First Commends U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee for Historic Vote on Armenian Genocide

Congressional candidate Josh First commended the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee for voting this week to recognize Turkey's policy of genocide against Armenians.  Sweden's parliament just held a similar vote.

"This recognition has been a long time coming, and all Armenians deserve it," said First.

"This cover-up of one of Europe's worst moments and biggest crimes has officially ended.  Had Europe done something to stop or even acknowledge Turkey's genocide of the Armenians at that time, it can be argued that the European Holocaust that murdered six million Jews and many other innocents just two decades later could have been averted," he said.

First concluded, "Islamic Imperialism and Arab Colonialism have tried to re-make the Middle East through ethnic cleansing, occupation of holy sites, and official oppression of minorities.  But Jews, Armenians, Kurds, Coptic Christians, Bahai, and other minorities there persist in their ancestral homelands.  All of these groups long pre-date Islam and the Arab nation's Islamic-fueled expansionism out of the Arabian Peninsula.  Indigenous peoples, like Jews and Armenians, are entitled to remain in their homelands and to resist the continued imperialism and colonialism, and this vote demonstrates that Western nations are beginning to stand up to it.  Although Turkey has recalled its ambassadors to several nations over this vote, the Haga Sofia stands as a concrete reminder that Turkey is a nation created out of Islamic Imperialism and sustained on the falseness of that evil political movement."

The Haga Sofia is a magnificent Byzantine-era church that has been converted into the world's largest mosque, and is one of many famous non-Islamic religious sites around the world that are now occupied and converted to Islamic use.