It is also especially worthy of note that the decision of the National Cathedral’s leaders to allow the Muslim prayer service on the anniversary of the Caliph’s Jihad Declaration came on the same day it was revealed that Der Zor memorial church, a Syrian Christian Church dedicated to the memory of the millions of Christians slain in the Ottoman Caliphate’s genocide, was blown up and the bones of victims of the Armenian genocide were removed from the crypt and dumped by the side of the road.