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MOHAMMEDANISM has been propagated by the sword and by violence ever since it first appeared as the great enemy of Christianity, as I shall show in a later chapter of this book.It has been left to the Turk, however, in more recent years, to carry on the ferocious traditions of his creed, and to distinguish himself by excesses which have never been equaled by any of the tribes enrolled under the banner of the Prophet, either in ancient or in modern times.
The following is a partial list of Turkish massacres from 1822 up till 1904:
1822 Chios, Greeks 50,000
1823 Missolongi, Greeks 8,750
1826 Constantinople, Jannisaries 25,000
1850 Mosul, Assyrians 10,000
1860 Lebanon, Maronites 12,000
1876 Bulgaria, Bulgarians 14,700
1877 Bayazid, Armenians 1,400
1879 Alashguerd, Armenians 1,250
1881 Alexandria, Christians 2,000
1892 Mosul, Yezidies 3,500
1894 Sassun, Armenians 12,000
1895-96 Armenia, Armenians 150,000
1896 Constantinople, Armenians 9,570
1896 Van, Armenians 8,000
1903-04 Macedonia, Macedonians 14,667
1904 Sassun, Armenians 5,640
Total 328,477
To this must be added the massacre in the province of Adana in 1909, of thirty thousand Armenians.
[Ellopos' note: I don't agree with this form of presenting the facts. It is not a matter of 'aesthetics'. The logic of numbers-in-a-column and a sum-total, belongs to the logic that causes such tragedies - treating persons like they were material for statistics. Yet, since the author uses this way and his book is published here without censorship, a correction should be made. Genocide Watch and Information Center publishes more accurate lists. Here are the ones for Armenians and Greeks. The numbers are much greater.]
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