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To: Nikas777

Nikas, do you know if the Turkish government is still pursuing the ambition to become part of the EU & if so, wouldn’t their officially encouraged &/or tolerated persecution of Christians constitute an impediment to that goal?

(Not that the EU bureaucracy is particularly inclined to defend the interests of Christians even on the european continent, I realize, but I should think that at a minimum it would constitute an embarrassment for them to admit into its membership a nation which is still overtly violating a minority constituency of their own citizenry’s human rights.)


15 posted on 08/21/2009 6:14:50 AM PDT by leilani
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To: leilani
The Turks want to be in the EU or so they claim and they make some gesture towards conciliation to the Christians but in reality where there were millions of Christians in Turkey - a religion that is native to the region - now only numbers a few thousand people.

The ethnic genocide/ethnic cleansing / religious jihad against the Christians in their native land of Anatolia (where Christianity was first called that name) is complete.

All that is left are ruins which fat, happy and willfully ignorant Western tourists can visit and gawk over before going to the beach.

16 posted on 08/21/2009 6:18:40 AM PDT by Nikas777 (En touto nika, "In this, be victorious")
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