STRASBOURG, France (Public Radio of Armenia) – According to Czech Republic President Milos Zeman, today’s increase of “Islamic terrorism” is connected with the Armenian Genocide.
“The level of international crime is growing because of Islamic terrorism. I am open and frank, and don’t use the phrase ‘Islamic terrorism’ lightly but, in the overwhelming majority of cases, it has Islamic origin,” said Zeman during a Q&A session following his address to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). “It is connected with the Armenian Genocide.”
“I was heavily criticized when I declared the same thing as France did, but as PACE knows, the French Parliament even adopted a law about that genocide. However, I have also been criticized for having a good economic relationship with Azerbaijan,” added Zeman.
The President made the statement in response to Armenian lawmaker Arpine Hovhannisyan’s question. She acknowledged Zeman’s personal input in raising awareness of the Armenian Genocide and asked about plans to include crimes against humanity as a topic within school curriculums.
When asked what the Council of Europe can do to support the integration of this topic in the curriculums of member States, the Czech President stated “we should invest in the police and the army, and have the courage to invest in our own guns.”
Zeman explained how after his wife obtained a pistol after passing the necessary tests, he is also guarded by her in addition to his body guards.
“The second amendment to the American constitution says that everybody has the right to have a weapon – of course they must fulfill the necessary conditions and tests,” said the Czech President. “We Europeans are a little more careful than the Americans, but after Barcelona and many assassinations, I think that the difference between Europeans and Americans is not so great.”
The Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic approved a resolution on April 26, 2017, condemning the genocide of Armenians and other religious and national minorities in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War.
How exactly is “Islamic terrorism that’s on the rise today” linked to the Armenian genocide denial?
The Armenian Genocide is like a 40 Ton Truck parked on a slope. After it was over, i.e. parked nobody took action to put chocks under the wheels. Turkey got away with murder and dispossession of goods and lands. Europe and America were not interested in intervening. The Turks fought and won against native Christians and they lucked out in Gallipoli and after the Treaty of Sevres. Muslims are all over Europe now. In case you didn’t know it, to them Christians are beneath them, trash to be taken out when the time comes. That is preached over and over again in mosque after mosque. Muslims in Europe, as far back as 1996 were saying, “eventually we will take over and this (Europe) will belong to us”. With more and more muslims, the breaks are beginning to release, the truck is beginning to slip down the slope as more and more acts of violence begin to cluster.