By Serkan Engin

The perpetrators of the Turkish genocide of Armenians and other Christians at the beginning of the 20th century did not act out of concern for some nation state but simply behaved as mandated by their bloodthirsty god. DISPATCH INTERNATIONAL

The wholesale extermination of Armenians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Nestorians and Pontian Greeks during World War I has been aptly described as “Christian genocides”. The perpetrators of these massive atrocities were Muslim Turks and Kurds spurred on by the Turkish Ottoman government.

Sometimes these genocides are explained by the nationalism of the Ottoman government led by supposedly progressive Union and Progress Organization. However, those who actually did the killing – the predatory bands of the “Secret Organization” (in Turkish: Teşkilatı Mahsusa) – were not motivated by national concerns but found their justification in Islam.

Islam permits all Muslims to kill and rape every non-Muslim and to grab all their money and property. The Turks and Kurds who killed their own non-Muslim neighbors, forced their women and little girls to become sex slaves and took all they owned had no awareness of the “nationalism” propagated by their commanders, the leaders of the Union and Progress Organization. The Turks and Kurds who took part in the Armenian, Assyrian, Chaldean, Nestorian and Pontian Greek genocides and massacred innocent human being with pleasure, did not do it for the sake of “Turkish nationalism”. They were simple farmers, describing themselves as “Muslims”, not as “Turks” or “Kurds”.

The massacres ordered by the leaders of the Union and Progress Organization were a gift to the Turks who had lived as predators for two thousand years, and only turned to agriculture and the breeding of livestock after their arrival in what is modern-day Turkey in the 11th century CE. The Ottoman government now offered them the chance to pillage and take revenge on their supposedly “rich” non-Muslim neighbors.

The same applied to the Kurds, who like their Turkish co-religionists lacked the ability, aptitude and historical experience to master any job outside agriculture and livestock breeding, were only too happy to join in slaughter and pillage of non-Muslims.

Muslim Turks and Kurds tore their non-Muslim neighbors to pieces with the appetite and ferocity of hyenas. They showed no mercy and in fact gloated over their misdeeds. They seized all the houses and stores of the non-Muslims. They took non-Muslim women as sex slaves or domestic slaves in their “harems” – in fact as their “booty” as is mandated in the rules of Islam. And they sold some of these women and girls at the slave bazaars for a bit of money.

The perpetrators of these terrible crimes didn’t feel any self-reproach. On the contrary, they were very happy, because their misdeeds made them more worthy of Allah, the god of Islam. These disgusting massacres made them better Muslims moved them closer to the Islamic heaven with its houris [the 72 virgins in paradise promised to obedient Muslim men, ed.] ready for group sex and its rivers of kevser wines [i.e., non-alcoholic, halal-compliant wine, ed.].

They were at peace because they were obeying the laws of Allah and the government.

They raped tiny girls and women, slaughtered the innocent, burned children alive and massacred millions of non-Muslims – all in accordance with Islam, the religion of “peace”.

Because their Allah is merciless towards the disbelievers.

Serkan Engin, poet and socialist, was born 1975 in Izmit, Turkey. His poems have been published in English in several prominent periodicals and in Japan.

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Facts

In 1913, the Turkish Ottoman government of the supposedly liberal Committee of Union and Progress initiated a program of forcible Turkification of non-Turkish minorities. Starting in 1915 the government turned to deliberate extermination of indigenous and Christian ethnic groups – Assyrians, Greeks, Armenians, Chaldeans and Nestorians. Most well known is the wholesale slaughter and destruction of the Armenian Christians living in what is modern-day Turkey. It is estimated that between 1 and 1,5 million Armenians were killed. In 1943 the Armenian holocaust inspired the Polish-American lawyer Raphael Lemkin to coin the term “genocide” to define the planned and systematic extermination of entire nations or ethnic groups.

The genocides ordered by the Turkish government and perpetrated by Turkish and Kurdish Muslims are accepted as fact by serious Western historians but are till this day strenuously denied by the Turkish authorities.

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Malaysia’s top court has upheld a ban against a Catholic newspaper, which had wanted to use the word “Allah” to refer to God. The weekly insists that the ban is unconstitutional.

The Federal Court in Malaysia dismissed an appeal by the Malaysian Catholic weekly The Herald on Monday, ruling in favor of an appeals court which had banned the newspaper from using the word “Allah.”

Four of the seven justices ruled that “the use of Allah is not an integral part of the Christian faith.”

The Herald criticized the court’s decision soon after its release, insisting that it was infringing upon minority rights in the ethnically diverse South Asian nation.

“We are disappointed. The four judges who denied us the right to appeal did not touch on fundamental basic rights of minorities,” the newspaper’s editor, Rev. Lawrence Andrew, wrote.

“[The ruling] will confine the freedom of worship,” Andrew added. “We are a minority in this country, and when our rights are curtailed, people feel it.”

‘We thank Allah’

The leader of Muslim Malay rights groups, Ibrahim Ali, praised the court’s decision: “We thank Allah because the court’s decision has favored us this time.”

The legal dispute stems from a previous government ban on The Herald from using the term. The daily had taken its case to court, arguing the ban was unconstitutional, and subsequently won an appeal in 2009. However, the court’s decision to override the government sparked unrest in Malaysia, with some opponents of the ruling setting fire to and vandalizing Christian churches.

In October, The Herald reiterated its previous criticism of the ban, arguing that the term “Allah” has been the common term for God in the Malay language for centuries and should not pose a problem to Muslims.

Muslims comprise roughly 60 percent of the ethnically and religiously diverse country’s population, while Buddhists account for about 19 percent and Christians roughly 10 percent. Approximately 50 percent of Malaysians come from the ethnic Malay community, and a further 23 percent from the ethnic Chinese community.

kms/slk (AP, dpa)

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Malaysia top court rules Catholic newspaper may not use word ‘Allah’