Counter-jihad writers systematically minimize documented Muslim wartime deaths

Evidence

For example, Bat Ye’or’s prote´ ge´ Andrew Bostom, a doctor of epidemiology, is the author of The Legacy of Jihad and Serge Trifkovic, the author of Sword of the Prophet: the politically incorrect guide to Islam and a former supporter of the Bosnian Serbs, has claimed, among other things, that the figure of 250,000 Muslims killed in the Balkan wars should be lowered to 2,500 and that the Srebrenica massacre was ‘self-inflicted’. — Matt Carr, You Are Now Entering Eurabia, 47

Categorization

• CANDY: The epidemiological training of a man rewriting Bosnia’s body count into a hundredth is a striking, quotable detail.
• QUESTION: How much of this revisionism has since migrated into mainstream foreign-policy rhetoric?
• XREF: connects to: In-group glorifiers linguistically minimize accounts of their own side’s atrocities in written summaries. — Emanuele Castano, On the Perils of Glorifying the…, 55