13 Monday May 2013
Posted in Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, Regions, Syria, Turkey
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Casualties associated with Syria’s civil war: 82,000.
The numbers come by way of the nonpartisan Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/syriaohr / web page: http://syriahr.com/en/
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07 Tuesday May 2013
Back in 1997, this according to the Gatestone Institute, the Prime Minister to be had this to say of the Jews: ” . . . ”The Jews have begun to crush the Muslims of Palestine, in the name of Zionism,” the mayor said, “Today, the image of the Jews is no different from that of the Nazis.” [8]
Consider what I had to say in the previous post, and then catch this ignoble and altogether recent rant from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, may he for the Turkish people’s sake become E’r Be Gone at the next election:
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday branded Israel’s air raids in Syria “unacceptable” but again called on the international community to act over killings by regime forces.
“No excuse can justify this operation,” Erdogan told ruling party lawmakers after Israel’s weekend strikes on military sites in the war-torn country sent regional tensions soaring. [1]
Given the estimate of 70,000 dead so far in the slaughterhouse of Syria’s civil war; given reports of the torture of children in that battle space; given the consistent assessment’s of Maher al-Assad’s mentality; given the genocidal and maniacal rants emanating from Ayatollah Khamenei’s regime in Iran and out of the mouths of its stooges, Hamas and Hezbollah; given the detection of rocket shipments intended for Israeli targets: is there any other way to interpret the above as other than the familiar backward and cowardly voice of Jew hate?
It seems Erdogan wishes to enjoy NATO status while, frankly, attacking NATO values, a logical enough extension of his destruction of remnant Kamalist Turkish state behavior and values. Continue reading
11 Thursday Apr 2013
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discrimination, history, Islam, Jewish community, Jews, Turkey
When Kemal proclaimed his state in 1923 there were c. 200,000 Jews there. 100,000 lived in Constantinople, 30,000 in Smyrna, 15,000 in Adrianople, some 3,000 in Brusa and Gallipoli and in other towns. Today there are only 23,000 left which is a dramatic decline of 88,5% within two generations. The obvious explanation might be that the emigration of Turkish Jews to Israel after 1949 is responsible for the decline. Yet, this is not the case. According to the population census of 1927, i.e. four years after the establishment of Kemal’s Republic, there were only 81,454 Jews left in Turkey, including 47,035 in Constantinople. So the worst decline happened long before the creation of Israel which Turkey -as we will see- vehemently opposed. Was it “happiness” that drove so many Jews out of Kemal’s Turkey or rather its lack ? Let’s see!
While I ask the zealous of the anti-Jihad whether any have a transition for what they may perceive as 1.2 billion Jihadists, I have also to acknowledge — and encouragement acknowledgement of — uncomfortable truths in the form of factual data, valid and reliable, well analyzed.
A bit Hillelian perhaps, I would like to leave possibility for the greater development and strength of Islamic humanists (of the sort intending to separate mosque and state and pursue a course around compassionate progress. As “no good deed goes unpunished,” I may have to be suspect of my own idealism.
Nonetheless, whatever the evil, the injustice, the buried and shameful history, and so on, drag it out into the sun.
Bring light to it.
Let’s have a look together.
With regard to the Jews of the Spanish Expulsion, I informally recall seeing numbers above 250,000 migrating to Turkey. That the 15th Century figure diminished to fewer than 100,000 in IAUUS’s account of 20th Century history tells of the program in force and the necessity today of either rejecting its ruthlessly discriminating features out of hand or continuing with the suffering inspired by them, a situation in which the so-called “believers” would seem as damned as those “submitting” to their impositions by way of intimidation and violence.
18 Thursday Oct 2012
Posted in Fast News Share, Free Speech, Turkey
World-famous Turkish pianist Fazil Say has appeared in court in Istanbul charged with inciting hatred and insulting the values of Muslims.
He is being prosecuted over tweets he wrote mocking radical Muslims, in a case which has rekindled concern about religious influence in the country.
More: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19990943
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Prompted by The Awesome Conversation (FTAC), 10/18/2012/1450H
The greater the right’s demonization of Obama, the more inclined I am to vote for him.
Any POTUS would have his (or her) hands full between the Ayatollah in Iran, the failed dictator in Syria, and the rising star in Turkey. Each of those believe their power in office has come directly from God himself (although henchmen, armies, a lot of lawyers, and a few generals plus a reliable treasury don’t hurt) and the above story about an incident hate Tweet (against the most hate-worthy of humans) tells you — tells everyone, including their own constituents — how very mean spirited and small these guys really are.
Just to back up my charge here, I remind: Maher Assad appears to have sent his army into the field without the least restrictive doctrine or rules-of-engagement, setting the tone for what has become the most abysmal, bankrupt, and vacuous of civil wars; the Ayatollah through his pet Ahmadinejad has been railing about the Zionist entity and, apparently, taking steps to rid their small world of it, for years, and they too signal evidence of zero boundaries, a signal that echoes forward from the “chain murders” accompanying the establishment of the “Islamic Revolution in Iran” to the cells of Evin Prison and the complete crap shoot of a justice system subordinated to a political system defined by patronage; and Erdogan, whose run for president was opposed in the streets by hundreds of thousands of Turks, has succeeded in bullying opposition in Turkey’s business community, introducing journalists to jail on something close to mere dictatorial wishes, and replacing an entire class of generals.
What’s Erdogan’s big schtick today?
The old fashioned NATO vs. Russia music playing in the background. A fine European state Turkey would make today, eh?
I’ve left out of this Egypt’s Mursi, but the patterns — power, treasury, military, and belligerent talk in public: all familiar. To deflect attention from all of that (really, all of that political criminality), Turkey’s most accomplished classical pianist goes to court, so it seems, for slandering “louts” by associating them with “Islamists” and doing so in fewer than 140 words.
I’m going to set out a vocabulary related to the Islamic Small Wars (ISW) and language in a while, but the small-minded demonstration of power signaled by this story (a musician tweets a nasty something about “Islamists” — whoop-de-do — and winds up in a Turkish court) begs for reason, and that in spaces where greed and the lust for power (plus perhaps the cold stab of fear instilled by “conservative” and “Islamist” political behavior in the reasonable) have overcome anything like it.
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