ARMENIAN - Erevangala500

A giant spider, cast in concrete - monument to a distortion of history,
Montebello, California. Falsehood turned to stone. It is a monument to
a cruel myth - the myth of the Terrible Turk". Hecatombs o f innocent
people have already been sacrificed on this altar of ultra-nationalistic
sentiment. The reason for spreading the message o f the Terrible Turk
and the war o f liberation is the same now as it was in the nineteenth
century: the establishment o f an Armenian national state in Anatolia, a
place where the Armenians have never in history been in the majority.
Like every fanatical cult, the Armenian version of the myth o f terror
has its own scriptures. These consist of the Documents officiels concer-
nant les Massacres Armeniens, published by Aram Andonian in 1920,
and Franz Werfel's Forty Days o f Musa Dagh, a novel based entirely
on the Andonian documents. The "Documents officiels" are supposed
to prove that the Ottoman government issued a general order to exter­
minate the Armenians, but it has been firmly established that these
"documents" were forged from beginning to end. Not even the ring­
leaders of the Armenian anti-Turkish campaign dispute this today. The
liturgy o f the Armenian terrorists is limited to the constant, litany-like
repetition of false casualty figures - a difference o f a million or two
one way or the other has never seemed to matter much - and the offer­
ing o f human sacrifices. Those selected for these sacrifices include not
only Turkish diplomats, but also historians who fight against the
distortion o f history and wealthy Armenians who refuse to pay their
tribute to the terrorists. But the terror also strikes people who have
nothing whatsoever to do with the conflict. They just happen to get
caught at the scene o f execution o f an Armenian terrorist group.
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