Sunday, May 17, 2009

System of a Down... an example of Armenian Ways!

There was an anti System of a Down article in a music website today, it talked about the bands nationalistic tendencies. It seems most of it is rooted from Serj Tankian's racism towards Turks. Perhaps not every band member approves of the Anti-Turkish rhetoric that is riddled in System of A Down's music. However, it seems the bands strong emotions about what some Armenian scholars call the Armenian Genocide, may be why such hatred towards Turkey and the Turkish people are present.
The people need to know the true nature of this bands hidden nationalistic agenda and how well they create hate campaigns against the Turkish government including yelling out racist statements and protesting statements like "**** the Turkish government!" at their concerts.

System of a Down's Political Attitude
Many people know System of a Down as a band that supposedly is politically motivated and a band that raises awareness on issues that trouble society.
System of a Down is a very religious band in which all of its members are Armenian Orthodox Christian. They have been raised in a specific kind of Armenian community that preaches hatred against Turks and Muslims. One of their recent video and song called "Holy Mountain" is about the Armenian genocide thesis, which is a hot topic of debate not only among the world but among Armenians as well. The difference between normal Armenian activists who promote the Armenian genocide awareness, is that Holy Mountain doesn't simply target historical figures that are usually pointed at to blame for the supposed genocide, but also to Turkey's national heroes. Some Armenians even find this sort of attitude damaging to the credibility of the Armenian cause for recognition of the genocide.
However, only long-time fans and people who actually know about the issues--- System of A Down talks about---know the true motivation and agenda that System of A Down tries its best to hide from the mainstream media. They are in fact, racists (since they believe Armenians are superior than other ethnicities much like racists today)--however, since they compare themselves to Jewish Holocaust victims, by constantly talking about how their people suffered in World War I (like as if only Armenians suffered in WWI) at the hands of the "evil Turks". Although, the Ottoman government ordered many times the prevention of massacres and discouraged attacks on Armenians, locals sometimes did not listen; the Armenian rebel organizations that created rebellions and massacres against the Turks and Kurds in the region prompted retaliatory massacres by locals. Today, the debate rages on even though almost every expert on Ottoman History has conclude that while Armenians may have suffered the legal term of genocide cannot be applied, hence the Armenian Genocide has become a common misconception.
They feel no remorse for their hatred and prejudice. In fact, people show sympathy to Armenians when they start telling stories of the suffering of their people and when they constantly compare themselves to Holocaust survivors and victims (some even claim they have psychological trauma of their grandparents?).
It is like a person in court complaining of the crime of rape that a defendant supposedly committed, even though the defendant wasn't even in that city that day, but as the complainer continues to tell dreadful and gruesome details and then cries at the end, the jury becomes convinced that the defendant must have done something wrong.
In their documentary created by Armenian propagandists called "Screamers", the band members are interviewed and are portrayed as entertainers who also raise awareness on many genocides of the world. However, while they do allude to other genocides the main purpose of the film is to convince the world that the Armenian genocide theory is as indisputable as real genocides like the Holocaust. They make it seem like they are after a noble cause, while at the same time promoting hatred against the current Turkish government. They are portrayed like as if they are victims of the genocide themselves by claiming that their grandparents were all Armenian genocide survivors. Yet a deeper look into their history reveals that we can only take their word for it.
Armenian propagandists and propaganda websites like theforgotten.org have worked together with System of a Down to create a campaign of hate against the Turkish government and anyone else who refuses to acknowledge the Armenian genocide theory as being a "fact". They label anyone who disagrees with their viewpoint as "denialists" and they avoid any opportunity to attempt to prove their genocide, and instead divert the subject to horror stories about the "evil Turks". Just like the Nazis who oppressed people of different views, the Armenian propagandists aim to alienate the Turks as an evil race that should be carried off by trains for rejecting an accusation that has no proof. They compare their genocide theory which is a complex history of rebellion and independence to completely unrelated real genocides like the Holocaust and Darfur which are all unique in order to equate their genocide to it, and to reposition it as a "common knowledge" rather than a historical inaccuracy as many Western historians who are expert in Ottoman and Armenian history find it.
Many Turks were fans of System of a Down until they began the usual propaganda after they reached fame and fortune, thanks to Armenian national committees who bribed radio stations and companies to promote SOAD music. Now they lost millions of Turkish fans who enjoy the music of their Armenian brethren.
How obsessed should one be to alienate a whole ethnicity of their fans to be "perpetrators of genocide" when they forget about the hundreds of thousands of Turks the Armenian rebels killed during the 1880s--1918 many of which began before Armenians were even killed. These events are now referred to as the Armenian nationalist movement. If you think Armenians suffer every time someone does not accept their view that it was genocide, think about how much a Turk suffers every time someone accepts the genocide as "undeniable" and accepts Armenians as poor innocent victims while your relatives suffered greatly under Armenian rebel armies. Even Hrant Dink (Armenian newspaper editor who lived in Turkey who was murdered) asked the Armenian public to think in the shoes of Turks, and to understand that only Turks and Armenians can fix their relationship and that they shouldn't force politicians to get involved.
It is still alive today, spreading its tentacles of propaganda even infecting history books of other countries using political pressure and briberies. Think about it, if you ever read a history book that mentions the genocide, that's all it seems to do, simply briefly mention it, because the author has no knowledge of the subject and avoid details except the exaggerated "1.5 million dead Armenians" statement. System of a Down supports this kind of hatred towards Turks. Armenians should use historians to spread their message not politicians, musicians, and entertainers. The problem is no historians or academics support them on the issue except the very few who they bribed and the rest who want name recognition and use the Armenian community as a sling-shot to reach fame.

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