Title: McCarthy fails to examine the dynamics of ethnic cleansing
Product review: Justin McCarthy fails to analyze the true dynamics of ethnic cleansing accurately. First, he has not arrived at an accurate definition of who Muslims were in the Ottoman Empire. Many groups such as the Druzes of Lebanon or the Shi'a Arabs of Iraq, or the Alevis of Anatolia and Syria existed on the fringes of Muslim society. Second, McCarthy fails to note that a significant proportion of the Muslim casualties he lists for the wars of 1821 to 1922 were actually caused by the Ottoman army, not by "Christian" rebels or aggressors. Finally, McCarthy did not cite Ottoman Turkish sources for his statistics in any great abundance, relying mostly upon European diplomatic accounts. In the end, his attempt to speak for "Muslims" as victims was a clumsy and inept attempt to avoid placing blame upon the Ottoman state.
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