OK. Should we begin with the Armenian massacre in the early years of the 20th century, wherein well over a million Armenians, primarily Christians, were slaughtered by Turkish Islamists. The massacre was so effective that Hitler is said to have copied his final solution for Jews from the Armenian massacre....and this is the problem with using religion (or pandering to those who do...in the case of Trump, it's pandering) when setting policy or engaging in international affairs.
People really need to look at the history of the region starting in around 1915 to understand why it's such a sore point for certain people living in the region.
For evangelical republicans who claim to outraged by the premise of refugees (who happen to be their religious rivals) being transplanted into their region without their consent, you'd really think they'd be more sympathetic to the resentment...
To this day the Turkish government refuses to acknowledge that the Armenian massacre even happened.
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