I was recently interviewed on Open Platform, a talk show on Public TV of Armenia. The official description and video follow:
Erdogan continues to praise terrorist sultans | Davit Muradyan and Raymond Ibrahim, Author of “Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West”, Middle East and Islam specialist, discussed the activities of Turkey and terrorists during the 2020 war in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh).
Do you want to come out to our club and speak this summer on a Friday night, let me know.
Thanks Raymond, I always learn a bit more in each video. Plenty more left to learn I realize.
Excellent coverage and analysis.
I’m not actually sure Turkey is restrained by the peer pressure of international opinion.
99.9% of modern governments (who might pose a threat to Turkey) Are so progressive that they will not intervene. The cult of pacifism has penetrated our nations so deeply (encouraged by pseudo-marxist media) that we would rather die by a thousand cuts than commit to taking sanguinary action. I have always said that Armenia was my personal red line, being the oldest Christian nation and I am not content to accept my countries response to acts of aggression against it. That said, the Artsakh situation was created by Russia and they did live up to their responsibilities by not intervening in the recent conflict.
*Russia did NOT live up to their responsibilities. My mistake
It was really shocking to hear loud and clear how the different Christian denominations (Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant) remain divided. And how (cowardly) Western governments in countries with Christian roots, more often against the wishes of their people, side with Muslims in conflicts so as not to be viewed as “crusaders”. Examples abound. In the 1990s, the sustained bombing of Serbia by NATO and its siding with the KLA, resulted in a Mafia trafficking arms, drugs and young women, not to mention that, contrary to the Drayton peace agreement which required the expulsion of foreign fighters, Arabs and Islamist volunteers, Bosnia gave them Bosnian citizenship instead, resulting in an Islamic base in the heart of Europe. Again in the 1970s,
Turkey’s invasion of Cyprus to which Kissinger gave his blessing supposedly to keep Turkey US-and-NATO friendly (“CIA document confirms Kissinger’s selling out of Cyprus”, on the internet), ended with dire consequences for Cyprus, which apart from the looting and destruction in the North, Turkish populations were imported from the mainland in order to change the demographic structure of the island. And in 2020, Armenians, “these weird Orthodox people” (to borrow Ibrahim’s so apt description of how some other Christians viewed them), who suffered so much during the Armenian genocide which Turkey refuses to acknowledge, fought a war against Azerbaijan, who was supported by Turkey, ending in Azerbaijan’s favour (anyone interested in the Armenian genocide read “Ravished Armenia”, by Aurora Mardiganian who lived through the massacres, first published 1918),
The Ottoman Turkish occupation of large parts of Europe, which lasted, not four or five years as the Nazi occupation which was bad enough but, four hundred and five hundred years, is now all but forgotten, but not by the people in the countries who suffered unspeakable horrors in addition to paying the jizya, and worse the devshirme, if they didn’t convert, not to mention such (ridiculous and humiliating) rulings as forbidding non-Muslims to ride horses but only donkeys. This leaves deep scars in the psyche not only of the many generations who endured the horrors but also on those of their descendants even after the liberation, generation after generation – horrors which cannot be comprehended by those who didn’t suffer them. If things don’t change soon, I am afraid I have a good idea who the crocodile will eat last – and make the differences between the Christian denominations redundant.
“”Right now, at this moment in Israel in the city of Netanya in front of the building of the military corporation Elbit Systems supplying a protest to Azerbaijan. The Armenian Diaspora of Israel and dozens of Jews protest and demand to stop supplying weapons to the regime of Aliev, which uses weapons against civilians.
Briefly translate from Hebrew what they say:
– Azerbaijan is run by a dictatorial regime, ranking 168 out of 180 possible in the world in terms of civil liberties.
– Azerbaijan spreads armenophobia and promotes intolerance towards ethnic minorities.
– Azerbaijan uses Israeli weapons to strike civilians in Karabakh.
– Azerbaijan is an unreliable ally for Israel with its growing Islamic fundamentalism and in the near future power will change to hostile for Israel and Jews as it happened in 1979 in Iran.
– Thousands of Armenians saved Jews from the Nazis during World War II, and Israel not only did not recognize the Armenian Genocide, but also supplies weapons to Azerbaijan.”
May Lord Christ protect and save Armenia from further genocide.
Greater is the sin of the ones with whose permission Turkey as a NATO member is doing what it is doing, not only in Armenia, but in the Balkans, too.
Thank you kindly for the knowledge and for sharing some of the truths with the world. That is very honorable.