Slanders On Muslims In History

A PROPAGANDA POSTER THAT DOES NOT REFLECT THE TRUTH

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Albert Sorel

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Frederick Gustavus Burnaby

Rudyard Kipling's poem "The White Man's Burden", published in The New York Sun on February 10, 1899, implied that John Bull –the symbol of Britain– and Uncle Sam –the symbol of the USA– ruled the non-white peoples of the Earth.

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The British deep state's influence on the US was referred to as the Great Rapprochement. There were propaganda posters everywhere, in which John Bull and Uncle Sam personifications- symbolizing the UK and the US respectively - were joining forces.

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Wellington House was not only carrying out anti-Turkish black propaganda, it was also making sure that the British people got all the war news after they were heavily censored and presented in a highly-biased manner. There were many calls to arms, but no one knew what was really happening at the front.

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The propaganda book The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire authored by Arnold J. Toynbee (top) together with James Bryce (bottom), the British historian and statesman. Toynbee later felt remorse for the false allegations he included in the book.

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The propaganda book Martyred Armenia supposedly written by Faiz El-Ghusein. However, historians found no record in Ottoman sources of a person with this name that held an official position in the Ottoman Empire.

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(Top right) An Ottoman Armenian family in 1906

(Top left) Vahram Papazyan, a successful Ottoman Armenian athlete who won many medals

(To the side) The Armenian football club, founded in 1908, was one of the first football clubs of the Ottoman Empire. The photo was taken in 1911.

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Alemdar and Sabah newspapers, which desire British mandate [in Turkey], are condemned

Various newspapers in the Ottoman Empire exposed and condemned the propagandists who worked to make people accept British mandate.

The sole salvation is supposedly the British mandate!

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(Top) Grand Vizier Mehmed Emin Ali Pasha, who enforced the Imperial Reform Edict of 1856. With the Edict of Reform in effect, non-Muslim constituents in the Ottoman Empire obtained the same rights as Muslim constituents. Following the edict, Armenians were assigned to the highest positions in the administration, became Ministers and Parliament Members and represented the Turkish people.

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We are proud to have had Armenian statesmen and pashas.

(Left) Armenian members of the Ottoman Parliament

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Wellington House propaganda managed to influence some Indian and Arab subjects of the Ottoman Empire. As a result, some Indians joined the fight on the side of the British.

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