Dear Chaim,
I am recently taking a genocide course at Queensborough Community College, and we were learning about the Armenian genocide during World War I. Before the lesson, I heard about how congress was voting to not consider this massacre of innocent Christians a genocide at the hands of the vicious Turkish Muslims. I brought this point up in class, and my professor said there was a method to the madness. Turks today are not responsible for the actions of their ancestors. This didn't make sense, so I continued to state that our alliance with Turkey through NATO is a misguided and dangerous one. The Turks are only assisting us in Iraq due to them being Sunnis and the Iraqis being Shi'ites. My professor admitted this was a bold, but interesting view, but she said that in no way are the Turks of today the same as the Turks who are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Armenians. This lit a fire within me, and I went on to state that this is what the Koran commands them to do, and that the Turks are Muslims, and as Muslims the Turks want to see us and all non-Muslims, including the Armenians, destroyed. She told me that since the Koran was written in old Arabic the text of the Koran is susceptible to misinterpretation. I responded that a command that calls for the destruction of all non-Muslim people cannot be misinterpreted. Also, old Arabic is very much like modern Arabic with a few changes, just as old English is essentially the same as modern English; the words share the same roots. She said that the Koran wasn't meant to be translated into English. I said that this is because Muslims do not want us to see the evils of their text, and is also a practice of another Koran command, deception. She then said I was generalizing too much, but I insisted that Muslims are Muslims, and if you abide by the Koran, you do want to see the destruction of all non-Muslims. A fellow classmate, who I believe to be Muslim, said that he knows more about the Koran than I do, and that I was taking certain quotes out of context. I said the command to kill all non-Muslims cannot be taken out of context, it is a basic, easy to understand command. She said they all don't want to kill us. I asked how can that be so if it is a command that has been carried out for centuries. My statements inspired a fellow student, who is a self-hating Jew, as he has admitted to hiding the fact that he's Jewish and has rejected Judaism in favor of his own, self-created beliefs, said that how could the Armenian massacre not be considered a genocide and he appeared quite upset. The professor responded that the modern day Turks aren't responsible for the events of the Armenian mass killings, and their was a method to this madness. The professor thanked me for such an interesting discussion, but she wasn't sold on anything. Chaim, I am at the end of my rope with these liberal-minded, pro-Muslim ignoramuses. What do you think of this whole fiasco?
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