Genocide or Armed Uprising? The Armenian Genocide Question: Fact or Fiction?

Reparations or Fabrication? The Armenian Question 

The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and longest lasting empires in the history of the world. Asiatic Turkic tribes from Central Asia migrated to Asia Minor which is modern day Turkey and conquered Constantinople in 1453 lasted for six centuries until the end of World War I at its height the Ottoman Empire was in three continents Asia, Africa and Europe.

The Armenian people are a Indo-European people from the Caucus region and at one time inhabited Asia Minor. Their language and culture is unique and their language Armenian is considered a isolated language. Armenians are considered the first country in the world to officially adopt Christianity as their national religion, and throughout their history they have been persecuted by more dominant countries and they have fiercely fought off the Islamic invasions and have been able to maintain a strong Christian identity for centuries.

During the Crimean War Turkey and Russia fought each for control of the Balkans and in the Black Sea and Russia saw itself as a protector of Orthodox Christians in the territories of the Ottoman Empire. European imperialism brought gradual decline of the Ottoman Empire and many territories gained independence or were taken over by European powers.

The Armenians have tried many times to gain independence but have been largely unsuccessful due to their small numbers and not having arms and outside support. During the late 1890s Russian Imperialist ambitions turned towards the declining Ottoman Empire and its desire to annex land into the Russian Empire caused the Russians to seek out Armenian assistance in order to lead a armed resistance and promising a independent Armenia out of parts of eastern Asian Minor.

During the outbreak of World War I the Ottoman Empire sided with the Central Powers and declared war on the Allies and in turn Russia declared war on the Ottoman Empire the Turks were fighting the Russians and many Armenians crossed over into the Russian side and fearing more assaults from the Russians on the eastern front the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed VI ordered the entire Armenian populations from Asia Minor and Caucus regions into the deserts of Syria in order to avoid more civil unrest.

The Armenian Lobbyists and their Allies want to equate the Armenian Massacres of WWI to the Jewish Holocaust of WWII by Nazi Germany and to demand reparations and to force the Turkish government in recognizing the Armenian Massacres as Genocide. What qualifies as Genocide is state sponsored mass killings based on religion, race or an ethnic group.

The Armenian Massacres or the Armenian Genocide as the Armenian Lobbyists and their Allies call it don't qualify as a Genocide because of several things: 1. The Armenians took up arms and were supported by the Russian government to destabilize and overthrow the Sultan, 2. Armenian guerilla groups pillaged and attacked Turkish towns and villages were civilians lived in order to take territory for Russia, 3. If what happened to the Jews of Germany happened to the Armenians of Turkey why did the Ottoman Officials only punished the Armenians that were disloyal but left alone the other Armenians that didn't rebel.

The events of 1915 were very tragic and sad but it doesn't classify as Genocide and what most people don't know is that both sides were killing each other, Armenians killing Turks and Turks killing Armenians and vice versa its just the nature of war. But in order for dialogue and closure can be addressed there needs to be open discussion and not demonize the other side. And not allowing freedom of thought and freedom of opinion on the issue is no different than demonizing and criminalizing the denial of the Holocaust and to discuss the possible inflated accounts  of how many people have died.  

Freedom of Speech and Difference of Opinion goes both ways and both sides need to be heard and allowed to discuss things that many people will not agree on no matter how horrible or controversial they may be, people need to be shown all the facts and use critical thinking before making their own decisions on what is truth and what is false.

Korean Penisula: WW3?

Nuclear War or World War 3?

There have been many reports of wars and rumors of war from media outlets and many other agencies from the US government because of the ongoing threat of North Korea possesses to the United States and its neighbors in the region. North Korea came into existence from the ashes of the Korean War, after the defeat of Imperial Japan in WW2 Japan had to give up all of its conquered territories and colonies, the Soviet Red Army north of the 38th parallel took over the north and the United States Army south of the 38th parallel took over the south.

North and South Korea never signed a peace treaty and are technically still at war with each other but have had a cease fire since the Korean War ended more than 60 years ago, North Korea has been ruled by the Kim Family since the founding of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in 1948 and is a one man dictatorship and one of the world's last remaining hardline communist countries. South Korea was under American occupation until South Koreans held elections in 1948 becoming the Republic of Korea (ROK) being fascist and nationalistic and fanatically anticommunist ruled by a series of military strongmen until the assassination of General Park in 1979 and following the gradual democratization of South Korea.

North Korea has the world's fourth standing at 2 million and is a confirmed nuclear power and their leaders are fanatical and extremists and its people living in poverty where national life is surrounded by the cult of personality centered around the Kim Family. The Donald Trump administration has taken a hardline stance on North Korea and has repeated many times that North Korea will face the "Armed and Military might of the United States Armed Forces" and North Korea has threatened to "Turn Seoul into a Lake of Fire" and has tested missiles close to Japan and has the capacity to bomb Alaska, Hawaii, Guam and other important allies in the region.   

If worst case scenario there is war South Korea will be the first to have major losses being right in the middle of the conflict and causalities would be in the millions, China would have a major humanitarian crisis with massive exodus of refugees fleeing across its borders and causing instability in the northeast part of the country, Japan would have cities destroyed and mass lost of life from nuclear attacks and the United States would lose half of its military due to the suicidal and fanatically North Korean Army.

In my opinion the United States needs to be very careful on dealing with North Korea, North Korea is the closest enemy within striking distance of the Pacific Coast of the United States and they have leaders that don't care to bring Armageddon and destroy the world as we know it. The United States needs to use China to get North Korea to back down and to take it easy and offer some kind of economic incentive in exchange to disarm and stop its nuclear ambitions before it gets out of hand, because God Forbid if there is another world war its a war where nobody will win.

Steve Bannon and The Future of White Nationalism

Meet Steve Bannon 

With the election finally over and Donald Trump elected as president you would think the political freak show would be over but its just beginning... Meet Steve Bannon he is a controversial conservative filmmaker and the publication chairman of Breitbart News, which is a online news website which serves as a platform for the Alt-Right Movement which is a loose organization composed of Neo-Nazis, White Supremacists, Antisemites and the extreme far right. 

Before becoming chief strategist and senior adviser to the president Mr. Bannon was the number one figure for the Alt-Right Movement and he is well known to be a open Neo Nazi and White Nationalist that is a conservative that believes that traditional and conservative views are under assault by multiculturalism, immigration, intermarriage and the political left. He has been a man that is in my opinion very dangerous because of past and his current association with Breitbart and White Nationalist organizations. 

Steve Bannon wants to bring the Angry, White, Male population that is angry and frustrated with the status quo into the mainstream and with Donald Trump's election, Steve Bannon is doing a great job fanning the flames of hatred and exploiting the fact that the economy is down and unemployment is widespread and rampant and making the Alt-Right the perfect place for all the hate groups to voice their opinions and views out in the open and its working very well. America has embraced fascism and ultra-nationalism why? because Trump has promised the White, Blue-Collar Worker with dignity and pride which many feel White Americans has been taken away from them though Affirmation Action, Multiculturalism and Liberalism. 

This man Steve Bannon is a Fascist and a hatemonger and a threat to political stability and racial hegemony to the United States and by becoming part of the government we will start to see Bigotry, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Antisemitism getting worse and worse by the day. There have been violent clashes between Anti-Trump protesters and Neo-Nazis and White Nationalists and hate crimes are on the rise, this is not what we need at this moment we need healing, unity and peace not division and polarization that already have and Mr. Bannon is doing just that dividing the people and the nation and making hate normal and acceptable.           

Failure of Christianity

Why has Christianity failed?

For 2000 years, since Jesus Christ walked this earth and went, his followers have spread Christianity from its humble beginnings to what it is today the world's largest religion. But it was been done peacefully at first though the disciples of Christ through the sermon of the mount to the conversion of the Apostle Paul on the road to Damascus, where Christianity really flourished. 

But the question is why has Christianity declined? For several reasons, one the Catholic Church and the theocracy of the Pope that the western world had for nearly 500 years up until the Protestant Reformation of 1517 by Martin Luther, two the inquisitions, mass murders of anyone that owned a bible and the crusades where Christian Soldiers invaded and pillaged lands and raped and massacred entire populations of Jews, Muslims, Pagans and Orthodox Christians through out the Byzantine Empire.  

America when it was founded by European colonists, originally were fleeing from the unholy union between church and autocracy of the King and wanted to have a wall between the church and state so people would be free to follow what religion they wanted or to have freedom from religion if they choose so. It's written in the Constitution on the declaration of independence stating:

Amendment I. Congress shall make no law an establishment of religion.

But overtime as America became independent and became a powerful country, the Christian extremists from within have tried for many years to impose its own interpretation of Christianity and Biblical law and they have pushed many people away from the faith and as people have become more educated and secularized people have decided to either renounce Christianity completely or embrace other beliefs and practices that they feel are more compatible with the modern world and to discard Christianity as outdated and uncompromising. 

During the middle half of the 20th century after the end of World War II European and Western Civilization has become post-christian, Christianity has no influence in public life, references to God and Jesus are removed from schools and secular institutions and Christianity is seen as a religion of superstition and backwardness and people don't want to be associated with Christianity in general. 

The Roman Catholic Church continues to loses millions of people yearly and many churches are being shut down due to the lack of congregants, the Orthodox Church has also lost millions of people due being a national church and church more based on ethnicity and nationality than faith, Mainline Protestant Churches have shrunk due to the lack of spirituality and closeness to God and the Evangelicals and Pentecostals and born again Christian cults due to their fundamentalist and extremist views on the bible and wanted to impose on others though proselytizing and street and television evangelism which has turned off many people, because of their racist, xenophobic, judgmental and intolerance towards progressive and secular views and values. 

Until Christianity especially in America finally comes to terms with its past and face the consequences and properly atone for its past sins and make amends with the world, Christianity will continue to dwindle in a exhilarating rate and people will continue to abhor it as a disease and a ideology that is comparable to Fascism.    

Judaism: Ultra Orthodox Vs. Ultra Secular. The Jewish Problem Among Jews

Judaism: Religion or Culture, Race or Both?

Judaism is one of the world's smallest religions but has made a big impact on the world through the knowledge of the Torah and enlightening the world through the belief and the existence of one God and making the awareness of Monotheism and to be in communion with God through tradition and rituals   

Originally theocratic, Judaism has evolved in the last four centuries as a congregational polity centered around the synagogue and the Torah, Jews are taught from birth to read and prayer in Hebrew and to study the Torah and the Talmud for hours at a time to be closer to God. Since the destruction of the second temple have been dispersed to the four corners of the world, thus creating the diaspora or exile. 

Two schisms formed in the exile after the destruction of the temple, Ashkenazim, Jews that settled in the lands of the Rhine in Germany, Austria and Eastern Europe where they developed Yiddish which is a dialect of High German and Hebrew and Sephardim, Jews that settled in the Iberian Peninsula of Spain and Portugal and they also developed their own dialect called Ladino which is a dialect of Castilian Spanish and Hebrew. 

During the last three centuries there was the Haskalah  the Jewish enlightenment movement that was swiping across Europe, many Jews became emancipated and they were granted the same rights as their Gentile neighbors and many Jews became assimilated and many decided to abandon their Jewish beliefs which led to the rise of Reform Judaism, while those who refused to become assimilated into European society became to be known as Orthodox Jews or Orthodox Judaism where they stressed that Halacha (Jewish Law) is still binding and uncompromising. 

Since the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 there is been a uneasy truce between the Religious establishment and the Secular government which has led to making Israel being divided against itself, Religious vs Secular, Sephardic vs Ashkenazi, Orthodox vs Reform (Liberal) and Conservative (Masorti) etc etc. 

The status of who is a Jew? i.e. born to a Jewish mother or converted to Judaism according to Halacha and the refusal of the Haredi (Ultra Orthodox) authorities to recognize conversions and marriages performed by Conservative and Reform auspices has led to even more division and not to mention of constant racial discrimination of Sephardic and Mizrachi (Orienal) Jews by the dominant Ashkenazi establishment doesn't make things better for life for Jews in Israel and the diaspora. 

In order for Jews and Judaism to survive in the next century there needs to be unity, Jewish unity and whatever differences Jews may have with each other must be put aside and they need to unite and more forward as a nation and as a religion and people, Because history has shown us when there is religious, moral and social decay it leads to societies and countries to collapse and disappear. 

Islam: At A Crossroads

Islam: A Religion Going in Two Directions 

Islam is the second largest religion in the world at 1.5 Billion people its catching up with Christianity in terms of population and status and Islam is a religion that has brought a lot of good to the world and knowledge of science and culture. Islam reemphasized Monotheism and to bring it back to the world is the one true path. 

The Prophet Mohammed spoke of the people of the book as fellow Monotheists, i.e. Christians and Jews as people to be protected and looked after in Muslim lands but it hasn't been the case after the Prophet's death in 632 CE in the Arabian Peninsula, Islam became divided into two sects or branches Sunnis and Shias, Sunni Muslims believe that after the death of the Prophet there was not going to be any successor for the Ummah (Body of Believers) and Shias believed that Mohammed appointed his cousin Ali and son in law as successor to the faith. 

The Arabs were united by Mohammed by religion and culture and with it they spread and conquered the middle east and building a empire that stretched from Spain in Europe to Indonesia in Asia and for 800 years it ruled over Spain and brought a golden age in where the only time in history where all three religions, Christianity, Islam and Judaism lived side by side in peace and prosperity. 

After 1492 the Spanish Crown under the Queen Isabella reconquered Spain and pushed the Muslims out of Spain and after the fall of the Byzantine Empire to the Ottoman Turks and the creation of the Ottoman Empire, the Turks replaced the Arabs as the Caliphate of the Muslim world and they began to spread into Europe, Africa and the Middle East and Caucasus forming the largest and longest surviving empire that lasted five centuries until the end of World War I. 

There is been a break between Reformers that want to bring Islam into the 21st century and modernized the faith while you have the extremists that want to bring Islam back to the 7th century where it was a primitive and tribal society. 

Islam as with Christianity has done many acts of evil and violence towards Christians and Jews and people of other faiths and especially towards women in countries like Saudi Arabia where women are not allowed to drive or leave the home without their husband or male relative. with 9/11 and the creation of ISIS, Muslims need to evaluate themselves and need to discuss about denouncing the extremist elements from within and to bring Islam into the modern world so there may be peace and stability in the world.    

Female Pedophiles: The Underground Movement of Sick People

Female Pedophiles: The New Menace To Society

When people hear the word "Pedophile" what comes to mind is a man, while its true according to statistics most pedophiles that rape and assault children are male, the female pedophiles rape and assualt children are overlooked and many times even ignored because of pressure by Feminist and Lesbian Groups that continue to say only men are violent and commit sexual assault and not women. 

Mary Kay Letourneau; was one of the first publicly known cases of a female pedophile that a started a sexual relationship with her then 13 year old student while she was a junior high school teacher she eventually was arrested and convicted of statuary rape and was sentenced for 8 years in prison but there really wasn't any public outcry over the sentencing because she was female and her victim was male. 

Women are most likely to be least persecuted by the law because of the double standard of society and the fact that the criminal justice system is biased and gender discriminatory when it comes to women, meaning that if a woman commits a sexual crime against a child or a person under 18 they are not punished the same way for the same crime as a man would be punished. Which is wrong and immoral because what message is it sending to our society? That if a man commits a crime he most persecuted to the fullest extend of the law but if a woman does it its not as serious and sometimes they don't any punishment at all? 

If we are going to have true equality women must be treated the same way as men in relation to crimes committed by pedophile offenders regardless of their gender or appearance of the person. Men continue to be the ones be punished by the system and the woman who committed the exact same crime doesn't get the same punishment. Just because a woman is not as strong as a man doesn't mean they can't be violent or abusive or exploitative of children and teenagers, Women are master manipulators and they know how to use their sexuality and charm to get away with things and do what they want and that has to stop, we have to protect our children not only from men that rape  but also women as well.