To: Mr. Karekin Jelalian
Mr. Jelalian:
My publisher forwarded your email to me. Please permit me to respond in this manner.
In your e mail you state that "the St. John Press book is full of lies, lies, lies. Who paid Weems to write it? It's so typical of Turkish revisionism. Are you sure you want to be supporting a web site that's so blatantly deceptive???"
Good sir, first and foremost, What kind of odd ball are you to make such claims about a book you have never read? For your information, the basis of my research for my book "IS" Armenian sources, not Turkish!
Buy the book yourself and learn that I used primarily "Armenian" sources upon which I draw my conclusions. Once you read the book, should you discover how your Armenian historians are wrong and have made mistakes, I shall be delighted to make corrections in my second edition to point out these errors, mistakes and Armenian "lies."
You asked "who paid Weems to write it" as to my book. No one has paid me to write my book! It is written in the typical way books are published. Your question does not make any sense and is insulting. Why should anyone pay me to write "my" book in the first place? Based upon four years of exhaustive research, I conclude that American Christians and taxpayers should know how Armenia has fleeced and deceived the Christian world, going back to 1885!
You, good sir, will be amazed to learn, by name, who started the great Armenian "lie" and the exact date the lie was first told that the Ottomans massacred 1.5 million poor Armenians. Good sir, you will also learn, by name and date, who spread the great Armenian lie of massacre, and there is proof certain that there could not have been this great "genocide" as Armenians have been claiming over and over and over again to anyone who will listen.
My proof is, again based on Armenian records, that the only reason this great lie was made up and told in the first place was to deceive and fleece the Christians of the world. It is a shame that no independent Christian has bothered to check out Armenian tall tales before now!
Good sir, when did you or your forefathers first come to America? I don't know about you, but I choose to believe the independent American eyewitnesses' statements, rather than made up tall tales of self-interest Armenians! I believe that all other American Christian taxpayers will do the same as I am doing once they discover the facts.
How do you explain away the basic teaching of Christ when he tells the world (including Armenians) to "forgive? I conclude that as long, good sir, as Armenians hate, seek revenge, and make wild claims about a book before even reading it--there is never going to be peace in the Near East. It is past time for my government of the United States to cut Armenia loose and let it become a footnote in history once again.
By way of background, I am a Scottish American. I don't have a drop of Turkish, Armenian or Azerbaijan blood in my veins. I infer from your comments that you are Armenian. You have a personal interest in presenting Armenia in a positive light. I understand your bias. I sadly see that
Armenians are taught hate from birth. You never have questioned history objectively, and sought the truth for yourselves. My only bias is that of an American Christian and taxpayer, who has learned that he has been fleeced and deceived by a gaggle of people called Armenians, who do not repent of their own evil acts. So long as this is true, good sir, Armenia does not merit Christian help!
I am a lifelong Southern Baptist Christian and an American taxpayer. Perhaps you, as a good Armenian can answer a few questions for me since you have asked questions of me:
Why, for example, has Armenian police attacked and disrupted religious services in my Baptist churches in your "ancient homeland?"
Just why can't there be real freedom of Christian religion in Armenia?
How dare Armenian police terrorize Baptist church services in your native land!
Armenian Americans have begged, whined and mooched $1.5 billion of my tax money over the past ten years. Good sir, why should I give one more red cent to your tiny state? I don't owe Armenia anything and neither does any other real American!
Why has Armenia begged the Russian to build three army bases in their tiny state and brought in Russian troops? You have Russian MIG fighter jets and surface to air missiles all over your tiny place to "defend" it. Since Armenia loves the Russians so much why not let the Russians keep up your corrupt government--why should I give Armenia my tax money under such conditions?
Just what kind of Christians are there in Armenia? My research, based on many conversations I have had with Armenian Christians in Armenian churches, and other sources I discovered show that Armenians don't follow the same Christ American Christians follow! The Bible American Christians believe in would never approve of a sneak, cowardly and surprise attack on poor Muslims' homes and expel more than one million of them to tent city existence, all in the name of Jesus! (or greed in reality should I say!). This is not --please permit me to say again so that you do not misunderstand--these are not Christian actions!
Christ would never have approved of Armenians traveling the world to murder innocent Turkish officials. Armenians killed several here in my United States of America. These Turks, whether, I agreed with them or not, were guests in my country. Armenia had no right to invade my country to murder anyone! Your church has stood moot and said nothing to these horrible murders. Christ would never have approved of such things! Just what kind of religion does the church of Armenia follow anyway?
Armenians have attacked and blown up the home of an American university professor in an attempt to silence him for sharing his findings of Armenian truth! Just how proud, good sir, are you of this Armenian tactic of terror and violence against an American citizen with whom you disagree?
Please permit me to ask one last question: Just why is the terrorist organization, Armenian Revolutionary Federation, headquartered and have records here in the United States of America? Why did this "Federation" refuse me the opportunity to research their records in Boston when I first began my research? Since the ARF makes use of American tax laws why are the records secret? I just walked into the archives in Washington DC, Rome, Paris, London, and yes, even into the archives, unannounced, in Istanbul, and was allowed to research freely. What are Armenians hiding? Why are the Armenians keep spreading the lies that Turkish archives are closed?
Buy the book and read it for yourself. You will be enlightened to the fact that I am not a lackey for Turkey, Azerbaijan, Armenia or anyone else! I based my book on historical facts published mostly by Armenian scholars. As a taxpayer I am fed up with giving away billions of my tax dollars to Armenia and we get nothing back except insults and abuses as well as endless Armenian demands. I conclude that Armenians do not appreciate plain people like me who are paying out the billions of dollars to your self-called terrorist "ancient homeland."
Prove me wrong and I will be delighted to make a public retraction. If you can't prove me wrong then why don't you start by expressing the first "thank you" to the American people for all we have done for Armenia without the first public "thank you" yet!
Yours truly,
Sam Weems
St.John Press