Armenia awoke on September 13, 2022 to an uncertain future after Azerbaijan attacked it in the dead of night. As Trey Blanton reported on location, Azerbaijani forces launched drones, artillery, and mortars on several Armenian villages. More than 100 Armenian soldiers were killed—several later mutilated beyond recognition—in Azerbaijan’s two-day bombardment.
Modern hostilities between Armenia, an ancient nation, and Azerbaijan, which was created in 1918, began in late 2020. War erupted at that time over disputed territory now known as “Nagorno-Karabakh.” It had been Armenian for thousands of years, with the name Artsakh, and it remains predominantly Armenian. After the dissolution of the USSR, however, it was allotted to Azerbaijan, causing problems since and culminating in the recent wars. (See “15 Artsakh War Myths Perpetuated By Mainstream Media.”)
The Hate That Never Dies
On the surface, and as widely reported by media, this is yet another territorial dispute, this time between (Christian) Armenia and (Muslim) Azerbaijan. Beneath the surface, however, lurks that old Muslim-Christian divide, typified by jihadist hate for “infidels.”
Many factors validate this view. For starters, Christian Armenia’s ancient Muslim nemesis, Turkey, funded Sharia-enforcing “jihadist groups” that had operated earlier in Syria and Libya — including one that had kept naked, sex-slave women in prison — for the purpose of terrorizing and slaughtering Armenians at the start of the late 2020 war.
One of these captured mercenaries later confessed that he was “promised a monthly $2,000 payment for fighting against ‘kafirs’ in Artsakh, and an extra 100 dollar[s] for each beheaded kafir.” (Kafir, often translated as “infidel,” is Arabic for any non-Muslim who fails to submit to Islam, which makes them enemies by default.)
Erdogan’s ISIS
Among other ISIS-like crimes, committed by the Islamic coalition of mercenaries, Turks, and Azerbaijanis waging war on Armenia in late 2020, they “tortured beyond recognition” an intellectually disabled Armenian woman by sadistically hacking off her ears, hands, and feet, before finally executing her. Similarly, video footage showed camouflaged soldiers overpowering and forcing down an elderly Armenian man, who cries and implores them for mercy, as they casually try to carve at his throat with a knife.
Just last week, Azerbaijani forces created mounds of decapitated and mutilated Armenian soldiers. One of them, a female, was raped, had both arms and legs cut off, one eye gouged out, and her own fingers mockingly stuffed inside her mouth and private parts.
None of this is surprising. As usual, once the jihad on Armenia became official, the Christian foe was hated with unbridled ferocity. Even Nurlan Ibrahimov, the head, not of politics, but of the press service of Qarabag football club of Azerbaijan, felt he had to chime in: “We [Azerbaijanis] must kill all Armenians — children, women, the elderly. [We] need to kill [them] without [making a] distinction. No regrets, no compassion.”
Confirming such murderous sentiments, Arman Tatoyan, an Armenian human rights activist, reported:
The President of Azerbaijan and the country’s authorities have been implementing a policy of hatred, enmity, ethnic cleansing and genocide against Armenia, citizens of Armenia and the Armenian people for years. The Turkish authorities have done the same or have openly encouraged the same policy.
By way of example, he said that Azerbaijan’s President Aliyev once publicly boasted that “the younger generation has grown up with hatred toward the enemy,” meaning Armenians.
NATO’s Jihadists
Another factor evincing the Islamic pedigree of the conflict is that Turkey, though uninvolved with the dispute, quickly joined its Azerbaijani co-religionists and arguably even spearheaded the initial stages of the war against Armenia. As Nikol Pashinyan, Armenia’s prime minister rhetorically asked at the start of the war: “Why has Turkey returned to the South Caucasus 100 years [after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire]?” His answer: “To continue the Armenian Genocide.”
Needless to say, jihadist hate, which is always a precursor to genocide, continues to be evident everywhere in modern-day Turkey. One need only listen to the religiously-laden rant of one Turkish man about how all Armenians are “dogs” and that any found in Turkey should be slaughtered to get an idea:
Why do we let them live? … We will slaughter them when the time comes. … This is Turkish soil. How are we Ottoman grandchildren? …. The people of Turkey who have honor, dignity, and Allah must cut the heads of the Armenians in Turkey. It is dishonorable for anyone to meet and not kill an Armenian. … If we are human, let us do this — let us do it for Allah… . Everyone listening, if you love Allah, please spread this video of me to everyone.
Similarly, in response to a question being asked to random passersby on the streets of Turkey — “If you could get away with one thing, what would you do?” — a woman said on video: “What would I do? Behead 20 Armenians.” She then looked directly at the camera, and smiled while nodding her head.
A Hunt for All Things Christian
That the conflict is underscored by Islam’s traditional hate for all things Christian is perhaps best seen in the hallmark sign that “Islam was here” — the systematic desecration of Christian churches — that has befallen Armenian churches under Azerbaijani control, despite promises from the authorities to protect them.
In one instance, and as has happened countless times throughout the ages, an Azerbaijani stood atop an Armenian church, after its cross had been broken off, triumphantly crying “Allahu Akbar!”
Azerbaijani forces also shelled and destroyed Holy Savior, an iconic Armenian cathedral which was “consecrated in 1888 but was damaged during the March 1920 massacre of Armenians of the city by Azerbaijanis and experienced a decades-long decline.” See here, here, and here for similar examples — including the torching of an Armenian church in San Francisco during a spike of anti-Armenian hate crimes.
Turning Churches into Mosques
According to a March 27, 2021 report, over the course of just two weeks, at least three Armenian churches in Artsakh (“Nagorno-Karabakh”) were vandalized or destroyed — even though a ceasefire was declared in November, 2020. Video footage showed Azerbaijani troops entering into one of the churches, laughing, mocking, kicking, and defacing Christian items inside it, including a fresco of the Last Supper. Turkey’s flag appears on the Azeri servicemen’s uniform, further implicating that nation. As they approach, one of the soldiers says, “Let’s now enter their church, where I will perform namaz.” Namaz is a reference to Muslim prayers; when Muslims pray inside non-Muslim temples, those temples immediately become mosques.
Transforming “conquered” churches into victory mosques is, of course, the ultimate display of jihadist supremacy — one participated in by even the president of Azerbaijan. On May 12, 2021, the same day Azerbaijani troops entered Armenian territory, President Aliyev laid the foundation for a new “victory” mosque on ancient Christian territory, in Shushi, where another cathedral was desecrated.
Such are the unspoken religious and ideological underpinnings of what is being presented as a mere “territorial dispute.”
Devout Muslims doing what their “religion” commands, as they have done since Islam was invented. Thank you Raymond Ibrahim for keeping us informed.
What baffles me is how can grown men in this day and age of mass communication and education not only believe in what their religion is about and not realise it is so evil it must come from the devil ( as is the conclusion of some who have studied it ) but also to revel in it and carry out the instructions contained in their supposed ” holy ” book. Men of good character would automatically reject the teachings, so how can masses of Muslims not wake up and see the light. Evil stalks their lands and sadly finds acceptance among the residents. To what extent should they be allowed to enter and settle in the lands where the people do not accept their beliefs.
The West will take notice after most of the Christians have been murdered or fled the region …
… and our Globalist leaders will blame Christians for genocide and ethnically cleansing the region …
Oh, wait … that was Kosovo wasn’t it? Or maybe it was Donestk?
… Where’s Artsakh again? (rhetorical)
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God bless Raymond and his family …
Are there not enough enlightened western nations to mount a counter-jihad against these mindless Islamic atrocities? The adherents of Islam are largely uneducated herdsmen and countless other low-rent characters who get off on violent attacks against innocent “infidels” because the police and government officials in Muslim-majority countries turn a blind eye to acts that would be considered unbridled terrorism in any western or far-eastern country. It’s said that about 75-80% of Muslims are illiterate, so the whole history of their phony religion has been transmitted by word-of-mouth from their so-called clerics to gullible morons. Mohammad himself was an uneducated barbarian that indulged in the same inhuman acts that we’re witnessing today. A few hundred tactical nukes judiciously employed would rid the world of 90% of these inhuman scum.
The whole of Islam is based on falsehoods, including the founder himself in that he was unable to read or write. Apparently Gabriel, through whom apparently Allah dispensed his instructions, spoke to Aisha and not Muhammad, whether she could read and write we are not told. It has always struck me Allah did not chose very well as to his rep on earth in that Muhammad was in his fifties and fancied the daughter of a neighbour when she was four, asked for her hand in marriage and which took place when she was 6, bringing her dolls etc with her. Admittedly attitudes change over time but I would have thought any parent who was asked by a mature man if he could marry his 4 year old daughter, would tell that man to ” f off ” in no uncertain terms. But the marriage took place and was consummated when the child was either 8 or 9, hence it being allowed by Sharia law ever since. The name Allah chosen by Muhammad was the Moon God of the Arab tribes among whom the prophet was living. What also amazes me is the absolute change in God’s attitude from His previous utterances, firstly to the Jews then Jesus, whose teaching was based on love etc, and whereas Islam accepts Jesus as one of their prophets, the change in instructions could not be more different, the Koran being full of instruction to kill, rape, murder, pillage etc ( which ISIS did and why ). The leaders/ rulers of Islam, Saudi Arabian or Iranian should be asked to explain the aspects of their religion, from which we kaffirs are at risk in all sorts of ways.
I do not understand the Armenian government’s position. It gives me the impression of seeking alliance with the West. It is not difficult to see that the West will not save them.
Israel on the other hand has provided the drones to Azerbaijan.
I also believe that Iran is not so much an enemy of Aremenia, I have even read that they are going to put their troops on the borders between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Bulgarian, Romanian, Hungarian and Slovakian gas network operators propose to supply Europe with gas from Azerbaijan – Bulgarian President in meeting with Azerbaijani President Aliyev.
Christodium* in general and Armenodium in particular is what is being socially manifested. It mimics immunology in cells. Host-versus-graft reactions now or graft-versus-host reaction when the Turks were the grafts upon their invasion of Armenian and Christian territories.
*Odium: Latin word for hatred