Islamic Insanity > Azerbaijan obliterates Christian village in Nagorno-Karabakh; Hapless jihadis die in vain attempt to murder Japanese in Karachi

 

Azerbaijan obliterates church and entire

Christian village in Nagorno-Karabakh

APR 27, 2024 1:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER

This kind of thing has happened all over what is known as the Islamic world.

Church, Entire Village ‘Erased’ In Azerbaijan’s Recaptured

Nagorno-Karabakh

by Amos Chapple, RFE/RL, April 24, 2024:

A picture of a prayer session inside the St. John the Baptist Church in Nagorno-Karabakh was posted to Twitter by Azerbaijani parliament member Jala Ahmadova in July 2021 to demonstrate what she called an “atmosphere of ethnic and religious tolerance,” after Azerbaijan recaptured Susa, a town known in Armenian as Shushi.

Today that church, built by Armenians in the 19th century, no longer exists.

Images released recently by the monitoring group Caucasus Heritage Watch indicate that the Susa/Shushi church, which was wrapped in scaffolding through much of its time under Azerbaijani control, was demolished in the winter of 2023-24.

Baku retook control of Susa/Shushi from ethnic Armenian forces in November 2020 after launching a war to retake territory internationally recognized as Azerbaijani land.

Two kilometers south of the erased church, satellite images released in April reveal that an entire village appears to have been razed to the ground. Today a large mosque is under construction in the broken soil where a settlement once stood, which was known in Armenian as Karintak and as Dasalti in Azeri.

Husik Ghulyan, a lead researcher at Caucasus Heritage Watch who published the satellite images of Dasalti/Karintak, told RFE/RL, “I think the goal of Azerbaijan in this case was to completely demolish [the settlement] to rebuild a new village for Azerbaijani internally displaced people or other resettlers.”

The researcher said the village’s church, visible to the right of the mosque, “is a legally protected heritage object even by Azerbaijani laws,” which he said, was “probably the reason they left it intact.”

Dasalti/Karintak, which means “under the rock,” in both Azeri and Armenian, takes its name from the massive cliffs that loom above it. The village was the site of several natural springs and had a history of agriculture.

A traveler to the village in the late 1890s described it as a settlement where “the land is fertile, but the crops are scarce and produce little.” Locals, the observer said, “planted wheat, barley, millet, and other crops.” Under Soviet rule the village was home to a silk production plant and a factory making electrical components….

Pakistan: Two bystanders killed as jihad

suicide bomber targets Japanese nationals

APR 27, 2024 9:00 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER

“Indeed, Allah has bought from the believers their lives and their wealth, because the garden will be theirs, they will fight in the way of Allah and will kill and be killed.” (Qur’an 9:111)

Five Japanese survive Pakistan suicide bomber and

gunman attack, two bystanders killed

Reuters, April 19, 2024 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Five Japanese nationals in Pakistan escaped when a suicide bomber detonated their device on Friday, and police shot dead a gunman accompanying the bomber, officials said, adding that two bystanders died from injuries sustained in the incident. No militant group has claimed responsibility for the rare attack on Japanese nationals in Karachi, with Pakistani authorities identifying them as engineers working for the management of an export-processing zone in the port city.

One of the two attackers, who followed the Japanese in their vehicle by motorbike, jumped off when the vehicle slowed down and set off explosives tied to his body but failed to strike his target, Pakistani counter-terrorism official Raja Umar Khatab told reporters. His accomplice then began shooting at the vehicle.

“I think he fired some 15 or 16 shots,” Khatab said, adding that private security guards with the foreigners and a nearby police patrol returned fire and killed the second attacker. The attackers had followed the Japanese group’s vehicle for some time, Khatab said, with authorities suspecting they carried out reconnaissance to identify their target and the location for the attack.

Islamist militants and separatist insurgent groups have been involved in other bloody attacks in the South Asian nation, with some of them targeting foreigners, mainly Chinese nationals….

Islam - MENA > Azerbaijanis successfully remove Armenians from Nagorno Karabakh - 100,000 Refugees flood into Armenia; Muslims blow-up Muslims in Ankara

Former official says 'almost no Armenians left'

in Nagorno-Karabakh region

Armenians (read Christians) driven out of enclave in Muslim Azerbaijan. The former region no longer exists as a political entity.

Turkey's Erdogan must be delighted, now how to get them out of Armenia so Erdogan's Ottoman Empire can begin to take shape.

By Simon Druker

Ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh cross the border with Azerbaijan by car, carrying their belongings with them, near the village of Kornidzor, Armenia, on Friday. Photo by Anatoly Maltsev/EPA-EFE

Sept. 30 (UPI) -- A former top official of the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Eastern Europe said Saturday almost none of its ethnic Armenian population remains following a mass wave of migration of more than 100,000 people.

Artak Beglaryan, the region's former state minister, said in a social media post that the enclave "is almost fully empty with at most a few hundred people remaining, who are also leaving."

Tens of thousands of ethnic Armenians have fled Nagorno-Karabakh following a military operation conducted by Azerbaijan to recapture the area, officials confirmed Friday.

Roughly 88,000 of them crossed the border into Armenia in less than a week, the United Nations said Friday, accounting for more than 80% of the Armenian population in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, which shares a border with Azerbaijan.

Approximately 120,000 ethnic Armenians called the region home.

A majority of those coming into Armenia do have family there, while approximately 32,000 require government accommodation, according to the Armenian Prime Minister's Office.

The UN is sending a team of observers to the region.

President Ilham Aliyev's government last week launched a military operation to retake the 1,700-square-mile territory in the name of Azerbaijan. The breakaway republic was formed in 1994 following a war between Azerbaijan and Armenia and has seen several military conflicts over the years.

Azerbaijan will now formally dissolve the republic, prompting thousands of ethnic Armenians to immediately flee across the border back into Armenia, which has a total population of 2.8 million.

The region itself is located in the South Caucasus, in the Lesser Caucasus mountain range.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in a speech last Sunday warned of the possibility of ethnic cleansing, but Aliyev has denied any hint of the practice and publicly stated he will guarantee the safety of Armenians choosing to remain in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Breakaway Norgorno-Karabakh dissolved a week after being re-taken by Azerbaijan

Turkey says ‘terrorists’ carried out bomb attack near government building

By Reuters

Published Oct. 1, 2023, 4:14 a.m. ET

Two "terrorists" carried out a bomb attack in front of the ministry buildings in Ankara on Sunday.

Turkey’s government said on Sunday two terrorists carried out a bomb attack in front of the Interior Ministry buildings in Ankara, adding one of them died in the explosion and the other was “neutralized” by authorities there.

An explosion was heard near the parliament and ministerial buildings, Turkish media had earlier reported, and broadcasters showed footage of debris scattered on a street nearby.

The blast was the first in Ankara since 2016, and comes on the day that parliament was set to open a new session.

Reuters footage showed soldiers, ambulances, fire trucks and armored vehicles gathered at the ministry near the center of Turkey’s capital.

Ali Yerlikaya, the interior minister, said on social media platform X that two police officers were slightly injured in the incident at 9:30 a.m.

“Two terrorists came with a light commercial vehicle in front of the entrance gate of the General Directorate of Security of our Ministry of Internal Affairs and carried out a bomb attack,” he said.

He added that one blew himself up and the other was “neutralized”, which usually means was killed. “Our struggle will continue until the last terrorist is neutralized,” Yerlikaya wrote.

Police also announced they would carry out controlled explosions for “suspicious package incidents” in other parts of Ankara.

Authorities did not identify any specific militant group.

The blast comes almost a year after six people were killed and 81 wounded in an explosion in a busy pedestrian street in central Istanbul. Turkey blamed Kurdish militants for that.

During a spate of violence in 2015 and 2016, Kurdish militants, Islamic State and other groups either claimed or were blamed for several attacks in major Turkish cities.

Note that Kurdish militants and IS are both Islamic groups blowing up an Islamic country.

In March 2016, 37 people were killed in Ankara when a bomb-laden car exploded at a crowded central transport hub.

An ambulance is seen near the Interior Ministry following a bomb attack in Ankara, Turkey October 1, 2023.

REUTERS

Ankara’s chief prosecutor launched an investigation on Sunday into what it also called a terrorist attack.

President Tayyip Erdogan was set at 7:30 p.m. to attend the opening of parliament, which in the coming weeks is expected to consider ratifying Sweden’s bid to join NATO after Turkey had raised initial objections.

Turkish media reported that authorities were carrying out checks of the parliament after the blast at the ministry.

A source told Reuters that the entrance was open but no cars were allowed through as part of the precautions.