Category: Regions

  • Mosques are ‘land grab, not a place of prayer’, says Ralph Giordano

    Mosques are ‘land grab, not a place of prayer’, says Ralph Giordano

    The building of huge mosques throughout Germany is nothing short of a “a bid for power and influence, a land grab”, according to Ralph Giordano, 85, the German Jewish writer and Holocaust survivor, in an interview with The Times that is likely to stir Muslim anger.

    The comments from Mr Giordano came as the Muslim community of Cologne – about 120,000 strong – prepared to lay the foundation stone for yet another giant mosque, one of more than a hundred that are being planned or built across the country.

    Barely six weeks ago another mosque, capable of accommodating 1,200 worshippers, was opened in Duisburg in the nearby Ruhr region of northwest Germany.

    Spiky minarets are starting to punctuate the German urban skyscape – and the rumble of discontent from nonMuslim Germans is growing louder. One result is that the issue of immigration seems sets to be on the agenda in the general election next year. The Christian Democrats resolved this week that the German language should be anchored in the constitution – seen as a slight by the three million Turks who live in the country.

    “When I first saw the blueprints for the grand mosque in Cologne, I was shocked,” said Mr Giordano, who is now very active in the campaign against Turkish mosque-building. “It sent a completely wrong signal, it was a bid for power and influence, a land grab, not a place of prayer, so I told the mayor: Stop this mosque now!” That was in a public discussion that was filmed and placed online. The result was, he says, an avalanche of many hundred of supportive letters.

    “They all struck the same note: Mr Giordano we are afraid as you are of this creeping Islamification but we can’t say anything in public because we will end up being branded as neo-Nazis.”

    The novelist and essayist pauses for effect. “Well, that’s something that cannot be pinned on me!”

    Mr Giordano finds himself in the company of far-right activists. “Of course, you have to distance yourself clearly from these people – obviously their racist, neo-Nazis arguments are quite different from mine – but I am not going to be muzzled just because people are fighting on the same issue with false arguments and a false ideology.”

    Fritz Schramma, the Mayor of Cologne, argues that the mosque will become a tourist attraction and that it will be integrated into the urban culture. “It’s not right that Muslims should have to pray in old factory warehouses,” he said.

    There is a hope too that if Muslims are allowed to become part of the urban landscape rather than hidden away there will be less risk of furtive fundamentalism.

  • Israel ‘prepared to attack’ Iran nuclear plants

    Israel ‘prepared to attack’ Iran nuclear plants

    Sheera Frenkel in Jerusalem and Times Online

    Israel is drawing up plans to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities and is prepared to launch a strike without backing from the US, it has been reported.  

    Officials in the Israeli Defence Ministry told the Jerusalem Post that while they prefer to act in consultation with the US, they were preparing plans that would allow them to act in isolation.

    “It is always better to coordinate,” a senior Defence Ministry official told the newspaper. “But we are also preparing options that do not include coordination.”

    However defence officials played down the reports today, telling The Times that an attack by Israeli forces alone would probably fail to take out all of Iran’s nuclear facilities, which experts say are scattered across several sites, some deep underground.

    “We could not risk an operation which would only partially succeed,” one defence official told The Times.

    “That would leave us open to a nuclear attack from Iran’s remaining weapons stock. Israel would likely need the support, the backing, of forces from a Western ally to successfully carry out the operation,” he said.

    A senior Israeli official quotes in the Jerusalem Post said that while it would be difficult, it would not be impossible to launch a strike against Iran without permission from the US.

    “There are a wide range of risks one takes when embarking on such an operation,” a senior Israeli official was quoted as saying.

    The US Airforce controls the Iraqi airspace Israel’s jets would have to cross on a bombing mission and access to codes from the Americans, would “significantly improve” Israel’s chances of a successful strike on Iran, an official told The Times.

    He added that because the Iranians have been moving the bunkers deep underground, sophisticated weaponry would be needed to successfully destroy the facilities.

    Responding to reports that Israel would use low-yield nuclear “bunker-busters”, the official said the method was largely speculative and unreliable.

    Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, has reportedly asked the US for a green light to attack Iranian facilities as recently as May.

    According to Israeli officials, the US denied the request, although it outfitted Israel with the X-band radar system which would shave several crucial minutes off Israel’s reaction time to an Iranian missile launch, and allow the United States to oversee Israel’s airspace.

    “There is always the option of Israel going it alone. It just does not seem like a good option at present time,” an Israeli MP told the Times.

    There are three central locations where experts believe Iranian facilities are producing goods for nuclear weapons.

    Israeli officials named these sites as: Natanz, where thousands of centrifuges produce enriched uranium; Isfahan, where 250 tons of gas are stores in tunnels; and Arak, where a heavy water reactor produces plutonium.

    Israeli officials said they were heartened that international sanctions on Iran were having an effect, but did not feel they were enough to stop Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.

    The most recent Israeli intelligence reports estimate that Iran will have enough enriched uranium for a nuclear weapon in late 2009, barring any interruptions in its programme.

    “There is still time and there is no need to rush into an operation right now,” another Israeli official said. “The regime there is already falling apart and will likely no longer be in power 10 years from now.”

    On Monday, Teheran dismissed the possibility of an Israeli strike, saying it didn’t take Israel seriously.

    “We think that regional and international developments and the complicated situation faced by Israel itself will not allow it to launch military strikes against other countries,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi told reporters in Teheran, adding that “Israel makes threats to promote its psychological and media warfare.

    Some Israeli security officials fear that the Iranian retaliation for a strike on its facilities could include a large-scale missile attack on Israel from several Iranian allies, disruption of oil supplies to the West, and terror attacks against Jewish targets around the world.

    They-(Israel)- live so close to the enemy-(Iran), and are so mad at them.
    While we-the USA-support Israel to a point. However if Israel
    wants to make this move,without proper diplomatic channels
    there will be a price to pay.The price may be considerable.
    Human life on both sides will be lost.

    randy, florida, usa

    Are all Iran’s current leaders religious maniacs ? There must be some Iranian pragmatists lurking in the background who are capable of taking over the leadership and establishing some sort of detente with Israel and its allies ? Good Iranian men will take action and remove Ahmadinejad eventually.

    Dr. Jimmy, Nottingham, England

    but its ok for israel to have nuclear waepons.

    its ok for vanunu to spend years in prison.

    such hypocrisy

    aj, london, UK

         

    If Irael do this I would hope the Americans cut them off from the $3bn a year they give to the Iraeli state. If the americans don’t approve it, Israel will risk more by doing it than not doing it. It’s time for the madness to end, even if they had nukes Iran won’t strike Israel, it’d be suicide.

    Abharrisson, London,

    Honestly i doubt the will attack. While Israel is capable of attacking iran. They also need to take into a account that they have to fly into currently US controlled air space to get into iran so unless they fly around it chances are this wont happen till the US gives approval.

    Mike, Roseville, USA

    Good for them….at least some people are willing to take action on this. Israel learned long ago that they can’t count on the United States much less Europe to back them up.

    Ian , Fort Collins , United States

    This is inevitable. And after the Israelis attack, Iran will retaliate wildly against any US facility and all Arabian Gulf traffic, because they are too weak to strike Israel directly. That will bring the US and possibly other gulf countries into it, giving cover for a second strike from the US.

    Kevin Finnerty, Atlanta, USA

    Israel is looking out for itself. Israel realizes that Iran is a threat, and with the party swing the U.S. elections brought about, especially seeing how Barack Obama promises to leave Iraq entirely in a few years, Israel needs to be militarily independent. I hope they can do it, for liberty’s sake.

    William Mayer, Mahwah, New Jersey, U.S.A

    These reports seem to surface every 3 months or so, yet nothing happens. My guess, Israel is waiting for the outcome of the Iranian elections and the American transition to take decisive action.

    Jeremy, Atlanta, USA

    Iraq or Iran – Seems confusing

    Edward Manley, London, UK

  • Olmert accuses Jewish settlers of pogrom

    Olmert accuses Jewish settlers of pogrom

    The Associated Press,

    Published: December 7, 200

    JERUSALEM: Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says Jews who attacked Palestinian civilians carried out a “pogrom.”

    Settlers went on a rampage after Israeli forces evicted a group of squatters from a contested building in the West Bank city of Hebron.

    Video footage supplied by an Israeli human rights group shows a settler firing shots at Palestinian rock-throwers from close range, hitting two of them. A second settler is also seen opening fire.

    Palestinians said that in all 17 Palestinians were wounded in the clashes, five of them by gunfire.

    Olmert told his Cabinet on Sunday that the incidents have “no name other than pogrom” and that he was “ashamed.”

    Pogrom is a word most often used to describe mob attacks against Jews in Europe.

    The two settlers caught on film have turned themselves in to police.

    Source: International Herald Tribune, December 7, 2008

  • Riots sweep Greece after teen shot

    Riots sweep Greece after teen shot

    Riots have broken out in several Greek cities after police shot dead a teenage boy in the capital Athens, in the Mediterranean nation’s worst civil disturbances in years.

    The rioting began in Athens on Saturday soon after the shooting in the central Exarchia district, where youths threw petrol bombs at police, burned dozens of cars and smashed shop windows.

    It quickly spread to Greece’s second largest city of Thessaloniki and other towns in northern Greece.

    Cities on the holiday islands of Crete and Corfu also saw protests at the shooting, which prompted Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos to offer his resignation.

    Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis, whose fragile government has been rocked by a series of scandals, rejected it, a ministry spokeswoman said.

    “On behalf of the government and the prime minister, I express sorrow for the incident and especially the death of the young boy,” Pavlopoulos said.

    “An investigation to clarify the incident has already begun. There will be an exemplary punishment and, above all, measures will be taken so that this will never be repeated.”

    Two police officers were arrested and being questioned over the incident, according to a police statement.

    The officers said their patrol car had been attacked by 30 youths throwing stones and other objects. When they attempted to arrest the youths, they were attacked again and one of the officers fired three shots, killing the boy, the statement said.

    It was the first time since 1985 that police have killed a minor in Greece, a police spokesman said. A hospital official said the boy was 15 years old.

    ITN

  • HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA – CONFERENCE AT THE EU PARLIAMENT

    HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA – CONFERENCE AT THE EU PARLIAMENT

    On 2nd December 2008, Human Rights Without Frontiers (Mr Willy Fautré), the ALDE and the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy organized a conference on Human Rights in China at the EU Parliament.

    Mr. Dokun Isa, Secretary General of World Uygur Congress spoke about Uygur Human Rights issue.

    Mr. Willy Fautré of HRWF, Mr. Dokun Isa of WUC



    UNPO representatives and ITF Representative attending the conference


    Prof. Zhang Chongzhi, Mr. Dokun Issa, Secretary General of WUC and

    Dr. Hassan Aydinli, ITF Europe Representative

    An assessment of China’s human rights record

    *Human Rights Defenders *Freedom of Expression *Freedom of Religion or Belief *Tibet Issues *Uyghur Issues *Religious minority Falun Gong *One-child policy *Labour rights *Housing rights and land rights *Environmental rights *Arbitrary detention *Re-education through forced labor *Death Penalty *North Korean Refugees in China

    by over a dozen of NGOs

    Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Fédération Internationale des Droits de l’Homme, Reporters Without Borders, Human Rights Without Frontiers Int’l, Solidarité Chine, China Aid, Friends of Tibet, World Uyghur Congress, CIPFG, Database Center for NK Human Rights, etc.

    Members of the EU Parliament attending the meeting:

    MEP Istvan Szent-Ivanyi, vice-chairman of the Delegation of the European Parliament for Relations with the Korean Peninsula

    MEP Marco Cappato, author of the last human rights report of the European Parliament

    MEP Helga Trüpel, member of the Delegation of the European Parliament for Relations with China

    MEP Graham Watson, president of ALDE political group

    MEP Edward McMillan-Scott, vice-president of the European Parliament.

    Some points mentioned in Mr. Dokun Isa’s speech:

    East Turkestan, also known as Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has been military controlled by Communist China since 1949. The territorial size is 1,818.000 square kilometres (5 times the size of Germany).

    At present the fundamental individual human rights and the freedoms of the Uyghurs including civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights continue to be violated. With the steady flow of Chinese settlers into East Turkestan, the Uygurs are faced with the dangerof becoming a small minority in their own country and thereby losing their cultural identity.

    The Uygurs in East Turkestan face human rights abuses including arbitrary detention and imprisonment, religious repression, economic and educational discrimination, and the steady eradication of the Uyghur language and culture from public life, and the forced sterilization on Uyghur women.

    240.000 young Uygur women have been transferred to China by the Chinese authorities and more than 700 Uygur women have been arrested.

  • The justice for 2.5 million Muslims and Sephardic Jews, cold-bloodedly murdered by the Armenians

    The justice for 2.5 million Muslims and Sephardic Jews, cold-bloodedly murdered by the Armenians

    From: yuce_neriman <yuce_neriman@yahoo.com>
    Bakin, bir ornek

    The justice for 2.5 million Muslims and Sephardic
    Jews, cold-bloodedly murdered by the Armenians, is long overdue. And,
    here is the fascist Armenian reaction to the Armenian genocide of 2.5
    million Muslims and Sephardic Jews that took place between 1914 and 1920.

    The following is the complete text of a letter posted in 1990
    by _SDPA-Armenian Church_ in reaction to the 75th Kurdish, Azeri,
    Tartar, Jewish and Turkish public demonstrations which took place
    on the 75th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide of 2.5 million
    Muslim and Sephardic Jewish People.

    Source: SDPA-Armenian Church <8…@urartu.UUCP>

    _Oh! You low down creature Kurds, you dirty bastards of humanity.
    Like a flock of stupid cows, for the sake of your ulterior motives,
    you have even inoculated your cradled children with the poison of
    the snake. You spread your poison everywhere.

    Oh! You bunch of ungrateful pigs, degenerate profit seekers, betrayers
    of your race, you Tartars, problem of your race. You have been driven
    away from seven places. For fifty years you have been in the cradle of
    humanity, still you could not be human; you brainless jackasses.

    You say that the Armenians massacred you. You commit errors taller
    than your height. Who are you competing with? What do you want and
    from whom? You do not know what you want and from whom.

    Now, of all the races of the world, the Aryan Armenian, possessor of
    noble reputation, relying on the power of the gun and the Church, is
    waiting in line to slay a few million God damn Muslims and Jews.

    God damn Azeris, we are once and for all going to wipe you from the
    face of the earth. This is a legacy left to us by our holy Aryan
    Armenians — Dashnaks and Hunchaks.

    Oh! Christian world knows this well: The world will never have peace
    until we have destroyed these miserable Muslims and Jews on the face
    of the world.

    For the love of Jesus, if you kill one Muslim you will qualify for
    heaven.

    Oh! You fake, coward, Jews; you load mouth Jews. You enter a village
    where there is no dog, and strike left and right without a cane.

    Where are these jackass Turks? What are they waiting for? If you can,
    why don’t you take from Armenia Erivan, Djul, Alexandropol, Hadjin,
    and Hortye; you troublemakers. The Aryan Armenian power is waiting
    for you.

    In the very near future, with the help of Christ and the help of the
    Soviet Union, we will turn Karabag into a graveyard. This also you
    shall learn, that Jesus has placed the faith of the Kurdish people in
    the palm of the Aryan Armenian.

    You should know this well: Neither your swords, nor your Allah, nor
    any nation is able to save you from our hands.

    A few Kurds in Soviet Armenia are slaves in our hands; they are our
    sheep to be slaughtered.

    Oh! You Muslim fox hoards, your seven mosques represent all the Muslim
    mosques. We are going to destroy them over your head and hang your
    leaders by their feet.

    As to your religious leaders, we will spill their guts in the streets
    as we did during the World War I. Let the entire world be spectators
    and see the mighty power of Aryan Armenia which equals the power of
    the whole world.

    Oh! You ungodly miserables, either you are going to become Christian
    and accept the true religion, or we will eliminate you from the face
    of this earth.

    Now, this is your fate, don’t depend on the European and Middle Eastern
    nations, or the United States.

    Only we can bring you to the true fate.

    Only you know, very well, the sharp cutting edge of the Aryan Armenian
    sword.

    When you commemorate the memory of your martyrs, you can add this
    document as an announcement to the world._

    SDPA-Armenian Church <8…@urartu.UUCP>

    Notwithstanding his regular lectures all over the world, Dr. Artun
    also frequently appears on TV shows regarding the Armenian slaughtering
    of 2.5 million innocent Muslims and Sephardic Jews as well as the
    recent Armenian genocide of 1.1 million Azeri people. He is truly
    the just voice of the justice against the unspeakable crimes of
    the Armenians perpetrated against the Muslim and Jewish people
    as has also been amply admitted by the Russian Armenian Government.

    Avetis Aharonian, _From Sardarapat to Sevres and Lausanne_
    Armenian Review, Vol. 16, No. 3-63, Autumn,
    Sep. 1963, pp. 47-57.

    p. 52 (second paragraph).

    _Your three Armenian chiefs, Dro, Hamazasp and Kulkhandanian are
    the ringleaders of the bands which have destroyed Muslim villages
    and have staged massacres in Zangezour, Surmali, Etchmiadzin, and
    Zangibasar. This is intolerable. Look – and here he pointed to a
    file of official documents on the table – look at this, here in
    December are the reports of the last few months concerning ruined
    Muslim villages which my representative Wardrop has sent me. The
    official Tartar communique speaks of the destruction of 300 villages
    by the Armenians._

    p. 54 (fifth paragraph).

    _Yes, of course. I repeat, until this massacre of the Muslim is
    stopped and the three chiefs are not removed from your military
    leadership I hardly think we can supply you arms and ammunition._

    _It is the armed bands led by Dro, Hamazasp and Kulkhandanian who
    during the past months have raided and destroyed many Muslim villages
    in the regions of Surmali, Etchmiadzin, Zangezour, and Zangibasar.
    There are official charges of massacres by the Armenians._

    R. Korkmaz, _The Armenian Genocide of 2.5 Million Muslim People as
    Narrated by Living Eye Witnesses”, 1993, Kok Publishers.

    Prof F. Hertas, _Van Muslim Holocaust Museum: Muslim and Western
    Documents on the Genocide Committed by the Armenians
    Against the Muslims,_ 1984.

    p. 147.

    _Between 1914 and 1920, two and a half million Muslim people were
    murdered by the Armenians in Russian Armenia and Eastern Anatolia._

    Sahak Melkonian, _Preserving the Armenian Purity_ 1920

    _In Soviet Armenia today there no longer exists a single Turkish
    soul. It is in our power to tear away the veil of illusion that
    some of us create for ourselves. It certainly is possible to severe
    the artificial life-support system of an imagined ‘ethnic purity’
    that some of us falsely trust as the only structure that can support
    their heart beats in this alien land._

    _San Francisco Chronicle_ (December 11, 1983) — Section B

    _We have first hand information and evidence of Armenian
    atrocities against our people (Jews). Members of our family
    witnessed the murder of 148 members of our family near Erzurum,
    Turkey, by Armenian neighbors, bent on destroying anything and
    anybody remotely Jewish and/or Muslim…Armenians were in league
    with Hitler in the last war, on his premise to grant themselves
    government if, in return, the Armenians would help exterminate
    Jews. Armenians were also hearty proponents of the anti-Semitic
    acts in league with the Russian Communists._

    Signed Elihu Ben Levi, Vacaville, California.

    The Jewish Times_ June 21, 1990 by Rachel Amado Bortnick

    _An appropriate analogy with the Jewish Holocaust might be the
    systematic extermination of the entire Muslim population of
    the independent republic of Armenia which consisted of at
    least 30-40 percent of the population of that republic. The
    memoirs of an Armenian army officer who participated in and
    eye-witnessed these atrocities was published in the U.S. in
    1926 with the title ‘Men Are Like That.’

    During the years of World War I, the Russian Armenian Government has
    planned and perpetrated the ‘Genocide’ of the Muslim and Sephardic Jewish
    people, which not only took the lives of 2.5 million Muslims and Sephardic
    Jews, but was also the method used to empty the Turkish and Kurdish
    homeland
    of its inhabitants. To this day, Turkish and Kurdish historic lands remain
    occupied by the fascist Russian Armenia. In order to cover up the fact of
    its usurpation of the historic Muslim homeland, which is the crux of the
    Turkish and Kurdish political demands, fascist Russian Armenia continues
    its anti-Muslim/Jewish policy in the following ways:

    1. Russian Armenia denies the historical fact of the ‘Muslim Holocaust’
    in order to shift international public opinion away from its political
    responsibility.

    2. Russian Armenia, employing SDPA and Armenian Church, attempts to call
    into question the veracity of the ‘Muslim Holocaust’.

    3. Russian Armenia has also implemented state-sponsored terrorism through
    SDPA in an attempt to silence the Turkish, Azeri and Kurdish people’s
    vehement demands and protests.

    4. Using all its human, financial, and governmental resources, Russian
    Armenia and its tools in the United States attempt to silence through
    terrorism, censorship, bribery and other subversive methods, non-Muslim
    and non-Jewish supporters of the Turkish and Azeri Cause, be they
    political,
    governmental and humanitarian.

    Using all the aforementioned methods, the Russian Armenian Government
    is attempting to neutralize the international diplomatic community from
    making the Turkish and Azeri Case a contemporary issue.

    Yet despite the efforts of the fascist Russian Armenian Government and
    its criminal and revisionist organizations, in the last decades, thanks
    to the struggle of those whose closest ones have been systematically
    exterminated by the cowardly Armenians, the international wall of silence
    on this issue has begun to collapse, and consequently a number of
    governments
    and organizations have become supportive of the recognition of the ‘Muslim
    Holocaust’.

    With the full knowledge that the struggle for the Turkish, Kurdish and
    Azeri territorial demands are still in their initial stages, the Turkish,
    Azeri and Kurdish people will unflaggingly continue in this sacred
    struggle, therefore the victims of the ‘Muslim Holocaust’ demand:

    1. that the current Russian Armenian Government, as the heirs of the
    fascist ex-Russian Armenian Government, recognize the ‘Muslim Holocaust’;

    2. that Russian Armenia return the historic homeland to the Turkish, Azeri
    and Kurdish people;

    3. that the Russian Armenian Government make material reparations for
    their heinous and unspeakable crime to the victims of the ‘Muslim
    Holocaust’;

    4. that all World Governments, and especially the United States,
    officially
    recognize the ‘Muslim Holocaust’ and, Turkish and Azeri territorial rights
    and refuse to succumb to all Armenian political pressure;

    5. that the U.S. Government free itself from the friendly position it
    has adopted towards its unreliable and cowardly ally, Russian Armenia,
    and officially recognize the historical fact of the ‘Muslim Holocaust’
    as well as be supportive of the pursuit of Turkish and Azeri territorial
    demands;

    6. that the ex-Soviet Republics officially recognize the historical fact
    of the ‘Muslim Holocaust’ and include the cold-blooded extermination of
    2.5 million Muslim and Sephardic Jewish people in their history books.

    The awareness of the Turkish, Azeri, Kurdish and Sephardic Jewish people
    of the necessity of solidarity in the efforts to pursue the Muslim and
    Jewish Cause is seen by the victims of the first genocide of the 20th
    century, perpetrated by the Armenians, as a positive step. Furthermore,
    a new generation has risen — equipped with a deep sense of commitment,
    politically mature and conscious, who determinedly pursue the Muslim
    and Jewish Cause, through all necessary means, ranging from the political
    and diplomatic to the armed struggle. Therefore, the victims of the
    ‘Muslim
    Holocaust’ call upon all Sephardic Jews and Muslims in the United States
    and Canada to participate vigorously in the political, cultural and
    religious
    activities of the 80th Anniversary of the Armenian genocide of 2.5 million
    Muslim and Sephardic Jewish people.

    ——-

    On behalf of 2.5 million Muslims and Sephardic Jews exterminated by the
    Armenians in ex-Russian Armenia and Eastern Anatolia between 1914 and
    1920, I wish to thank you for articulating the first genocide of this
    century in such a productive manner even though I found the tone of UTA’s
    letter rather strong.

    Leonard Ramsden Hartill, _Men Are Like That_ The Bobbs-Merrill
    Company, Indianapolis (1926).
    _Memoirs of an Armenian officer who participated in the Armenian
    genocide of 2.5 million Muslim people_

    p. 202 (first and second paragraphs)

    _We closed the roads and mountain passes that might serve as
    ways of escape for the Tartars and then proceeded in the work
    of extermination. Our troops surrounded village after village.
    Little resistance was offered. Our artillery knocked the huts
    into heaps of stone and dust and when the villages became untenable
    and inhabitants fled from them into fields, bullets and bayonets
    completed the work. Some of the Tartars escaped of course. They
    found refuge in the mountains or succeeded in crossing the border
    into Turkey. The rest were killed. And so it is that the whole
    length of the borderland of Russian Armenia from Nakhitchevan to
    Akhalkalaki from the hot plains of Ararat to the cold mountain
    plateau of the North were dotted with mute mournful ruins of
    Tartar villages. They are quiet now, those villages, except for
    howling of wolves and jackals that visit them to paw over the
    scattered bones of the dead._

    A. Lalayan, _Revolutsionniy Vostok (Revolutionary East)_
    No: 2-3, Moscow, 1936.
    -One of the architects of the Armenian genocide
    of 2.5 million Muslim people_

    _I killed Muslims by every means possible. Yet it is
    sometimes a pity to waste bullets for this. The best
    way is to gather all of these dogs and throw them into
    wells and then fill the wells with big and heavy stones,
    as I did. I gathered all of the women, men and children,
    threw big stones down on top of them. They must never live
    on this earth._

    _The New York Times_ November 7, 1914

    _Massacre of Muslims by Armenians Reported in Van_

    Stanford J. Shaw, _On Armenian Massacres of Muslims in 1914_
    (London, Cambridge University Press 1977). pp. 315-316.

    _In April 1915 Armenians from Russian Armenia organized a revolt in
    the city of Van, whose 33,789 Armenians comprised 42.3 percent of
    the population. Leaving Erivan on April 28, 1915, Armenian volunteers
    reached Van on May 14 and organized and carried out a general slaughter
    of the local Muslim population during the next two days._

    _U.S. Ambassador Bristol on the Armenian Genocide of 2.5 million Muslims_

    “U.S. Library of Congress” _Bristol Papers_ – General
    Correspondence Container #34.

    _While the Dashnaks [x-Russian Armenian Government] were in
    power they did everything in the world to keep the pot boiling
    by attacking Kurds, Turks and Tartars; by committing outrages
    against the Moslems; by massacring the Moslems; and robbing and
    destroying their homes. During the last two years the Armenians
    in Russian Caucasus have shown no ability to govern themselves
    and especially no ability to govern or handle other races under
    their power._

    _Bristol Papers_, General Correspondence: Container #32: Bristol
    to Bradley Letter of September 14, 1920.

    _I have it from absolute first-hand information that the
    Armenians in the Caucasus attacked Tartar (Muslim) villages
    that are utterly defenseless and bombarded these villages
    with artillery and they murder the inhabitants, pillage the
    village and often burn the village._

    On this occasion, we once again reiterate the unquestioned
    justice of the restitution of Turkish, Azeri, Sephardic Jewish
    and Kurdish rights and:

    — We demand that the puppet Russian Armenian Government admit
    its responsibility for the _Muslim Holocaust_, render reparations
    to the Muslim people, and return the land to its rightful
    owners. The recognition of the Genocide has become an issue
    which cannot be delayed further, and it is imperative that
    artificial obstacles created for political manipulations be
    removed.

    — We believe the time has come to demand from the the United
    States that it formally recognizes the _Muslim Holocaust_,
    adopts the principles of our demands and refuses to accede
    to Armenian pressures to the contrary.

    — As taxpayers of the United States, we express our vehement
    protest to the present U.S. Government policy of continued
    coddling, protection and unqualified assistance towards fascist
    Russian Armenia.

    — On the eve of 80th Anniversary Commemoration, the Turkish,
    Azeri and Kurdish communities are using every measure possible
    to render APRIL 23 as a day of official recognition in the
    countries in which they live. We are certain that the Turks,
    Azeris and Kurds in Turkiye and in the Diaspora would be greatly
    satisfied if APRIL 23 is officially designated a _Muslim Holocaust
    Day_ in ex-Soviet Muslim Republics.

    — During the 80th Anniversary, we come once again reiterate the unity
    of the Muslim and Sephardic Jewish People, the timelessness of the
    Turkish, Azeri and Kurdish Demands and the desire to pursue the
    struggle for that restitution — a struggle that unites all Muslims
    and Sephardic Jews.

    — Today, we appeal to all Turkish, Azeri, Jewish and Kurdish people
    in the United States and Canada to participate en masse in the
    Commemorative Events, be they cultural, political or religious.

    Crime of systematic cleansing by mass killing and extermination of
    Muslim population in Soviet Republic of Armenia, Karabag, Bosnia and
    Herzegovina is an ‘Islamic Holocaust’ comparable to extermination of
    2.5 million Muslims by Armenian Government during WWI and of over 6
    million European Jews during WWII.] (Tovfik Kasimov – September 25, ’92)