Bleeding Armenia: Its history and horrors under the curse of Islam

Bleeding Armenia: Its history and horrors under the curse of Islam

At no time of the worlds history have there ever been two months so rich in grand tragedy as the Armenian period of November and December, 1895. It is not the enormous number of the killed nor the frightful suffering of the survivors that give this period its unique character, but the fact that the great majority of the 75,000 or more of the massacred Christians had a free choice to make between life and death, and they chose death. Civilized humanity is bound to take a supreme interest in the action of those heroes and heroines who sacrificed all the interests of existence to their moral ideal of life,in those women who, in order to escape from the outrage of a bestial soldiery, threw themselves into the river Euphrates and were drowned,in those virgins who, captured by the brutal Moslems, received twenty, thirty sword cuts in defending their honor,in those men who, when threatened with instant death if they would not embrace Islam, answered, we are ready to be immolated for the love of Christ, and they were slaughtered like sheep. The historian and the dramatic writer, the poet and the painter will soon follow the diplomatist and the journalist to take up the matter, and the Christian peoples of all lands will continue to receive now a thrill of pious admiration, now a tremendous shock at the recital of these events. In fact, the Armenian occurrences have two sides, one glorious, and one of hellish darkness. They bring out in the most striking fashion, the infernal genius of the Mahommedan religion. The Moslems, [16]high and low, exhibited such foul sensuality, such satanic cruelty and such delight in ferocity of which even the savages are incapable. And these qualities are precisely those which Mohammedanism cultivates. The Armenian crisis served also as a test to bring out the actual degree of European morality. Alas! who would have believed a year ago that the Christian powers of Europe would permit the Turk to attempt before their eyes the extermination of a Christian nation and church by wholesale massacre and forced conversions? Such is, nevertheless, the dreadful revelation of the year. They did not prevent the most colossal crime of the century, nor did they punish the criminal who by their mercy alone had the power of committing such a crime; moreover, they had the front, at least some of them, to declare that, for reasons of high diplomacy, they were ready to support the authority of the monstrous criminal over his victims. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 49569
Author: Gabrielean, M. Smbat
Release Date: Aug 1, 2015
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Contributor (Author): Williams, Augustus Warner, 1844-1920