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Pharisee style violence in Turkey
Aliye Cetinkaya, a journalist from the Turkish daily Sabah newspaper, who was reporting on the recent protests over the offensive caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed, was stoned in Konya for reasons demonstrators said were provocative as she did not cover her head. Cetinkaya was taken away by male colleagues after stones hit her head and shoulders. The female journalist was attacked for being ‘sexually provocative’ for not wearing a head scarf at the demonstration organised by the Peoples Education Research and Support Group in Konya (He Da Der) and entitled ‘Loyalty to the Prophet’.
A group of protesters insisted that Aliye Cetinkaya get off the bus where she was reporting the march, as they claimed she was provoking the crowd. air jordan 6 At this moment, somebody started reciting the Koran into a microphone.
Approximately 30 people then started throwing stones at Cetinkaya, seated with her legs dangling from the back of the vehicle and taking notes. They claimed that her clothes and way of sitting was inappropriate while the Koran was being read, and shouted words of abuse at her.
One of the groups in the demonstration, the Islamist “Association for Training, Research and Cooperation of the People” (HEDA DER) meanwhile filed a complaint against Cetinkaya the same day, accusing her of disturbing the demonstration, an offence that carries a fine or between 18 months and three years imprisonment under a 1983 law on public demonstrations.
while Turkey’s Prime Minister shoots his nation in the foot:
“Today, however, the VVD leader questioned whether Turkey should be allowed into the EU, given the reaction of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the Danish cartoons. Mr Erdogan had called the cartoons “insulting” and demanded that legal action be taken against the cartoonists and the publishers. “If this is the way he thinks and if he is going to give us lessons, then it will be very difficult for Turkey to join the EU,” the VVD leader says in an interview with the Dutch weekly Elsevier. He also criticized the visits this week of Ben Bot, the Dutch Foreign Minister, to Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Mr van Aartsen does not see the point of visiting these countries at the moment.”
Even Victor Davis Hanson thinks Turkey in Europe now lies dead dreaming
Europe will still talk about bringing Turkey into the fold of the West, but de facto is horrified at the thought that millions of a religion that empowers so many to go berserk over a few cartoons might soon comprise the most populous nation of Europe. I doubt any European diplomat will invest any political capital at all in restarting in earnest Turkish/European Union talks.
As Jeff from Caerdroia wonders how this effects globalization generally:
How does PNM handle the collapse or approaching collapse of rulesets in core nations? The flow of people from the gap to the core is inherently going to bring gap rulesets those travel in people’s heads, after all and this is already apparent in Britain, France, Spain, Italy, the Low Countries, Denmark and Norway. I suspect we’ll see the same in Germany, soon, because they have the same demography/immigrant problem as the rest of Western Europe.
Once the gap rulesets have been imported into the core, can the core rulesets remain established, or are the core rulesets inherently self defeating? And if they are inherently self defeating, at least when confronted with a lower order ruleset from the gap, what changes to the core rulesets (and hopefully there are some short of mass deportation or genocide) can be made to avert the consequences of a core ruleset collapse (the main consequence being moving from the core to the gap)?
There are four main reasons to support Turkey’s accession to the European Union
1. Turkey, as a center of Greco Roman civilization, is inherently Western
1. Muslim countries lost their Roman roots by abandoning italic laws and adopting the Sharia
2. Ukraine was a Cold War enemy. The past is past. The future is now.
3. Reid acknowledges, is a high unemployment continent. Europe has structural problems that premature immigration may only excacerbate
4. Europe, as a majority Christian county, can be a beachhead for them in the Global War on Terror.
I have Turkish friends and Turkish relatives. I have traditionally supported Turkey’s membership in the European Union. But not if it will drag 25 other European states down.
That’s not progress. That’s continental suicide.
It’s funny, but I’ve been having the same thoughts. I’ve always thought Turkey was a voice of sanity in the MENA area, a good ally and an asset to Europe and America, if we would just treat Turkey on an equal basis. That view took a huge blow when Turkey did not let 4ID invade through their territory into northern Iraq. It took more blows as Turkey turned increasingly Islamist, in small steps, since then. It took a major blow when the Turks reacted with their religion, rather than with their instincts for secularism and (relative) freedom given them by Ataturk.
At this point, I cannot see Turkey as a lost cause. But I can’t see it in the EU, either. I’m not certain I can still see Turkey in NATO. Likewise, he oriented Turkey towards Europe and ceased the persecution of folk religions. He brilliantly used the Communist Party to gain and consolidate power, and then banned it as a threat to his nation.
However, he was a socialist, and his economic legacy still hobbles Turkey. His attempts at creating Republican institutions were not that strong, prompting several military “corrections” of governments. (A military coup is not a mature way to move a government, and so this route is out if Turkey is serious about joining Europe unless the coup is defeated.) His extreme secularism oppressed valid religions, and paved the way for the backlash we are seeing today.
The current Turkish government has in some ways been very cooperative (pressuring Northern Cyprus to sign an agreement that helped marginalize the Greek south, for example). However, on both the US alliance and freedom of speech, it has been week.
More vital to the US than air jordan 6 getting jordan 5 Turkey in Europe is broadening the EU with low labor, pro American states generally. It is doubtful that Ukraine, say, would be as controversial a choice as Turkey. A wise strategy might to to cease reinforcing the failure of Turkish europeanization, and instead flow with Ukrainian momentum.
(Plus, while adding Turkey to Europe would have unknown effects on the Global War on Terrorism, an EUkraine would permanently hobble the Russian threat to the continent. [2])
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