YEREVAN, 6 APRIL, ARMENPRESS. The Christian tragedy in the Middle East did not begin with ISIS. A hundred years on from the Armenian genocide, and a Christian minority is again suffering. This is what famous journalist Robert Fisk mentioned in his article published in The Independent, as “Armenpress” reports.

Touching upon the actions of Islamist extremists against Christians and the Yazidis in different parts of the world, Fisk states that as Armenians commemorate the 100^th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, it is time that we acknowledge not only this act of genocide, but come to regard it not as just the murder of a minority within the Ottoman Empire, but specifically a Christian minority, killed not only because they were Armenian, but also because they were Christian. The journalist mentions that their fate bears some uncommon parallels with the Islamic State murderers of today. “The Armenian men were massacred.  The women were gang-raped or forced to convert or left to die of hunger. Babies were burned alive – after being stacked in piles. Islamic State cruelty is not new, even if the cult’s technology defeats anything its opponents can achieve,” writes the journalist. The journalist emphasizes that what the Islamic State and the 1915 Ottoman Turks have in common is a cruelty based on ideology – even theology – rather than race hatred.