Genocide vs. Barbarism

Submitted by Michael S. (United States), Nov 2, 2014 at 20:02

Dhimmi,

You are trying to equate barbarism, which is part of the nature of Arabs, Turks, Greeks, Armenians, Kurds, Iranians, et al, with genocide. Genocide is the deliberate, calculated effort to completely annihilate a people. Hitler committed genocide against the Jews and Romani. The ancient Persians attempted genocide against the Jews. The Hutus committed genocide against the Tutsis. There have been other instances as well; but most events called "genocide" are simply barbarism.

The Turks and Kurds committed well-documented barbarism against the Armenians and Assyrians around World War I, a war in which tens of millions of English, Germans, French, Austrians, Russians and others were killed in an all-out effort to kill one another. To compare this with the deliberate herding of the Jews into killing pens on an industrial scale by Hitler, is to do a great injustice to the victims of true genocide.

Did the Greeks and Armenians suffer genocide? Let them prove how they suffered, by doing something to oppose the Iranians -- a people who have sworn to annihilate the Jews, and are producing the weapon capability to do so. The last I heard, the Armenians were allies of the Russians and Iranians.

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