Just in case you were getting distracted by those 10,000+ jihad terror attacks since 9/11, the OIC helps you remember that Muslims are victims, not perpetrators. Got it? Victims, you Islamophobe. “OIC to adopt “˜memorial day’ for massacres against Muslims,” from Today’s Zaman, May 17 (thanks to all who sent this in):
Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) member countries plan to declare a day of memorial for massacres and genocide committed against Muslim communities in various countries throughout the 20th century.
On Friday, representatives of OIC youth organizations came together at İstanbul’s Grand Cevahir Hotel for a meeting organized by the Islamic Conference Youth Forum for Dialogue and Cooperation (ICYF-DC) to discuss programs to create awareness of Muslim grievances over the past within the younger generation and foster solidarity among OIC members.
“OIC countries are being confronted by different Islamophobic groups that have developed a plethora of myths of so-called historic violence Muslim countries [perpetrated] against others. That is a conscious strategy to create an image of Muslim peoples as ruthless and Islam as a culture of violence.
Yeah, “Islamophobes” are 100% responsible for that perception. Osama? Zawahri? Abu Bakar Bashir? Omar Bakri? Zionist agents to a man!
On the other hand, the world community — even its most educated strata — doesn’t have any idea about the genocidal campaigns Muslim peoples have been subjected to throughout the 20th century,” ICYF-DC Secretary-General Elshad Iskandarov said at the conference.
April 9 was among the proposals for the observance, a date that marks the anniversary of the massacre of Palestinian villagers in Deir Yassin near Jerusalem by Israeli forces in 1948. If chosen as the memorial day for 20th century killings of Muslims, April 9 will also mark other tragedies, such as the Van massacre of Turks by Armenians on May 22, 1916; the Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia and Herzegovina perpetrated by Serbs on July 8, 1995; the Sétif and Guelma massacre of May 8, 1945 of Algerians by French forces; and the Khojaly massacre of Azerbaijanis by Armenians on Feb. 26, 1993.
Tamer Gazioğlu, the representative of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (KKTC), proposed adding the Muratağa-Sandallar killings of Turkish Cypriots at the hands of Greeks in 1974 to the provisional list….
Trumped up, exaggerated, or fictional massacres, but in any case, it goes on and on: displacement, finger-pointing, tu quoque games, but never, ever, an acknowledgment of responsibility and a sincere dedication to change their own behavior.