christians / Exposing the evil Saudi empire / UN Chief: Most important issue in world is "sexually confused" / US funded jihadists kidnap two archbishops / Confirmation that European jihadists fighting in Syria / Death for conversion in Morocco / Behead three Christian teen girls and go free

The Presidency
Obama nightmare: The Boston Bombers not in Tea Party - In a column written before one of the Chechen "suspects" was killed and the other captured, columnist Don Feder summarized - accurately - the reaction of the Obama Administration and the left to the news the bombers would be Muslim. His characterizations of Barack Obama, John Kerry, etc. and the Mainstream media are classic and worth the time to read and pass along. Read his column here
Obama's FBI not allowed to ask if terrorist is a Muslim - The reason the FBI could not make a "determination" as to Tamerlan Tsarnaev being a threat, can be summed up in this one directive: "Training must emphasize that no investigative or intelligence collection activity may be based solely on race, ethnicity, national origin, or religious affiliation." Read more
No remembrance of genocide - The White House made no statement on the 98th anniversary of the murder of four million Christians by the Turkish government. A 1918 film has been found concerning the genocide of the Armenian Christians - including crucifixions. Read more
Congress
Congressman questions Saudis - Congressman Steve Stockman (R-TX) has written a stern letter to the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States requesting information on the Ethiopian Christians who were arrested in February for praying in a private home.
Congressman exposes plight of Middle Easter Christians - U.S. Congressman Frank Wolf (R-Va.) recently traveled to the Middle East and met with Syrian refugees in an urgent attempt to bring attention to this situation and spur U.S. policymakers to action. During his visit, Congressman Wolf confirmed the true plight of Christians. Read more
No tax dollars for jihadists - The Religious Freedom Coalition has begun an online petition asking congressmen to speak out against any funding, military or otherwise, to jihadists anywhere in the world. The petition comes at a time the Obama Administration is furnishing help from the CIA, as well as cash and "humanitarian" aid, to jihadists fighting the secular government of Syria. Provide your name and zip code, and a copy of the petition will be faxed to your congressman free of charge. See petition here.
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Religion and Culture
Religious Freedom Coalition: Exposing the evil empire - On April 19th and 20th of 2013, The Awakening - a large gathering of social conservatives - was held near Orlando, Florida on the campus of the First Baptist Church of Oviedo, and the Religious Freedom Coalition was there to educate those present about the root of terror in the world today - Saudi Arabia. Read more
UN Chief: World must meet demands of sexually confused - Speaking via video link to the Oslo Conference on Human Rights on April 15, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced that he is launching an international campaign to elevate the demands of sexually confused individuals over the demands of other individuals. Read more
Persecution of Christians in February - Reports of Christian persecution by Muslims around the world during the month of February include (but are not limited to) the following accounts in this report ... The attacks are listed by form of persecution, and in alphabetical order of country, not necessarily according to severity. See Report here.
International
Syria: US and EU funded jihadists kidnap Bishops - Bishop Boulos Yazigi of the Greek Orthodox Church and Bishop John Ibrahim of the Assyrian Orthodox Church were abducted on Monday, April 22nd, while traveling outside Aleppo. Gunmen pulled them from their car and shot and killed their driver. Read more
Syria: Confirmed EU Muslims fighting in Syria - The EU Counter Terrorism Coordinator, Gilles de Kerchove, revealed that hundreds of Europeans are fighting with the armed terrorist groups in Syria. Read more
Morocco: Death for conversion - Christian converts in Morocco feared for their future Thursday, April 25, after the country's highest Islamic institute issued a fatwa demanding the death penalty for Muslims who renounce their religion. Read more
Indonesia: Behead three Christian girls and get set free - The Indonesian Muslim terrorist who beheaded 3 Christian girls as a "Ramadan Present" was allowed out of jail to "visit" his ill wife and, of course, vanished. This is in "moderate" Indonesia. Read more
More from the Religious Freedom Coalition
New Chairman's Report - Now available, the April 11th, 2013 edition of the Religious Freedom Coalition. This edition includes: Bronze Star awarded for a politically correct PowerPoint on how to be sensitive in handling Islamic religious materials / Obama State Department wants more Muslim college students in USA / Obama's "Arab Spring" Tunisia: "Stone her to death". Read it here
My Life Without God - William J. Murray's first book, My Life Without God, is now back in print as the 30th anniversary of his atheist mother's lawsuit to remove prayer form the schools approaches. Murray writes of his life in the dysfunctional home of infamous atheist/Marxist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair. Learn more
Christian Bookstore and more - books, CD's, DVD's, cards and much more available at the Religious Freedom Coalition Internet Store. Please visit today!

Jihad Denial and Armenian Genocide Remembrance

April 24th, 2012 by Andrew Bostom |

Today , appropriately, also marks the 97th anniversary of the date officially commemorated as the start of the Armenian Genocide—a jihad genocide—April 24, 1915. Persistent jihad denial by U.S. policymaking elites across the intervening century—a mindset so egregiously delusive at present it reflects mindslaughter—is the tragic, shared living legacy of these superficially disparate, but intimately related phenomena, both animated by canonical Islam.

The Armenian genocide is formally commemorated each April 24^th because on that date in 1915, the Turkish Interior Ministry issued an order authorizing the arrest of all Armenian political and community leaders suspected of anti-Ittihadist or Armenian nationalist sentiments. In Istanbul alone, 2345 such leaders were seized and incarcerated, and most of them were subsequently executed. The majority were neither nationalists, nor were they involved in politics. None were charged with sabotage, espionage, or any other crime, and appropriately tried. As the intrepid Turkish author Taner Akcam recently acknowledged,

…Under the pretext of searching for arms, of collecting war levies, or tracking down deserters, there had already been established a practice of systematically carried—out plunders, raids, and murders [against the Armenians] which had become daily occurrences…

Within a month, the final, definitive stage of the process which reduced the Armenian population to utter helplessness, i.e., mass deportation, would begin.

Historian Bat Ye’or places the continuum of massacres from the 1890s through the end of World War I, in an overall theological and juridical context, as follows:

The genocide of the Armenians was the natural outcome of a policy inherent in the politico—religious structure of dhimmitude. This process of physically eliminating a rebel nation had already been used against the rebel Slav and Greek Christians, rescued from collective extermination by European intervention, although sometimes reluctantly. 

The genocide of the Armenians was a  jihad. No rayas [non-Muslim dhimmis] took part in it. Despite the disapproval of many Muslim Turks and Arabs, and their refusal to collaborate in the crime, these massacres were perpetrated solely by Muslims and they alone profited from the booty: the victims’ property, houses, and lands granted to the muhajirun [“holy warrior” jihadists], and the allocation to them of women and child slaves. The elimination of male children over the age of twelve was in accordance with the commandments of the jihad and conformed to the age fixed for the payment of the jizya. The four stages of the liquidation— deportation, enslavement, forced conversion, and massacre— reproduced the historic conditions of the jihad carried out in the dar—al—harb from the seventh century on. Chronicles from a variety of sources, by Muslim authors in particular, give detailed descriptions of the organized massacres or deportation of captives, whose sufferings in forced marches behind the armies paralleled the Armenian experience in the twentieth century.

Grigoris Balakian, a leading Armenian priest of his era who was in fact arrested April 24, 1915, managed to escape and compile his personal memoir of the years 1914-1918, the monumental Armenian Golgotha, originally published in 1922, but only available in full English translation since 2009. Balakian’s first hand narrative confirms the jihad motivation for the genocide.

More than one million Armenian city dwellers and peasants were savagely slaughtered and made to choke quietly on their own blood. Tens of thousands of Armenian males, lashed together with string or rope, were mercilessly butchered along all the roads of Asia Minor, or massacred with axes, like tree branches being pruned. The executioners were deaf to the crying and weeping of these wretched victims, even to their pleas to shoot them so that they might escape the torment: the order had come from on high and the jihad against the Armenians truly had been proclaimed. Yes, it was necessary to mercilessly slaughter them until not a single Armenian was left within the confines of the Ottoman Empire.

The recently published Judgment at Istanbul features the conclusions of the Ottomans’ own post World War I (Nuremberg-like) Military Tribunals which  long ago established the facts of a centrally organized mass murder committed against the Empire’s Armenian population. Judgment at Istanbul also includes Winston Churchill’s contemporaneous reaction to the genocidal events.

It is worth observing that when responding to the calamity of the wartime Armenian experience, Winston Churchill, the foremost contemporary British statesman, did not limit himself to merely castigating the mass murder in question in terms that in contemporary legal language are coterminous with “genocide.” He used, for example, such language as “a crime” resulting from a “deliberate policy” that was “planned and executed,” with the result that “the clearance of a race from Asia Minor was about as complete as such an act on a scale so great, could well be.” At the operational level, however, Churchill, in “a final attempt to break through the Turkish defenses at Dardanelles,” ventured to offer the War Cabinet an inordinate plan that is rarely mentioned, much less discussed, in history books. Namely, he proposed to the Cabinet in December 1915 that poison gas be used against the Turkish defenders, in part in retaliation for the “massacre of the Armenians” that was then still going on.
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