PART VI
MACHINATION OF GENOCIDE
Turkish Terror
Ottoman Turkey called “the sick man of Europe” in the early 20th
century crumbled on itself out of barbarism and bankruptcy. The vast
Ottoman Empire, stretching from the Balkans, through the Middle
East, to the tip of North West Africa, fell into decay and began to
dissolve in 1908 because it resisted democratic change and social
reforms. Its economy was largely rural, primitive and highly
regional. Being descendants of the Mongols, the Seljuk Turks
eventually embraced Islam, and based their rule on the Islamic
Shari’ah Law. Non-Muslim inhabitants were subjugated to the “Millet”
Provision of the Islamic Shari’ah rule until the end of World War I.
Turkey lacked sealed roads, railway lines, adequate radio communications
and telegraph system. Turkey’s social Tanzimat Reforms were no more than
a farcical ploy to win European diplomatic and military support in its
Crimean War of 1853-1856 against Russia.
Turkey’s Islamic Shari’ah Law and ruling system of the Abode of Peace
and the Abode of War remained intact until its fall, and collapse of the
Ottoman Empire. In the aftermath of World War I, Turkey re-established
her government as a secular state as Modern Turkey under the leadership
of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk after World War One.
Russia had earlier demanded protection of the Christians from the harsh
Ottoman rule of the Islamic Shari’ah law. The promises, which Turkey had
made, in its edicts of equality for the Christian millet groups, under
pressure of Tsarist Russia, were never implemented. The Poll tax paid by
non-Muslims was lifted, to be replaced by another new tax levied at a
higher rate.
None of the reformation announcements in their edicts from 1839-1876
ever benefited the Christians. On the contrary, their situation became
worse. Freedom from oppression and equality before the law for the
Christians never eventuated. Persecution of the Christian millets
continued. Turkey’s Tanzimat reforms promised to the Christians were one
of the highest forms of deception. The systematic massacres and
barbarity committed later, by the Turks, during World War I, against the
Christians, will ever remain a black mark on the forehead of the nation
of Islam.
Islamic States of The Abode of Peace have lately strengthened their
economic position and financial credit through control of the oil
market. Their future nuclear striking capability and development of
long-range missiles is on the rise. Pakistan, Iran and Libya, in recent
years, have revealed their hidden agenda through their radical Islamic
organizations and individual fundamentalists against the whole world of
Christendom.
The long-term objective of the Islamic States of the Abode Peace is to
annihilate Christianity and Judaism in the Middle East as a prelude to
encroachment on Europe, establishing the gradual emergence of the
Islamic version of the new world order. In the Islamic view, Mohammed’s
message extends to all humanity. It is a responsibility Islam must meet
as pronounced by the messenger. Italy is Islam’s main target for the
establishment of its next Dar Al-Silm power base in Europe. It already
has the largest Mosque in Europe built in Rome.
Before its defeat, the economy of the Ottoman Empire had completely
collapsed. It followed old trade routes with primitive means of
transport like oxen carts, mules and camels as beasts of burden, instead
of competent merchant ships and railways. It built huge armies that it
could no longer logistically support. Its work force and resources were
under considerable strain. It could no longer protect the outstretched
borders of its vast empire.
Its survival had mainly depended on preying on the subjects of its
conquered territories, exacting heavy poll tax on non-Muslim adults,
their properties, farmlands and produce, travel and trade. The Ottoman
central government adopted the policy of recruiting Janissary/Mamluke
forces, from among the Christians, using them as human shields in their
invasions and conquests. This served to expand their territory, while at
the same time diminish and exhaust the millet natives to near extinction
by using them as slave labour, with cruelty and utter neglect.
Assyrians who had been under the Arab rule before the takeover of the
Turks, sunk deeper into deprivation and misery. Christianity continued
to live under persecution and repression, under Islam. Assyria, then an
Ottoman Province, remained in total darkness and in isolation of the
Western world, save for the Vatican. Imperial Rome, before its
withdrawal from the Middle East, reached agreement with Dar Al-Silm of
Islam, for protection and safety of all the Latin Catholic (Affiliate
and Uniate) Churches in the Abode of Peace. The Vatican did not include
non-Latin Catholic Churches in her agreement. They were left unprotected
from the wrath of the Papacy and Islam.
After the capture of Constantinople by the Seljuk Turks (Oghuz Turkish
nomads), in 1453, trading practices continued. Non-Muslim traders were
given privileges and immunity as encouragement to revamp trade. In 1535,
under the Capitulations Agreement, Turkey granted France full religious
liberty, the right to guard the Christian Holy places, and the right of
protection over all the Christians that lived in the Levant. Non-Latin
Catholic Christians fell under protection of France. Yet, France denied
them the privileges enjoyed by the Latin Catholics, such as ownership of
property, establishment of schools and learning institutions, free
travel and trade. They were ignored and neglected, accused of being in
error of the Latin Catholic faith and treated them as heretics. To the
Latin-Catholics, the Capitulations Agreement was very rewarding. It is
still relevant to them until today. To the non-Latin Catholics, it is an
anathema. Papacy continues to encourage implementation of the
Capitulations Agreement by enhancing the Islamic Thimmitude ‘millet’
Shari’ah Rule on the non-Latin Catholics. The Latin Catholics consider
themselves immune from the hostility of Islam. They are wrong. They have
suffered as much, and perhaps more. True, they have improved their lot
in education and business. Yet, the majority of the Latin Catholics of
the Middle East and North Africa have lost their national identity and
mother tongue, their history and roots. In Islamic countries, such
natives are classified, by their Islamic Governments, as Ra’aya: as in
herd, a flock. They are not recognised as full subjects and citizens of
the country. They are tramped down and lost. They become a stratum, a
layer levelled under yet another layer to follow later in time, under
the footprint of Islam. The Baluch of Baluchistan are a testimony to
that (Muhammad Sardar Khan Baluch, 1965: pp 1, 10, 17, 23).
To maintain its traditional trade, Turkey allowed the local and foreign
traders to continue in their line of business in order to help enhance
trade. Later, in 1535, the Ottoman Empire went further. In addition to
the commercial privileges and immunity France enjoyed, under the
Capitulations Agreement, Turkey granted France:
‘...full religious liberty to the French in the Ottoman Empire
and the right to guard the Christian holy places, and much more...’
(Peter Mansfield, 1991: pp 35, 38).
As a result, full protection was established over all the Latin
Catholics in the Ottoman Empire. Emboldened by its achievement, France
caused untold abuses to the non- Catholic Christians. It confiscated and
closed their churches and schools, burned their books and libraries and
restricted their trade, their travel and their movement to within their
own localities - prisoners in their own homeland.
World War I ended and resulted in many treaties and agreements, but
many ensuing problems did not; they remained unresolved. The
mandates created Islamic national governments with constitutions,
which lacked guarantees for the protection of the indigenous peoples
that fell under such Islamic Shari’ah Rule. The Capitulations
Agreement continued to be implemented by the, through France and
Britain. Non-Latin Catholic Christian natives, in particular the
Assyrians, were denied their basic human rights. The traditional
rights of the Israelites and Assyrians of the Middle East nations,
whose lands had been taken away from them by the Turks and Arabs,
were not returned to them. The Anglo-French agenda was designed to
consolidate their long-term presence in the Middle East for the
control of the oilfields, combating of communism and subjugation of
the Christian Orthodoxy and the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian
Church of the East to Latin-Catholicism. They installed Islamic
monarchs and rulers congenial to their own French and British
interests. Being major power brokers, they influenced the Council of
the League of Nations to compromise its principles and the purpose
for which it had been set, which was to do justice, rehabilitate the
displaced peoples and bring stability and peace to the region.
Islamic countries in the Abode of Peace have never seriously or
willingly accepted to reform their system of the Consultative
Council along the lines of Western democracy. Since most of their
rules are godly, inspired from on high, and based on the teachings
of the Koran and the Hadeeth, they are termed religious. Hence, it
is natural for an Islamic state to establish its ruling system based
on the Islamic (Shari’ah) law.
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