Life in the no genocide zone

Submitted by Jeff (United States), May 23, 2022 at 23:50

"...and nothing like the genocide by Judeo-Christian Europe ever happened in the Middle East."

About a million Armenians were murdered by the Ottoman empire between 1915 and 1917, an event generally known as the Armenian Genocide. Turkey still denies it ever happened, despite many eyewitnesses. Apparently you do, too.

Iraqi troops murdered a hundred thousand or so Kurds in the late 1980's, an event generally known as the Anfal Genocide.

Hama, Syrian Arab Republic, 1982? Oh, just a massacre, not a genocide. No big deal.

How did the Hindu Kush get its name?

Hitler's friend and colleague, Haj Amin al-Husseini, mufti of Jerusalem, elicited a promise from Hitler to kill all the Jews in the middle east after the job was done in Europe. That genocide in the middle east didn't happen because we defeated Hitler before he could keep that promise.

President Nassar of Egypt said repeatedly that he would "push the Jews into the sea." Kill them all, in other words. That genocide didn't happen because Nassar also repeatedly lost each war he started.

The Lebanese Muslim cleric Hassan Nasrallah said "If Jews all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide." Definitely better when a genocide isn't too much trouble.

When did Arabs and Afghans become brown? Somehow that huge event escaped me.

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