Armeniapedia: It can (almost) get you deported!

Here's an article forwarded to me by Erik at Gaiftours. The writer has made a number of rather important mistakes in it, but the basic facts of the application for asylum are clear. An Australian tribunal decided to reject an Iranian's claim that he had converted to an Armenian Church after the Iranian Revolution and his life would be in danger if he were returned to Iran. The tribunal used Armeniapedia's Armenian Church Service online no doubt, in order to judge his familiarity with it and he apparently did not know anything about it. A court overturned the decision because, his claim to have joined an "Armenian Church" did not necessarily mean an Armenian Apostolic Church, and therefore his familiarity with the service would have been irrelevant.

Armeniapedia.org was also quoted in the New York Times earlier this year after Hrant Dink's murder... and of course the New Republic quote of this Cilicia.com blog this week was quite memorable.