ARMENIAN GENOCIDE UNDER THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE

The Hamidian Massacres, 1894–1896

"...Djevdet accused Armenians of "rebellion," and spoke of his determination to "crush" it at any cost. "If the rebels fire a single shot," he declared, "I shall kill every Christian man, woman, and" (pointing to his knee) "every child, up to here."

The deportation and extermination process

See also: Armenian casualties of deportations

The Armenians were driven east, with only what they could carry

With the implementation of Tehcir law, the confiscation of Armenian property and the slaughter of Armenians that ensued upon the law's enactment outraged much of the western world. While the Ottoman Empire's wartime allies offered little protest, a wealth of German andAustrian historical documents has since come to attest to the witnesses' horror at the killings and mass starvation of Armenians.^[42][43][44]In the United States, The New York Times reported almost daily on the mass murder of the Armenian people, describing the process as "systematic", "authorized" and "organized by the government." Theodore Roosevelt would later characterize this as "the greatest crime of the war."^[45]

The Armenians were marched out to the Syrian town of Deir ez-Zor and the surrounding desert. A good deal of evidence suggests that the Ottoman government did not provide any facilities or supplies to sustain the Armenians during their deportation, nor when they arrived.^[46]By August 1915, The New York Times repeated an unattributed report that "the roads and the Euphrates are strewn with corpses of exiles, and those who survive are doomed to certain death. It is a plan to exterminate the whole Armenian people."^[47]

Ottoman troops escorting the Armenians not only allowed others to rob, kill, and rape the Armenians, but often participated in these activities themselves.^[46] Deprived of their belongings and marched into the desert, hundreds of thousands of Armenians perished.

Title click to read the history of the Armenian people under Muslim rule.

SPAIN UNDER MUSLIM RULE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Andalus

" Bernard Lewis takes issue with this view, arguing its modern use is ahistorical and apologetic. He argues that Islam traditionally did not offer equality nor even pretended that it did, arguing that it would have been both a "theological as well as a logical absurdity."^[19]

Click on link to read the history of Muslim rule in Spain.

Link to ISLAMIC children's show.  The message is Islam will return to Europe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S995NCeaUg

"In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. Mark Twain, 1904"