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THE PURPOSE OF TALL ARMENIAN TALE (TAT)
...Is to expose the mythological “Armenian genocide,” from the years 1915-16. A wartime
tragedy involving the losses of so many has been turned into a politicized story of “exclusive
victimhood,” and because of the prevailing prejudice against Turks, along with Turkish
indifference, those in the world, particularly in the West, have been quick to accept these
terribly defamatory claims involving the worst crime against humanity. Few stop to investigate
below the surface that those regarded as the innocent victims, the Armenians, while seeking to
establish an independent state, have been the ones to commit systematic ethnic cleansing
against those who did not fit into their racial/religious ideal: Muslims, Jews, and even
fellow Armenians who had converted to Islam. Criminals as Dro, Antranik, Keri, Armen Garo and
Soghoman Tehlirian (the assassin of Talat Pasha, one of the three Young Turk leaders, along
with Enver and Jemal) contributed toward the deaths (via massacres, atrocities, and forced
deportation) of countless innocents, numbering over half a million. What determines genocide
is not the number of casualties or the cruelty of the persecutions, but the intent to destroy
a group, the members of which are guilty of nothing beyond being members of that group. The
Armenians suffered their fate of resettlement not for their ethnicity, having co-existed and
prospered in the Ottoman Empire for centuries, but because they rebelled against their dying
Ottoman nation during WWI (World War I); a rebellion that even their leaders of the period,
such as Boghos Nubar and Hovhannes Katchaznouni, have admitted. Yet the hypocritical world
rarely bothers to look beneath the surface, not only because of anti-Turkish prejudice, but
because of Armenian wealth and intimidation tactics. As a result, these libelous lies,
sometimes belonging in the category of “genocide studies,” have become part of the school
curricula of many regions. Armenian scholars such as Vahakn Dadrian, Peter Balakian, Richard
Hovannisian, Dennis Papazian and Levon Marashlian have been known to dishonestly present only
one side of their story, as long as their genocide becomes affirmed. They have enlisted the
help of "genocide scholars," such as Roger Smith, Robert Melson, Samantha Power, and
Israel Charny… and particularly those of Turkish extraction, such as Taner Akcam and
Fatma Muge Gocek, who justify their alliance with those who actively work to harm the
interests of their native country, with the claim that such efforts will help make Turkey
more" democratic." On the other side of this coin are genuine scholars who consider
all the relevant data, as true scholars have a duty to do, such as Justin McCarthy, Bernard
Lewis, Heath Lowry, Erich Feigl and Guenter Lewy. The unscrupulous genocide industry, not
having the facts on its side, makes a practice of attacking the messenger instead of the
message, vilifying these professors as “deniers” and "agents of the Turkish
government." The truth means so little to the pro-genocide believers, some even resort to
the forgeries of the Naim-Andonian telegrams or sources based on false evidence, as
Franz Werfel’s The Forty Days of Musa Dagh. Naturally, there is no end to the hearsay
"evidence" of the prejudiced pro-Christian people from the period, including
missionaries and Near East Relief representatives, Arnold Toynbee, Lord Bryce, Lloyd George,
Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and so many others. When the rare Westerner opted to look
at the issues objectively, such as Admirals Mark Bristol and Colby Chester, they were quick to
be branded as “Turcophiles” by the propagandists. The sad thing is, even those who don’t
consider themselves as bigots are quick to accept the deceptive claims of Armenian propaganda,
because deep down people feel the Turks are natural killers and during times when Turks were
victims, they do not rate as equal and deserving human beings. This is the main reason why the
myth of this genocide has become the common wisdom. |
