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2007-01-19 Europe
Turkish Writer (on Armenian Genocide) Assasinated
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Posted by mhw 2007-01-19 11:41|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Good thing Turkey is a model "secular" Muslim country. He got to live 2 years longer.
Posted by PlanetDan">PlanetDan  2007-01-19 12:05||   2007-01-19 12:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Stallone had better watch his back (see post in 'Non WoT')
Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore  2007-01-19 13:05||   2007-01-19 13:05|| Front Page Top

#3 the murderers included elements of the Young Turks regime, who hated Islamism and wanted a secular state (and went on to abolish the caliphate and found a secular republic that banned the veil). It was a national and racial genocide, and wasnt particularly about religion.

secular doesnt always mean nice.
Posted by liberalhawk 2007-01-19 13:35||   2007-01-19 13:35|| Front Page Top

#4 secular doesnt always usually mean nice

There! Fixed it for you. The "More people have died in the name of God" shtick has to end after a century that saw genocides in Germany, Russia, Cambodia, and China that had nothing to do with religion.
Posted by Dreadnought 2007-01-19 14:02||   2007-01-19 14:02|| Front Page Top

#5 It was a national and racial genocide, and wasnt particularly about religion.

Sure was a lot of Allahu Akbaring going on, though.
Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford  2007-01-19 14:35|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2007-01-19 14:35|| Front Page Top

#6 Yes LH, the murderers included secular muslims who took advantage of the fact that the Armenians were disarmed by their status as dhimmis.

However, amongst the murderers were lots and lots of muslims who murdered justifying it by quoting the Quran and who considered the Armenian property to be rightly muslim (because all property should be muslim), etc.

and today many Turkish muslims still claim that they (the Turkish muslims) were the real victims (they say this in a way that you know they actually believe it).
Posted by mhw 2007-01-19 15:03|| http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/]">[http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/]  2007-01-19 15:03|| Front Page Top

#7 Marxism and Fascism are religions, all right. Just not god-centered ones... just like the Global Warming crowd today, except the others actually acquired power.
Posted by trailing wife 2007-01-19 19:25||   2007-01-19 19:25|| Front Page Top

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