“I Register My Protest”

Mangasarian (see previous item) published a flyer titled “I Register My Protest” (1921) against the Secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Rev. James L. Barton, who had written a book “Christian Approach to Islam”. While expressing sorrow for the abduction of Armenian girls by Turks, Barton had written: “We have every reason to believe that this horrible crime (massacre) committed against a Christian race will under the hands of God plant the seeds of Christianity in the fortress of Mohammedanism.” Rev. Mangasarian deride Barton’s naïve pronouncements sharply, and in a forceful language wrote: “If God can use the Armenian massacres as a means to convert the Turks, then it can also have prevented it in the first place or He could have converted the Turks without the massacre of Armenians. Apparently, it appears that God has made a pact with the missionaries to open the door to the Bible or the Turks by sacrificing Armenian womanhood.”  

Mangasarian (see previous item) published a flyer titled “I Register My Protest” (1921) against the Secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Rev. James L. Barton, who had written a book “Christian Approach to Islam”. While expressing sorrow for the abduction of Armenian girls by Turks, Barton had written: “We have every reason to believe that this horrible crime (massacre) committed against a Christian race will under the hands of God plant the seeds of Christianity in the fortress of Mohammedanism.” Rev. Mangasarian deride Barton’s naïve pronouncements sharply, and in a forceful language wrote: “If God can use the Armenian massacres as a means to convert the Turks, then it can also have prevented it in the first place or He could have converted the Turks without the massacre of Armenians. Apparently, it appears that God has made a pact with the missionaries to open the door to the Bible or the Turks by sacrificing Armenian womanhood.”