Inilah salah satu sejarahnya pemerintahan Islam
Massacres by the Khilafah
3.4 The Massacres of the 1890s
On the other hand, the Ottomans continued to massacre whole Christian
communities, the most notable event being the massacres of 1894-96 when
thousands of Armenian and Assyrian Christians - over 300,000 - were
brutally
murdered at the instigation of the Red Sultan Abdul Hamid
3.5 The 1915 Genocide
In April 24 1915 the Ottoman authorities ordered the deportation of
practically the entire Armenian and Assyrian Christian populations of
eastern Asia Minor to Syria and Iraq, then part of the Ottoman Empire, and
to massacre many of them. The genocide continued throughout the year. By
the
end of 1915, 1,500,000 Armenians and 250,000 Assyrians had been murdered.
Many women were raped and children were kidnapped and enslaved to be
brought
up as Muslims. Many Christians - especially women - were crucified (the
photographs are still extant).
About 200,000 Armenians avoided ethnic cleansing/massacre by converting to
Islam. Entire villages converted to Islam to avoid massacre. Churches were
destroyed or defiled by being turned into barns. A serious attempt was
made
to destroy every vestige of Christian identity in the region.
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