13 May 08 - 13:26Germany's role in WWI Jihad
HOLY WAR MADE IN GERMANY
Holy War Made in Germany: New Light on the Holocaust Against the Christian Assyrians during World War I
by Dr. Gabriele Yonan, Assyrians After Assyria Conference
Holy War Made in Germany: New Light on the Holocaust Against the Christian Assyrians during World War I
Dr. Gabriele Yonan
Institute of the Max Planck Society for Promoting Science and Education,
The genocide carried out by the Muslim forces against Assyrians and Armenians would never have been possible without the declaration of Holy War (jihad), by which the Muslims sought to destroy all Christian peoples in the name of the prophet Mohammed. It is well known that Islam is a religio-political concept; thus the political and religious elements were equally at work, especially in the case of the onslaught against the Armenians, who were seeking independence. By contrast, the Christian Assyrians were an ethno-religious group under the leadership of their Patriarch. They lived living as a tribal and clan society, with absolutely no secular political aims. On 12 November 1914, the sultan-caliph unveiled a decree of war, signed by the Turkish ministers, and shortly thereafter he addressed an imperial declaration to the army and navy, demanding their participation in the jihad. Nevertheless, the very idea of “Holy War,” it should be noted, at least in the WW I setting, originated not with the Turks but with the Germans, who encouraged the Turks to slaughter the Assyrians as well as many other people groups. Thus the responsibility for destruction of the Assyrians and their homeland during WW I rests not with the British, nor even primarlily with the Turks, but ultimately with the Germans.
This paper is a summary of the activities of the “Intelligence Service for the Orient" of the German Foreign Office in Berlin, which, with the assistance of German scholars and the German Propaganda Machine, and under the able leadership of the German Ambassador in Constantinople, put forth the “Holy War” idea and pressed it upon the Turks, which of course was to result in the destruction of millions of human lives across the Ottoman Empire and elsewhere during WW I . four comments
Is there any documentation for all of this?
A reader - 17 05 08 - 17:07
I offered that one link to that article by Dr. Gabriele Yonan. She has documented many of the facts of these events.
The videos are from a BBC series on WWI and detail more of the German connection
William amos - 17 05 08 - 17:14
Please read and view this to see the real horror of Islam.
Vincent () - 17 05 08 - 17:52
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