Muslim Holocaust Archive
https://www.iraqinews.com/arab-world-news/thousands-children-killed-wounded-syria-since-2013/
Mission and Rational
The Mission of the Modern Muslim Holocaust Archive and Resource Center is the:
Collection of the histories, statistics, and personal stories of the Modern Muslim Holocaust beginning in about 1900 in one or more centralized location(s). There are many practical needs and an outstanding moral imperative to collect the histories, statistics, and personal stories of the ongoing and escalating Modern Muslim Holocaust.
According to the most recent figures from UNHCR there are approximately 68.5 million forcibly displaced persons world-wide, with 57% of them from three countries: South Sudan, Afghanistan and Syria.
https://www.unhcr.org/figures-at-a-glance.html (Accessed April 10, 2019)
Though there are no reliable statistics on what percent of the displaced persons in the world are Muslim, it is safe to assume a significant majority of the displaced persons currently are Muslim.
In 2013 the United Nations reported that the number of people living as refugees worldwide exceeded that at the end of WWII, which was at that time approximately 50 million.
Collection of the histories, statistics, and personal stories of the Modern Muslim Holocaust beginning in about 1900 in one or more centralized location(s). There are many practical needs and an outstanding moral imperative to collect the histories, statistics, and personal stories of the ongoing and escalating Modern Muslim Holocaust.
According to the most recent figures from UNHCR there are approximately 68.5 million forcibly displaced persons world-wide, with 57% of them from three countries: South Sudan, Afghanistan and Syria.
https://www.unhcr.org/figures-at-a-glance.html (Accessed April 10, 2019)
Though there are no reliable statistics on what percent of the displaced persons in the world are Muslim, it is safe to assume a significant majority of the displaced persons currently are Muslim.
In 2013 the United Nations reported that the number of people living as refugees worldwide exceeded that at the end of WWII, which was at that time approximately 50 million.
- There are not even approximate statistics attempting to account for the number of Muslims killed in the 20th and 21st Century Modern Muslim Holocaust.
- There is no centralized location for collecting or analyzing this information nor is there a centralized facility for the collection of human stories involved, the stories of those killed, or their surviving family members, friends and/or communities.
Like it or not...
- We Muslims have not adequately communicated the peaceful nature of true Islam to the world,
- We Muslims have not communicated the extreme violence to which we are so routinely subjected,
- We Muslims have failed miserably to intelligently communicate with the voters in the west that allow and perpetuate the violence against our Ummah.
- The poor among us cannot be blamed.
- In fact, the blame game does not help at all
- It is time we move beyond that and take proactive steps to communicate better
Ongoing
- A “multi-nodal” research program designed to enhance validity and reliability of information relating to the ongoing Modern Muslim Holocaust
- Validity to be affirmed by corroboration between:
1) Primary Sources: Personal narratives
2) Secondary Sources: translations from multiple news sources around the world in different languages. All incoming information must by necessity be evaluated in terms of “face validity” and require multiple independent sources to ascertain reliability of that information. Eternal vigilance is required to quarantine potentially “fake news,” biased published information favoring one side or another in any conflict.
When did the “Modern” Muslim Holocaust begin?
Fall of the Ottoman Empire
One could argue that the Modern Muslim Holocaust started with the defeat of Ottoman forces in the First Balkan War fought between Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Montenegro (the “Balkan League”) and the Ottoman Empire. It was Montenegro that initiated hostilities by declaring war on Turkey on Oct. 8, 1912. One could also argue that the Ottoman Empire was weak at that time due to internal corruption, a lack of modern education and questionable leadership.
The Modern Muslim Holocaust escalated October 29, 1914, when the Ottoman Empire confronted Russian forces on the shores of the Black Sea. Following this Britain and France allied with Russia and declared war on the Ottoman Empire effectively starting WWI. The Modern Muslim Holocaust further escalated with the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire by the European powers, principally the British following WWI, however the histories are complex due to the Ottomans siding with the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Since WWII there has been an ultra-rapid increase in attacks upon Muslims and conflicts between Muslims on a scale unparalleled in history.
One could argue that the Modern Muslim Holocaust started with the defeat of Ottoman forces in the First Balkan War fought between Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Montenegro (the “Balkan League”) and the Ottoman Empire. It was Montenegro that initiated hostilities by declaring war on Turkey on Oct. 8, 1912. One could also argue that the Ottoman Empire was weak at that time due to internal corruption, a lack of modern education and questionable leadership.
The Modern Muslim Holocaust escalated October 29, 1914, when the Ottoman Empire confronted Russian forces on the shores of the Black Sea. Following this Britain and France allied with Russia and declared war on the Ottoman Empire effectively starting WWI. The Modern Muslim Holocaust further escalated with the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire by the European powers, principally the British following WWI, however the histories are complex due to the Ottomans siding with the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Since WWII there has been an ultra-rapid increase in attacks upon Muslims and conflicts between Muslims on a scale unparalleled in history.
The Nakba - May 15, 1948
Dead babies in the Nakba
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The Nakba represents another significant demarcation in time signaling another new level of genocide upon Muslims in the modern era.
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"Every year on May 15, Palestinians around the world, numbering about 12.4 million, mark the Nakba, or “catastrophe,” referring to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine and the near-total destruction of Palestinian society in 1948."
https://popularresistance.org/history-of-ethnic-cleansing-in-palestine-the-nakba/ |
There has been a huge and increasing number of attacks upon Muslim tribes and nations since the beginning of the 20th Century. There have been few attempts to collect this information or analyze it.
The Modern Muslim Holocaust Compared with the Jewish Holocaust
According to the Jewish Virtual Library their “Holocaust (also called Ha-Shoah in Hebrew) refers to the period from January 30, 1933 - when Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany - to May 8, 1945, when the war in Europe officially ended.” https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/an-introductory-history-of-the-holocaust
An unprecedented 6 million Jewish people were reported to have been killed. Since then vastly more Muslims have been killed in international and "civil" conflicts either as the direct result of those conflicts or as the result of the poverty that accompanies war, e.g. disease and starvation.
Information Deficits
There are some reasonably good data collection services, and there is no good reason to duplicate their services. However, none of them are even close to being comprehensive.
Lives and Statistics: Are 90% of War Victims Civilians? by Adam Roberts
https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/access/content/user/1044/Survival_Jun-Jul_2010_-_AR_on_lives___statistics_-_non-printable.pdf
- https://www.acleddata.com (Unfortunately they are often months and years behind real-time events. But, they are sometimes the first to update statistics recognized by the international media.)
- https://www.statista.com/statistics/269729/documented-civilian-deaths-in-iraq-war-since-2003/
- https://reliefweb.int/
- https://www.prio.org/
- https://www.unhcr.org/data.html
- https://icr.ethz.ch/data/
- http://opendatahandbook.org/solutions/en/Real-Time-Conflict-Data/
- https://www.hrw.org (In some ways the best)
- https://www.sipri.org/
- http://necrometrics.com
- www.ippnw.de
- www.psr.org
- www.pgs.ca
- https://www.splcenter.org
- http://www.islamicencyclopedia.org/
- https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/publications
- And others
Lives and Statistics: Are 90% of War Victims Civilians? by Adam Roberts
https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/access/content/user/1044/Survival_Jun-Jul_2010_-_AR_on_lives___statistics_-_non-printable.pdf
Tragedies of the Muslim Holocaust that can be corrected
- One of the many tragedies of the modern Muslim Holocaust is in many places in Africa, Asia and the Middle East we Muslims cannot even count the number of our brothers and sisters killed, much less know their names or stories.
- Muslims are not currently collecting and communicating our stories effectively to the world. Too many people in our Ummah have not communicated the realities of their lives and their stories need to be recorded and told. Writing down their stories is one of the best therapies possible. It’s at least a bit easier to let the most painful memories fade after the story has been written down. If the average western voter had any idea of the true suffering of the Muslim war victims, their family survivors, or the 68.5 million refugees, they would demand their governments stop their neo-colonial quests.
- Another great tragedy in the modern Muslim Ummah is we have not been effective in predicting events within our Ummah, or preventing easily foreseeable conflicts.
Changing Demographics in the U.S.
Insha’Allah the current scale of the modern Muslim Holocaust will diminish over time, as the demographics in the USA shifts closer to a majority percentage of people of color.
https://www.epi.org/publication/the-changing-demographics-of-americas-working-class/
https://www.epi.org/publication/the-changing-demographics-of-americas-working-class/
The majority of people of color in the U.S. have not typically felt the antagonism towards Islam displayed by the leadership of Caucasian Euro-Americans over the past 500 years since the colonization of the Americas, Asia and Africa. Some may argue that antagonism towards Islam is not the primary cause of aggression against Muslims, but rather a convenient excuse used to cover profit seeking goals, such as land and natural resources. One of the many tragedies associated with the politics of prejudice is it takes on a life of its own, a lesson to be learned by people of all faiths and philosophies.
The Muslims in harm’s way now, and in the short and long distant future however cannot wait for demographics in the U.S. to change. We need to start recording our stories now, stop our current conflicts and prevent emerging conflicts before they happen.
The Muslims in harm’s way now, and in the short and long distant future however cannot wait for demographics in the U.S. to change. We need to start recording our stories now, stop our current conflicts and prevent emerging conflicts before they happen.
Proposed Locations
- Islamic Peace Education and Art Center(s) and Modern Muslim Holocaust Archive Center(s): Anywhere, though Turkey, Iran, Indonesia and Pakistan seem like countries that be most likely to sponsor such research, education and art centers.
Timeline & Sponsors
Some efforts to collect at least a few artifacts, a small library, some peace education curriculum, and a very preliminary database covering the modern Muslim Holocaust has been made by this writer.
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Preliminary results of his study suggest approximately 14 million plus Muslims have been killed in the Muslim Holocaust since about 1898 with the vast majority of those killings occurring within the past 50 years.
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The writer of this “Introduction to Two Complimentary Muslim Centered Proposals” (Silk Roads Peace Education and Art Center & Muslim Holocaust Archives and Research Center) Abdul Rashid bin Abdullah is currently under contract in Beijing until July 15, 2019. No matter. Sponsors are needed now, and more work needs to commence on the goals outlined above, now.
What is needed is a non-governmental sponsor or sponsors. A private university, or even a successful large restaurant owner for example, could easily afford the minimal costs to start a Peace Education and Art Center, and another one could easily afford to start a Muslim Holocaust Research Center.
What is needed is a non-governmental sponsor or sponsors. A private university, or even a successful large restaurant owner for example, could easily afford the minimal costs to start a Peace Education and Art Center, and another one could easily afford to start a Muslim Holocaust Research Center.
Costs
Costs can vary from practically nothing to millions of dollars depending on the level of support from private sponsors and local institutions.
Organization
In each country a Board of Directors will need to be appointed in cooperation with sponsors to oversee:
- Location of facilities
- Design and construction of facilities
- Content/Curriculum of Islamic Peace Education, Silk Roads and Art Center(s) and Modern Muslim Holocaust Archive Center(s). For example, the Muslim leadership and Ulema of this Muslim country or that would not want propaganda from opposing sides in conflict(s) using the Holocaust Archive as a weapon against them. This is entirely reasonable and understandable.
About the writer of these proposals
Abdul Rashid bin Abdullah converted to Islam in 1988. He is the son and grandson of university professors. He received his first university library card when he was five years old and has lived in and traveled through some 37 countries since 1963 when he was six.
For the past ten years (2009-2019) he has been an “English as a Foreign Language” (EFL) teacher at a large international school in Beijing. During that time he refined and used large parts of the peace education curriculum in this proposal. Prior to that he was a teacher in South Korea and his duties included several years teaching English at Gyeriongdae military headquarters, where he originally developed much of the above peace curriculum.
Between the years 2015 and 2018 he traveled about 14,000 kilometers on the ground along the land Silk Roads between Xi’an in China and Istanbul, stopping at and photographing the major Silk Road archeological sites and interviewing the Wushu and Taekwondo Federation representatives, several Museum Directors and archeologists. During his summer vacation in 2018 he did this same thing in Ethiopia visiting and photographing among other places Axum and Nejashi - the oldest Islamic settlement in Africa. In 2019 thus far he visited archeological ruins and museums in Vietnam and Japan in addition to interviewing their Wushu masters and federation Secretary Generals.
As of July 15, 2019 he will be available full-time to work with interested people and organizations to develop the above described education related proposals, and/or host seminars on any of the topics contained herein.
The name on his passport is Gregory Brundage.
For the past ten years (2009-2019) he has been an “English as a Foreign Language” (EFL) teacher at a large international school in Beijing. During that time he refined and used large parts of the peace education curriculum in this proposal. Prior to that he was a teacher in South Korea and his duties included several years teaching English at Gyeriongdae military headquarters, where he originally developed much of the above peace curriculum.
Between the years 2015 and 2018 he traveled about 14,000 kilometers on the ground along the land Silk Roads between Xi’an in China and Istanbul, stopping at and photographing the major Silk Road archeological sites and interviewing the Wushu and Taekwondo Federation representatives, several Museum Directors and archeologists. During his summer vacation in 2018 he did this same thing in Ethiopia visiting and photographing among other places Axum and Nejashi - the oldest Islamic settlement in Africa. In 2019 thus far he visited archeological ruins and museums in Vietnam and Japan in addition to interviewing their Wushu masters and federation Secretary Generals.
As of July 15, 2019 he will be available full-time to work with interested people and organizations to develop the above described education related proposals, and/or host seminars on any of the topics contained herein.
The name on his passport is Gregory Brundage.
Reference
Wilson, Valerie (2016) People of color will be a majority of the American working class in 2032 - What this means for the effort to grow wages and reduce inequality, An Economic Policy Institute Publication, https://www.epi.org/publication/the-changing-demographics-of-americas-working-class/ Downloaded March 23, 2019
Wilson, Valerie (2016) People of color will be a majority of the American working class in 2032 - What this means for the effort to grow wages and reduce inequality, An Economic Policy Institute Publication, https://www.epi.org/publication/the-changing-demographics-of-americas-working-class/ Downloaded March 23, 2019
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