Have you forgotten Armenian Genocide committed by "moderate" Muslim Turkey???

Submitted by Jaladhi (United States), Sep 1, 2010 at 14:29

Hi Jason, you cite Turkey as having moderate Islam 100 years back and in reply I said No. Here is some more powerful historical events to show that Turkey was never any moderate in history or now.

Turkey and its Muslims were not moderate 100 years back nor are they now. Perhaps you know of the Armenian genocde by Turkish Muslims 100 years back started under Ottoman empire and it continued under Kemal Ata Turk. Supposedly 1 to 1.5 million Armenians were were massacred by moderate Turkish Muslims!!!

Look at present day Turkey, in addition to my earlier comments, Turkish Muslims have bombed synagogues and murdered Christian priests. These incidents happen more often than not!! Is that a sign of moderate Muslims in Turkey???

Conclusion: There is no moderate Islam nor any moderate Muslim!!! The myth of billions of moderate and peaceful Muslims continue to be peddled by Muslims themselves and their Western apologists!!! And the myth of " it's only a tiny minority of extremists" doesn't wash either as is always the case, one day a moderate and next day an extremist or radical!!

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