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What role did religion play in the Armenian genocide?

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The answer is B: Armenians were mostly Christian, and were suspected of allying with fellow Christians.

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I think that the differences in religion played a large role in the foundation of abuse that the Turks perpetrated upon the Armenians. With the dominant religion of Armenia as Christianity, the Muslim Turks were able to assert the primacy of their own religion on the subjugated Armenians. This resulted in many reforms based on religious discrimination that started the pattern of abuse which laid the foundations for the Genocide. Political and social rights violations...

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