Star Trek 2009 BRUCE GREENWOOD in a prior film (Ararat) Armenian Genocide (murder of a nation of Christians (Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks) by Muslim Turks (and some Kurds)

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Clarence Ussher COMES ALIVE in this SPOOKY scene. genocidio genocidio genocidio
An American Physician in Turkey: A Narrative of Adventures in Peace and in War
by Clarence D. Ussher
Astoria, NY:
J.C. & A.L. Fawcett, Inc., Pub.,
1990, 339p. Hard cover.




Clarence Ussher Comes Alive
Secondly (and this simply reinforces the first point), "Ararat," though scrupulously fair to the Turkish position and not at all religiously propagandistic, is based almost entirely on the account of the genocide written by an American evangelical missionary doctor! One Dr Clarence Ussher appears prominently in the film: his missionary clinic in the Armenian area of Van in Eastern Turkey provides extensive medical aid and Ussher attempts vainly to convince the fanatical Turkish military authorities not to exterminate the populace. In the credits at the end of the film, the statement is made that the film derives from a book by Dr Ussher.

No biographical information on Ussher is provided to the viewer, other than what can be gathered from the film itself. Having seen the film, I had to obtain such information—and, if possible, Ussher's book. I suspected that he must be an evangelical (was it Malcolm Muggeridge who said that he had yet to find a Unitarian leper colony?). On checking out-of-print book sources—and, as a bibliomaniac, I know a staggering number—I was unable to locate a copy of Ussher's book to purchase, but I did turn up a pamphlet, "Before Governors and Kings," by Clarence D. Ussher, M.D., published by Covenant House, Toronto, Canada. On obtaining this 14-page booklet, I read on its cover sheet: "With permission from a reprint by Howard A. Kelly, M.D., through the courtesy of Dr Ussher and the Houghton Mifflin Company." The pamphlet was clearly an extract from the book--and Kelly, to be sure, was the famous evangelical doctor and author! I then contacted the library of the Moody Bible Institute and was graciously provided with a photocopy of Ussher's 339-page book, titled, An American Physician in Turkey, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1917, and never reprinted. The Moody copy lacked the frontispiece photographs of Dr Ussher and his wife, but I was able to obtain a reproduction of these from a copy of Ussher's book at the University of Illinois.

Dr Clarence Ussher was, fascinatingly, a descendent of the Bishop Ussher celebrated (or notorious) for his biblical chronology and the dating of the creation at 4004 B.C. Clarence, a believing Episcopalian and licenced medical practitioner of Canadian origin, went to Turkey under the Congregationalist American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. He had previously signed the Student Volunteer declaration, "I am willing and desirous, if God permits, to become a foreign missionary," and he went to Turkey out of a powerful evangelistic desire to bring the gospel to a land benighted by Islamic error. And there he was to recount, as an eyewitness, the horrors of the Turkish extermination of the Armenian Christian community.[1]

The events he recounts are not just moving; they are heartrending. For example, he describes the death of a young Armenian hero, Aram: "I had received word that he was coming, and met him at the operating-room door. He endeavored to reach for my hand, and smiling in my face he said: 'O Doctor, I am so glad I learned to know Jesus and am ready to go. But please, Doctor, let me die quickly.'"

In the final chapter of his book, appropriately titled, "Opportunity," Ussher writes: "They [Turkish Muslims] have had before their eyes unnumbered examples of fortitude and loyalty to Christ. Thousands of Armenians, after struggling footsore and starving along the road to exile for days, whipped along when exhausted, have been taken into Moslem villages and given their choice: 'Now accept Mohammed and you shall have a home and food and clothing and fields and implements and seed and a bonus from the Government—everything you need. Refuse and you shall have not a drop of water.' With hardly an exception these thousands have turned their backs on all thus offered and have gone into the desert to death, rather than deny Christ. So the hearts of the Turks are now open to Christian truth as never before in the history of Mohammedanism."

The "opportunity" of which Ussher spoke, was, of course, the privilege and responsibility of missionising that Muslim land. Let us today be especially vigilant not to allow irrational views of religious indifferentism blunt that evangelistic task, about which Ussher wrote so eloquently three-quarters of a century ago.
Originally published in 1917, this is the memoir of Dr. Clarence D. Ussher, who served as a doctor and missionary in Marsovan, Harput and Van from 1898 to 1915.
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[Tonyaltay1971]

this film was done and funded by the diasporra and what they mention in the film is very bad so unhumane no body could do that no way me as a turk would never do that,but our grandfathers tell the same story to us and say it was not the armanians in genral but the russian brained washed tashnaks who did this and the same blaming going on till today you have this special hatred gene placed by this evil and passed on to generations but this hatred will consume your race and bring more evil.

[VANArmenya]

Sorry, but you are wrong. The film was not a community project, and even if it was, bravo to Armenians. Sadly, though, you are terribly misinformed, wrong, and full of lies and propaganda. Turkey is guilty of genocide, and of STAT-SPONSORED GENOCIDE DENIAL. "

[VANArmenya]

State-sponsored (Turkish Republic spend s millions on the perversion of truth and historical thuggery -- this is well documented! The VICTIMS are portrayed as KILLERS. Good job of lying. Your fun will end soon! You shall pay for the nation murder. One day you shall pay!)

[VANArmenya]

The Turkish denial [of the Armenian Genocide] is probably the foremost example of historical perversion. With a mix of academic sophistication and diplomatic thuggery -- of which we at Macquarie University have been targets -- the Turks have put both memory and history into reverse gear."

-- Prof. Colin Tatz, Director,

Centre for Comparative Genocide Studies

(Centre for Genocide Studies Newsletter,

(December 1995-January 1996))

[VANArmenya]

This film is based on an unimpeachable FIRST HAND account of hat happene din 1915, during the democidal, genocidal attack ont he Armenians by Turks and Kurds, the state of TURKEY backstabbing and annihilating th eoriginal inhabitants of Armenia. (Turks are invaders came from the distant Mongolian Steppes)

[Turkslayer1]

Turks and kurds (turds) are both undomisticated animals that should be caged up.

[polopolak]

its called ARARAT

[AllochGs]

what is this movie called

[VANArmenya]

Muslim evil Turkey is guilty of the Genocide of Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians. Shame on TURKEY. Turks came from MONGOLIA. Even Mongols are kind now, but so-called TURKs (85% stolen Armenian genes) remain GENOCIDE DENIERS!

[miguedro]

and let's not even talk about them being religion extremists, slicing people's hands in their villages, or the death penalty.

you'll never be admitted into the EU..you got that?

[miguedro]

WWI - the arabs had to kill their wounded other wise the freakin' turks would TORTURE THEM coz they don't recognize the Geneva Convention

Cyprus - They invaded the island recently and are responsible for a mini-war that has killed thousands

Kurdhistan - Turkey invades again...

and of course the Forgotten Genocide, where they killed 1/3 of as many people died..in WWII!!!