LETTER WRITER’S CLAIM OF GENOCIDE DISPUTED BY HISTORIANS
David Warren.
Windsor Star
July 8, 2008 Tuesday
Ontario
Mr. Warren’s exclusive focus on Christian suffering during the Ottoman
Empire’s decline seriously weakens his credibility and perpetuates the
Western World’s Euro- and Christian-centric bias on Ottoman history.
There are many peer-reviewed historians who dispute the Armenian
claim of genocide made by the International Association of Genocide
Scholars. The association excludes any who dispute their views and
receives funding from Armenian sources, who note that this claim has
yet to face an independent legal tribunal, who question why Armenian
historical archives remain closed and who corroborate the coincident
experience of Ottoman Muslim suffering.
Warren’s silence on the millions of Ottoman Muslims, predominantly
Turks, who were deported from their homes and then were massacred
or died of starvation and disease is inexcusable. He gives little
thought to what became of the Muslims in Armenia, Bulgaria and Greece,
for example.
In chastising the unacceptable rantings of Ahmadinejad toward Israel,
Warren’s comments would have credibility if he did not condone,
through silence, the crimes against humanity committed against Muslims.