U.S. Court Upholds Reality Of Armenian Genocide

August 14, 2010 - Paul Williams, PhD

Fethullah Gulen, who seeks to establish a universal caliphate, is weeping again.

 

The radical Turkish imam, who seeks to revive the Ottoman Empire and to establish a universal caliphate, has spent millions to convince U.S. legislators and public school administrators that the Armenian holocaust of 1915 never occurred since it was a myth perpetrated by Western historians.

 

But Gulen’s attempt to whitewash history has been rejected by a US appeals court, which upheld a ruling that blocks schools in the state of Massachusetts from teaching literature that denies the mass killing of Armenian Christians by Ottoman Turks in 1915 as genocide.

 

The ruling came in response to a 2005 lawsuit filed by the Assembly of Turkish American Associations, a US lobbying under the control of Gulen and his movement of militant Islamists. A lower court dismissed the suit in June, and the appeals court upheld that decision on Wednesday.

 

State curriculum in Massachusetts requires schools to teach a unit about the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, and other "recognized human rights violations and genocides."

 

The appeals court ruled that "law would not allow the genocide denial actions that the plaintiffs sought."

 

Historians have concluded that more than one million Armenians were killed in 1915, and contemporaneous reports from newspapers and foreign embassies often called the killings "systematic."

 

The International Association of Genocide Scholars affirmed in 2005 that the killings were genocide.