Come down from your pedestal.

Submitted by Michael S. (United States), Nov 22, 2014 at 03:44

Shalom dhimmi no more.

THE NEW GLOBAL ANTISEMITISM: IMPLICATIONS FROM THE RECENT ADL-100 DATA
By Arno Tausch September 28, 2014

-- http://www.gloria-center.org/2014/09/the-new-global-antisemitism-implications-from-the-recent-adl-100-data/

ADL 100:Percentage of population holding antisemitic views:

Laos 0.2 (least antisemitic)...
United States 9.0...
Brazil 16.0...
China 20.0, India 20.0...
Japan 23.0...
Germany 27.0...
Russia 30.0...
Indonesia 48.0...
Iran 56.0, Armenia 58.0...
Turkey 69.0...
Egypt 75.0...
Iraq 92.0 (most antisemitic)

It's a very complete list -- I just showed the highlights. Armenia ranks right down there with the Iranians, and not far from the Turks.

dhim, I don't know why you're so all-fired concerned about painting the Turks black and the Armenians white. When those Armenians were killed during the First World War, the word "genocide" didn't even exist. It's a legal term, used in modern days against Israeli Jews -- for instance, when the Jews very legitimately, and with great restraint, recently attacked Arab missile-launching sites in Gaza. That was not "genocide", though the Arabs painted it that way -- and the world believed their semantic nonesense, thanks to people like you who have cheapened the word. You seem to think you are being very pious and sanctimonious in doing this; but instead, you are buying a ticket to Gehenna with you complicity in attacking the Jews.

World War I casualties (civilian):

Ottoman Empire: 2,500,000
Russian Empire 1,140,000
German Empire 424,720 to 763,720
Italy 592,400
Austria-Hungary 587,000
Serbia 450,000
France 340,000
Romania 330,000
Greece 150,000
UK 123,829
Bulgaria 100,000
Belgium 85,700
Portugal 82,000

Those Ottoman figures include all sides -- Turks, Armenians, Kurds, you name it. I haven't even included the millions of soldiers who died inhumane deaths because of gas attacks, etc. World War I was not just about your Armenians -- come down from your pedestal. You are not God, that you should be condemning people because they do not agree with you.

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