Monday, October 11, 2010

Great Moments In The History of Co-Existence: Turkish Muslims Pray In Church They Stole From Armenians After Genocide

Co-Exist, you know, like the Ground Zero Mosque.

From Jawa:

Less than 100 years after the Armenian genocide, Turkish Muslims hold prayer service in an Armenian church:



In disuse and disrepair because of the 1915 Armenian genocide that destroyed the surrounding communities. The Turkish Government refuses to return the church to its rightful owners, the Istanbul Patriarchate of the Armenian Apostolic Church, and only allows Armenian services to be conducted there once a year.

The Pact of Umar still intact after 1400 years.

The Muslim prayer service at the Armenian church was described by Turkish authorities as an effort of "tolerance and goodwill towards Armenians."

Sound familiar? That's the same excuse Imam Rauf and other proponents use to justify their Ground Zero Victory Mosque.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Last week, Glenn Beck mentioned a Fabian technique that appears to be in motion and accelerating (wear opponent down, physically/mentally/emotionally on multiple fronts until reaching goal is inevitable):


Their strategy is called "Doctrine of Inevitability of Gradualism". What does that mean? The doctrine of inevitability of gradualism.

Let's say you say to your wife, Hey, I want to rebuild an engine in the living room. She's not going to do that. She's going to say, what the — what is wrong with you?

But if you believe that that is what needs to be done — you want to be able to watch football games while rebuilding your engine of your car and you want to do it in your comfy La-Z-Boy — what do you do?

Well, you can do one thing. You can drag the engine into the center of the living room and then she goes nuts. Or you can just bring a sparkplug and just leave it on the table until she stops noticing it. And then bring in another one, and then another one, and then another part, and then another part, the carburetor.

Pretty soon, you got the whole damn engine sitting in there. She'll tell you at first, Can you stop? Can you stop — can you take these away? You just leave them there. She'll forget eventually and she won't notice that you have all of the parts in the engine that you're going to build there in the living room.

It becomes inevitable because you can say: It's already here!

The doctrine of inevitability of gradualism.

OK. Now why the name "Fabian" — the Fabian society? Well, this is after General Quintus Fabius Maximus. He had a brilliant strategy. He advanced in his battles not through front-on battles, but instead through harassment and attrition.

In other words, he wore everybody out — almost like overwhelm your opponents, overwhelm the system. He would just constantly wear them out and just hit them, hit them, hit them. Little ones, hit them, hit them, hit them, hit them. Until, finally, they were just worn out from the harassment. And then it became inevitable.

Damien said...

Pastorius,

One wonders how this can be seen as tolerance and goodwill towards the Armenians.

Epaminondas said...

Turkish "tolerance and goodwill towards the Armenians" is sort of like Alan Grayson's wet dream of how he thinks republicans think of sick people.

"DIE QUICKLY"

Damien said...

Epaminondas,

I can't say I disagree, but who is Alan Grayson?

Unknown said...

A perfect example of "Interfaith dialog " in practice .Christians get to celebrate one Mass once a Year in Cathedral.Turks get to pray all year round 5 times a day and confiscate Christian land formerly held by the Armenian church.