Finally.

Today’s Zaman (h/t - Jihad Watch) has a story about the OIC declaring a day of remembrance for the millions and millions of Muslims that have been massacred in the past 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.

This is long over due. Maybe now more attention will be drawn to Kallisto’s concerns, expressed in the following video:

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Let’s see what else the OIC has to say about tragedies like the ones in the video:

“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. 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.

Oh.

I see.

What else does OIC say?

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.

Hmmm… It seems to me that this should be called “Demonize Jews and Armenians Day,” or, “Revised History Day.”

But wait, there’s more:

Palestinian Ambassador Nabil Marouf, who took the floor at yesterday’s meeting, asserted that the heart of all massacres against his people lay in Israeli aggression against Palestinians. “Yesterday Israel celebrated its 60th year. Every year, they will remind us of how they have violated our rights,” Marouf said and expressed that May 15 should be chosen as the date for commemorating Muslim martyrs.

Ahmed Ismail Mohamed Rashid, representing Jordan, said making May 15 the memorial day would be tantamount to recognizing and legitimizing Israel’s official existence.

Ah, yes. We wouldn’t want that, now, would we? Because, after all, this really isn’t about remembering the victims of tragedies, it’s more about politics.

The real survivors and families of those affected by the mass murders in Bosnia and Algeria now have a day in which their horrors are trivialized for political and propaganda purposes.