What are you talking about? It's the first Christian country, how were they Muslim ?
This is from wikipedia, I can't post links yet
"Armenians did not convert to Islam in large numbers. During the Arabic conquest, Islam came to the Armenians; however, almost all Armenians never converted to Islam, since Christians were not required to convert by Muslim law, and the absence of heavy taxation also hindered this. The story was similar in the Ottoman Empire.
Armenia continues to be one of the most ethnically homogeneous countries in Europe. Armenian 97.9%, Russian 0.5%, Kurds 1.3%, other 0.3% (2001)"
On the incident itself, the border guard should have just arrested the sheperd, and depending on circumstances should be prosecuted with manslaughter
Friend, no one says Armenia/Armenians are/were Muslims. Instead, we are saying that on the land of today's Armenia there were hundreds of Muslim (Azerbaijani Turkic) mosques, both Sunni and Shia, that were destroyed by Armenians after Russia invaded Caucasus, subjugated Georgians and Azerbaijani Turks, and made the former Irevan Khanate (an Azerbaijani Turkic kingdom) part of its empire. After that, a massive inmigration of Armenians started there, but still, until about 1901, the majority of population of what today is Yerevan (the capital of Armenia) was Turkic - Azerbaijani Turks.
According to media and official Armenian government sources, there is only one functioning mosque, Blue Mosque (Goy Mescit),
remaining in entire Armenia today, which is in Yerevan (it was reclassified by Armenians as Persian, despite being built in 1766 by
the Azerbaijani Turkic khan of the Yerevan Khanate), and one semi-destroyed non-functioning one, also in Yerevan, built in 19th
century. Both of these mosques are on the "protection" list of the Armenian Ministry of Culture. All other mosques have been
destroyed -- the last one was literally bulldozered in 1990 (see below for references). Here's the link to the official Armenian
government website that claims the Blue Mosque is "Persian":
www.gov.am/u_files/file/kron/G1043746.pdf
Meanwhile, according to the official Russian Imperial archival source, Caucasus Calendar (Kavkazskiy Kalendar, Кавказский
календарь
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published in 1870 in Tbilisi (Тифлис
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and covering the year 1869, page 392, there were this many Shia Muslim
mosques (doesn't include Sunni mosques): Erivan Guberniya (nearly entirely in today's Armenia): 269, Tiflis Gubernia (mostly
today's Georgia): 7 and Elizavetpol Guberniya (Azerbaijan): 156. So there used to be at least over 200 Shia mosques in today's
Armenia in the second half of the 19th century. Today, only 1.5 remain. What happened to the rest 200 or so is a rhetorical question.
And by the way, Armenia was NOT the "first Christian country"!!! This is a lie that Armenians shamelessly spread to gain more sympathy from Christians. The very first nation to become officially Christian was Osroene (Syrian people): "It was around 200 c.e. that Abgar IX adopted Christianity, thus enabling Edessa to become the first Christian state in history whose ruler was officially and openly a Christian." (David Frankfurter. Pilgrimage and Holy Space in Late Antique Egypt. Irfan Shahid. Arab Christian Pilgrimages. — BRILL, 1998 — p. 383 — ISBN 9789004111271)
Here's another link:
Osroene
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gr8vision,may i ask your profession?
You seem to know alot about certain things,specialy history.
I am a teacher.